School: Béal Átha Gabhann (Silvermines), Nenagh (roll number 15696)
- Location:
- Silvermines, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0537, Page 218
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- 1. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
2. Better to go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
3. Never put off til tomorrow, what you can do today.
4. Too many cooks spoils the broth.
5. Wilful waste, makes woeful want.
6. Never judge the book by its cover.
7. A red rosy apple may be rotten at the core.
8. Better done than said.
9. Win gold and wear it, sow cabbage and eat it.
10. A shut mouth catches no flies.
11. When all fruit fails, welcome haws.
12. Too much rain, too much rest, for too much weather is never the best.
13. Begin your work well.
14. March many weathers.
15. The working bees gather most honey.
16. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
17. Constant dropping wears the stone.
18. He that does not venture will not gain.
19. A dead tells no story.
20. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
21. Better late than never.
22. Second thoughts are often best.
23. A stitch in time saves nine.
24. Never count the chickens before hatched.
- Collector
- Peggie Stapleton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooleen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs John Stapleton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Cooleen, Co. Tipperary
