School: Coolfancy, Tinahely
- Location:
- Coolafancy, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0922, Page 027
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- (continued from previous page)ProverbsHe buys honey dear who licks it off thorns.
He that has but one eye sees the better for it.
Hard upon hard makes a bad stone wall. But soft upon soft makes none at all.
He sups ill who eats all the dinner.
Half a leap is a fall into the ditch.
Sin is sin though it is not sun.
As stubborn as a mule.
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
As sweet as honey, as bitter as gall.
As cross as the cats.
Good nature is pleasanter then wit.
- Collector
- Bridget Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballykelly, Co. Wicklow
