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

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i9. It were in vain to hold out the pail to a person
who would put nothing into it.
50. Ill fares it with one who holds out the hand of
distress to the hen-hearted [niggard.]
51. The known evil is preferable to the unknown
evil. {21)
52. The little fire that warms is preferable to the large
fire that burns.
53. Many a thing drops from the man who often
flits, {j:)
54. The brave man's blow is easily known.
55. Cold is the intercourse of a second-affinity.
56. Tlie third of wooing, is to liken to [?". e. a pair
talked of as a likely match. ]
57. Commencement is one-third of the operation. ( j/)
5S. What is left of theft is better than the remainder
of mockery.
59. The eye of a friend is a good mirror, {z)
60. Ignorance is a heavy burden.
61. Oftimes has a man sown [and planted] a garden,
without reaping the produce [fruit.]
62. Swarthy lads may do for sallow lasses.
63. Weak is the shoulder [of a man] without a bro-
ther, at the time when men gather together
[for emprise.]
64. It is easy to kindle a fire at the root of a tree. ,
65. The mantle is the thicker of being doubled. \
(u) " And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
*• Than fly to others that we know not of?"- Shakesp.
(x) « Three removes are as bad as a fire," as Poor Richard
says.
(t/) " Well begun is half ended." Dimidium facti qui bene
hahet.
(2) « The best mirror is an old friend.."— i?a/« Prov.