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 Strike the iron as long as it is hot.

Stuffing hads out storms.

Sudden friendship repentance.

Sup‘d out wort was never good ale.

Swear by your burnt shins.

Sweer to bed and sweer up in the morning.

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Take it a’ and pay the merchant.

Take the bit and the buffet wi‘t.

Take a pint and ’gree, the law's costly.

Take your ain will and then ye‘ll no die of the pet.

Take your venture as mony a good ship has done.

Take your thanks to feed your cat.

Take part of the pelf when the pack’s a dealing.

Take a man by his word and a cow by her horn.

Take a hair of the dog that bit you.

Take me not up before I fa’.

Tell nae tales out of the school.

That's a tale of twa drinks.

That‘s but ae doctor's opinion.

That's for the father but no for the son.

That's for that, as butter's for fish.

That's my tale where's your's.

That's the piece a step bairn never gat.

The auld aver may die waiting foa new grass.

The back and the belly hads every ane busy.

The better day the better deed.

The book of Maybees is very braid.

The banes of a great estate is worth the piking.

The cause is good, and the word fa’ on.

The cure may be warse than the disease.

The cow that's first up gets the first of the dew.

The death of the first wife made sic a hole in his

heart that a’ the love slipt easily through.

The first of a fat haggise is the baldest.

The farther in the deeper.

The feathers bear away the flesh.

The grey mare may be the best horse.

The greatest clerks are not the wisest men.

The happy man canna be harried.