School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Brádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 50
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- (continued from previous page)"It's often a person's mouth broke his nose."
"A closed mouth catches no flies"
"Four things an Irishman cannot trust: A cow's horn a horse's hoof a dog's snarl and an Englishman's laugh"
"The life of a stocking is to darn it"
"Put a devil on horseback and he'll ride to hell."
"You cannot get blood out of a turnip"
"You cannot knock what's not in a child out of him."
"When poverty comes in the door love goes out the window."
"When the old cock crows the young one learns."
"Go easy with the man's ass when he's not your own"
"Have it yourself or be without it"
"Friends meet but the hills or mountains never meet."
"Don't praise or dispraise yourself."
"Self praise is no praise."
"You cannot have your loaf and eat it"
"Don't let your right hand know what your left hand does."
"You never know a person until you eat a hundred of salt with him."
"All to one side like the heel of a shoe."
"Divide small and serve all"
"Nature breaks out in the cats eyes."
"Dont take the book by the cover"
"Work is better than talk"
"Laziness is a heavy load"
"When the cat is away the mice can play."
"There is no use in spuring a free horse."(continues on next page)
