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

36. Alihoiigb tliere would be three promises on the
same btick. (r)
37. How lofty soever the pride of gruel, [in boiling
over] it passes not beyond the ashes.
38. Although you should take a wife from hell, she
will bring you [to her own] home, (s)
39. Every man draws water to his own mill.
40. Each rivulet runs to the river, and every river in-
to the sea.
41. Although the egg be small, a bird comes out
of it.
42. Whoever keeps his ship, shall have a day [to
sail]
43. Though none were by but the king, and one of
his suit, a man might miss his own.
44. Each bird to its nest and a straw in its bill.
45. Though escaped from the spit, it has not from the
pot.
46. Green Lfresh] fuel will flame by continued blow°
47^ Though the man be the farmer, the horse is the
labourer.
48. Though sweet is honey, yet no one licks it off the
briar.
49. A tedious malady, and death at the root of k.
50. Delay to the evil doer is not an oversight, {t)
(r) " Though I had engagements three, I would fly to suc-
cour thee."
(s) The story of Orpheus and Eurydice has not the slightest
allusion to this adage: the Gael view it in quita a different
aspect 1
(t) " Forbearance is no acquittance. Quod difertur, non mi-^
feriun"
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