School: Corravacan
- Location:
- Corravacan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Gallagher
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0945, Page 048
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Corravacan
- XML Page 048
- XML “Old Sayings”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)150. Prevention is better than cure.
151. Truth never choked a man.
152. Rome wasn't built in a day.
153. Saturday's flit is a short sit.
154 A child must creep before it walks.
155. Too much of anything's good for nothing.
156. Fine feathers make fine birds.
157. A cat may look at a king.
158. He that says least says best.
159. A green Xmas, leaves a fat churchyard.
160. You can't fit a square peg into a round hole.
161. Always practise what you preach.
162. Least said is easiest mended and nothing said needs no mending.
163. The man that slights your horse will buy him.
164. Like and alike is a bad mark among sheep.
165. No news is good news.
166. One trouble never comes alone.
167. Whatever happens is best.
168. After the storm comes the calm.
169. The longer you live the more you know.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Chonlain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rockcorry, Co. Monaghan
