Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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E is lucky who comes in time to his meat.
Oft has a fmall fpark kindled a great fi.-e.
They go wide who never meet.
Many an excufe has the fpring for being cold.
5 Woe to him whofe main fupport is the white cow
of Macgilony. (a)
One dog fares the better that another is hanged,.
Every ftraw is a flake in the night.
Silence is equal to confefllon.
The perfon who is fine at the fair, is often nafty ?t/
the fire-fide.
fo Often have the rivers dried up, while the rivulets
continue running.
Often is the large thip laid up, whilft the final! fklrr
keeps the fea.
Itv;ere hard to beg from the cat, while fhe hcrfeJt
fs fnarling for want.
It is difficult to bring luck to a lucklefs man.
One man is blind la another man's care,
jr More làfting than any thing elfe is fhame.
A liar fhould have a voucher.
I: is ?, d-jf^rtcd wood where no bird rings.
The old is tarnifhed and dun; the new is fair, evcn :
to the bark of the alder. (£)
The fhakings of a canvas iheet is better than the-
dufting of a bag.
chanced to fall, he went no further, as long as he eouW
procure venifon ; wh*t he called his white cow, foas'the
wild buck or doe of the mountain.
(b) The inùer bark of the alder is white when new
peeled, but it turr.s red in a few hours j hence the above