School: Cuileann Uí Chaoimh (B.), Sráid an Mhuilinn (roll number 4440)
- Teacher: Ruaidhrí Ó Cadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0359, Page 127
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- Proverb's
1. Mind your shop and the shop will mind you.
2. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
3. He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing
4. Time and tide waits for no man.
5. A penny wise and a pound foolish
6. Where there is no muck there is no luck
7. A little learning is a dangerous thing
8. Its the dirty hand that makes a clean heart stone.
9. All that glitters is not gold
10. Sufficient for the day is the evil these of
11. Money makes money
12. Pride cometh before a fall
13. The darkest hour is before the dawn
14. The early bird catche's the worm
15. Ní hé lá na gaoire lá na scolb
16. A stitch in time saves nine
17. It is too late to spare when all is spent
18. Man proposes but God disposes
19. A good run is better than a bad stand
20. When it rains it pour's
21. God is nearer than the door
22. Wherever the women are there is talk
23. Everyone has their own story
24. Health is better than wealth
25. The last goalminder is always on the fence
26. It is often a mans mouth broke his nose(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ted O' Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullaghroe South, Co. Cork
