School: Baile Coitcheannta
- Location:
- Cutteanta, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eithne Nic Shearraigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0168, Page 333
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- (continued from previous page)Honesty is the best policy
He laugh best who laugh's last
Half a loaf is better than no bread.It is too late to spare when all is spent
It is good to begin well but it is better to end well.
It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen
Its a long lane that had no turn
Its never too late to mend. It never rains but it pours
Its a bad wind that does not favour somebody
Its the life of an old shoe to polish it
Kindle the dry sticks and the green ones will catch
Lose one hour in the morning and you will be haunting it the whole day
Men in glass houses cant throw stones
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure
Man proposes, but God disposes.
Never put off until to-morrow what you can do to-day
Never want while your neighbour has it
Of small account is a fly till he gets into the eye
One man may lead a horse to drink but twenty men can not make him drink
Praise the youth and it will come on.
Strike the iron while it is hot.Sense dose'nt come before age.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
The windy day isnt the day for the scallop
Time and tide wait for no man
The ways of a slope the way the lawyer's(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Kearins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowmorris, Co. Sligo
