Better no ring, nor the ring of a rash.
More Scottish Proverbs:
Cadgers speaks of lead saddles.Scottish
Never draw your dirk when a blow will do it.
Scottish
Beauty but bounty avails nought.
Scottish
Ye breed of the gouk, ye have not a rime but ane.
Scottish
As long fives the merry-man, as the wretch for all the craft he can.
Scottish
He that takes all his geir fra himself, and gives it to his bairns, it were weil ward to take a mell and knock out his hairns.
Scottish