School: Hospital Convent (roll number 13898)
- Location:
- Hospital, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Sr. Bernard
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- 1. Fine feathers make fine birds.
2. Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
3. Straws swim on the surface but pearls go to the bottom.
4. Good works are good but good deeds are better.
5. It is the last straw that breaks the horses back.
6. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
7. A straight tree may have crooked roots.
8. Empty vessels make most sound.
9. Fools learn nothing from wise men but wise men learn much from fools.
10. A lie has no legs.
11. There is many a slip between the cup and the lip.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Condon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Hospital, Co. Limerick