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Fire and water are good servants but bad masters Flaes and a girning wife are waukrife bedfellows Fleying a bird is not the gate to grip it                 Fools shou'dna ha'e chapping sticks Fools make feasts and wise men eat them The wise make jests and fools repeat them For fashion's sake, as dogs gang to the market Forbid a fool a thing and that he will do                Foul water slockens fire Friendship canna stand aye on ae side Fresh fish and poor friends grow soon ill far'd                Frost and fa'sehood ha'e baith a dirty wa' gang

G

Gentle paddocks ha'e lang taes Giff gaff makes gude friends Give a dog an ill name and he'll soon be hanged Give a man luck and fling him in the sea Give o'er when the play's good Give them tow enough and they'll hang themselves Give you an inch and you'll take an ell Glasses and lasses are bruckle ware Good ale needs nae wisp Good bairns get broken brows Good watch prevents harm Good ware makes a quick market Gowd may be dear coft Great barkers are nae biters Gut nae fish till ye get them

H

Hae gars a deaf man hear Hair and hair makes the carles beard bear Hame is hanime though it were never sae hamely Hand in use is father of lair Hang hunger and drown drouth Had a halfpenny is gear enough Have ye gear have ye nane, tint heart and a's gane