School: Cnoc an Teampaill
- Location:
- Knockatemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ní Chruacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0998, Page 035
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1. Before you marry be sure of a house wherein to tarry.
2. Between two stool we come to the ground.
3. Covetousness bursts the bad.
4. He buys honey dear who licks it from thorns.
5. It is dear bought butter that is licked off a briar.
6. Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you will have corn to sell and to keep.
7. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.
8. Borrowed horses have hard hooves.
9. Win gold and wear it I never saw an oft removed tree or an oft removed family, that throve and as well as they that settled be.
10. A wet May and a dry June make the farmers whistle a merry tune.
11. One swallow never made a summer.
12. If wishes would buy horses, beggars would rid them.(continues on next page)
