School: Ballysadare (C.) (roll number 9922)
- Location:
- Ballysadare, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0176, Page 158
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- (continued from previous page)"Cleanliness is next to Godliness."
"A watched kettle never boils."
"The cat has leave to look at the queen and the queen has leave to shoot it."
"A bad beginning sometimes makes a good ending."
"Pen is mightier than the sword."
"The back of one is the face of two."
"It's better to deal with the devil you know than the devil you don't know."
"There's as much bad in the best of us and as much good in the worst of us that it ill behaves any of us to speak bad of the rest of us."
"Empty vessels make the most sound."
"He who lives in hope shall die in despair."
"The longest way round is the shortest way home."
"Fine feathers make fine birds."
"He who goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
"There's many a slip between the cup and the lip and many yards in a mile."
"Distant cows have long horns."
"Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man beg before he dies."
"Many a little makes a nickel."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Theresa O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballysadare, Co. Sligo
