School: Bloomhill
- Location:
- Cloncraff or Bloomhill, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Nic Annraoi
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 446
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- Proverbs.1. Never sell your hen on a rainy day
2. Look before you leap, taste before you sup, and choose a fair maid before a wild duck
3. All is not gold that glitters
5. God helps those who helps themselves.
6. A seeping fox catches no poultry.
7. Plough deep while slugger sleep and you shall have coin to sell and to keep.
8. Truth is stronger than fiction.
9. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
10. It is an ill wind blows luck to no-one.
11. Better late than ever.
12. Man proposes but God disposes.
13. Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.
14. Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
15. At a large penny-worth pause a while.
16. Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse ere fancy you consult. Consult your purse.
17. For age and want, sure while you may no morning sun ever lasts all the day.(continues on next page)
