Blair Collection > Mackintosh's collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familar phrases

COLLECTION
OF
GAELIC PROVERBS,
APOTHEGMS,
AND
OLD SAYINGS.
A.
2« t HE man who lies down in the mud, will rise up
besmeared.
2. The child whom you train not at your knee, you
may not tutor at your ear.
3. The man who feels cold, let him clothe.
4. The man who sees not his [own] advantage, loses
much of his sagacity.
5. The Slattern's husband is discerned on the streets,
6. The man who has butter, will get [more] butter.
(c) " Let hira that is cold blow up the coal."
* Breineagshalach na Ban-thrusdar P
((/) " He that has meikle wad ay hae mair.'*
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