School: Drom Dhá Liag (B.) (roll number 12229)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Ciardha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0301, Page 166
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- The following are a few of the proverbs which were related me by people in the locality
1. Health is better than wealth
2. You cannot trust a harvest night or a horse's legs
3. Foreign cows wear long horns
4. Live horse and you'll get grass
5. Nature breaks out through the eyes of the cat
6. If you have only a puck goat be in the middle of the fair.
7. Tis a bad hen that cant scrape for herself
8. Every dog is daring at its own door
9. Eaten bread is soon forgotten
10. Procrastination is the thief of time
11. Half a loaf is better than no bread
12. A rolling stone gathers no moss
13. The child is father of the man
14. Spare the rod and spoil the child
15. Time is the best almanac
16. As long as the fox goes he is caught at last
17. Saturdays new moon comes seven years too soon
18. When there's a will there's a way(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Diarmuid Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromdaleague, Co. Cork
