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18 The mair cost the mair honour

The maut is aboon the meal wi‘ him

The mair noble the mair humble

The master's eye makes the horse fat

The mair mischief the better sport

The pains o'ergangs the profit

The poor man's aye put to the warst

The poor man pays for a'

The poor man's shilling is bat a penny

The strongest horse loups the dike,

The scholar may waur the master

The still sow eats up a' the draff

The smith has aye a spark in his hawse

The simple man's the beggar's brother

The thiefer-like the better sodger

The thing that's done is no to do

The thing that's fristed is no forgien

The tod keeps aye his ain hole clean

The tods whelps are ill to tame

The warst warld that ever was some man wan

The worth of a thing is best kend by the want o't

The warld is bound to nae man

The unsonsy fish gets the unlucky bait

There is mony a true tale tald in jest

There is a measure in a' things

There is nane sae blind as them that winna see

There is naething ill said that's no ill tane

There was never a fair word in flyting

There was never a cake but it had its ain maik

There was hever enough where naething was left

There is a skill in gruel making

There is a time to glee and a time to look even

There is a great difference amang market days

There is an end of an auld sang

There is aye life for a living man

There are mae ways to the wood than ane

There are mae married than good house-hadders

There never came ill after good advertisement