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After a storm comes a calm.

A gi'en horse shouldna be looked i' the mouth.
A gi'en piece is soon eaten.

A greedy e'e ne'er gat a gude pennyworth.
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Yule maks a fat kirkyard.

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A gude cause maks a strong arm.
A hasty man never wanted wae.
A hunger and a burst.

A kiss and a drink o' water mak but a poor breakfast.

A man's weel or wae as he thinks himsel sae.

An ilka-day braw maks a Sabbath-day daw.

An ill shearer never got a guid heuk.

An ill wife and a new-kindled candle should hae their heads

hadden down.

An unhappy fish gets an unhappy bait.

A nod o' honest men is eneugh.

A pund o' care winna pay an ounce o' debt.
A rough bane makes a fou wame.

As dark as a Yule midnight.

As guid fish in the sea as e'er came out o't.

As guid may haud the stirrup as he that loups on.
A Scotch mist will wet an Englishman to the skin.
A sillerless man gangs fast through the market.
A sorrowfu' heart is aye dry.

A' Stuarts are no sib to the king.
A tale never tines in the telling.
A tarrowing hen was never fat.
A tocherless dame sits lang at hame.
A wight man ne'er wanted a weapon.
A wilfu' man should be unco wise.
Auld men are twice bairns.
Auld sparrows are ill to tame.
Auld springs gie nae price.

Bairns speak in the field what they hear in the ha'.
Be a friend to yoursel, and others will.

Bear and forbear is guid philosophy.

Bear wealth weel, poortith will bear itsel.

Be

aye the same thing you would be ca'd.

Be lang sick, that ye may be soon hale.

Best to be off with the old love before we be on with the

new.

Better a finger aff than aye wagging.

Better a tocher in her than on her.

Better a toom house than an ill tenant.

Better a wee bush than nae bield.

Better a wee fire to warm you than a big fire to burn you. Better be blithe wi' little than sad wi’ naething.

Better buy than borrow.

Better lang something than soon naething.
Better sma' fish than nane.

Better wear shoon than wear sheets.
Blind men shouldna judge o' colours.

Bode for a silk gown and ye'll get a sleeve o't.
Burning a halfpenny candle seeking a farthing.
Burnt bairns dread the fire.

Cadgers have aye mind of lade saddles.
Canny stretch, soon reach.

Carrying saut to Dysart.

Cast not a clout till May be out.

Castna out the dowed water till ye get the fresh.

Cheatery kythes.

Come unca'd, sits unserved.

Come wi' the wind, and gang wi' the water.

Confess debt, and crave days.

Corn him weel, he'll work the better.

Count again is not forbidden.

Count siller after a' your kin.

Courtesy is cumbersome to him that kens it na.

Covetousness brings naething hame.

Credit is better than ill-won gear.

Credit keeps the crown o' the causey.

Dawted bairns can bear little.
Deal sma', and serve a'.

Death and marriage break term-day.

Ding down the nest, and the rooks will flee away.
Dinna cast awa' the cog when the cow flings.

Dinna gut your fish till ye get them.

Dogs bark as they are bred.

Do weel, an' doubt nae man; do ill, an' doubt a' men.
Do weel, an' hae weel.

Do your turn weel, and nane will speer what time ye took.

Drink little, that ye may drink lang.

Drive a cow to the ha', she'll run to the byre.

Early birds catch the worms.

East or west, hame is best.

Easy learned, soon forgotten.

Easy learning the cat the road to the kirn.

Easily working when will's at hame.

Eat in measure, an' defy the doctor.

Eat peas wi' a prince, an' cherries wi' a chapman.
Eat-weel's Drink-weel's brither.

Eating an' cleaning only require a beginning.
Ell and tell is guid merchandise.

Ever busy, ever bare.

Every ane loups the dike where it's laighest.
Every bird thinks its ain nest best.

Every cock craws crousest on his ain midden head.
Every fault has its fore.

Every flow has its ebb.

Every man bows to the bush he gets bield frae.

Every man buckles his belt his ain gate.

Every man can guide an ill wife weel but him that has her.

Every man can tout best on his ain horn.

Every man has his ain draff poke.

Every man's tale's guid till anither's be tauld.

Every Maybe hath a May not be.

Every miller wad weise the water to his ain mill.

Fair words break nae banes, foul words mony.
Fancy flees before the wind.

Far-awa fowls hae fair feathers.

Farther east, the shorter west.

Fausehood makes ne'er a fair hinder-end.

Flitting o' farms mak mailens dear.

Fools are aye fond o' flittin'.

Fools are aye seeing ferlies.

Fool's haste is nae speed.

Fools laugh at their ain sport.

Fools set far trysts.

Fools shouldna hae chappin'-sticks.

For want o' a steek a shoe may be tint.

Forbid a fool a thing, an' that he will do.

Frae saving comes having.

