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1. Proverbs (continued)

   

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   "A penny saved is a penny gained."
   "A stright tree may have crooked roots."
   "Bend the twig, and bend the tree."
   "Spare the rod, and spoil the child"
   "Health is better than wealth."
   "Empty vessels make most sound."
   "Honesty is the best policy.
   "Look before you leap."
   "Many hands make light work."
   "Strike the iron while it is hot."
   "Fools laugh at their own folly."
   "Where there's a will there's a way."
   "It is not the big stones alone that go to build a wall."
   "No pains, no gains."
   "Far away cows wear no horns."
   "It is never too late to learn."
   "He buys honey dear, who licks it from thorns."
   "Covetousness bursts the bag."
   "A glutton lives to eat; a wise man eats to live."
   "A place for everything, and everything in its proper place."
   "Better wear out shoes than sheets."
   "Between two stools we come to the ground."
   "It is the thunder that frights, and the lightening that smite."
   "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
   "Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise."
   "Hard upon hard makes a bad stone wall, but soft upon soft makes none atall."

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. proverbs (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Breda Stack

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Knockardbane, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Cornelius Stack

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Knockardbane, Co. Cork