School: Kilcullen (Convent) (roll number 11806)
- Location:
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 281
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- The proverbs that are used locally are:-
1. An open confession is good for the soul.
2. Suspicion haunts the guilty.
3. He who grasps much loses all.
4. All's well that ends well.
5. Have it yourself or be without it.
6. A guilty conscience needs no accusing.
7. He who laughs last laughs best.
8. Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
9. Wilful waste makes woeful want.
10. Mocking is catching.
- Collector
- Mona Christie
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Kearney
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Christie
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Christie
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- 1. Birds of a feather flock together.
2. A guilty mind tortures the owner.
3. What the eye can't see the heart won't wish for.
4. People in glass houses cannot throw stones.
5. Once bitten - twice shy
6. Necessity is the mother of invention.
7. Prevention is better than cure.
8. Long threatening comes at last.
9. Take care of the minutes - the years will take care of themselves.
10. Waste not want not.(continues on next page)
