School: An Bhlárna (C.)
- Location:
- Blarney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Winifred Scantlebury
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0349, Page 126
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- "A borrowed horse has hard hoofs."
"Where the women are there is talk."
"Listen to the old person when you think he has knowledge."
"Don't look at all you see, and don't listen to all you hear."
"All will depart that will ever come or ever did come."
"If you don't sow in Spring, you will not sow in the Autumn".
"The longest way round is the safest way home."
"Make hay while the sun shines."
"Hunger is the best sauce."
"When the cat is out the mouse can dance".
"He who laughs last laughs best."
"Laugh and the world laughs with you
weep and you will weep alone."
"An idle word is a useless word."
"Many hands make light work."
"Too many cooks spoil the brots".
"There is no help or cure against death".
"It is difficult to cut wool off a goat.
- Collector
- Winnie Heraghty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Heraghty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Saint Ann's Hill, Co. Cork
