Proverbs and old sayings, page 1839

43575 proverbs and old sayings

The wolf micht loss his teeth, but never his nature.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about nature

He that gets forgets, but he that wants thinks on't.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

It's but kindly that the pock savour of the herring.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

He that has a muckle nose thinks ilk ane speaks o't.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Let a horse drink what he will, but no when he will.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about drinking

Bairns speak i' the field what they hear i' the ha'.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Never take a wife till you know what to do with her.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife, contentment

Slippery is the flagstone at the mansion-house door.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about home, house

Keep out o' his company that cracks o' his cheatery.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about companies

Ye have owre meikle loose leather about your chafts.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Ye have tane't upon you as the wife did the dancing.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife, contentment

Broken freendships can be soother'd, but never soond.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Hae you gear, or hae you nane, tine heart a' is gone.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about heart, contentment

He that lippens to bodden ploughs, his hand lies lee.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about time

It's a' outs an' ins, like Willie Wood's wife's wame.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

That's the best gown that gaes up and down the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about home, house

Lie the cur in the crub, he'll neither do nor let do.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about lie

Better be freends at a distance than enemies at hame.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about enemies

They that rise wi' the sun hae their wark weel begun.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about sun