J. F. Campbell Collection > Mackintosh's collection of Gaelic proverbs, and familar phrases

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59. " Every man can guide an ill wife, but he whe
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 w^as not as Macrusgal got the women.
62. A good tale is not the worse of being twice told.
64-. There was never good or evil without a woman
concerned.
65. 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.
71. 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.
(6) This seems a translation of the well-known proverb.—
Vide Ketlt/,
" Facile oiuneSf cum valemus, cegrotis consilia damus.^*
(c) " Fire and water are good servants, but bad masters."—
Jtai/'s Scott. Prov.
(d) " Up-hill is no longer than downhill ;" or, « As meikle
up-with as down-with." — K^ll/s Scott. Prov.