School: Derryham
- Location:
- Derryhum, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0981, Page 041
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- (continued from previous page)(110) What is fun for us is harm for the frog.
(111) Too much of one thing is good for nothing
(112)Slow to promise and quick to preform
(113) Be true to thy word and thy work
(114) A constant drop wears a stone.
(115) Time enough lost the ducks.
(116) Always depend on your own exertion
(117)The healthy is the wealth of the world.
(118) They who fights and runs away shall live to fight another day.
(119) Never venture never gain.
(120) What you will not hear won't trouble you.
(121) There is never a door shut but there is another open.
(122) Mocking is catching.
(123) The cutest hen still lays out.
(124) A penny saves a penny earns.
(125) Never leave what you can today for tomorrow.
(126)For the want of a nail the shows lost, for the want of a shoe the horse was lost, and all for the want of a horse shoe nail.
(127) One man could bring a horse to the drink but twenty could not make him drink.
(128) A fault once denied is twice committed.(continues on next page)
