Blair Collection > Mackintosh's collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familar phrases

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7. There is hope that a man may return from an ex-
pedition, but there is no hope that a man may
return from the grave.
8. Reap conquest by patience. (^)
9. The housewife of scarcity [z. e. a destitute family]
is soonest lost.
1 0. A stroke at every tree, but without felling any.
1 1 . A sharp point in thy hana »».|ueeze not ; to thy
enemy, thy wants bare not; when a dagger
is presented to thy breast [flesh] hear not ; a
venomous reptile awake not.
1 2. A salmon from the pool, a wand from the wood,
and a deer from the hill, are thefts which no
man was ever ashamed to own.
13. The stroke of every man is on the scabbed man's
scald head, {q)
14-. Hot water will quench fire, (r)
1 5. The Bard's vow^ against the castle, (s)
16. There was [ay] some water where the stirk was
drowned, [t)
17. The industrious lad's morsel is on every trench-
er.
18. It were easier to put Owen on horseback, (z^)
(j)) " Patience is a plaister for all sores." — Rai/s Prov.
lq\ "A scald head is soon broken." — ib.
(;•) " Foul water slokens fire." — Kelly^ Prov.
(s) Because he durst not go near it.
[t) This is seemingly a literal translation of a lowland Scot-
tish proverb. — Vide Kdlys Prov.
" Non est fuviHS absque igne.'' Cognatus.
" Kid feu sans fumeei''-^''' There is no fire without
some smoke/*
(u) Alluding to Ewen Macniel of Barra. — Vide additional
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