School: Béal Átha Lúibe, Cahir (roll number 9856)
- Location:
- Ballylooby, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ceitinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0572, Page 190
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- (continued from previous page)Never looka gift horse in the mouth.
Never spoon your supper for your breakfast.
Give a dog a bad name and hang him
There are many ways of killing a dog besides choking him with butter.
There are more married than keep good houses
Live horse till you get grass.
When poverty comes in the door, love flies out the window.
A civil tongue is no load.
A pitty the fine day to do any harm
It is only cutting the nearest "gad" to the throat
If you have the name of an early riser, you you can stay in bed till twelve.
Like father, like son
Help yourself and your friends will love you
Curses, like chickens come home to roost
Never throw out the dirty water till you have the clean water inside
Eaten bread is soon forgotten
When rogues fall out honest ment get their due
When a man is down, down with him!
What the eye won't see, the heart won't feel
