School: Lear
- Location:
- Lear, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: C. Gibson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1011, Page 035
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- Proverbs.
One stitch in time saves nine.
One bird in your hand is worth two in a bush.
A good beginning is half the work.
A windy day is not the day for thatching.
It is often a person's mouth breaks his nose.
A good word never broke a person's nose.
If wishes were horses beggars would ride.
A borrowed horse has hard hoofs.
It is difficult to cut wool of a goat.
He who has much gets more.
The person who is right, his health is drunk.
Strife is better than lonliness.
A blind man is a bad judge of colours.
A new brush sweeps clean.
One penny gets another.
A full purse makes a light heart.
An empty sack doesn't stand.
The (the that) thing that is got easily is spent easily.
Plenty of fish in the sea that were never caught.
The old dog for the hard run.
Albert William Pratt 9th May, 1938.
All is not lost that is in danger
When there is a frog in the well you must pull him out some way which means if a man owes you money and you cannot get it from him you must get something else
- Collector
- Albert William Pratt
- Gender
- Male
