School: Cruach, Ráth gCaola (roll number 2007)
- Location:
- Croagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. S. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0501, Page 196
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- (continued from previous page)22. The taste of the kitchen is better than the smell.
23. Lie with the lamb and rise with the lark.
24. Wilful waste makes woeful want.
25. Little brooks make great rivers.
26. Too late to spare when all is spent.
27. God helps them who helps themselves.
28. No place like home.
29. A blind man is a bad judge of colours.
30. A sleeping fox catches no poultry.
31. Keep your shop and your shop will keep you.
32. No use to cry after spilt milk.
33. Two of the same never agree.
34. Two wrongs never a right.
35. When the cast is out the mouse can dance.
36. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.
37. What you get easy is spent easy.
38. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
39. The longest way around is the safest way home.
40. Look ere you leap.(continues on next page)
