Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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Oft has a long fword been in the hand of a cow-
ard.
70 It would be a fmall wind with which ycu could not
fail. [*)
A lie needs to be propped.
.Slippery is the ftone at the great man's door. (/)
The bag- pipe is a forry widow.
Fair is the feather of the far fetched bird.
75 Better meafure under fevcn, than fpoil all at
once *.
It is a bad fign of a rock when its own birds fcrlake
You have a fad life of it, Conan. (?n)
Woe to him who will not maintain his own poor.
Lazy is the work that is forced,
go A man in necefiity may be forced to do what is*.
wrong.
It is a lorry trade that may not be taught:
It is bad with the fhip when the fteerfman roars out.
Oft has a good fword had a forry fcabbard.
Oft has the race of the hunters been bewilderen 1 .
■f c It is difficult to ft rip a bare breech.
Small is the fixing that you will not play upon.
The trouble of fpiuning it makes the drab think hey
wool too bulky.
Better is an old woman's hold than a hero's pull.
Cold is the fromach.that will not warm drink.
It is eafy to draw blood from a mangey head,
9 Or tears from a wry face'.
A handful of ikill is better than a handful of gold.
B^::r rife early than lit late.
* Better keep <ivitBtn hounds than go to extremes.
(w) When Conan was told that he had a bad life in
4 K'j!I, he ofrry replied, " If they bring ill to me, they get
no better." See notes upon the. Utters B and C.