School: Béal an Dá Chab (roll number 14225)
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd O Lighin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 295
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- A stitch in time saves nine.
The cat likes fish but she does not like to wet her paws.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
The early bird catches the early worm.
Blessings are won by a good deed done.
There is many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.
Empty vessels make most sound.
Rome was not built in a day.
Foreign cows wear long horns.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
See and pin and pick it up and all your days you'll have good luck.
Money burns a hole in your pocket(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skull, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Richard Lyons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skull, Co. Cork
