School: Broca
- Location:
- Brockagh Lower, Co. Leitrim
- Teachers: T. Ó Chioráin S. Ó Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0198, Page 447
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- (continued from previous page)What would you expect from an ass but a kick.
The nearer the Church the farther from God.
One swallow makes no Summer.
The loud laugh bespeaks the vacant mind.
Its the life of an old hat to cock it.
There was an old owl that lived in an oak the more she saw the less she spoke the less she spoke the more she heard was not that a wise old bird.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them. Little fleas have lesser fleas and so adinfinitum.
A pound of sorrow wont pay a penny worth of debt.
A penny for your thoughts.
Never count your chickens till they are hatched.
Eating bread is soon forgotten.
A dumb priest never gets a parish.
The wise man always carries his coat.
Patience is a virtue have it if you can seldom in a woman but never in a man.
- Collector
- Sheila Keany
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sranagross, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John Keany
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Sranagross, Co. Leitrim
