School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Fethard (roll number 8903)
- Location:
- Fethard, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Sr M. Agatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 331
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- (continued from previous page)brawls loudly and dissertively.
Think twice before you speak once.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Every man is the prisoner of his date.For age and want save while you may.
no morning sun lasts a whole day.
Beauty is only skin deep.
Better get a fortune in, than fortune in with a wife.
An once of breeding is better than a ton of feeding.
There's so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill becomes any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
The early bird catches the worm.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you'll have corn to sell and to keep.
A friend in need is a friend in deed.
Never let the sun go down on your anger.
The idle brain is the workshop of the devil.
Bad work - men quarrel with their tools.
Empty vessels make most noise.
Beauty never boiled the pot.
A small pot soon boils.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr John Costigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moglass, Co. Tipperary
