If you don’t see the bottom, don’t wade.
More Scottish Proverbs:
A hungry man smells meat far.Scottish
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
Scottish
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Scottish
A friend by thee is better than a brother far off.
Scottish
Never draw your dirk when a blow will do it.
Scottish
Married folk are like rats in a trap -- fain to get others in, but fain to be out themselves.
Scottish