The men o' the east are pykin their geese, and sendin' their feathers here-awa there-awa.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man
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A dish o' married love right sune grows cauld, and dosens drown to nane as folk grow auld.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about rightness, love
If ye had as little money as ye have manners, ye would be the poorest man of all your kin.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about money, man
A fool is happier thinking weel o' himself than a wise man is of others thinking weel o' him.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about thinking, man
Married folk are like rats in a trap -- fain to get others in, but fain to be out themselves.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about trap
One should watch out for a very trifling or lame reason given for something that has been done.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about reason
To keep their ain hole clean, the minister's wife should put away old things as often as needed.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife, things, old, olderness
I winna mak a toil o' a pleasure, quo' the man when he buried his wife and was asked to speed it up.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about speed, pleasure, wife, man
The thatcher said unto his man, Let's raise this ladder if we can. - But first let's drink, maister.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about drinking, man
He that borrows and bigs, maks feasts and thigs, drinks an's no dry, nane a' these three are thrifty.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
There's no iron so hard that rust won't fret it; and there's no cloth so fine that moths won't eat it.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Those who help themselves to what there is most of on the table, if not restrained they will do too much.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about help
It ill becomes a carpenter to be heavy-handed, a smith to be shake-handed, or a physician to be tenderhearted.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
A person once wud, or deranged, is always suspected of being so, in the event of anything strange taking place.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about events, being, people
They censure my doing such a thing who neither consider my occasions of doing it, or what provocations I have had.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about things
The gravest fish is an oyster; the gravest bird's an ool; the gravest beast's an ass; and the gravest man's a fool.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fishing, man
God keep ill gear out o' my hands; for if my hand ance get it, my heart winna part wi't, sae prayed the gude earl of eglinton.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about heart, god
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
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
