Collection of Scotch Proverbs | Page 4

fire makes a room flet.
An old Knave is na bairn.
A good yeoman makes a good woman.
A man hath no more good then he hath good of.
A fool may give a wise man a counsell.
A man may speir the gate to Rome.
As long fives the merry-man, as the wretch for all the craft he can.
All wald have all, all wald forgive.
Ane may lead a Horse to the water, but four and twenty cannot gar him drink.
A bleat Cat makes a proud Mouse.
An ill-willy Cow should have short horns.
A good piece steil is worth a penny.
A shored Tree stands long.
A gloved Cat was never a good Hunter.
A gangan foot is ay getting, and it were but a thorn.
All is not gold that glitters.
Ane Swallow makes no summer.
A man may spit on his hand, and doe full ill.
An ill servant will never be a good maister.
An hired Horse tired never.
All the winning is in the first buying.
An unch is a feast, (of Bread and Cheese.)
An Horse may snapper on four feet.
All things wytes that well not fares.
All things thrive but thrice.
Absence is a shro.
Auld sin, new shame.
A man cannot thrive except his wife let him.
A bairn must creep ere he gang.
As long as ye bear the tod, ye man bear up his tail.
All overs are ill but over the water.
A man may wooe where he will, but wed where is his weard.
A mean pot plaid never even.
Among twenty four fools not ane wise man.
Ane mans meat is another mans poyson.
A fool will not give his Bauble for the Tower of London.
A foul foot makes a son wemb.
A man is a Lyon in his own cause.
A hearty hand to give a hungry meltith.
A cumbersome Cur in company is hated for his miscarriage.
A poor man is fain of little.
An answer in a word.
A bettlesie brain cannot lye.
A yule feast may be quit at Pasch.
A good dog never barkt but a bene.
A full seck will take a clout on the side.
An ill hound comes halting home.
All things helps quoth the Wran, when she pisht in the Sea.
All cracks, all beares.
All Houndlesse man comes to the best Hunting.
All things hes an end, a Pudding hes twa.
All is well that ends well.
As good hads the stirep as he that loups on.
A begun work is half ended.
A Scots man is ay wife behind band.
A new tout in all old horn.
A broken a Ship hes come to land.
As the fool thinks ay the bell clinks.
A man may see his friend need, but will not see him bleed.
A friend is not known but in need.
A friend in Court is worth a penny in purse.
All things are good unseyed.
A good Goose indeed, but she hes an ill gansell.
All are not maidens that wears bare hair.
A Mach and a Horshoe are both alike.
Airly crooks the Tree that good Lammock should be.
An ounce of mother-wit, is worth a pound of clergie.
An inch of a nag is worth a span of an aver.
A good word is as soon said as an ill.
A spoon full of skytter spills a pot full of skins.

B.
Better give nor take.
Better lang little, then soon right nought.
Better hand loose, nor bound to an ill baikine.
Better late thrive then never.
Buy when I bid you.
Better sit idle then work for nought.
Better learn by your neighbors skaith nor by your own.
Better half an egge, nor teem doup.
Better apple given nor eaten.
Better a Dog faun nor bark on you.
Boden gear stinks.
Bourd neither with me, nor with my Honour.
Betwixt twae stools the arse falls down.
Better bide the Cooks nor the Mediciners.
Better bairns greit, nor bearded men.
Better saucht with little aucht, nor care with many cow.
Better two skaiths, nor ane sorrow.
Bring a Cow to the Hall, and she will run to the byre again.
Better bow nor break.
Bear wealth, poverty will bear itself.
Better a wit cost, nor two for nought.
Better good sale, nor good Ale.
Better wooe over midding, nor over mosse.
Better happy to court, nor good service.
Blaw the wind nere so saft, it will lowen at the last.
Better be happy nor wise.
Binde fast, finde fast.
Better plays a full wemb nor a new coat.
Better say, Here it is, nor, Here it was.
Better auld debts nor auld sairs.
Bourd not with Bawty, fear lest he bite ye.
Better a fowl in hand nor twa flying.
Better rew sit, nor rew flie.
Better spare at the breird nor at the bottome.
Better finger off, nor ay warking.
Bind the seck ere it be full.
Better be well loved, nor ill won geir.
Better a clout nor a hole out.
Better no ring, nor the ring of a rash.
Butter and burn-trouts gar maidens f---- the wind.
Better held out nor put out.
Better have a Mouse in the pot as no flesh.
Better sit stil, nor rise and get a fall.
Better leave nor want.
Better buy as borrow.
Better be dead as out of the fashion.
Better unborn nor untaught.
Better be envied nor pittied.
Better a little fire