School: Kilbegnet (roll number 1327)
- Location:
- Kilbegnet, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0261, Page 283
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- (continued from previous page)Old Sayings17 A stitch in time saves nine.
18 When the cats go out the mice can come out to play.
19 A friend in need is a friend indeed.
20 The big dog for the high road, and the pup for the lane.
21 Silence gives consent.
22 Save when you are young and spend when you are old.
23 Do not whistle till you are out of the wood.
24 Don’t count the chickens until they are out first.
25 Spare the rod and spoil the child.
26 As white as the foam on the water.
27 Time is a good story-teller.
28 The more hurry the less speed.
29 A good beginning makes a bad end.
30 Don’t leave till tomorrow what you can do to-day.
31 Two wrongs do not make a right.
32 Right is right and wrong is no man’s money.
33 Don’t believe all you hear.
34 Honesty is the best policy.
35 There is a many way for killing a cat beside choking him with butter.
36 “That’s the point” said the Monkey when he sat on the needle.
37 A snipe should not reflect on a bird with a long bill.
38 Fiddlers should not be hard on pipers.
39 Where is the snow that was out last year.
40 Fine feathers do not always make fine birds.(continues on next page)
