Better to be a cuckold and not know it than to not be one and everybody say so.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
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Gie a bairn his will, and a whelp its fill, and nane o' them will e'er do weel.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Every cock crows loudest on his own dunghill, is a saying common to all nations.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about nation, common sense
Lang straes are nae motes, quo' the wife when she haul'd the eat out o' the kirn.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife
May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about god, contentment
They that bourd with cats maun count upo' scarts. Thistles are a sailed for asses.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
Snailie, snailie, shoot out yer horn, and tell us if it'll be a bonny day the morn.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about day
A house without a dog, a cat, or a little child is a house without joy or laughter.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about laughter, home, house, joy, children
Ken when to spend and when to spare, and ye needna be busy, and ye'll ne'er be bare.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
The englishman greets, the irishman sleeps, but the scotchman gangs till he gets it.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
A timid or cowardly person may be raised against the most valuable and useful things.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about people, things
Carrick for a man, kyle for a coo, cunningham for corn and ale, and a galloway for woo'.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man
The men o' the east are pykin their geese, and sendin' their feathers here-awa there-awa.
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man
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
