School: Mín Bán (roll number 15394)
- Location:
- Meenbane, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Coluim
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 423
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- A hungry eye sees far.
It is not the time for spare when all is spent.
Easy got, easy gone.
Clean want before a dirty supper.
People in glass houses should not throw stones.
Old age is honourable.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
Time and tide will wait on no man.
Jest not at sacred things.
A glutton lives to eat, a wise man eats to live.
The world is full of willing people, some are willing to work and others willing to let them.
Many a wise father reared a foolish son and many a foolish father reared a wise son.
What one does not know, does him no harm.
Live horse and you will get oats.
Doctors differ, patients suffer.
Be friends will all men.
Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
Where's the snow was last year.
You are not as green as you are cabbage-looking.
Two to one would kill a man.
Green for grieving.
Short and sweet like a donkey's gallop.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes O' Duffy
- Gender
- Female
