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

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97. Hard is the battle from whence a single man
escapes not.
98. It is great patience that annihilates distress.
99. It is the poor [low] sitting that makes the rick
[comfortable] warming.
100. A bad disorder is a wTetched inheritance.
101. Oftimes the man of high courage is lost.
102. Frequently has " 't-j:ere pity 1^' got a turn.
103. The cat will seem heavy by sheer carriage.
104-. Better the dog that runs, than he that is decay-
ing.
105. Better a thin kneading than to want [bread] en-
tirely, {u)
1 06. Silent is the operation of ruin.
107. Better turn back than be drowned in [crossing]
the ford.
108. Bad is that generosity which puts [drives] a man
to gaming, {a:)
109. It is of the same home-made tartan.
1 1 0. The dolt is Uke the dwarf.
111. Better a dog swift of foot, than loud of tongue.
112. Swift is the slut's husband over the upland, on a
bleak day in spring.
113. Better is a relic of scorn than a relic of envy.
114. I like not the backsliding^ of an old man.
(?/) " Bannocks are better than no bread." — Kelli/'s Prov.
" Half a loaf is better than no bread." — Rays Prov.
(jf) " Gaming is fit only for those who have great estates, cr
those who have none,"— Ì>aco?ìiw.