School: De Freyne (roll number 16457)
- Location:
- Portaghard, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Gionnáin
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- (continued from previous page)Don't judge the book by the cover.
It is hard to pluck wool off a goat.
The more hurry the less speed.
One beetle knows another beetle.
Nature is stronger than rearing.
The mills of God grind slowly but surely.
It is often a person's mouth broke his nose.
Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
The thing that is got easily is not appreciated.
It is hard to put an old head on young shoulders.
To borrow or beg or give one's own is the very worst practice that ever was known.
Pins and needles, needles and pins, when a man marries his troubles begin.
A little help is worth a lot of pity.
Dead with tea and dead without it.
Time is a great storyteller.
Don't judge by appearance alone.
Hills look green far away.
A windy day is not the day for thatching, but the day for scallops.
Always in a hurry and never in time.(continues on next page)
