School: St. Cronan's Longford Wood, An Teampoll Mór (roll number 6662)
- Location:
- Longfordwood, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 277
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22. Hunger is good sauce
23. If 'Efs" were horses beggars could ride and carry their loads behind them
24. Look before you leap
25. A good horse carries his own load
26. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
27. Every beginning is weak.
28. Rome was not built in a day
29. We live to die and we die to live
30. March will search April well try and May will tell whether you live or die.
31. As long as a late breakfast
32. Chickens should not be counted before they are hatched
33. Too many cooks spoil the soup.
34. There is forty pounds in Cork for anyone who minds his own business
35. Light suppers make long lives.
36. It is foolish to quarrel with ones bread and butter
37. Time and tide wait for no man
38. Better have some of a pudding than none of a pie
39. It is never too late to learn(continues on next page)
