School: Baile Uí Mheirigín, Merginstown
- Location:
- Baile Uí Mheirgin, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teacher: Áine Ní Fhearrachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 317
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- (continued from previous page)Rob Peter to pay Paul.
Between two stools you will come to the ground.
There is no place like home.
People in glass houses should not throw stones.
There is no cloud but has its silver lining.
I never saw an oft removed tree that throve so well as those that settled be.
The devil you know is better than the one you don't know.
Exchange is no robbery.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. and you will have corn to sell and keep.
Be just and fear not.
Live and let live.
Once a man, and twice a child.
Half a loaf is better than no bread.
The longest way around is the shorted way home.
All that glitters is not gold.
Killing two birds with one stone.
Rome was not built in a day.
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
There is many a slip between the and the lip
A stich in time saves nine(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Deering
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Lomáin, Co. Chill Mhantáin
