Slippery is the flagstone at the mansion-house door.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about home, house
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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
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
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
He that laughts at his ain sport spills the sport o't.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about sport
He that lends his pot may seethe his kail in his loof.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
I'm but beginning yet, quo' the wife when she run wud.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about beginning, wife
A fool may speer questions than a wise man can answer.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man
He ne'er did a gude darg that gaed grumbling about it.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
A crook in the forth is worth an earldom in the north.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
The less wit a man has, the less he kens the want o't.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man
