The tree falls not at the first strake.
More Scottish Proverbs:
Black will be no other Hue.Scottish
They buy good cheap that brings nothing hame.
Scottish
Who God does not teach, man cannot.
Scottish
Had-I-fish, was never good with Garlick.
Scottish
It ill becomes a carpenter to be heavy-handed, a smith to be shake-handed, or a physician to be tenderhearted.
Scottish
Laith to the drink, laith fra it.
Scottish