School: Athboy (C.)
- Location:
- Athboy, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Mhácháin
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- (continued from previous page)gentleman.
People in a glass house should never throw stones.
When poverty comes in at the door love goes out in the window.
Wilful waste makes woeful want.
To take the sow by the wrong ear.
You come like a godfather after the christening.
You cannot eat your loaf and have it.
Better to go to bed supperless than rise up in debt.
Do not make fish of one and flesh of another.
A great dowry is a bed full of troubles.
Hell is paved with good intentions.
Praise a fair day at night.
Time and tide stay for no man.
You are as busy as a hen with one chicken.
When rogues fall out and honest men get the own.
What is bred in the bone come out in the flesh.
We are all the chip of the one block.
An idle brain is the devils workshop.
To rob Peter to Pay Paul.
Two heads are better than one,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lillie Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tlachta, Co. Meath
- Informant
- John Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tlachta, Co. Meath
