E'ening grey and a morning red, put on your hat or ye'll weet your head; e'ening red an' a morning grey is a taiken o' a bonny day.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about heads, day
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Expect not a very covetous person to be very honest for a long time. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in nae ither.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about school, experience, people, time
One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for a girl, four for a boy. Five for silver, six for gold, And seven for a secret that must never be told.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about joy, secret, sadness
When falkland hill puts on his cap, the howe o' fife will get a drap, and when the bishop draws his cowl, look out for wind and weather fowl.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about weather
Here's to you, as good as you are, And here's to me, as bad as I am But as good as you are, and as bad as I am, I am as good as you are, as bad as I am.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about bad luck, bad, good, good luck, contentment
A Presbyterian minister had a son who was made Archdeacon of Ossery; when this was told to his father, he said, 'If my son will be a knave, I am glad that he will be an archknave. '
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Ask thy purse what thou should spend.
Proverbs and old sayings
Great chiefs prove their worthiness.
Proverbs and old sayings
Even in paradise, living all alone would be hell.
Proverbs and old sayings about paradise, hell
In twenty-four hours, a house can become a patriarch.
Proverbs and old sayings about home, house
The more you ask how far you have to go, the longer your journey seems.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Give your host a little something when you leave; little presents are little courtesies and never offend.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Kings have no friends.
Proverbs and old sayings
Ambition begets troubles.
Proverbs and old sayings about ambition, problems
Man is always in a scurry.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
People are man's medicine.
Proverbs and old sayings about medicine, people, man
An empty belly has no ears.
Proverbs and old sayings
The strong don't need clubs.
Proverbs and old sayings about need
What a cow eats a calf drinks.
Proverbs and old sayings
The wolf dies where the pack is.
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