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NAE fool to an auld fool

Nae friend to a friend in need

Nae great loss but there’s some sma’ advantage

Nae man has a tack of his life

Nae man can thrive unless his wife let him

Nae penny nae paternoster

Nae sooner up than her head’s in the ambry

Nae safe wading in unco waters

Naething is balder than a blind mare

Naething to be done in haste but gripping of flaes

Naething to do but draw in your stool and sit down

Nane but fools and knaves lay wagers

Nane sae weel but he hopes to be better

Nane can play the fool sae weel as a wise man

Narrow gathered widely spent

Near’s my sark but nearer my skin

Neck or naething, the king loes nae cripples

Necessity has nae law

Neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring

New lords have new laws

Never do ill that good may come

Never put a sword into a madman’s hand

Never quat certainty for hope

Never scad your lips in ither fouks kail

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

Never shaw me the meat but the man

Never shaw your teeth unless you can bite

Never tell your fae when your foot sleeps

Nineteen nay-says of a maiden are half a grant

Now’s now, and yule’s in winter

O O’er mickle of ae thing is good for naething

O’er mickle loose leather about your chafts

O’er sicker o’er loose

Of a’ sorrow a fou sorrow’s best