School: Loughanvally (roll number 8363)
- Location:
- Loughanavally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs. O'Connor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 289
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- (continued from previous page)Practise makes perfect.
Look not a gift horse in the mouth.
People who live in glass houses cant throw stones.
Beware of those whose silence goes and seems to be a sleeper.
The smoother that the water runs the river is the deeper.
Marry in the month of May
You will surely rue the day.
Marry in haste -repent at leisure.
Monday for health -Tuesday for wealth
Wednesdays the best day of all.
Thursday for losses -Friday for crosses
Saturday is no day at all.
Ne'er cast a clout till May is out.
A wet and windy May fills the haggard with corn and hay.
Far better to go to bed supperless
Than to rise in debt.
You never miss the water till the well goes dry.
- It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.
First come first served. Misfortunes never come singly. Experience alone teaches(continues on next page) - Collector
- Helen Geoghegan
- Gender
- Female
