School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 2258)

Location:
Fermoy, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Na Mná Rialta
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  1. (continued from previous page)
    1. Help yourself and God will help you
    2. After a storm comes a calm
    3. Every man's house is his castle
    4. He laughs best who laughs last
    5. Money is not everything
    6. All is not gold that glitters
    7. Live not to eat but eat to live
    8. Forewarned, forearmed
    9. Fish without drink is poison
    10. As you make you bed so you must lie on it.
    11. A rolling stone gathers no moss
    12. Of two evils choose the lesser
    13. Everything comes to him who waits
    14. Practise makes perfect.
    15. Judge not and you shall be judged.
    16. Better an ounce of liberty than a pound of gold.
    17. When the old cock crows the young cock learns.
    18. Prevention is better than cure.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English