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

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2S. Ko mail is [ought to be] more gentle than his trade.
29. A priest is of no value without a clerk.
30. He deceived those only who confided in him.
31. The dog whose collar is a jjiidding is no object of
pity.
32. One wareless act may undo a man, and a timely
action may re-establish him.
33. He is no sorcerer, (n)
34f. The fox cannot hold out long a continued chace.
35. Your tether has not got a twist round a bush.
36. There is [nothing] in it, but that every lamb is
blacker than its dam.
37. It is not every man to whom the grey-coat is be-
coming.
38. The wren never laid a large egg. (o)
39. 1 make not two sons-in-law of one daughter's hus-
band,*
40. There is no tide of flood, without a tide of
ebb. (p)
41. Sadness will but make a poor wretched creature ;
and a w^eak man will meet with no encourage*
ment from a prudent woman.
42. The scant hair will not cover the back and front
of the head.
43. That ostentation was not needless.
(«) " He's no conjurer.'' — Rai/s Prov.
( o) " Never came a hearty f — t out of a wren's a — e." Spo-
ken when niggardly people give some insignificant gift." — Kellxj'^
Prov.
(^) "A flow will have an ebb." — ib.
* Ecedem Jilia duos generos parare,
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