School: Cnoc an tSalainn (roll number 1746)
- Location:
- Knockatallan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: F. Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0955, Page 249
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- (continued from previous page)He that bury the plough would thrive himself must either hold or drive.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
Do not count your chickens until they are hatched.
I stood by its cradle and followed its hearse.
He is lifeless that is faultless.
She pays him in his own coins.
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
Set a beggar on horse-back and he’ll out-ride the devil
Time or tide waits on nobody
Better late than never
It’s a long lane that has no turning.
Before you bury consult your purse.
Dig deep while sluggards sleep and you shall have corn to sow or keep.
The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
He who has no money carries no purse.
What would shame him would turn a funeral.
An oft removed tree or yet an oft removed family never throve as well as those that settled be.
The eye of the master does more work than both his hands.
