School: Meelick (C.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhórdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 234
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- (continued from previous page)Many hands make light work.
Never spare your breakfast for your dinner.
'Tis better to be born lucky than rich.
Long threatening comes at last.
High heels and starvation.
Never count your chickens before they are hatched.
A person is only young once.
If "ifs" and "ands" were kettles and pans there would be no need for tinkers.
The more hurry the less speed.
Never take a book by the cover.
First come first served.
High notions and low stations like the goats in Kerry.
There are hopes from the ocean but none from the grave.
God increase your store and put it in your heart to give us more.
A man is a man if he were only in a bottle.
Spare your breath to cool your broth.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
That you may die roaring like Johnny Doran's ass.(continues on next page)
