School: Whitecross, Julianstown (roll number 3380)
- Location:
- Whitecross, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Criostóir Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0685, Page 231
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- 1. Live horse and you will get grass.
2. My spurs on another man's horse.
3.The man that drinks water never get drunk.
4. The sun shines after the rain.
5. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
6. Many hands make light work.
7. The longest way round is the shortest way home.
8. The kettle calling the pot black.
9. Necessity is the mother of invention.
10. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
11. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
12. Speaking to the horse and the horse asleep.
13. It is the horse with the blemish that can throw his heels the highest.
14. Still waters run deep.
15. It is not always the big man that reaps the harvest.
16. Pride will have a fall.
17. The longer we live the wiser we get.
18. Where there is a will there is a way.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Landy
- Gender
- Female
