Scottish Proverbs

* A child may have too much of his mother's tit.
* A day to come seems longer than a year that's gone.
* A dry Lent, a fertile year.
* A penny saved is a penny gained.
* A thistle is a fat salad for an ass's mouth.
* Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
* Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
* Better bend than break.
* Better keep the devil at the door than turn him out of the house.
* Bring a cow into the hall and she'll run the byre.
* Confessed faults are half-mended.
* Cutting out well is better than sewing up well.
* Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
* Every fisher loves best the trout that is of his own tickling.
* Finders keepers, losers weepers.
* Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.
* Fur coat and nae knickers
* He that has one sheep in the flock will like all the rest the better for it.
* He that loves law will get his fill of it.
* It is ill fishing if the hook is bare.
* It's an ill wind that blows naebody any good.
* It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.
* Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more.
* Many haws, many snows.
* Money is flat and was meant to be piled up.
* Never go to the devil and a dish-clout in your hand.
* Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
* One for sorrow, two for joy,
Three for a girl, four for a boy.
Five for silver, six for gold,
And seven for a secret that must never be told.

- superstition relating to how many magpies one might observe at any given time.

* One may ride a free horse to death.
* Open confession is good for the soul.
* Red sky at night, Shepherds Delight; Red sky in the morning, Shepherds Warning.
* The first dish pleaseth all.
* They are good that are away.
* To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
* Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
* Willful waste makes woeful want.
* What baites one, banes another.
* What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
* When all fruits fails, welcome haws.
* What's before you will not go by you.