Scottish Proverbs (923 Proverbs)
- Of two ills choose the least.
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- Plenty, is na Dainty.
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- Quha may hold that will away?
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- Quhen the good-wife is fra hame, the keys are tint.
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- Rule youth well, and eild will rule it fell.
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- Shame shall fall them that shame thinks, to do themselves a good turn.
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- Soon gotten, soon spended.
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- The greatest Clerks are not the wisest men.
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- There are mae maidens, nor maukin.
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- There is nothing mair precious nor time.
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- They will know by an half-penny if a Preist will take offering.
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- Twa wits is better nor ane.
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- Whatrax my Jo, I ken your coptan.
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- Ye breed of the Millers dog, ye lick your lips ere the poke be open.
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- Efter word comes weard.
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- Fill fow, and had fow, makes a starke man.
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- Giff, gaff, makes good friends.
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- Half a tale is enough to a wise man.
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- He is blind that eats his marrow, but far blinder that lets him.
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- He rises over early that is hangit ere noon.
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- He that fishes afore the net, long e're he fish get.
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- He that may not do as he would, mon do as he may.
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- Honesty is na pride.
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- If ever ye make a lucky pudding, I shall eat the prick.
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- In space, comes Grace.
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- It is eith till, that the awn self will.
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- It is na mair pitty to see a Woman greit, nor to see a Goose go barefoot.
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- It's a silly pack that may not pay the custom.
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- Laith to the drink, laith fra it.
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- Little intermitting makes good friends.
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- Maistery mowes the Meadows down.
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- Many tines the half-mark whinger for the half-penny whang.
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- Millers take ay the best Multar with their own Hand.
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- No man makes his own hap.
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- Oft counting makes good friends.
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- Poor men are fain of little thing.
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- Quha may wooe, but Cost?
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- Quhen the iron is hot, it is time to strike.
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- Ruse the fair day at even.
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- She hath past the discipline of a Tavern.
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- Sooth bourd is na bourd.
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- The higher up, the greater fall.
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- There are mae wayes to the wood nor ane.
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- There is nothing so crouse, as a new washen louse.
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- This bolt came never out of your bag.
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- Two fools in ane house, is over many.
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- Whatrax of the seed, where the frendship dow not.
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- Ye cannot make a silk purse of a sows lug.
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- 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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