School: Ráth Chormaic (B.) (roll number 1598)
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 393
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- (1) You'll never miss the water until the well runs dry.
(2) Never put off until to-morrow what you can do to-day.
(3) Spare the rod and spoil the child.
(4) Birds of a feather, flock together.
(5) It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
(6) The early bird catches the worm.
(7) All is not gold that glitters.
(8) He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
(9) The last straw broke the horse's back.
(10) Far away cows wear long horns.
(11) Health is better than wealth.
(12) A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
(13) Necessity is the mother of invention.
(14) A rolling stone gathers no moss.
(15) Many hands makes light work.
(16) A house devil and a street angel.
(17) A wise man eats to live but a fool lives to eat.
(18) An ounce of breeding is worth a ton of feeding.
(19) Fools build houses and wise men come to live in them.
(20) A fool and his money are soon parted.
- Collector
- James Howard
- Gender
- Male
