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7 Fire and water are good sevants but bad masters

Flaes and a girning wife are waukerife 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’shood have baith a dirty wa’ gang

G GENTLE paddocks have lang taes

Giff gaff makes good 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 you’ll take an ell

Glasses and lasses are bruckle ware

Good ale needs hae wisp

Good bairns get broken brows

Good watch prevents harm

Good ware make a quick market

Gowd may be dear coſt

Great barkers are nae biters

Gut nae fish till ye get them

H HAE gars a deaf man hear

Hair and hair makes the earle’s beard bare

Hame is hame though it were never so 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