School: Scoil an Chlochair, Cappamore

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1. Proverbs (continued)

   

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   "Suspicion haunts the guilty mind"
   "Make the hay while the sun is shining"
   "The good excels the harm"
   "It is better to be born lucky than sick"
   "Correct", says Willie McCarthy"
   "It's a sin to tell a lie"
   "These two eyes of blue, still smiling through at me"
   "Cork was, Dublin is, Limerick is to be the largest city of the three"
   "You should put an old jacket on your body"
   "Fairies will come soon"
   "Call a dog a bad name and hang him"
   "There is no old shoe that does not get an old stocking"
   "Ash out green, makes the fire for the Queen"
   "Work is better than talk"
   "There is no luck only where there is correction"
   "Often a person's mouth broke his nose"
   "A closed mouth and a wise head"
   "The truth never choked a man"
   "A borrowed horse has hard hoofs"
   "An empty sack does not stand"
   "A good beginning is half the work"
   "Economy is half the battle of life"
   "There is no fire without smoke"
   "Killed with tea, and killed without it"

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire Ní Dhonncha

   Gender

   Female