School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Uaimh (roll number 16100)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: An tSr. Concepta le Muire
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- (continued from previous page)3. Let your ears not hear what your lips speak.
4. The wheels of time grind slowly.
5. All is well that ends well.
6. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.
7. What bred in the bone comes out in the marrow.
8. Its hard to kill a bad thing.
9. Open confession is good for the soul.
- 1. Never spur a willing horse.
2. Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire.
3. I never saw an often moved tree or an often removed family that thrive so well as those that settled be.
4. He who plants the acorn shelters armies from the sun.
5. It is late to sharpen one's sword when the drum beats for battle.
6. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.
7. Keep you face towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind.
8. Never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you,
You'll only double trouble, and trouble others too.
9. A stew boiled, is a stew spoiled
10. Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
11. A slip of the tongue is no fault to the mind. - Collector
- Marion Walker
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Navan, Co. Meath
