Scottish Proverbs (923 Proverbs)
- A Mach and a Horshoe are both alike.
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- A Scots man is ay wife behind band.
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- A word before is worth two behinde.
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- All the winning is in the first buying.
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- An ill shearer gat never a good hook.
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- Ane Swallow makes no summer.
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- As the Carle riches he wretches.
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- Better a wit cost, nor two for nought.
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- Better hand loose, nor bound to an ill baikine.
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- Better spare at the breird nor at the bottome.
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- Bring a Cow to the Hall, and she will run to the byre again.
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- Cut duels in every Town.
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- Dummie cannot lie.
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- A cumbersome Cur in company is hated for his miscarriage.
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- A gloved Cat was never a good Hunter.
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- A man cannot thrive except his wife let him.
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- A shored Tree stands long.
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- A yeeld Sow was never good to gryses.
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- All things are good unseyed.
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- An ill win penny will cast down a pound.
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- Ane year a Nurish, seven years a Daw.
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- As the fool thinks ay the bell clinks.
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- Better apple given nor eaten.
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- Better happy to court, nor good service.
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- Better two skaiths, nor ane sorrow.
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- Buy when I bid you.
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- Daffing dow nothing.
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- A dum man holds all.
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- A good asker should have a good nay-say.
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- A man hath no more good then he hath good of.
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- A silly bairn is eith to lear.
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- A yule feast may be quit at Pasch.
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- All things hath a beginning, God excepted.
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- An ill-willy Cow should have short horns.
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- Ane's ain hearth is goud's worth.
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- As the old Cock craws, the young Cock lears.
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- Better auld debts nor auld sairs.
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- Better have a Mouse in the pot as no flesh.
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- Better unborn nor untaught.
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- Cadgers speaks of lead saddles.
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- Dame dein warily.
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- A dum man wan never land.
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- A good Cow may have an ill Calf.
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- A man is a Lyon in his own cause.
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- A Skabbed Horse is good enough for a skald Squire.
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- Absence is a shro.
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- All things helps quoth the Wran, when she pisht in the Sea.
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- An inch of a nag is worth a span of an aver.
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- Anes pay it never crave it.
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- As the Sow fills the Draff fowres.
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- Better bairns greit, nor bearded men.
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- Better held out nor put out.
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- Better wooe over midding, nor over mosse.
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- Calk is na sheares.
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- Dead and marriage makes Term-day.
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- A Fair Bride is soon buskt, and a short Horse is soon wispt.
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- A good dog never barkt but a bene.
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- A man may see his friend need, but will not see him bleed.
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- A skabbed sheep syles ail the flock.
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- Airly crooks the Tree that good Lammock should be.
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- All things hes an end, a Pudding hes twa.
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- An old Knave is na bairn.
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- Anes wood, never wise, ay the worse.
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- Auld men are twice bairns.
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- Better be alone nor in ill company.
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- Better lang little, then soon right nought.
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- Betwixt twae stools the arse falls down.
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- Cast not forth the old water while the new come in.
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- Dead at the one door, and heirship at the other.
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- A fair fire makes a room flet.
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- A good fellow tint never, but at an ill fellows hand.
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- A man may speir the gate to Rome.
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- A skade mans head is soon broke.
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- All are not maidens that wears bare hair.
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- All things thrive but thrice.
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- An old seck craves meikle clouting.
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- As fair fights Wrans as Cranes.
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- Bairns mother burst never.
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- Better be dead as out of the fashion.
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- Better late thrive then never.
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