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 It is not tint that a friend gets.

It is not what is she, but what has she.

It is past jouking when the head's aff.

It is well ware'd what wasters want.

It is well that our fauts are not written on our face.

It is the best spake in your wheel.

It keeps his nose at the grind-stane.

It will be a feather out of your wing.

It was never for naithing that the gled whistled.

K

Keep something for a sair foot.

Keep your ain fish-guts to your ain sea-maws.

Keep your tongue within your teeth.

Keep the feast to the feast-day.

Keep the staff in your ain hand.

Keep your breath to cool your crowdie.

Keep your mouth close and your een open.

Kend fowk‘s nae company.

Kings and bears aft worry their keepers.

Kiss a -stane, and that winna slaver you.

Kyth in your ain colours, that fouk may ken you.

L

Laith to bed, and laith to rise.

Lang fasting hains nae meat.

Lang look'd-for comes at last.

Lang fasting gathers wind.

Lang straes are nae motes.

Lang or ye saddle a foal.

Law's softly, tak a pint and ’gree.

Law makers shou'd na be law-breakers.

Laugh at leisure, ye may greet ere night.

Lay the head of the sow to the tail of the grice.

Leave welcome behind ye.

Leave aff as lang’s the play's good.

Learn you to an use and ye'll ca't custom.

Letna the plough stand to slay a mouse.

Let bell'd wathers break the snaw.

Let him tak a spring on his ain fiddle.

Let h'in cool in the skin he het in.

Let his ain wand ding him.