School: Clonlara
- Location:
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Heoghanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 064
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- (continued from previous page)22 "Want of decency is want of sense."
23 "The longest way round is the shortest way home."
24 "Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast."
25 "Its a bad wind that does not blow somebody good."
26 "what is one man's downfall is another man's uprise."
27 "The day of the wind is not the day for the squeezelop."
28 "If you have but a goat be in the centre of the fair with it."
29 "Kerry cows wear long horns."
30 "Liars ought to have good memories."
31 "Health is better than wealth."
32 "Every cloud has a silver lining."
33 "Too many cooks spoil the broth."
34 "Many hands make light work."
35 "Old soldiers never die. They simply fade away."
36 "An idle person tempts the devil."
37 "As a man lives so shall he die."
38 "Fools rush to where angels fear to tread."
39 "Strike the iron while its hot."
40 "Man proposes but God dis-poses."(continues on next page)
