School: Derryham
- Location:
- Derryhum, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0981, Page 037
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- (continued from previous page)(33) It is better to be than sorry.
(34) The ship was lost for a halfpenny worth of tar.
(35) Think twice before you answer once.
(36) The longer you live the more you know.
(37) A penny wise and a pound foolish.
(38) Two heads are wiser than one.
(39) A penny for your thoughts.
(40) There are none so blind as they that cannot see.
(41) He is watching like a cat watching a mouse.
(42) The longest round is the shortest way home.
(43) It is better late than never.
(44) When money lasts luck will change.
(45) Long churning makes bad butter.
(46) Never go a near cut when the road will take you round.
(47) Never put the butter through the porridge.
(48) It is a bad head that cannot listen to the wind.
(49) He who slings mud looses ground.
(50) Anyone might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion.
(51) Saying and doing are two different things.
(52) After a storm comes a calm.(continues on next page)
