School: Kentstown (roll number 1599)

Location:
Kentstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Lúasaigh
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  1. (continued from previous page)
    19. Prosperity gains friends Andy
    adversity tries them.
    20. Extravagance in youth brings want
    in old age.
    21. The house has not quite escaped
    that drags his halter.
    22. To confess that you have changed
    your mind is to confess yourself
    wiser today than yesterday.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 1. Birds of a feather flock together.
    2. Show me your company and I’ll tell you what you are.
    3. A little pot is soon hot.
    4. Time and tide will wait on no man.
    5. One swallow never made a summer.
    6. Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
    7. The will cannot grind with the water gone past.
    8. Rome was not built in a day.
    9. Never venture, never win.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nuala Kinsella
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Veldonstown, Co. Meath