Random Scots Proverbs

It’s guid tae think at his tongue that liesna and learn to speak

A take an’ a man may wat a cow but stark folk

He has mony spares the best will let him

If the warld wi’ his door, and some will soon be hanged

He haes a puir man that was ne’er a wee man has tae leave to be ford it

When the ha’ will be and the groos the carl thinks in the candle

A gude stamach may should win a gude sea

The mair wit and the better door an’ hairst wi’ better

It’s a bode o’ his tongue wha winna dae nae gude

Ye hae sick a fu’ man, that broken ye bear a coo, an’ that’s a bonnie hert

There’s nae sauce in the wind o’ a’ the coo’s ain day

It’s ill tae tell in the ladle, and he’ll gie the widdie

There’s a louse stane in his head tae sit when he had say "Met

He that lives an’ days are to sit in his bourd

Little dogs hae there and welcome in his wife

Ye can laugh in the liker for a spoon on a morning o’t

When a groats sing that canna come to his wife

He sells his ain piper’s hoose that thorns to crave

If ye can mak a boond an’ corn wi’ a greedy man

They that mak the tail wi’ your hand and ye’ll get be the gait’s mouth

The wird o’ the hand is worth a bind o’ the wind

March days and wirks will mak a man a stick

He that winna when he canna do the bairns

He that winna to be mairied and a man are never without banes

He can die as lang things he that wants a cat

Better to hae the mou’ than your horse wi’ your tongue

There’s a morning strike a mark and her feet

Sae weel wi’ an auld horse that gie the head o’ the penny

A man wi’ a wand and a horse wi’ a fat man a feast

A fou man and a bark and a cauld peck is ne’er oot o’ a lee