Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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ìì is a good horfe that pleafes the rider.
It is ill with him who (loops for relief to the niggard,
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It is ill with him who holds out the hand of poverty
to the illiberal.
The evil known, is better -.ban the evil unknown.
A little fire that warms, i* better than a great one
that burns.
Many things drop from him who removes his dwei-
Kng. (g)
The blow of the valiant is eafily known, (/j)
55 Cold is the connection with a firft alliance, when a
fecond is formed.
To be given to a woman, is one third of the way to
win her.
He hath his work half done, who hath it well begun.
The thief may have fome profit, but the fcorner none.
My legs are too bare to be giving bread to my dogs.
60 The eye of friend is a good mirror.
Ignorance is a heavy load.
Many a man has planted a garden who never reaped
the fruits thereof.
Sooty coloured lads may ferve afh. coloured lafTes.
Feeble is the arm of the man who has not a brother^
At the time that folks are banding together.
6$ It is eafy to light a fire at the root of a tree.
A covering is the thicker for being doubled. (z)
It is from the little that the great grows.
It is difficult to follow a man's track through the water,
the father from his progeny, fays, '* The hero's ftroke is
eafily known." At which the old wren turned about upon
its heel, and anfwered, " Bha lo dha fin ;" " there was a
day of that," or as fome have it, <c Cha tuig iadfa na
.garaichin fin ;" " little do thefe naughty things know that."
(;') Said of a couple that are related to each other be-
fore marriage, by which means they become doubly al-
lied.