It's a' outs an' ins, like Willie Wood's wife's wame.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife
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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
Better saucht w' little aucht than care wi' mony cows.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
A kiss and a drink o' water mak but a wersh breakfast.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about kiss, drinking, water
They that lie dawn far love should rise up for hunger.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about hunger, lie, love
Do not speak about a thing, or wish it done, but do it.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wish, things
Blaw the wind ne'er sae fast, it will lown at the last.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fasting
Better wade back mid water than gang forward and drown.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about water
Better not remove at all than do so and then regret it.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about regret
He that has lost a wife and sixpence has lost sixpence.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife
