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

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There are none of them good enough to mend the-
ill with.
The Devil will not get the better of you.
You hav-e made a dirty end of it. [b)
He has put his kine a grazing.
A coming will not ftep, neither is almoft lofl. {c)
Heads are not more numerous than fenlis is variable.
He cannot conceal what he hears or fees.
The death of one man gives luck to another.
He has the ftrength of Cuchullin.
The difference betwixt a wife man and a fool, con-
flfls in this, that the wife man conceals his mind,
and the fool reveals it.
Succels muft attend thofe who bravely flruggle.
You would not go fo readily on my errand.
The ftorm will not remain in the clouds, {d)
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The flieep might eat their meat through it. {e)
Make a kirk and a mill of it.
Betwixt the fireams. (/)
Too long a fpring after Eafter, is an ill fign of the
feafon.
The Devil will wait his day.
Nothing can cut off the long liver till his time come.
((/) /. e. It muft fall fome time or other.
{f) Said of thin cloth.
(y) Said of a bad fituatioa.