School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máirtín Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 070
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A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Uneasy is the head that wears the crown.
Far away hills look green.
It is better to go to bed hungry than rise in debt.
Hunger is a good sauce.
Children and fools should not handle sharp-edged tools.
Kindle the dry sticks and the green ones will catch.
Of small account is a fly till it gets into the eye.
There is no shame in refusing him that has no shame in asking.
A word in court is better than a pound in the house.
An empty sack cannot stand.
Too many cooks spoiled the broth.
Many hands make light work.
Metal is dangerous in a blind horse.
- Collector
- John Cotterell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr William Cottrell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
