School: Mullach na Sídhe (C.) (roll number 15426)
- Location:
- Fairymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0239, Page 130
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- (continued from previous page)He's a chip of the old block.
There are good goods in small parcels.
What can you expect from an ass, but a kick.
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
Time enough to bed the devil good morrow till you meet him.
Never trouble trouble, till trouble trouble's you, you only double trouble, & trouble others too.
- A man without learning and wearing good clothes is like a gold ring in a guinea pigs nose.
A man with good learning and wearing good clothes is always a gentleman where ever he goes.
The longer you live the more you see.
Age is honourable, youth is preferable.
Patience is a virtue.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
A watched pot never boils.
A whistling woman and a crowing hen wakes the devil in his den.
What ill got is ill gone.(continues on next page)
