School: Baile an Lóin Tighe (Ballinlonty) (roll number 1579)
- Location:
- Ballinlonty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Áine Ruiséall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 117
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Proverbs (continued)
“(1) What's bred in the blood will break out in the bone.”
(continued from previous page)27. A full sack can't bend,
28. You can't have your loaf and eat it.
Proverbs
“(1) Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.”
1. Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
2. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
3. Too late to spare when all is spent.
4. A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
5. A stitch in time saves nine.
6. Marry a mountainy man and you marry a mountain.
7. The longest way round is the shortest way home.
8. Far away cows wear long horns.
9. He who hides finds.
10. Time and tide wait for no man.
11. Make hay while the sun shines.
12. The darkest hour is before the dawn.
13. Every dark cloud has a silver lining.(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Bourke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Summerhill, Co. Tipperary