School: Long an Inbhair
- Location:
- Lurgananure, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Géibhdigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1006, Page 251
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- A stitch in time saves nine.
Make hay while the sun shines.
When all fruit fails you are welcome haw.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A wet and windy May fills the haggard with corn and hay.
Never venture, never win.
Faraway hills are green.
Kerry cows have long horns.
A hungry eye sees far.
Hunger is a good sauce.
He is a bad dog that isn't worth whistling for.
Look before you leap.
When every man is running the wise man walks.
A new brush sweeps clean.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Its the heart of an old hat to cock it.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
There is many a slip between the cup and a lip.
He is a wise rabbit that watches his own burrow.
Little said is easy mended, and what isn't said needs no mending.
Too much bread makes a dull head.
Better alone than in bad company.
Hard upon hard, makes a bad stone wall, and soft upon soft makes none at all.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Nulty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumfomina, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mary Ellen Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Drumfomina, Co. Cavan
