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

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il* The best tune Roderick ever played, one may tire
of.(^)
42. The man who holds his tongue, retains his friend.
43. The man who has no evil intention, will not ima-
gine evil in another. (6)
44. The man who will not take when 'tis proffered,
may not get it when he would, {a)
45. The man that is himself iniquitous, will cease not
to inveigle others.
46. The v/orst cow in the fold, is she whose low is the
loudest.
47. A carlin's [old woman] only daughter, an only
hearth-chicken.
48. The man who lives longest, sees most.
49. The man who will not plough the sea, will not
plough the land.
50. Far away cows have long horns.
51. The man that will not look before him, must look
behind him.
52. Be it fat or lean, wo- worth the man who will not
rear to himself a calf.
53. The man who goes to the great mansion [chief's
abode] without an errand, will get business out
of it.
54. /rhe man who will not sow on a cold day, will not
reap on a warm one.
55. What will not wash, will not wring.
56. He who will neither obey father or mother, will
obey a worse thing, the calf's skin.
(~) Roderick Morison, or Rory Dall, a celebrated harper.-
^ee additional notes.
(a) *' He that may not as he would, maun do as he may,"
(6) The converse is also true, *•' Mala mens, mains ammu.->