School: Fearglass (roll number 15616)
- Location:
- Fearglass South, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 441
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- (continued from previous page)24 Time and tide waits for no man.
25 A good Wednesday makes a full Thursday.
26 Many hands make light work.
27 Late to bed , late to rise makes a man beg before he dies.
28. Never put off till to morrow what you can do to day.
29 Children or fools be ware of edge tools.
30 A blind man is no judge of a colour.
31 Good courage is half a battle.
32 The more we know the more we want.
33 When Corn Hill puts on its cap County Leitrim is sure of a drop (rain)
34 Never buy a pig in a sack.
35 It is a long road that has not a turn.
36 The first person that a cat looks at after washing her face will die first.
37 A man without learning wearing good clothes is like a gold ring in a barrow pig's nose.
38 When the cat is away the mouse can play.
39 A wise man never goes without his coat.
40 Young fools make many but old fools are as bad as any.
41 There is never smoke without a fire.
42 Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
43 When the old cock crows the young one learns.
44 Where there is no loss there is no gain.(continues on next page)
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