School: Meelick (C.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhórdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 230
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- (continued from previous page)The juice of a cow is good alive or dead.
Time and tide waits for no man.
Time is a good story-teller.
Work is better than talk.
There is no feast without a roast and not torment till marriage.
Your pocket is your only friend.
Do not make a custom and do not break a custom.
One beetle knows another beetle.
Man proposes but God disposes.
The person who is up his health is drunk, the person who is down is trampled on.
Dead men tell no tales.
Castles falling and dung-hills rising.
There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.
A good start is half the work.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Tell me your company and I'll tell you what you are.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
The back of the door is next to the wall.
Once down is no battle.
Don't ever take the book by the cover.(continues on next page)
