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    Proverbs
    A good boot is better than a pound in your pocket.
    The day of the storm is not the day of the scallop.
    Waste not, want not.
    He who sows shall reap.
    Two heads are wiser than one.
    The long road is the safe road.
    Neither a borrower or a lender be.
    Its an ill wind that does nobody good.
    All words are not be be believed or carried further.
    Kindness adds sweetness to everything.
    A proud man is seldom a kind man.
    There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.
    A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard.
    Too much gossip is not good for anybody.
    He that by the plough must thrive, he himself must either lead or drive.
    A man without and wearing good clothes is like a gold ring in a barrow pig's
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Geraghty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Creggs, Co. Galway
    Informant
    William Keaveney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Creggs, Co. Galway