Scottish Proverbs (923 Proverbs)
- Eild wald have Honour.
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- Fire is good for the farcy.
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- Girne when you knit, and laugh when ye loose.
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- Hall-binks are fliddery.
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- He is fairest dung when his own wand dings him.
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- He should have a heal pow, that cals his neighbour nikkynow.
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- He that forsakes missour, missour forsake him.
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- He that owes the Cow goes nearest her tail.
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- Hoordom and grace, can never bide in one place.
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- If God be with us, who will be against us.
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- It goes as meiklle in his heart, as in his heel.
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- It is eith to swim where the head is hild up.
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- It is na play where ane greits, and another laughs.
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- It's tint that is done to old men and bairns.
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- Last in bed, best heard.
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- Little kens the wife that sits by the fire, how the wind blows cold in hurle-burle swyre.
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- Make no balks of good beerland.
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- Many words fills not the furlot.
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- Mint, ere ye strike.
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- No man may puind for unkindnesse.
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- Out of sight, out of langer.
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- Poor men have no souls.
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- Quhair stands your great horse?
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- Quhen the Play is best, it is best to lear.
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- Ruse the Ford, as ye find it.
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- She is a sairy mouse, that hes but one Hole.
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- Speir at Jock-thief my marrow, if I be a leal man.
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- The lesse play the better.
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- There are many fair words in the marriage making, but few in the tochergood paying.
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- There is remead for all things but starke dead.
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- This world will not last ay.
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- Two Wolves may worry ane Sheep.
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- Wiles help weak folk.
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- Ye drive a Snail to Rome.
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- Evening Orts is good morning-fother.
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- Follie is a bonny Dog.
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- Give never the Wolf the Wedder to keep.
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- Hame is hamely, though never so seemly.
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- He is good that fail'd never.
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- He should have a long shafted spoon that sups kail with the Devil.
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- He that hes gold may buy land.
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- He that shames, shall be shemt.
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- Huly and fair men rides far journeys.
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- If he may spend meikle, put the more to the fire.
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- It goes in at one ear, and out at the other.
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- It is fair in the hall, when beards wag all.
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- It is not good to want, and to have.
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- Kail spares bread.
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- Lata is long and dreigh.
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- Little may an old Horse do, if he may not neigh.
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- Make not meikle of little.
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- Many words would have meikle drink.
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- Mister makes men of craft.
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- No penny, no pardon.
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- Over fast, over loose.
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- Possession is worth an ill chartour.
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- Quhair the Deer is slain, some bloud will lie.
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- Quhen the Steed is stoon, steik the stable-door.
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- Ryme spares no man.
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- She that takes gifts her self, she sels; and she that gives, does nought else.
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- Spit on the Stane, and it will be wet at the last.
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- The longer we live, the more farlies we see.
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- There are many sooth words spoken in bourding.
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- There was never a Cake, but it had a make.
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- Thou shouldst not tell thy foe when thy foot sleeps.
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- Unskilfull mediciners, and horse-marshels slayes, both man and beast.
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- Wishers and woulders are poor householders.
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- Ye have a face to God, and another to the Devil.
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- Every land hes his lauch, and every corne hes the caff.
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- Follow love, and it will flee from thee; leave it, and it will follow thee.
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- Go to the Devil for Gods-sake.
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- Hanging gangs by hap.
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- He is not the best Wright that hews the maniest speals.
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- He should wear iron shone, that bides his neighbours deed.
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- He that hes no geir to tine, hes shins to pine.
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- He that slayes, shall be slain.
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- Hunger is good Kitchir-meat.
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- If he steal not my kail, break not my dike.
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- It is a bare Moor that he goes over, and gets not a Cow.
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- It is good baking besides meal.
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