ProverbPedia

Scottish Proverb:
Ye seek grace at a gracelesse face.
English Translation:
You look for grace from a graceless face.

Scottish Proverb:
A vaunter and a lier is both one thing.
English Translation:
A boaster and a liar are both the same thing.

Scottish Proverb:
A sillie bairne is eith to lear.
English Translation:
A simple (good-natured) child is easy to teach.

Scottish Proverb:
A man that is warned, is half armed.
English Translation:
A man who is forewarned is half armed.

Scottish Proverb:
A woole seller kens a woole buyer.
English Translation:
A wool seller knows a wool buyer.

Scottish Proverb:
As the old cocke crawes, the young cock leares.
English Translation:
As the old cock crows, the young cock learns.

Scottish Proverb:
An old knave is na bairne.
English Translation:
An old knave is no child.

Scottish Proverb:
A man may spit on his hand and do full ill.
English Translation:
A man may spit on his hand and still do very badly.

Scottish Proverb:
Among 24 fooles not ane wise man.
English Translation:
Among twenty-four fools there is not one wise man.

Scottish Proverb:
A houndlesse man comes to the best hunting.
English Translation:
A man without a hound comes upon the best hunting.

Scottish Proverb:
Airlie crooks the tree, that good cammok should be.
English Translation:
The tree crooks early that will make a good shinty stick (staff).

Scottish Proverb:
Better lang little nor soon right nought.
English Translation:
Better a little for a long time than nothing at all very soon.

Scottish Proverb:
Bind fast, finde fast.
English Translation:
Bind securely, find securely.

Scottish Proverb:
Better say, Here it is, nor here it was.
English Translation:
Better to say 'Here it is' than 'Here it was'.

Scottish Proverb:
Better na ring nor the ring of a rashe.
English Translation:
Better no ring at all than a ring made of a rush (reed).

Scottish Proverb:
It goes in at the one ear, and out at the other.
English Translation:
It goes in one ear and out the other.