School: Ballymore (B.) (roll number 7443)
- Location:
- Ballymore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P.J. Cooney
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- Experience teaches fools to keep from kicking mules.
A half a loaf is better than no bread.
Children and fools should not handle sharp edged tools.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Small twigs light big fires.
Better later than ever.
A person often cuts a rod that beats himself.
A borrowed horse wears hard hooves.
Cows from over the seas have long horns.
You can't put a man's head on a boy's shoulder's
What ever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Many hands make light work.
- Collector
- Matthew Kearney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Mullenmeehan, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Thomas Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 88
- Address
- Ballinlig Lower, Co. Westmeath
