School: Newtown, Borris
- Location:
- Newtown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0903, Page 519
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- (continued from previous page)spent.
Two heads are better than one.
Idleness is the mother of vice.
Man appoints but God disappoints.
Charity begins at home.
Open not your heart to all men.
Poverty or riches can't be hidden.
He who rises late must trot all day.
Fools build houses for wise men to live in.
What is got by nature costs no money
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Little said is easy mended.
It is not all gold that glitters.
A new broom sweeps clean.
Rome was not built in a day.
Always taking out of the meal-pot, and putting none in it soon comes to the bottom.
Honesty is the best policy.
A wilful waste is a woeful want.
A covetous person is always in want.
Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
Liars we cannot trust though. they may speak the truth.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Clear
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Harristown, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Thomas Clear
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Harristown, Co. Carlow
