School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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- God help the rich the poor can beg.
It is better to bed supperless than to rise in debt.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
You will never miss the water until the well runs dry.
Live horse and you will get grass.
Blood is thicker than water.
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.
There is no use in crying over spilled milk.
Do not put of for tomorrow what you can do today.
It is better to be born lucky than rich.
Saturdays new moon comes seven years too soon.
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.
Two heads are better than one even if they were cabbages heads.
A new broom sweeps clean but the old one scrapes better.
He that loves danger shall perish in it.
One real tooth is better than twenty false ones.
A stitch in time saves nine.
A whistling woman a crowing hen there is no luck in the house they are in.
Never buy a pig in a bag.
What is good for the child is good for the nurse.
There is no use in throwing water on a drowned rat.
Have it yourself or be without it.
It is not the horse that earns the oats that gets it to eat.(continues on next page)