Friends are like fiddle-strings, they maunna be screwed owre

tight.

Friends gree best at a distance.

Friendship canna stand aye on ae side.

Fry stanes wi' butter, an' the broe will be guid.

Gear is easier gotten than guided.

Gentle partans hae lang taes.

Gentle servants are poor men's tinsel.

Get weel, keep weel.

Gie your tongue mair holidays than your head.

Giff gaff maks guid friends.

Glasses an' lasses are brittle ware.

God ne'er sent the mouth, but he sent the meat wi't.

God shapes the back for the burden.

Gratitude is a heavy burden.

Great comfort is like ready gold in need,

Guid advice is ne'er out o' season.

Guid bairns are eith to lear.

Guid folk are scarce, tak care o' ane,

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Guid health is better than wealth.
Guid kail is half meat.

Guid will ne'er wants time to show itsel.
Guidly cow, gawsy calf.

Guessed wark's best if weel done.

Hae, gars a deaf man hear.

Hand-in-use is father o' lear.

Hankering an' hinging-on is a poor

trade.

Happy the wife that's married to a motherless son.
He can hide his meat and seek mair.

He can see an inch before his nose.

He caresna wha's bairns greet if his laugh.

He comes oftener wi' the rake than the shool.

He doesna aye ride when he saddles.

He doesna ken what end o' him's uppermost.

He doesna like his wark that says Now when it's done.
He eats the calf i' the cow's wame.

He gangs lang barefoot that wears dead men's shoon.
He has a caup for a' corn.

He has a guid judgment that doesna lippen to his ain.
He has a slid grip that has an eel by the tail.

He has come to guid by misguiding.

He has gotten the whip hand of him.

He has muckle prayer, but little devotion.

He has wit at will that wi' an angry heart can sit still.
He'll gie you the whistle o' your groat.

He'll have enough some day, when his mouth's fu' o' mools.
He'll mak an ill runner that canna gang.

He'll mend when he grows better, like sour ale in summer.
He'll neither dance nor haud the candle.

He'll no let grass grow at his heels.
He'll no sell his hen on a rainy day.

He'll soon be a beggar that canna say No.

He'll tell it to nae mair than he meets.

He lo'ed mutton weel that licked where the ewe lay.

He lo'es me for little that hates me for nought.

He looks like the far end of a French fiddle.

He maun be soon up that cheats the tod.

He maun hae leave to speak that canna haud his tongue.

He

may

find fault that canna mend.

He needs a lang spoon that sups wi' the deil.

He ne'er did a guid darg that gaed grumbling about it.
He reads his sin in his punishment.

He rides sicker that never fa's.

He's a fool that forgets himsel.

He's a fool that marries at Yule; for when the bairn's to bear, the corn's to shear.

He's a man of a wise mind, that of a foe can mak a friend.

He's a silly chiel that can neither do nor say.
He's a worthless guidman that's no missed."
He's like a flea in a blanket.

He's no sae daft as he lets on.

He's no the best wright that casts maist spails.
He's sairest dung that's paid wi' his ain wand.
He starts at straes, and lets windlins gae.

He's unco fu' in his ain house that canna pick a bane in his neighbour's.

He's weel worthy o' sorrow that buys it.
He's wise that's timely wary.

He's worth nae weel that can bide nae wae.
He that canna mak sport should mar nane.

He that counts a' costs will ne'er put plough i' the grund.
He that deals in dirt has aye foul fingers.

He that does you an ill turn will ne'er forgie you.
He that fa's in a gutter, the langer he lies, the dirtier he is.
He that fishes before the net, fishes lang or he fish get.
He that gets forgets, but he that wants thinks on.
He that has a mickle nose thinks ilk ane speaks o't.
He that has but ae e'e maun tent that weel.
He that has mickle wad aye hae mair.

He that has nae gear to tine may hae shins to pine.
He that lends his pot may seethe his kail in his loof.
He that looks to freets, freets will follow him.

He that rides or he be ready, wants aye some o' his graith.
He that's aught the cow gangs nearest the tail.

He that's ill to himsel will be guid to naebody.

He that seeks motes gets motes.

He that shows his purse bribes the thief.

He that speers all opinions comes ill speed.
He that steals can hide too.

He that tholes overcomes.

He that will cheat in play winna be honest in earnest.
He that will not thole maun flit mony a hole.

He that will to Cupar maun to Cupar.

He that winna when he may, shanna when he wad.
He that would eat the kirnel maun crack the nut.

He wad gar you trow that the moon's made o' green cheese.

He wad tine his lugs if they were not tacked to him.
He was mair fleyed than hurt.

He was the bee that made the honey.
Highlanders-shoulder to shoulder.

I canna sell the cow an' sup the milk.

If ae sheep loup the dike, a' the rest will follow.
If the deil find you idle, he'll set you to wark.
If the lift fa', the laverocks will be smoored.

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