Proverbs and old sayings, page 1777

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Spit on the Stane, and it will be wet at the last.

Proverbs and old sayings

The mother of mischief is na mair nor a midgewing.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about mother

Many Aunts, many Eames, many kin, and few friends.

Proverbs and old sayings

Airly crooks the Tree that good Lammock should be.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck

Ye may drink of the burn, but not bite of the brae.

Proverbs and old sayings about drinking

Touch a gall'd Horse on the back and he will fling.

Proverbs and old sayings

A spoon full of skytter spills a pot full of skins.

Proverbs and old sayings

Like draws to like, a skabbed Horse to an old dyke.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

Cast not forth the old water while the new come in.

Proverbs and old sayings about water, old, olderness

It is short while seen the louse boore the langelt.

Proverbs and old sayings

He that lippens to bon plows, his land will ly ley.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is na play where ane greits, and another laughs.

Proverbs and old sayings

Sain you will fra the Devil, and the Lairds bairns.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil, contentment

All the Keys of the Countrey hangs not at one Belt.

Proverbs and old sayings

Quhen the belly is full the bones would be at rest.

Proverbs and old sayings about rest

Quhen the good-wife is fra hame, the keys are tint.

Proverbs and old sayings about wife, good, good luck

They had never an ill day, that had a good evening.

Proverbs and old sayings about day, good, good luck

Thou shouldst not tell thy foe when thy foot sleeps.

Proverbs and old sayings

Fidlers, dogs and flies, come to the feast uncalled.

Proverbs and old sayings about feast

Every man can rule an ill wife, but he that hes Her.

Proverbs and old sayings about rules, wife, man