School: Star of the Sea, Glengivney (roll number 12334)
- Location:
- Glennagiveny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Brian Mac Giolla Easbuic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 254
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- (continued from previous page)If you want a thing well done do it your self.
By grasping for too much you may lose all.
Right wrongs nobody.
All things which is law is not justice.
Work is bad but want is worse.
The last straw breaks the horse's back.
Age before beauty.
Be ware careful what you say about the absent.
An old poacher makes a good game-keeper.
Don't count the chickens before they are hatched.
A bad weed grows well.
Time will tell and frost will try the potatoes.
April May keep out the "say" June July plunge away.
Nearer the bone the sweeter the meat.
A blind man is a bad judge of colours.
Nearer the rock the sweeter the grass.
The trees get two-thirds of the winds, the peaks two-thirds of the sun, the mountains two-thirds of the storm.
Not as it is thought does it be.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Crumlish
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Dan Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Glennagiveny, Co. Donegal
