Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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305- A good cow is better than kine, a good man is better"
than men.
A Friday that threatens rain makes a rainy Saturday,
Chrifrmas is young on Chriilmas eve.
Woe to him who is fevere ;
He who behaves with decency will come at his due.
Friendship is as you keep it.
310 There is melody in every word of the rich ;
juftice is harm in the mouth of the poor j
It is long 'ere the poor he wife;
There is honey in the prating of the rich.
Faft and flow is man's counfel.
It is but a forry door, though made of alder, that
will not hang one year on the hinge. (w)
Cold is the breath of ftrangers.
He is but a harm harper, who has but one tune.
315 Riches care r.ot where they fall.
Oft has great ftrife come from a fmall caufe.
A man may live, though he cannot get his fill j woe
to him who makes a god of his belly.
The little man is often ftout. (x)
The big man is often not brave.
£20 Oft has the little man been of little account.
You have much bran from fo little flour, (y)
You have thrown a ffone at us.
It is time to us to fteep the withies
Many a miftrcfs has put broth in his plate.
3125 He is a man every inch.
It is when misfortune comes, that friends are known,
Foul water makes clean hands.
Blood is thicker than water.
Many a bit you have put in the mouth that pralfecV-
you.
330 Woe to him who would make you his pilot.
(_>•) Applied to one who paffes too great encomiums c-i-
his favourite.