Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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•T^HOUGH near us be nigh, upon us is nigher.
■*- If you faw a man in bed with your mother, you
would tell.
Take long flitches, and have done with it.
Promife a gift to your chief, and truft himfelf with
the finding it.
5 The lione clings not rafter to the ground, than
Coivi's help to the needy, (a)
The hen that fcrapes will find fomething, but the
one that -plies not her feet, will find nothing.
The watch of the kite over the chickens.
A bad wright, but good chips.
Neceiiky will make a fhift, though it ihould not
make an inheritance.
20 A wedge made of oak will cleave it.
If you laboured a whole country fide, you would
confome its produce.
Though you broke the bone, you did not fuck the
marrow.
Though this be the houfe,thefeare not the inhabitants
The watch of the fox over the lambs.
15 Though hunting be a good help, it is but a poor
living. (5)
Whoever is fervant to the fox, mufr. bear up his
tail.
Though the old woman be the better of a warming,
fhe is not the better of being burnt.
Though the old faying be gainfaid, it cannot be dis-
proved.
Though the berry be black, .it is fweet ; though my
Be be black, Cne is pretty.
(J>) A modern proverb.