School: Skryne (roll number 1210)
- Location:
- Skreen, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian Mac Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)is worse than any.
Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
One good turn deserves another.
A windy day is not the day for thatching.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Long fair long foul.
Don't count the chickens before they're hatched.
A watched pot is long in boiling.
A green Christmas makes a fat Churchyard.
Marry a woman from the west and marry the whole west.
Never send a gasun on a man's errand.
Sow the seed and reap the harvest.Patrick O'Brien - Old SayingsCatch your hare and then cook it.
Working over the clay will soon put a man underneath
A wet day the rain came.
After a storm comes a calm.
Snow will not lie on a hot stone.
What would you expect from a pig but a grunt.
Put silk on a pig and he will root.
Constant dripping wears a stone.
Let sleeping dogs lie.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Margaret Crocock
- Gender
- Female