Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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It is ill with him who fends his meftage by a dog
who will fawn wherever he comes.
The thief's whittle is worfe than his hollow.
95 Better have a lobfter, than have nothing in place of
a man. («)
Hard is the battle from which none efcape.
It is liberal of a man to offer part of his fare, although
he is in need of it himfelf.
The fmoak that is within mull come out.
The large mouth has a luck to be filled.
.100 Patience overcomes trouble.
The lowefl feat is the nearefr. the fire.
Sad is the inheritance of difeafe.
Oft has the couragious fallen.
It is a pity ) has often been croiTed.
j©5 The cat will feel heavy, if carried always.
Better is the dog who runs out, than he who fares
ill at home.
A fmall batch is better than no bread.
Silent is the procefs of ruin.
Better turn halfway, than drown in the ford.
no Bad is that liberality which ftrips a jnan of hi$
all.
Plaids of the fame web. (0)
It is all alike, whether the great man's fool or his
dwarf.
Better is a dog fwift of foot, than loud of tongue.
Swift runs the drab's hufband o'er the bleak hill.
phoc," /'. e. the Devil is in your fatchef; ** Thanar tha thus
ann," yes, when you are in it replied the other: The lobfter
thus preventing her meal from being ftolen, occafionedlhe
above faying. ,
(0) Similar to, " TJheyare all chips of the fame block/"