School: Athboy (C.)
- Location:
- Baile Átha Buí, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Mhácháin
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- (continued from previous page)the horse that throws me.
Better to be alone than in bad company.
As the old cock crows the young cock learns.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A pitcher goes often to the well, but it is broken at last.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
A nice wife and a back door often makes a rich man poor.
Its better to be an old mans darling than to be a young mans slave.
A bad workman quarrels with his tools.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
A good maxim is never out of season.
A light mother makes a heavy heeled daughter.
Its not all gold that glitters.
The devil is not as black as he is painted.
God help the rich but the poor can beg.
Gentry sent to market will not buy a bushel of corn.
Don't be all the days of your life rottening on a cabbage leaf.
Help the lame dog over the stile.
Its a wise child that knows its own father.
Its not the coat that makes the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lillie Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tlachta, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- John Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tlachta, Co. na Mí
