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Never let on you, but laugh in your ain sleeve 535 Never put a sword in a daft man's hand Never put the plough before the owsen Never quat certainty for hope Never scad your lips in other fowks kail 540 Never seek a wife till ye ken what to do wi' it. Nineteen naysays of a maiden are half a grand Now s now, and Yule's in winter O                O'er mickle of ae thing is good for naething O'er mickle loose leather about your chafts 545 O er siccer o'er loose Of a' sorrow a fou' sorrow's best Of a' meat in the warld drink gaes best down Of twa ills chuse the least Out of debt out of danger 550 Oppression will make a wise man mad P                Pay him in his ain coin Pith's good in a play Play's good while it is play Penny wise and pound fool 555 Poor folk's friends soon misken them Possession is eleven points of the law Pride and grace dwell never in ae place Provision in season makes a bien house Put the saddle on the right horse 560 Put on your spurs and be at your speed Q                Quality without quantity is little thought of                 Quey calfs are dear veal Quick for you'll never be cleanly Quick at meat quick at wark Quick returns make rich merchants R                Rather spill your joke than tine your friend Raw dawds make fat lads Raw leather raxes