School: Cor an Chasáin
- Location:
- Corr na Sás, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 252
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- (continued from previous page)"Butter to butter is no kitchen."
"Everything to help the lame dog over the stile."
"The nearer the church the farther from God."
"It is better to go to bed supperless than to die in debt."
"Penny wise and pound foolish."
"Keep a shop and the shop will keep you."
"Good luck is better than early rising."
"Money is made round to go round."
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
"A borrowed horse has hard hooves."
"Come a day, go a day, God send Sunday."
"Liars need a good memory."
"you can see a mote in your brother's eye, but you cannot see a beam in your own."
"Far away hills look green."
"He who slights you horse will buy him."
"There are better fish in the seas that ever were caught."
"Burning the two ends of the candle."
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,(continues on next page)
