School: Alt an Chuilinn
- Location:
- Altachullion, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Brigid Martin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0966, Page 091
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- (continued from previous page)158. Wilful waste makes woeful want.
159. Too much of anything is good for nothing.
160. Enough is as good as a feast.
161. Stand on your own feet.
162. The old dog for the hard road.
163. Out of the frying-pan into the fire,
164. Between the devil and the deep sea.
165. Between two stools you come to the ground.
166. A good race is better than a bad stand.
167. What's in the cat is in the kitten.
168. There are as good fish in the sea as ever was caught.
169. Better to bend than break.
170. A wise man always carries his coat.
171. Forewarned is forearmed.
172. The lie goes but the truth stands.
173. The truth is bitter.
174. A hair of the dog that bit you.
175. The nearer the Church the farther from God.
176. Keep the bone and the dog will follow you.
177. The world is a good storyteller.
178. He did not see the river until the flood was out.
179. A rag on every bush.
180. A little help is better than a lot of pity.(continues on next page)
