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   This is a list of the local Proverbs.
   A stitch in time saves mine.
   It is never too late to learn.
   Do not cry over spilt milk.
   It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is gone.
   The longest way round is the shortest way home.
   It is a bad third attempt that will not succeed.
   Ill got ill gone.
   Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
   Saturday's flit [?] leaves a short sit.
   It is too late to save when all is spent.
   Necessity is the mother of invention.
   He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day.
   All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
   Hard upon hard makes a bad stone wall but soft upon soft makes none at all.
   Many hands make light work.
   A person's mouth often broke his nose.
   If you don't bend the twig you can't bend the tree.
   Nothing happens by chance.
   The world would not make a racehorse out of an ass.

   

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. proverbs (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Philomena Mullen

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cohaw, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Mrs E. Mullen

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cohaw, Co. Cavan