Collection of Scotch Proverbs | Page 7

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If ane will not, another will.
It is ill to take a breik off a bare ----
It is dear bought honey that is lickt off a thorn.
If God be with us, who will be against us.
It is weil warit that wasters warn geir.
It is ill to bring but the thing that is not thereben.
It that lies not in your gate, breaks not your shins.
It is na play where ane greits, and another laughs.
If a man knew what would be dear, he would be but Merchant for a year.
It is true that all men sayes.
I have a good bow, but it is in the Castle.
It is hard to fling at the brod, or kick at the prick.
Ilk man mend ane, and all will be mendit.
It is a fairy collop that is tane off a Capon.
Ill bairns are best heard at home.
It is ill to waken sleeping dogs.
Ill herds makes fat wolfes.
It is hard to wive and thrive in a year.
It is good sleeping in a heal skin.
It is not tint that is done to friends.
It is ill to draw a strea before an old Cat.
It is a pain both to pay and pray.
It is good fishing in drumbling waters.
It is little of God's might, to make a poor man a Knight.
It is good baking besides meal.
It is a good Goose that drops ay.
It is not the habit that makes the Monck.
It is not good to want, and to have.
It hes neither ----, nor elbow.
I shall sit on his skirt.
It is a bare Moor that he goes over, and gets not a Cow.
I shall hold his Nose to the Grindstone.
It goes as meiklle in his heart, as in his heel.
It goes in at one ear, and out at the other.
It is na mair pitty to see a Woman greit, nor to see a Goose go barefoot.
It is well said, but who will bell the Cat?
It is short while seen the louse boore the langelt.
I have a sliddery Eel by the tail.
It is as meet as a Sow to bear a Saddle.
It is as meet as a thief for the widdie.
I would I had as meikle pepper as he counts himself worthy Mice dirt.
It will be an ill web to bleitch.
I cannot find you both tails and ears.
It is ill to make a bowing horn of a tods tail.
If ever ye make a lucky pudding, I shall eat the prick.
It that God will give, the Devil cannot reave.
In a good time I speak it, in a better I leave it.
It's a silly pack that may not pay the custom.
I have seen as light a green.
It's a cold coal to blow at.
It is a fair feild where all are dung down.
It's a fair dung bairn that dare not greit.
I wat where my own shoe binds me.
If ye wanted me, and your meat, you would want ane good friend.

K.
Kindnesse lies not ay in ane side of the house.
Kings caff is worth other mens corn.
Kame single, kame fair.
Kings have a long ears.
Kindnesse comes of will.
Kindnesse will creep where it may not gang.
Kail spares bread.
Kindnesse cannot be bought for geir.
Kamesters are ay creeshie.
Knowledge is eith born about.
Kings are out of play.
Kings and Bears oft worries their Keepers.

L.
Laith to bed, laith out of it.
Like draws to like, a skabbed Horse to an old dyke.
Lear young, lear fair,
Little intermitting makes good friends.
Little sayd is soon mended, and a little geir is soon spended.
Long tarrowing takes all the thank away.
Long lean wakes hameald cattell.
Little wit makes meikle travel.
Let them that are cold blow at the coal.
Little may an old Horse do, if he may not neigh.
Love hes no lack.
Long standing, and little offering, makes a poor price.
Leave the Court, ere the Court leave thee.
Long ere you cut Falkland-wood with a Pen-knife.
Light supper makes long life.
Liked geir is half bought.
Lucke and bone voyage.
Like to die mends not the Kirkyard.
Lordships changes manners.
Let him drink as he hes browen.
Light winning makes a heavy purse.
Likely lies in the mire, and unlikely goes by it.
Live, and let live.
Love me, love my dog.
Laugh, and lay down again.
Livelesse, faultlesse.
Laith to the drink, laith fra it.
Last in bed, best heard.
Lightly comes, lightly goes.
Lads will be men.
Lata is long and dreigh.
Little wars an ill hussie what a dinner holds in.
Lips go, laps go, he that eats, let him pay.
Let alone makes many lurden.
Little kens the wife that sits by the fire, how the wind blows cold in hurle-burle swyre.
Little troubles the eye, but far lesse the soul.
Love me little, and love me long.

M.
Many do lack, that yet would fain have in their pack.
Many smalls makes a great.
Measure, is Treasure.
Mint, ere ye strike.
Many irons in the fire, pare must cool.
Men may buy Gold over dear.
Many speaks of _Robin Hood_, that never shot in his Bow.
Maidens should be meek while they be married.
Many purses holds friends together.
Misterfull folk must not be mensfull.
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