School: Sooey (roll number 6249)
- Location:
- Sooey, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Hóráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0179, Page 428
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- (continued from previous page)a-sorrowing. The mill cannot grind with water that is passed.
Be the road straight or crooked, the high road is the short-cut.
There are two sides in every story.
It is better to be idle than employed in evil work.
A bad beginning sometimes makes a good end.
The longer you live, the more you know.
It is a long road that has not a turn.
A new broom sweeps clean.
Better go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep and you will have corn, to sell and keep.
The younger the chicken the sweeter the picking.
As white as the soul of a child.
Anything worth doing atall, is worth doing well.
Never leave off until to-morrow what you can do today.
- Collector
- Sheila Beirne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonagh, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Patrick Tiernan
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballynakill, Co. Sligo
