Blair Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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À fool loves removing.
045 The ftrong fnall fall, and oft the weak efcape un-
hurt.
Long is the hand of the needy.
Strong is the feeble in the bolbm of might.
Oft has the wiieft advice proceeded from the mouth
of folly.
Oft has the object of fcorn arrived at honour, and
that of envy fallen into contempt.
350 111 news are often true.
A living dog is better than a dead lion, (bb)
JUSTICE melts in the mouth of the feeble.
The hands of an infant, but the ftomach of a man,
A (hip may be loaded with fhells.
Let the tail go with the hide.
5 Broad to broad,
And fmall to fmali,
We may read or write,
Every word in the world. (a)
Leap the wall where it is loweit.
A great gap may be filled with fmall ftones.
Lean fielh cleaves to ftraw. (b)
One day drunk, and another on water, (r)
10 He is a pitiful fellow that has horfes and will not ufb
them.
Burning is a fingular cure.
I have black water at my heart, (d)
Let it flip through the fingers.
Go aboiK the bridge, as the ghoft did.
15 He tarries too long at another man's fire-fide.
(b) Applied to mean or worthlefs people, who cleave to
each other. " Like to like, an old horle to a feal dyke."
(c) Similar to the dog's lite, " A hunger and a burtl."
{d) ExprefTive of fadaefs.