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

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57. Have the caution of a thief over every thing, but
make a thief of no one whatever.
58. All things must be as God would have it. {7i)
59. I would give him a night's fare, although he had
a man's head under his arm-pit.
60. The raven's fate befall them ! (o)
61. Black was his end.
62. His hour was pursuing him.
63. Every Sunday will bring with it a week.
64. Borrowing and lending throughout the world was
always>
65. It would move the heart of a stone.
66. It were pity dry-weather should do harm.
67. Threaten, but strike not.
68. One knock on the head, or two on the neck.
69. There was another day, ?. c I've seen another day,
70. That is hereditary to him, z, c. it runs in his veins.
71. Better the half yesterday, than the whole to-day.
72. There is hope of a mariner's return [from sea],
but none of a man from the church-yard, i, e,
the grave.
73. You're as long tuning your pipe as another would
play a tune.
74. He had a life-cGmhig, i. e. his hour was not come.
(n) " Whatever is, is best." Pope. *' What God will, no frost
can kill.'' — RttT/'s Prov.
(o) It is a popular belief among the Gael, that the young
raven kills the old one. The North American Indians deem it
a duty to kill their parents.
" If e'er returns
Thy much-lov'd mother from the desert wood,
Cherish her age, — and when disease
Preys on her languid limbs, then Mndly stab her
V/ltk thine own hands, nor suifer her to linger
Like Christian cowards, in a life of pain." — Whartoh.