Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

zo Loud is the bouncing of the blown -up bladder.
Enough is as good as too much.
Woe to him who is not afraid to tell a1re„
Bought wifdom is beft.
He is often rooft willing to (how a (Granger the way
paft, who is leaft willing to receive him at home.
25 Often- fport turns to earned.
Woe be to him who makes mirth of another man'*
woe.
The crumbs of plenty are better than the middle dixit-
of want.
It is for himfelf that the cat purrs.-
A man is bold in his own corner.
30 For ever is longer than till Whitfuntide. (c)
It is at the year's end the fiflier can judge of his luck,
The beft thing will hear to be magnified.
It is better than gold to ftate a matter aright.
It is better to have hopes than fad expectation.
35 Better plead drunkennefs, than want an excui'e.
Better be lucky, than pains taking.
It is a bitter fpeech that may not be heard j black tf?
the maid that may not be kiiTed.
Sharp i& the point of the hook.
The clerk wifbes the prieft a fat difh.
40 It is good fport that fihs the belly.
He is a filly horfe that cannot carry his harnef?,
The loan of a fpadethat is not to be put in the ground;
The deer carries his head high on the mountain.
It is from the countenance we judge of the man.
4,5 It is difficult to make a hawk of a kite, (e)
Pleafant is the bit that ismared :— woe to him whe
fits down alone. (f~)
The moufe is miitrefs in her own houfe. -
fite D'unkeld, was one of the places where they celebrated
that feiiival. Shtittf's Gaelic antiquities > Penuarfs Tc;:;\
(<?) Or, " A carrion kite will make a bad hawk."
(/) ® r > " Who eats alorie, faddles hb'horiVaIcr*fc.**
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