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

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87. A fault in the face may not be concealed, {q)
88. The man fated to misfortune, is he whom it
touches.
89. The man who v/ill not take advice, will take a
crooked by-way. (r)
90. It is not in summer the man who is in affliction
finds ease.
91. When the cup is full it overflows.
92. The man who is always peevish, his temper is like
the bramble.
93. That burden which was awkwardly got, must be
patiently borne, (.v)
94-. The thing that made the roe swim the lock ? ne-
cessity.
95. The black minstrel [fidler] of the north's merri-
ment.
96. The man who spares not the mouth of the bag, its
bottom will spare itself.
97. The man who goes fortli always with his net, will
catch birds now and then.
98. The name w^ithout the advantage.
99. The man whom God will not instruct, man cannot
teach.
100. The man who killed his mother lately, would
bring her alive now. {t)
101. The man who will not take care of his little, will
not take care of his meikle.
1 02. The man who is in the mire, every one treads on
him.
[q) "If the best man's faults were written in his forehead,
it would make him pull his hat over his eyes."
(r) Or " The man who will not be advised on his way, will,
likely go astray."
(«) " What cannot be cured, must be endured."
(t) Said when a good day breaks up after foul weather.