School: Cloughjordan (C.) (roll number 11544)
- Location:
- Cloghjordan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Eibhlin, Bean Uí Sceacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)25. Hunger is good sauce.
26. Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
27. Better late than never.
28. Still waters run deep.
29. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
30. Try, and try, and try again and in the end you will succeed.
31. Be not the first on whom the new is seen.
32. Procrastination is the thief of time.
33. Long threatening comes at last.
34. Fine feathers make fine birds.
35. Time and patience would drive a snail to America.
36. Take the ball with the first hop.
37. Honesty is the best policy.
38. Practice what you preach.
39. No matter how long the day is the night will come.
40. Judge not for thou shalt be judged.
41. Business first and pleasure after.
42. The world cannot make a race horse out of an ass.
43. Silence gives consent.
44. Charity begins at home.
45. A slip of the tongue is no fault of the mind.
46. The cat can look at the King.
47. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
48. Bad wind blows good for some people.
49. Kind words cost the speaker nothing.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Chártaigh
- Other names
- Eibhlín Ní Chártaigh
- Eileen Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballycapple, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Ballycapple, Co. Tipperary
