School: Dooroc, Drumlish (roll number 13438)

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1. Proverbs (continued)

   

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   The early bird catches the worm.
   A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.
   As hardy as a hedgehog.
   Never leave till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
   A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
   When fools go to the market pedlars make money.
   Early to bed and early to rise makes little children healthy wealthy and wise.
   A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
   A watched pot will never boil.
   Wisdom is better than hard work.
   The longest way round is the shortest way home.
   A man without learning and wearing fine clothes is like a gold ring in a fat pigs nose.
   A person who tries to grasp everything loses all.
   A good example is the best sermon.
   A wise man always changes his mind but a fool never.
   He who has four and and spends five has no need of a purse.
   He who undertakes many things at ones seldom does anything well.
   A man can never thrive who has a wasteful wife.
   It is no use hiding from a friend what is known to an enemy.
   A good name is better than a good face.
   A good paymaster never wants workmen.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   B. Mc Quade

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   13

   Address

   Corlea, Co. Longford

   Informant

   Mr Patrick Mc Quade

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   50

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Corlea, Co. Longford