School: Monksland (C.) (roll number 2792)
- Location:
- Monksland, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Nic Oireachtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0659, Page 350
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- 1. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
2. Learning and manners are golden companions.
3. Learning without manners as I do suppose is like a gold ring in a pigs nose.
4. All is not gold that glitters.
5. A stitch in time saves nine.
6. He that by the plough would thrive himself must either hold or drive.
7. If you would get gold, you must dig deeply.
8. Many hands make light work.
9. There is a blue and a better blue and a blue that never fades.
10. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
11. Any fool can critize.
12. He who has a good name do as he pleases.
13. Its an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
14. Its the last straw that breaks the camel's back.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Imelda Donnelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Cooley, Co. Louth
