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

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133. What grows in the bone, will not come out of the
flesh. (/)
134. The beginning [to mete] the sack is the rule.
135. The thing that meddles not with you, meddle not
with it. {k)
1-36. After war comes peace.
B.
1 . In summer be cheerful, chaste, an early riger, and
alert.
2. In winter be well hooded, well shod, and well fed
with [thick] gruel. {I)
5. The best apple is on the highest bough.
4. A man may push a livelihood, but cannot force
fortune.
5. The fool's share is in the mouth of his bag.
6. One man may lead a horse to the water, but
twelve cannot make him drink. (??0
" If war must ensue, let it be rather a raging than a
hectic fever" — ib.
" Wars bring scars.'' — Rays Prov. " By wisdom peace,
by peace plenty,'^ — ib.
(i) « What's bred in the bane, will bide in the flesh." — — •
Kell^s Scott. Prov.
(A) *' Let sleeping dogs lie."
(/) Vide Smith's Gaelic Antiquities.
( m) ** Ae man may lead a horse to the water, but four and
twenty winna gar him drink."— J/Zan Ramsai/s Scottish Prov.