School: Kilmessan (B.) (roll number 4210)
- Location:
- Kilmessan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian S. Pléimeann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0691, Page 129
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(19) He who slings mud is losing ground.
(20) For want of decency is want of sense
(21) Reading it to the mind what exercise is to the body.
(22) After a storm comes a calm.
(23) One man's meat is another man's poison.
(24) Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
(25) As good to be out of the world as out of the fashion.
(26) To err is human to forgive divine.
(27) Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
(28) What is good for you at thirty may become dangerous at sixty.
(29) The higher up the greater the fall.
(30) The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat.
(31) You cannot make a race-horse out of an ass.
(32) Enough's as good as a feast.
(33) Every man for himself and God for us all.
(34) First come - first served.
(35) Forewarned is forewarned
(36) A rolling stone gathers no moss.(continues on next page)
