School: Esker
- Location:
- Esker More, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: M. Ní Ghríobhtha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0800, Page 238
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A penny for your thoughts.
Man proposes, but God disposes.
God helps those who help themselves.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Better late than never.
It is either a feast or a famine.
Want of decency is want of sense.
I'm like a borrowed noggin.
The older the fiddle, the sweeter, the tune.
It wouldn't stand an argument.
Have it yourself or do without it.
On their merits honest men are dumb.
You may as well be out of the world as out of fashion.
Not dead but gone before.
Set a begger on horseback and he will outride the devil.
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
You're as handy as a little sgilléad
A shameful leaving is a shameful taking.
