School: Gurrane (C.) (roll number 14840)
- Location:
- Clondrohid, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0326, Page 338
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- (continued from previous page)It is a long road that has no turning.
Children and fools shall not handle mens tools.
Clothes do not make the man.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Fine feathers do not make fine birds.
Bend the twig while it is weak.
The mill will never grind with the water that is past.
Take the ball at the first hop.
When all fruit fails welcome haws.
Small dogs start hares but great ones catch them.
One look before is better than three behind.
Many hands make light work.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Hard upon hard makes a bad stone wall, soft upon soft makes non atall.
The last straw breaks the camel's back.
Mind the home or the home will mind you.
Constant dropping wears the stone.
Small strokes filled great oaks.
Half an-hour too soon is better than half an hour too late. Fleet is the life of man.
Sober and easy goes far. I'm nearer to myself.
He who loves the danger shall perish in it.
Its size is greater than its crop.
A fine show and a small crop.
Do not go beyond your means.
