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5 Better to haud by a hair than draw with a tether

Better hand loose than in an ill tethering

Better kiss a knave than cast out wi’ him

Better keep well than make well

Better lang something than soon naething

Better leave to my faes than beg frae my friends

Better rue sit than rue flit

Better sit idle than work for nought

Better skaith saved than mends made

Better sma’ fish than nae fish

Better the ill kenn'd than the good unkenn'd

Better to haud than to draw

Better unborn than untaught

Better wait on the cook than the doctor

Better wear shoon than sheets

Birds of a feather flock together

Birth’s good but breeding’s better

Blind men should na judge of colours

Blood’s thicker than water

Burnt bairns the fire dread

C CADGERS have aye mind of lade saddles

Cast a bane in the diel’s teeth

Charity begins at hame

Come unca‘d come unserv’d

Comes to my hand like the bowl of a pint stoup

Come wi’ the wind and gae wi’ the water

Confess debt and crave days

Corn him well he‘ll work the better

Count again is not forbidden

Count siller after a’ your kin

Credit keeps the crown of the causey

Credit is better than ill luck

Crooked earlin, quoth the earle to his wife

D DAMING and laving is good sure fishing

Dawted bairns do bear little

Day light will peep through a small hole