School: Cluainteach (roll number 10329)
- Location:
- Cloontagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Garaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0756, Page 117
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- The world would not make a racehorse out of an ass.
There are as good fish in the sea as ever was caught.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A person often cut a rod to beat himself.
He is a poor priest who has not a clerk.
Where the women are there is talk.
Hills are green far away.
What the pooka writes he will read it himself.
Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.
Cows across the sea have long horns.
How ever near a person's coat is to him his shirt is nearer.
It is a long road that has not a turn.
The world would not make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
It is an ill wind that does not blow some one good.
When the cat is out the mice will play.
A rabbit in a hole and his head out(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gearóid Ó Gríobhtha
- Gender
- Male
