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Fire and water are good servants but bad masters Fires and a girning wife are wakerife bed fellows Fleying a bird is not the gate to grip it                 Fools shou'd na hae 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 long taes Giff gaff makes good friends Give a dog an ill name and he'll soon be hang'd                 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 themsels Give you an inch you'll take an ell Glasses and lasses are bruckle ware Good ale needs nae wisp Good bairns get broken brows Good watch prevents harm Good ware make a quick market Gowd may be dear coft Great barkers are nae biters Gut nae fish till ye get them

H                 HAE gars a deaf man hear Hair and hair make the carle'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 balfpenny is gear enough Have ye gear have ye nane, tine heart and a's gane