School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cill na Mullach (roll number 11855)

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1. Proverbs (continued)

   

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   "Take the ball at the first hop."
   "Home sweet home there is no place like home."
   "What is home without a mother."
   "A Mother's love is a blessing."
   "There is no road without a turn."
   "One trouble never comes alone."
   "As long as the pitcher is going to the well it is broken at last."
   "The best of clerks make (a) mistakes."
   "The best of goods are made up in small parcels."
   "It never rains but it pours."
   "Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
   "The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat."
   "Every fool knows his own writing."
   "A fool likes to see his name everywhere."
   "Every fool laughs at his own folly."
   "There is a fool and a lady in every family."
   "What is in sober, comes out in drink."
   "You cannot expect blood out of a turnip."
   "What is bred in the marrow breaks out in the bone."
   "'Tis a bad wind that does not blow somebody good."
   "The more hurry the less speed."

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ellen Hanley

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs M. Hanley

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   42

   Address

   Buttevant, Co. Cork