School: Newtown, Borris
- Location:
- Newtown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Broin
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- Put not all your eggs in the one basket.
Live horse and you get grass.
Put not off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
A stitch in time saves nine.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Tell me your company and I will tell you what you are.
What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
A hatching hen never grows fat.
The early bird catches the worm.
Look before you leap.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
A wise man carries his coat on a fine day.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
One good potato is worth two bad ones.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise.
It is too late to spare when all is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Clear
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Harristown, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Thomas Clear
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Harristown, Co. Carlow
