School: Behey (roll number 8222)
- Location:
- Behy, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Meadhbh, Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1029, Page 61
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- Live dog and you’ll get oats
Where there’s much there’s luck
Like father like son.
A straw shows how the wind blows
Out of sight out of mind
He’s at the length of his tether [when a person has all spent]
Great evils need great remedies
A bad weed grows fast.
Necessity knows no law.
Half a loaf is better than no bread
Necessity is the mother of invention
Past favours are soon forgot.
Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other.
Keep a thing for seven years + it will come in useful
Other times, other minds.
Bad news travel fast
What’s lived in the bone, comes out in the flesh
Everybody knows his own “know”
Forewarned is forearmed
The proof of the pudding is the eating
The pot calling the kettle black
Butter to butter no kitchen
Leave well enough alone
Throwing away sheaves and gathering straws(continues on next page)
