An ounce of mother-wit, is worth a pound of clergie.
More Scottish Proverbs:
Egotism is an alphabet of one letter.Scottish
Ye seek hot water under cold ice.
Scottish
If God be with us, who will be against us.
Scottish
A burnt bairn fire dreads.
Scottish
He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.
Scottish
No man makes his own hap.
Scottish