School: Fearglass (roll number 15616)
- Location:
- Fearglass South, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Floinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 440
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- 1 The longer we live the more we know.
2 The day of the wind is not the day of the scallop
3 A rolling stone gathers no moss.
4 A closed mouth catches no flies.
5 Take pains and you will have gains.
6 One stitch in time saves nine.
7 A good beginning makes a bad end.
8 A watched pot never boils.
9 Make the hay while the sun shines.
10 To bed with the dark and up with the lark.
11 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
12 Hills are green far away.
13 A big head and little wit.
14 Never judge the book by the cover.
15 The good word never broke anyones mouth.
16 The fairer the face the falser the heart.
17 Every cock crows on his own dunghill.
18 If the cuckoo sings on a bare thorn you may sell your cow and buy corn.
19 Beg from a beggar and you will never be rich.
20 We know the want of water when the well goes dry.
21 Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
22 Good management is better than hard work.
23 A wilful waste is a woeful want.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Ciss Bohan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary T. Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Whitney
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick J. Bohan
- Gender
- Male
