School: Ballivor (roll number 9380)
- Location:
- Ballivor, Co. Meath
- Teacher: T. Ua Conmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 286
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- (continued from previous page)38. After the wind, is not the time for the "scolb".
39. It's too late, to lock the door, when the horse is stolen.
40. Out of sight, out of mind.
41. When the wine in, the wit is out.
42. Whiskey when your sick makes you well, and whiskey makes you sick when your well.
43. Better to go to bed supper-less, than rise dead.
44. Don't send a gasun on a man's errand.
45. After a storm, comes a calm.
46. Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
47. Seldom comes better.
48. Little said,is easy mended.
49. Let the hare sit.
50. Shut mouth, catches no flies.
51. Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
52. Education makes the nation.
53. It is not all lost, that is in danger.
54. There is good goods in small parcels.
55. A wise man, never found a dead man.
56. A rolling stone, gathers no moss.
57. Smooth water runs deep.
58. Seldom smoke, without fire.
59. Pride may lurk, under a thread bare coat.
60. Wealth, and contentment seldom live together.
61. When all fruit fails, its welcome haw.
62. Apples will grow again.(continues on next page)
