School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Thos. Plunkett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 249
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- (continued from previous page)Don't sell your hen on a wet day.
The elastic conscience is a convenient one.
A kind word turneth away wrath.
May your joys be as deep as the ocean and your sorrows as light as its foam.
You can't make a silk purse out of a pig's lug.
The whistling woman and a crowing hen makes a man happy but God knows when.
There is no use closing the stable door when the horse is gone.
One tale is good till another is told.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
A wink is as good as a nod to a blind man.
He wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
The pen is mighter than the sword.
- Collector
- Mary Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 39
