Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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Night brings! i creatures home.
Laiting is the (hoot that fprings from malice.
:3d It is difficult to pleafe the dfiid who cannot tell his
complaints.
A man is careful of his own Hie.
The (tone is a good chopping block till it be reach-
ed.
The fmoak of heath is better than the wind c£
froft.
One houfe warned clean is better than twelve
fweeped.
285 Something fnould be kept for a fore foot*
Wide is the door of a hut.
Better be wary than fall into danger.
Many a change in the long winter night.
It is when victuals are fcarce that they ought to be'
mo ft carefully dealt out.
290 Woe be to him who would take from others when
he has enough of his own.
The poor man has many faults.
The uneafy feat at the ale-houfe is the befL
He is like the drab's hufband.
The crow loves its own young.
295 It is fo much lefs, as the wren faid when fhe took-
a mouthful out of the fea.
It is a bad thing to have nothings
The blind of one eye is king among the blind.
Truth is pleafing to God.
A neighbour at hand is better than a brother at a-
diitance.
300 It is a good hillock that has luck on the top of it,
Oft has a good cow had a bad calf.
Cold is the bed without a bedfellow..
Many a good aclion would have been done, if it had
not been for the danger of it.
Your teeth is longer than vour beard.
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