School: Paddock, Mountrath (roll number 13173)
- Location:
- Paddock, Co. Laois
- Teacher: A. Ó Dubhlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 105
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- A stitch in time saves nine.
Fair and easy for far in the day.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Do not put in your shovel where there is no sand.
A family broken at Christmas can never be united.
Learning without manners as you may suppose.
Is like a gold ring in a barrow pig's nose.
Labour for learning before you grow old.
Learning is better than silver then gold.
Silver and gold will diminish away.
But learning or good manners will never decay.
Beauty is a fading flower.
Don't demand many questions in a strange place.
Never judge a man by the clothes he wears.
Don't put in your spoon where there is no stirabout.
Manners maketh the man.
Beauty is only skin deep.
The nearer the Church the farther from God.
Birds of a Feather flock together.
Think twice before you speak once.
Do your best and God will do the rest.
Putting things on the long finger.
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
Cat after kinds makes a good masher.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Recession for knows no law.
