School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)
- Location:
- The Rower, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Cuirrín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 028
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- (continued from previous page)37. Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you will have corn to sell and to keep.
38. Make hay while the sun shines.
39. Many hands make light work.
40. Small leaks sink great ships.
41. Too late to lock the stable door when the horse is gone.
42. Never judge the book by the cover.
43. Fancy is as good as a physic for a fool.
44. A good beginning is half the work.
45. It is good to start well but better to end well.
46. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
47. Too late to spare when all is spent.
48. When chaps have money they are men, when the money is gone they are chaps again.
49. A crooked loaf makes a straight belly.
50. Far away cows have long horns.
51. Live horse and you will get grass.
52. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
53. There is no place like home.
54. Empty vessels make most noise.
55. Fine feathers make fine birds.
56. He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
57. The longest way around is the shortest way home.
58. Time or tide waits for no man.
- Collector
- Patrick Galavan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullentragh, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr Galavan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Cullentragh, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Galavan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 44
- Address
- Cullentragh, Co. Kilkenny
