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

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39, ^^ Every man can guide an ill wife, but he who
has her." {b)
60. Neither fire nor water can be grasped, (c)
61. The coxcomb feels no cold, how cold soever be
the day.
62. It was not as Macrusgal got the women.
63. A good tale is not the worse of being twice told.
64'. There w^as never good or evil without a woman
concerned.
Go^ My tongue is not under your belt.
66. Man's speed is not faster to his good than to his
ill.
67. Indolence will not assent to a man's pursuing a
proper way ever.
68. An ascent is not less [shorter] than a descent, {d)
69. Question sly-boots, concerning tell-tale.
70. You cannot know a piebald horse, if you see him
not.
7 1 . What would you have in the raven's nest, but the
raven itself.
72. You have removed the reproach from you — but
not far.
73. It is not the nod of the head that rows [the boat].
74. I would not strike my notched hatchet into your
withered brushwood.
(è) This seems a translation of the well-known proverb. — »
Vide Kelly.
'^ Facile onmes, ctim valemiiSj cegrotis consilia damiis.^''
(c) <* Fire and water are good servants, but bad masters." —
Rat/s Scott. Prov.
(d) " Up-hill is no longer than down- hill ;" or, «< As meikla
up-with as down-Y^ith."—- 'AV/j/'? Scott, Prov,