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

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37. Better be silent, than be affronted.
38. The devil's loan to the mill.
39. Felicity follows the footsteps of the bountiful.
40. A wife may bear a son, but it is God makes him an
heir.
41. A wise man will, in one night's decision, give a
year's accomplish nient.
42. They have struck her head against the ambrey.
43. Happy would the squanderer be, if he got as he
squandered.
44. A blessing attend their departing and travelling 1
this day is Friday, they will not hear us.
45. Greedy was she who first put her finger in thy
mouth.
46. A man's fault will be huge as a mountain before he
himself can perceive it.
47. Great destruction [wreck] near the land's border,
i. e. sea- shore.
48. The goats are deaf in harvest. (/?)
49. A hornless cow in a strange fold. (/)
50. A smooth tongue vail biant wrath, [k)
51. As the blind struck the tub; or, as the blind
threw his club.
52. That were the liandful above the sackful.
53. Better to sit beside the madman, than the bare-
naked [needy] man.
54. Friday is contrary to the week.
55c The bo}^ grovelling in the ashes, may be an upish
lad.
5Q. The last groan is grievous.
(h) While they nibble the ripe ear in harvest.
(i) "I was like a cow in an unco loan."— JT;?//?/'' Prcv.
(1c) " A soft answer turneth away wrath'.'