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

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75. A dog yelis not when lilt with a bone.
76. Whoever is to blame, it is I who am hurt violently.
77. He regards him no more than an old horse does
his sire.
78. The close of the day is not less [pleasing] to God,
than its commencement.
79. As weary of it as the frog v.as ever of the har-
row.
80. The luscious [licked] finger will never make but-
ter, nor will the glutton make cheese.
81. The foaPs share of the harrow [or hurdle].
82. How disshnilar the mode of wooing, and desert-
ing a wife !
83. There is no smoke in a lark's house.
84«. Buy [only] what you need ; but sell as you may.
85. He bought it not ; i, e. he inherits it.
86. She's no fool's choice, {i)
87. Two will observe better than one.
88. The vanity is not in the M'eb [cloth] ; but in the
man who buys it. {k)
89. You were never without your food in the mill. (I)
90. It is but a cow without horns that is dun ; and a
dun cow without horns, (m)
91. A friend's counsel, unasked, is never regarded as
it ought to be.
92. Your ti'avail is not that of a cow in calf, nor a
good yearling.
93. You were not within vvhen [common] sense was
distributed.
(i) " She's not to be made a song of." — Kelly*s Prov,
( ÌC) '^ It's not the grey coat makes the gentleman/' — Rai/s
Frov.
(/) The poor hang up their ineal-br.g3 in the mill.
{vi) i. e. Six of the one and half a dozen in the other— a di;?*
tinction ^ithovst a difference.