Collection of Scotch Proverbs | Page 5

that warms, nor a meikle that burns.
Be the same thing that thou wald be cald.
Better a laying Hen nor a lyin Crown.
Bannaks is better nor na kind of bread.
Black will be no other Hue.
Beauty but bounty avails nought.
Bairns mother burst never.
Breads House skiald never.
Biting and scarting is Scots folks Wooing.
Beware of Had I wist.
Better be alone nor in ill company.
Better a chigging mother, nor a riding father.
Better never begun nor never endit.
Bonie silver is soon spendit.
Before I wein, and now I wat.

C.
Curtesie is cumbersom to them that kens it not.
Come it aire, come it late, in May comes the Cow-quake.
Court to the Town, and whore to the window.
Calk is na sheares.
Clap a carle on the culs, and he will shit in your louf.
Cadgers speaks of lead saddles.
Changing of works is lighting of hearts.
Charge your friend ere you need.
Cats eats that Hussies spares.
Cast not forth the old water while the new come in.
Cease your snow balls casting.
Crabbit was, and cause had.
Comparisons are odious.
Cold cools the love that kindles over hot.
Cut duels in every Town.
Condition makes, and condition breakes.
Come not to the councell uncalled.

D.
Dead and marriage makes Term-day.
Do weil and have weil.
Do as ye wald be done to.
Do in Hill, as ye wald do in Hall.
Dame dein warily.
Dummie cannot lie.
Draff is good enough for Swine.
Dead at the one door, and heirship at the other.
Do well, and doubt no man; and do weil, and doubt all men.
Do the likeliest, and God will do the best.
Drunken wife gat ay the drunken penny.
Drink and drouth comes sindle together.
Dead men bites not.
Daffing dow nothing.
Dogs will red swine.
Drive out the inch as thou hast done the span.
Dirt parts company.

E.
Every man can rule an ill wife, but he that hes Her.
Eaten meat is good to pay.
Eild wald have Honour.
Evening Orts is good morning-fother.
Every man wisheth the water to his own milne.
Early maister, lang knave.
Every land hes his lauch, and every corne hes the caff.
Eat and drink measurely, and defie the mediciners.
Every man for Himself, quoth the mertine.
Efter delay comes a Let.
Efter long mint, never dint.
Every man slams the fat sows Arse.
Experience may teach a fool.
Every man wats best where his own shoe binds him.
Efter word comes weard.

F.
Foul water slokens fire.
Fools are fain of flitting.
Falshood made never a fair Hinder-end.
Far fowls have fair feathers.
Follie is a bonny Dog.
Fair heights makes fools fain.
Freedome is a fair thing.
For a tint thing care not.
Fool hast is no speed.
For fault of wise men fools sits on binks.
Forbid a fool a thing, and that he will do.
Fools set far trystes.
For love of the Nuris, many kisses the Bairn.
Fair words brake never bane, foul words many ane.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools are fain of right nought.
Far fought, and dear bought, is good for Ladies.
Follow love, and it will flee from thee; leave it, and it will follow thee.
Fill fow, and had fow, makes a starke man.
Fools should have no chappin sticks.
Fidlers, dogs and flies, come to the feast uncalled.
Fire is good for the farcy.
Few words sufficeth to a wise man.
Friendship stands not in One side.

G.
Give never the Wolf the Wedder to keep.
Gods help is nearer nor the fair even.
Good wine needs not a wisp.
Grace is best for the man.
Goe shoe the Geese.
Giff, gaff, makes good friends.
Good chear, and good cheap, garres many haunt the House.
God sends men cold, as they have clothes to.
Good-will should be tane in part of payment.
God sends never the mouth, but the meat with it.
Girne when you knit, and laugh when ye loose.
Go to the Devil for Gods-sake.
God sends meat, and the Devil sends Cooks.

H.
Had-I-fish, was never good with Garlick.
He that is welcome fares well.
He that spends his geir on a whore, hes both shame and skaith.
Hunger is good Kitchir-meat.
He mon have leave to speak that cannot had his tongue.
He that is far from his geir, is near his skaith.
He that lippens to bon plows, his land will ly ley.
He rides sicker that fell never.
Help thy self, and God will help thee.
He that will not hear motherhead, shall hear stepmotherhead.
He that crabs without cause, should mease without mends.
He that spares to speak, spares to speed.
He that may not do as he would, mon do as he may.
He is well easit that hes ought of his own, when others go to meat.
He that does ill hates the light.
He that speaks the things he should not, hears the things he would not.
He that is evil deem'd is half hang'd.
He that tholes, overcomes.
He rises over early that is hangit ere noon.
He that forsakes missour, missour forsake him.
Half a tale is enough to a wise man.
He that hews over hie, the spail will fall into his eye.
He that eats while he lasts, will be the war while he die.
He is a weak Horse that may not bear the Saddle.
He that borrows and bigs; makes feasts and thigs; drinks and is not dry;