Proverbs and old sayings, page 1828

43574 proverbs and old sayings

Pride that dines wi vanity sups wi contempt.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about proudness, contempt, vanity

Neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fishing, good, good luck

Choose your wife on saturday, not on sunday.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

The back and the belly hauds every ane busy.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

He that winna when he may shanna when he wad.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A pound o' care will no pay an ounce of debt.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A man canna wive and thrive in the same year.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man

The first fuf of a fat haggis is the baldest.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A fisherman's walk - twa steps and overboard.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Better eat brown bread in youth than in eild.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about youth

A man's best fortune, or his worst is a wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wealth, wife, man

Death and drink-draining are near neighbours.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about drinking, death

We are bound to be honest, and no to be rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wealth

The king lies doun, yet the warld rins round.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A man's well or wae as he thinks himself sae.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man

A sturdy beggar should hae a stout nae-sayer.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

I would rather be your bible than your horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Fools look to tomorrow. Wise men use tonight.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about use, man

Charge nae mair shot than the piece 'll bear.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

There is little for the rake after the shool.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish