School: Cor an Chasáin
- Location:
- Cornasaus, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 250
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- "A cat can look at the queen".
"Live horse and you will get grass."
"For age and want, save while you may, the morning Sun never lasts a whole day."
"Where there is muck there is luck."
"Where there is a gant there is a want."
"It was not from the stones he licked it."
"Like father and like son."
"Silence gives consent."
"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."
"Saturday's flit is a short sit."
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
"You cannot have your loaf and eat it."
"A half loaf is better than no bread."
"you never know the want till the well goes dry."
"A rainbow at night is the shepard's delight."
"A rainbow in the morning is the sheperd's delight."
"A rainbow in the morning is the sheperd's waning."
"Always taking out of the meal-tub, and never putting into it, soon comes to the bottom."
"Use makes makes."(continues on next page)
