School: Garryross
- Location:
- Garryross, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Eochagáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0995, Page 406
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- (continued from previous page)A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A straight tree may have crooked roots.
A fools bolt is soon shot.
Be old when young, that you may be young when old.
Better to wear out shoes than sheets.
Better is an ass that carries you, than a horse that throws you.
Bachelor's wives and maiden's children are well trained.
Bend the twig, and bend the tree.
Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry.
Between two stools we come to the ground.
Covetousness bursts the bag.
Children and fools should not see a work that is half done.
Children and fools should not handle edge tools.
Cleave the log according to the grain.
Debt is the worst kind of poverty.
Do not ride a free horse to death.
Fortune favours fools.
Frost and fraud both end in foul.
For a mischievous dog a heavy clog.
Good words are good, but good deeds are better.
He that pays beforehand, has his work behindhand.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
High winds blow on high hills.
Half a leap is a fall into the ditch.
If you will not take pains, pains will take you.
It is too late to spare when all is spent.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gertie Gilsenan
- Gender
- Female
