School: Stravicnabo
- Location:
- Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Michael Kelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0978, Page 502
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- (continued from previous page)"A good woman is better than a fortune"
"It is never too late to mend."
"Better late than never."
"Show me your company and I will tell you what to do."
"Never judge a book by the cover."
"The man who sows in spring reaps in autumn."
"Late to bed and late to rise makes a man begging before he dies."
"Saturdays beging has a tough ending."
"Look before you leap."
"There is no hearth stone like your own hearth stone"
"Buy a bad thing and do without anything."
"Hill are green far away."
"A good laugh and a long sleep are the rwo best medicines of the doctors book."
"Cows have long horns in Connaught.
"The person the drinks but water is never drunk."
"Extravagence in youth brings want in old age."
"Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."
"The wise man always carries his coat."
"Always (car) taking out of the meal tab and never putting into it soon comes to the bottom"
"When your (h) neighbours house is on fire take(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumnaveagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Gorman
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumnaveagh, Co. Cavan
