School: Farmers' Bridge, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Farmers Bridge, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eileen Blennerhassett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0442, Page 005
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- When the drink is in the sense is out.
When the cat is out the mouse can dance.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Never put back till to morrow what you can do to day.
Never despair while there's meat in the shin of a wren.
A person's mouth often broke his nose.
The beginning of a shower is mist the end of a battle is strife.
A kind word never broke a man's mouth.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Cows across the sea have long horns.
Better a good run than a bad stand.
Don't ever throw out the dirty water till you get in the clean.
The last straw that broke the camel's back.
If you do not sew in the spring you will not reap in the Autumn.
There are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught.
Health is better than wealth.
It is easier to fall than to rise.
There is no use in throwing water on a drowned rat.
God is nearer than the door.
It is not the most beautiful woman that is the most sensible.
Birds of a feather flock together.
The world could not make a racehorse out of a mule.
The thing that would please you would not please me.
The parson always christens his own child first.(continues on next page)
