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Choose your wife with her nightcap on.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

Nae man can thrive unless his wife let him.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife, man

Crooked carlin, quoth the carle to his wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

Choose your wife on saturday, not on sunday.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

A man's best fortune, or his worst is a wife.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wealth, wife, man

Fleas and a grining wife are waukrife bedfellows.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

Never seek a wife till ye ken what to do with her.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

Flaes and a girning wife are wakerife bed fellows.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

Mony wyte their wife for their ain thriftless like.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

Never take a wife till you know what to do with her.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife, contentment

Ye have tane't upon you as the wife did the dancing.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife, contentment

It's a' outs an' ins, like Willie Wood's wife's wame.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

I'm but beginning yet, quo' the wife when she run wud.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about beginning, wife

He that has lost a wife and sixpence has lost sixpence.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

Like the wife wi' the mony dochters, the best's aye hindmost.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

A grunting horse and a graneing wife seldom fail their master.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

Stable the steed, and put your wife to bed when there's night wark to do.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about night, wife

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

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

The man without a wife, has nothing good.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wife, nothing, good, good luck, man