Long standing, and little offering, makes a poor price.
Proverbs and old sayings
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He that comes first to the hill, may sit where he will.
Proverbs and old sayings
Sike a man as thou would be, draw thee to sike company.
Proverbs and old sayings about companies, man
He calls me scabbed, because I will not call him skade.
Proverbs and old sayings
He is a fairy beggar that may not goe by ane mans door.
Proverbs and old sayings about fairy tales
If ever ye make a lucky pudding, I shall eat the prick.
Proverbs and old sayings
Come it aire, come it late, in May comes the Cow-quake.
Proverbs and old sayings
Need gars naked men run, and sorrow gars Websters spin.
Proverbs and old sayings about sadness, need, man
He is not the best Wright that hews the maniest speals.
Proverbs and old sayings
Clap a carle on the culs, and he will shit in your louf.
Proverbs and old sayings
Twa Daughters, and a back-door, are three stark thieves.
Proverbs and old sayings about thieves
He that crabs without cause, should mease without mends.
Proverbs and old sayings
A fool will not give his Bauble for the Tower of London.
Proverbs and old sayings
All the Corn in the Country is not shorn by the Kempers.
Proverbs and old sayings about country
Good chear, and good cheap, garres many haunt the House.
Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck, home, house
Quhen the good-man is fra hame, the board-cloth is tint.
Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck, man
Better saucht with little aucht, nor care with many cow.
Proverbs and old sayings
He that hews over hie, the spail will fall into his eye.
Proverbs and old sayings about fall
Meat makes, and clothes shapes, but manners makes a man.
Proverbs and old sayings about clothes, man
It is a bare Moor that he goes over, and gets not a Cow.
Proverbs and old sayings
