School: Cooley
- Location:
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 427
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- A stitch in time saves nine.
Far away fields look green.
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
A burned child dreads the fire.
Prevention is better than cure.
Practice makes perfect.
Silence is golden.
Opposition is the life of trade.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Blood is thicker than water.
Take the bean out of your own eye before you take it out of your brothers.
Them that would slight my horse would buy him.
Where there is no grace there is no shame.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Time and patience would take a snail to Jerusalem.
They that have glass houses need not throw stones.
It is a long lane that has no turn.
Smooth waters run deep.
Once bitten, twice shy.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maria Mc Elhinney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
