School: Tigh Molaga (2)
- Location:
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eileen Beamish
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0318, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)You'll get a trout.
Spare the rod & spoil the child.
No place like home.
East or west home is best.
One fool makes many & the old fool is worst of any.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Buying sweets & selling honey
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
"A good word is good but a good deed is better."
You can't make a race horse of a donkey.
A shaggy colt often makes a fine horse.
When wine is in sense is out.
A windy day is not the day for the thatch
If the cap suits wear it.
Take the hall at the hop
Make hay while the sun shines
One good deed deserves another
Strike while the iron is red.
Far-away cows have long horns.
The life of an old shoe is to polish it
The long thread of the lazy tailor.
"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.(continues on next page)
