School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)

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1. Old Sayings

   

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   Live horse & you will get grass
   Far away hills look green.
   A half a loaf is better that no bread.
   She fell from the frying pan into the fire.
   If the cuckoo sits on a bare thorn sell your cow and buy corn.
   Wet & windy May fills your haggard with corn and hay.
   Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
   Many are called but few are chosen.
   Too many cooks spoil the soup
   "Sour grapes" says the fox when he couldn't catch the chicken.
   A hungry eye sees far.
   Take it in your hand, Mrs Murphy.
   A heavy purse is a light heart.
   The cattle in Connaught have long horns.
   Cut my head and give me a plaster.
   Make new friends but keep the old. One is silver and the other is gold.
   Make hay while the sun shines.
   Home sweet home and the fire out.
   The fool's name is everywhere.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maisie O' Brien

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Mountaintown, Co. Louth

   Informant

   Mrs Cruickshank

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Female