School: An Ghráinseach
- Location:
- Gransha More, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Nic Uaid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0946, Page 061
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- "The juice of a cow is good alive or dead."
"Too many cooks spoil the broth."
"Time is a good storyeller."
"Time and tide wait for no man."
"A stitch in time saves nine."
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
"There is not feast till a roast and no torment till a marriage."
"Fine feathers make fine birds."
"Your son is your son today but your daughter is your daughter for ever."
"It is lonely to be empty."
"Don't make a custom and don't break a custom."
"Don't praise or dispraise yourself."
"Dead with tea and dead witout it."
"A new brush sweeps clean."
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
"Hills are green far away."
"A full purse makes a light heart."
"A rolling stone gathers no moss."
- Collector
- John Toal
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Conaghy, Co. Monaghan
