School: De Freyne (roll number 16457)
- Location:
- Portaghard, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Gionnáin
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- (continued from previous page)The juice of a cow is good dead or alive.
Your sons is yours to-day but your daughter is yours for ever.
Good manners are half a ladies fortune.
God made the back for the burden.
Ill got ill gone.
The badness shows itself sometime or another.
Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
Take each man's sensure, but reserve thy judgement.
A new broom sweeps clean.
All is not gold that glitters.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
The man is known by the company he keeps.
Tell me your company and I'll tell you who you are.
Man proposes, but God disposes.
A man without learning and wearing good clothes, is like a gold ring in a barrow pig's nose. A man with learning and wearing bad clothes, is always respected wherever he goes.
It is lonely to be empty.
Bravery is half the battle.(continues on next page)
