School: Rockwood, Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Derreennaclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chorcora
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0288, Page 298
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- (continued from previous page)"When you think you are rich you are poor."
"Keep away from the bad person as long as you can."
"Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
"Better to go to bed supperless than to rise in debt."
"A poor man had never too many children."
"Let the young people mind what the old people say, and when danger is near to keep out of the way."
"Lost time is never found again."
"Much requires more."
"What's bound in Autumn is ripped in Spring."
"You cannot get wool in a goat house."
"A cat likes fish but dares not wet his feet."
"A sleeping fox catches no poultry.'
"A stitch in time saves nine."
"Never leave till to morrow what you can do to day."
"He that rises late must trot all day."
"Every ass must carry its own cross."
"Sure bound sure found."(continues on next page)
