School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)
- Location:
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Bruadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 046
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- (continued from previous page)but you can't trick all the world all the time.
35. Out of the fashion out of the world.
36. Saying and doing are two things.
37. Never buy a pig in a bog.
38. Great oaks grow from little acorns.
39. He that goes a-borrowing goes a sorrowing.
40. Never make a mountain out of a molehill.(continues on next page)
- 41. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
42. The early bird catches the worm.
43. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
44. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
45. Too sweet is never wholesome.
46. The more hurry the less speed.
47. A wise man alway carries his coat of a fine day.
48. Praise a fair day at night.
49. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth(continues on next page) - Collector
- Sighle Nic Aodha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fallaghmore, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Risteáird Mac Aodha
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fallaghmore, Co. Laois
