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School: Cortubber

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Cortober, Co. Roscommon
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    Little said is easy mended.
    The devil you know is better than the devil you don't (know)
    Give honour where honour is due.
    Friends will meet where hills won't.
    Time is a good servant but a poor master.
    Doctors differ and patients die.
    Prevention is the best cure.
    Blood is thicker than water.
    A spoonful of honey will attract more flies than a barrel of honey.
    Speak of the devil and hell soon appears.
    Give a dog a bad name and it will hang him.
    Deadman tell no tales.
    Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
    Going on a wild-goose chase.
    Throwing water on a drowned rat.
    The devil's children have the devil's luck.
    Pulling the devil by the tail.
    His bark is worse than his bite.
    The longer you live the more you'll know.
    Pulling the devil by the tail like the rest of the world.
    Wheels within wheels.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs G. Moran
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon