School: Carrickaslane (roll number 365)
- Location:
- Carraig Shleáin, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Mary Greer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 172
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- 1. A watched pot is always long boiling.
2. A closed fist never caught a bird.
3. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
4.A haw year is a breagh year.
5. A sloe year is a low year.
6. March will search
April will try
And May will tell you
Whither you will,
live or die.
7. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
8. When the wine is in, the wit is out.
9. If you did not knock it down, you staggered it.
10. Somepeople would take the eye out of your head and tell you, you were born blind.
11. Good care takes the head off bad luck.
12. I have as much in my noggin as I can sup.
13. The more haste the lest speed.
14. A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
15. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
16. March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.
17. Saturday's flit is a short sit.
