School: Carlingford (B.)
- Location:
- Carlingford, Co. Louth
- Teacher: C. Ó Blunaigh
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- Contributed by Dom Mc Grath, Castle Hill, Carlingford.
1. Fine feathers make fine birds.
2. Don't praise or dispraise yourself.
3. A story without an author is no use.
4. Lie with the lamb and rise with the bird.
5. One beetle knows another.
6. A new broom sweeps clean.
7. An empty sack doesn't stand.
8. Time and tide wait for no one.
9. It is a long road that has no turning.
10. The person who is up, his health is drunk; the person who is down is trampled upon.
11. The truth is often bitter.
12. It is possible to be eating a meal and whistling.
- Informant
- Dom Mc Grath
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castle Hill, Co. Louth
- Contributed by Thomas Thornton, Dundalk St.
1. A stitch in time saves nine.
2. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
3. April and May, keep rid of the sea. June and July, swim till you die.
4. Clouds that never burst are the worst.
5. Empty vessels make most noise.
6. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
7. The heaviest ear of corn always bends lowest.
8. There is no luck only where there is correction.
