School: Shercock (2)
- Location:
- Shercock, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Giolla Cluig
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1013, Page 413
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- 1. A good beginning is half the work.
2. Don't believe superstitious people.
3. Never leave off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
4. Never spend your money before you have it.
5. Never count your chickens before they are hatched.
6. Never trouble others for what you can do yourself.
7. A burned child dreads the fire.
8. Once bitten twice shy.
9. If there is life there is hope.
10. Time will tell.
11. Mocking is catching.
12. Don't put new wine into old bottles.
13. What you never had you never lost.
14. Sticks and stones shall hurt your bones but names shall never hurt you.
15. The more the merrier.
16. The last gets the least.
17. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
18. Time and tide waits for no man.
- Collector
- Gwen Bailie
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickcreeny, Co. Cavan
