School: Shrove (roll number 3470)
- Location:
- Stroove, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Leonard Bovaird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 11
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- (continued from previous page)Small leaks sink big ships.
Home with a fair wind.
Fair wind to your wee boat.
Hungry eye sees far.
Bad wind that doesn't blows good to someone.
Wilful waste makes woeful want.
More haste the less speed.
Dry May and leaky June
Makes farmers whistle a merry tune.
Up with the lark and lie with the lamb.
It's a poor heart that never rejoices.
It's a poor washing that there is not a man's shirt in.
Marry the Stroove woman and you marry Stroove.
A shut mouth makes a wise head.
His mouth broke his nose.
Long thread of the lazy tailor.
Strife is better than loneliness.
Hunger is good sauce.
A thorn(?) in clabber.
A thought is as good to a fool as a physic.
The good hurler is on the fence.
One beetle knows another
The nearer the altar the further from God.
The war of friends does not last long.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leonard Bovaird
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
