School: Scoil na mBráthar Sligeach
- Location:
- Sligo, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An Br. C. Ó Maoil Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0161, Page 114
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- (continued from previous page)Nobody is wise untill something goes against them.
Make hay while the sun shines.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A service not asked for, neither God nor man is thankful for it.
Every man has a shadow.
There is no overtaking the shot once fired.
Everything is not gold that glitters.
Better late than never.
- Two men went into a shop. One bought two pounds of tea and two pounds of sugar, and the other, half a pound of tea and half a pound of sugar. How did the shopkeeper know that one of them was a soldier?
Because he had his uniform one.
What goes round the wood and round the wood and never into the wood?
The bark of a tree.
When is a sheep not a sheep?
When it is turned into a field.
When is a farmer like a magician?
When he turns a cow into a field.(continues on next page)
