Hew Morrison Collection > Collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familiar phrases

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Night brings all creatures home.
LalVing is the Ihoot that Iprings from malice.
23o It is difiicult to plcaf^j the child who cannot tell hii>
complaints.
A man is carehil of his own life.
The fionc is a good chopping block till it be reach-
ed.
The fmoak of heath is better than the wind of
frolh
One houfe waflied clean is better than twelve
fwecped.
285 Something diould 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 viduals are fcarce that they ought to be
moft carefully dealt out.
290 Woe be to him who would take from others wherv.
he has enough of his own.
The poor man has many faults.
The uneafy feat at the ale-houfe is the befk.
He is like the drab'^s huflband.
The crow loves its own young.
2g^ It is fo much lefs, as the wren faid when flie took
a mouthful out of the fea.
It is a bad thing to have nothing.
The blind of one eye is king among the blind.
Truth is plcifing to God.
A neighbour at hand is better than a brother at a
diilance.
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 \vithout a bedfellow.
Many a good aftion would have been done, if it had^
not been for th.e danger of it.
Your teeth is longer than your beard.
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