73 Scottish Gaelic Proverbs / Page 2
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Friendship is as it's kept.22.
Get bait while the tide is out.23.
Good sword has often been in poor scabbard.24.
Great cry and little wool, as the Devil said when he sheared the sow.25.
Green is the grass of the least trodden field.26.
He that keeps not his arms in time of peace will have none in time of war.27.
He thought the ocean his own under his spells.28.
He would cheat the heron of her egg, though her two eyes were fixed on him.29.
Hospitality to the exile, and broken bones to the oppressor.30.
I would know your gift by your graciousness.31.
If bad be the raven, his company is no better.32.
If there be a God, and no one knows whether there be, leave it between ourselves and the dirks.33.
It is not the nodding of heads that does the rowing.34.
It is not the priest's first story that should be believed.35.
It's a long river whose head can't be found.36.
It's better to try than to hope.37.
It's difficult to draw pure water from a dirty well.38.
It's easy to keep a castle that's not besieged.39.
Kings will find armies, and the world men.40.
Like the herb plucked on Sunday, it does neither good nor ill.