School: An t-Éadan Mór
- Location:
- Edenmore, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac Philib
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- (continued from previous page)Hunger is a good sauce.
61. Mention the devil and he will appear.
62. It is a good thing that lasts forever.
63. Don't judge the book by the cover.
64. It is lonely to be empty.
65. A bad workman faults his tools.
66. Great minds think alike and fools seldom differ.
67. The old man to the big potato.
68. Young fools make many but the old fool is worse than any.
69. You might as well be looking for a drop of holy water in an Orange Hall (Lodge).
70. You might as well be looking for a needle in a hay stack.
71. An old coal is easily kindled. Old coal (half burned) burns well.
72. The day of the wind is not the day to gather scolbs.
73. The fox finds his own stink first.
74. There is no hearth stone like one's own.
75. Rome was not built in a day.
76. The truth is often bitter.
77. All's well that ends well.
78. A long thread is the sign of a lazy sower.
79. A man's manners shape his fortune.
78. The truth never choked a man.
