School: Easgéiphtine (B.) (roll number 2039)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Donncha Mac Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 297
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- There are many old sayings in my district and some of them are:-1. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
2. You can take a horse to the water but you can't make him drink.
3. Where there is a will there is a way.
4. The longest road has a turning.
5. There is no tree without a crooked branch.
6. Never take a book by the cover.
7. The mills of God grind slowly but surely.
8. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
9. Never count the chickens until they are hatched
10. Live horse and you will get grass.
11. Never put off until to-morrow what you can do to-day.
12. Always look before you leap.
13. The fairy knows what he writes.
14. The windy day is not the day to tatch.
15. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.
16. A stitch in time saves nine.
17. A new broom sweeps clean.
18. Listen to the sound of the stream and you will get fish.
19. Experience teaches.
20. You must pay to learn.
21. Sense does not come before time.
22. The is no place like home.
23. Man proposed and God disposed.
24. A good beginning is half the work.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daniel Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
