School: Taite Buí (Blackstaff)
- Location:
- Tattyboy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Mac Bhloscaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0932, Page 316
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- What is in the cat is in the kitten.
What is in the hen is in the chicken.
What can one expect from the pig but a grunt.
Where there is muck there is luck.
I know to look at one's eyes that the back of their head is maggoty.
Skin the toe here so fine, and put it through a silken ear, and no matter what you do, the course thing will appear.
The nearer the bone the sweeter the beef.
The good goods go in small parcels.
Wilful waste, makes woeful want and I may live to say, I wished I had the crust of bread I often threw away.
A shut mouth makes a wise head.
One cannot put a wise head on a young body.
The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
If one believes all they hear they may eat all they see.
Greedy eyes see far.
Look before you leap.
A half loaf is better than no bread.(continues on next page)
