There's mair ways o' killing a dog than hanging him.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
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God ne'er sent the mouth, but he sent the meat wi't.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about god
He that cheats in daffin winna be honest in earnest.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Ye'se get your brose out of the lee side of the pot.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Never go to the devil and a dish-clout in your hand.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about devil
The wolf micht loss his teeth, but never his nature.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about nature
He that gets forgets, but he that wants thinks on't.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
It's but kindly that the pock savour of the herring.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
He that has a muckle nose thinks ilk ane speaks o't.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Let a horse drink what he will, but no when he will.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about drinking
Bairns speak i' the field what they hear i' the ha'.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Never take a wife till you know what to do with her.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife, contentment
Slippery is the flagstone at the mansion-house door.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about home, house
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, contentment
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, contentment
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
