School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Brádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 49
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- (continued from previous page)"Birds of a feather flocks together"
"Still waters run deep"
"A rolling stone gathers no moss."
"Your son is your son to day but your daughter is your daughter for ever."
"Hunger is good sauce"
"A borrowed horse has hard hoofs"
"Cows that come over the sea have long horns"
"What the ear won't hear won't trouble the mind"
"Time and tide waits for no man"
"Put silk on a cat and he a cat all the time."
"Tell me your company and I'll tell you what you are."
"Don't be soft and don't be hard."
"Don't desert your friend for your own share."
"Don't make a law and don't break a law."
"One penny gets another"
"The hills and green far away"
"All together like Brown's cows."
"Dead with tea and dead without it."
"A good beginning is half the work."
"A story without an author is no story"
"You cannot be at the two ends of the story."
"There is no cure against death"
"Every cat after his own kind"
"You cannot cut wool off a cow"
"Strife is better than loneliness"(continues on next page)
