School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Thos. Plunkett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 244
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- (continued from previous page)Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you cry alone.
Love me: love my dog.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Never put of till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
A dry May and a wet June makes the farmer whistle a merry tune.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Time and tide waits for no man.
It's never to late to mend.
It's better late than never.
A penny wise and pound foolish.
The open mouth indicates an empty head.
To-morrow to-day will be yesterday.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
A swarm of bees in May is worth a lot of hay.
Set a theif to catch a theif.
Ask my brother am I a liar.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 39
