School: Druim na dTréad
- Location:
- Drumnatread, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Stondúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1019, Page 179
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- A work begun is half done.
A fat kitchen makes a lean will.
The more the poor man has for dinner, the less he will have for supper.
What's sewn on Sunday is ripped on Monday.
Better go to bed hungry than rise in debt.
The money makes the mare go as the hound makes the hare go.
Dead men tell no tales
Rain from the east stays two days at least.
As sure as there's a bill on a crow or a goat in Fartha (Fartha is a local townland)
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise;
Late to bed and late to rise makes a man beg before he dies"
No news is good news.
What's bred in the bone comes out through the skin.
The tinker's wife and the tailor's wife, are two who never agree.
Better late than never.
Hills are green far away and there are long horns on cows in Connaught.
All is not gold that glitters.
Hear and see but say little(continues on next page)
