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 Credit is better than ill-won gear.

Crooked carlin, quoth the cripple to his wife.

Cut your cloak according to your claith.

D

Damming and laving is good sure fishing.

Daughters and dead fish are nae keeping ware.

bairns dow bear little.

Day-light will peep thro’ a sma’ hole.

Death and marriage make term-day.

Death defies the doctors.

Delays are dangerous.

Do well and dread nae shame.

Do what you ought and come what will.

Do the likeliest and hope the best.

Do as the lasses do, sae no, tho’ ye think na so.

Double drinks are good for drouth.

Double charges rive cannons.

Draff’s good enough for swine.

Drink little that ye may drink lang.

Dree out the inch when ye have thol’d thespan.

E

EAGLES catch nae flies.

Eat well’s drink well’s brother.

Eating and drinking want but a beginning.

Either live or die with honour.

E’ening oats are good morning fother.

Enough's as good as a feast.

Every ane creeshes the fat sow’s arse.

Every ane kens best where his ain shoe nips him.

Every craw thinks its ain bird whitest.

Every dog has his day.

Every man wears his belt his ain gait.

Every man’s tale is good till anither’s be tauld.

Every man has his ain draff pock.

Every thing has an end, and a pudding has twa.

Experience teaches fools.

F

Faint heart never won a fair lady.

Fair words winna gar the pot play.