Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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Smiles are not companions of pain.
The young do not forefee want, nor fools danger.
Pride' has its trouble, and we will not be troubled
with it.
Nothing hinders a man from getting more, but the
fpendmg of what lie has.
I-95 Set the low's head to the pig's tail.
Two are not of one mind, neither are their geniufes
alike.
A man will fleep upon every difafter except his own,
A iword in the band of a fool, and a ftafF in a fooliih
woman's.
"What does not cover the ihoulders may cover the ribs*
200 As the miller fleeps while the water goes pail.
He was not in the arms of his mother.
It will not put a fole on his fhoe.
A dextrous garnefier will not conceal his dice.
The plunder is not fo bad, from which the half is
recovered.
205 Where was the mufic, that the harpers could not
find it.
The ftrong foot will not find more than the big
belly will devour..
One fwallow will not make fummer..
They never threw away with one hand, who had
not occalion to gather with both.
What harm in the robbery, if we are not the poorer I
310 He has brought his boat to an anchor.
He left no iione unturned.
As intimate as the pot and the ladle.
He is not my friend who does me harm.
Marriage at hand,, and goffipping afar off.
.215 Almoft never killed the game.
The raven's appeal to the crow.
There is no copartnery in women or land.
I (hall not call him my brother,, but a fort born of
my mother.
There is no liability in evil deeds*