School: Meelick (C.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhórdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 231
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- (continued from previous page)When the old cock crows the young cock learns.
A watched pot never boils.
Make hay while the sun shines.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
A new broom sweeps clean.
Old soldiers never die.
Smooth water runs deep and the mud lies at the bottom.
Nature breaks out through the eyes of a cat.
If you want to know what sort I am come and live with me.
The old dog for the hard road and the pup for the path.
Health is better than wealth.
He would hear the grass growing.
It is the heaviest ear of corn that hangs its head the lowest.
You have a head and so has a pin.
It is the empty cart that makes the most noise.
If you don't sow in spring you wont reap in autumn.(continues on next page)
