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Learn you to an ill use arid ye'll ca't custom.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about use, contentment

A wee mouse can creep under a great corn stack.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about old, olderness

Dree out the inch when ye have thoi'd the span.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

There is life in a mussel as lang is it cheeps.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about life

Comes to my hand like the bowl of a pint stoup.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Your head will never fill your father's bonnet.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about heads

There is nane sae blind as them that wadna see.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about blind

Sins and debts are aye mair than we think them.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about sin

Every one kens best when his ain shoe nips him.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Truth and honesty keep the crown o' the causey.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about honesty, truth

Many court the child for the sake of the nurse.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about children

They loo me for little that hate me for nought.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about hate

Cutting out well is better than sewing up well.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

There was never enough where naething was left.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Ye cut lang whangs out o' ither folk's leather.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Ye glowr'd at the moon, and fell on the midden.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about moon

A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about bad luck, name, bad

He has coosten his cloak on the ither shouther.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish