School: Teampoll Árdáin
- Location:
- Templeboy, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Annraoi Ó Néill
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- Proverbs used Locally
1/ If you have only a goat be in the middle of the fair with him.
2 Man proposes but God disposes.
3 A slip of the tongue is no fault of the mind.
4 A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning
5. It is too late to spare when all is spent
6/ You never miss the water till the well is dry.
7/ A woman is better than a fortune.
8 You could not make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
9/ Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat
10/ The darkest hour is before the dawn.
11/ God's mill grinds slowly but surely.
12/ As your bed is made so must you lie.
13/ If life were a thing that money could buy
The rich wanted live and the poor die
14 Let the young people mind what old people say
When danger is near keep out of the way
15 The cat has leave to look at the king
16 It is an ill wind that favours nobody
17 Show me your company and I'll tell you who you are.(continues on next page)
