School: Grangegeeth (roll number 2630)
- Location:
- Grangegeeth, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Seósaimhín, Bean Uí Dhubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0714, Page 401
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- (continued from previous page)Rain before seven, fine by eleven.
On Thursday at three,
Look out and you'll see,
What Friday will be.Sorrow never comes too late and happiness too swiftly flies.No morning sun lasts a whole day.
The longer the road the wearier
If ifs and ands were pot and pans there would be castles in the air.
There are hopes from the ocean but there are none from the grave.
While there's life there's hope.
"As sure as there is a bill on a crow."
Live in hopes and die in despair.
Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
Kindle the dry sticks and the wet ones with catch.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Leave your jest when it's at it's best.
There is no help or cure against death.
Every cat after it's kind.
It is difficult to cut wool off a goat.
A borrowed horse has hard hooves.
An old fool is worse than a young fool.
Penny foolish is pound wise.
The glory of young men is their strength and the beauty of old men is their grey head.(continues on next page)
