Scottish Proverbs (923 Proverbs)
- Tis hard to hold a conger by the tail.
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- See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.
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- It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
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- He that marries a widow will have a dead man's head often thrown in his dish.
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- Better to be off with the old love before we be on with the new.
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- A king's son is no nobler than his company.
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- They that will not be counselled cannot be helped.
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- Peace is the well from which the stream of joy runs.
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- It's an ill cause that a lawyer thinks shame of.
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- He that loves the law will get his fill of it.
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- Better to be a cuckold and not know it than to not be one and everybody say so.
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- A house without a dog, a cat, or a little child is a house without joy or laughter.
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- They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
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- One whisky is all right; two is too much; three is too few.
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- It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
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- Good company on a journey is worth a coach.
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- Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
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- A friend by thee is better than a brother far off.
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- They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.
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- Never take a wife till you know what to do with her.
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- It is easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling.
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- Get what you can and keep what you have; that's the way to get rich.
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- Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
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- A dimple on the chin, the devil within.
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- There never was a five-pound note but there was a ten-pound road for it.
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- Never marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper.
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- It ill becomes a carpenter to be heavy-handed, a smith to be shake-handed, or a physician to be tenderhearted.
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- Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
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- Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him.
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- A day to come seems longer than a year that's gone.
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- There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
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- Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.
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- If you don't see the bottom, don't wade.
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- Forsake not God till you find a better master.
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- Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
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- A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.
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- The medicine that hurts the most is generally the best healer.
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- Never draw your dirk when a blow will do it.
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- If ye had as little money as ye have manners, ye would be the poorest man of all your kin.
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- Fools look to tomorrow. Wise men use tonight.
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- Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.
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- A bird in the hand's worth two fleeing by.
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- You will never know a man till you do business with him.
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- The lion is known by the scratch of his claws.
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- More than we use is more than we want.
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- If the Devil were dead, folk would do little for God's sake.
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- Every man to his taste, as the man said when he kissed his cow.
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- All that's said in the kitchen should not be told in the hall.
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- A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.
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- Ye may not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope.
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- The Devil's a busy bishop in his own diocese.
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- Money is flat and meant to be piled up.
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- If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for.
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- Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between.
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- A wise lawyer never goes to law himself.
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- A bad reaper never gets a good sickle.
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- Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.
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- The day has eyes, the night has ears.
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- Monday is the key day of the week.
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- If I had a dog as daft, I would shoot him.
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- Don't marry for money, you can borrow it cheaper.
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- A wild goose never laid a tame egg.
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- When the heart is full the tongue will speak.
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- The coroner and the lawyer grow fat on the quarrels of fools.
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- May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!
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- I would as soon see your nose be cheese, and the cat get the first bite of it.
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- Do not look to the peaceful man for cudgels.
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- A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.
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- When the cup is full, carry it even.
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- The bitter cup we strive to remove from us holds the medicine we are most in need of.
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- Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it.
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- Hours are Time's shafts, and one comes winged with death.
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- Do not light a fire that you cannot yourself put out.
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- A rich man's wooing need seldom be a long one.
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- What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
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- Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.
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- Married folk are like rats in a trap -- fain to get others in, but fain to be out themselves.
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- He who would enjoy the fruit must not spoil the blossoms.
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- Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.
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- A man is known by the eye, and the face discovers wisdom.
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