School: Ballivor (roll number 9380)
- Location:
- Ballivor, Co. Meath
- Teacher: T. Ua Conmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 285
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- (continued from previous page)14. A nod is as good, as a wink, to a blind ass.
15. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
16. You can't have your loaf, and ate it.
17. It;s a bad wind, that blows no body good.
18. It's never too late to mend.
19. It;s a long lane, that has no turning.
20. Eaten bread, is soon forgotten.
21. Children, and fools shouldn't handle edged tools.
22. It's hard to kill a a bad weed.
23. An old fool at forty, will never be wise.
24. It takes every sort to make the world.
25. It's a step above butter-milk.
26. There is a better fish in the sea, than was ever caught.
27. People in glass house, should never throw stones.
28. Pride generally gets a fall.
29. Blessed are they, that expect nothing, because they never get disappointed.
30. He that goes a-borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
31. All is not gold that glitters.
32. What's one man's meat, is another man's poison.
33. Money makes the mare go, and water makes the river flow.
34. One good trick, is worth twenty bad ones.
35. One good turn, deserves another.
36. Have (is) it yourself, or do with-out it.
37. If you want work well done, do it yourself.(continues on next page)
