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SAIR cravers are aye ill payers

Say well and do well end with ae letter

Say well’s good but do well is better

Say still no and ye’ll never be married

Scant of cheeks makes a lang nose

Scart the cog wad sup mair

Scorn comes commonly with skaith

Seeing’s believing a’ the world o’er

Send ye to the sea, ye’ll no get saut water

Serve yoursel till your bairns come to age

Set that down on the back-side of your count-book

Set a knave to catch a knave

Set a stout heart to a stay brae

Sharp stomachs make short graces

She is a wise wife that wat her ain weird

She looks as if butter wad na melt in her mou

She hauds up her head like a hen drinking water

She’s not to be made a song of

She’s better than she’s bonny

Sic as ye gie sic will ye get

Silence grips the mouse

Sic reek as is therein comes out of the lum

Slaw at meat slaw at wark

Smooth waters rin deep

Sma’ fish are better than nae fish

Sorrow is soon enough when it comes

Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for

Some hae a hantle of’auts ye’re only a ne’er-do-well

Speak good of pipers your father was a fiddler

Spilt ale is waur than water

Stuffings hands out storms

Stown dints are sweeter

Sudden friendship, sure repentance

Supped out wort was ne’er gude ale

Surfeits slay mair than swords

Swear by your burnt shins

Sweer to bed and sweer up in the morning