School: Tír na Néill (roll number 3845)
- Location:
- Tirnaneill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Mc Cague
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- Far away fields are green.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
It never rains but it pours.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Least said is soonest mended.
Empty vessels make most sound.
An empty sack cannot stand.
Work is better than talk.
When it is raining porridge the beggars have no spoons.
It is a long lane that has no turn.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
Live horse and you'll get grass.
It is not the hen that cackles most that lays the biggest eggs.
Do as you would be done by.
If the cap gits you wear it.
They who have much get more.
Many are called but few are chosen
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time is a good story teller.
It is a poor priest that has no curate.
Many a man's mouth broke his nose.
Your son is your son till he marries, your(continues on next page)- Collector
- James Mc Court
- Gender
- Male