Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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Tl/E tvjay- ftcikè a hack in the port:. Nay, 'tis urrfucfcjv
* ' * replies the gueft.
Where a man is leaft beloved, he is eaGeft over-
thrown.
He has as much as I, yet afks a crumb of me.
The reft of the imith's man, from the hammer to the
bellows.
5 Where nothing is, the king mufl lofe his due.
The poor man fits far below the richj
Be he ever fo virtuous, many faults are lafid to his-
charge.
The voice of the rich is fweeteft;
A man may feed without daubing his ears.
Every one will afk who made it, but few will afk-'
how long it was in .making.
10 He has got a tofs" through the fmcak.
Far from the eye, far from the heart, (a)
Shew me the calf white faced and fleek j you 4i€eS
not fhow me his hcding.
At night it will be known who are men.
Afk a man to tell his failings.
15 The breeze of wind from the eaft is the delight of
the hunter.
You quit it as a cow quits her ft all.
Let the knave be kept under.
He who has nothing to give, is readied to boaft or
his generofity.
Competition produces exertion,
20 A black man is bold, a fair man is troublefome, n
brown man is like his race, and a red man is a
fcorner. (/>)
(b) Like w Fair and foolhh, black and proud, long aai ■*
iàzv, little and loud,"
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