ProverbPedia

Scottish Proverb:
Better be dead as out of the fashion.
English Translation:
Better be dead than out of fashion (custom).

Scottish Proverb:
If ye wanted me and your meat, ye wald want ane good friend.
English Translation:
If you lost both me and your food, you would lack one good friend.

Scottish Proverb:
Cease your snowballes casting.
English Translation:
Stop throwing your snowballs (cease your taunts).

Scottish Proverb:
Little wit makes meikle travell.
English Translation:
Little sense makes much labor.

Scottish Proverb:
Leave the court, or the court leave thee.
English Translation:
Leave the royal court before the court leaves you.

Scottish Proverb:
Laith to the drink, and leath fra it.
English Translation:
Slow to start drinking, and reluctant to leave it.

Scottish Proverb:
Let alone makes mony lurdon.
English Translation:
Leaving children uncorrected makes many a lazy rascal (lurdane).

Scottish Proverb:
Many smals makes a great.
English Translation:
Many smalls make a great whole.

Scottish Proverb:
Might, often times overcomes right.
English Translation:
Might oftentimes overcomes right.

Scottish Proverb:
Na man can baith sup and blaw at once.
English Translation:
No man can both sup (swallow) and blow at the same time.

Scottish Proverb:
Na man can play the fool sa weill as the wise man.
English Translation:
No man can play the fool as well as a wise man.

Scottish Proverb:
Of the earth mon the dyke be biggit.
English Translation:
The turf wall (dyke) must be built out of the earth at hand.

Scottish Proverb:
Povertie parts good company, and is an enemie to vertue.
English Translation:
Poverty parts good company and is an enemy to virtue.

Scottish Proverb:
Quhen theeves reckons, leall men comes to their geir.
English Translation:
When thieves fall out and reckon with each other, honest men recover their goods.

Scottish Proverb:
Quhair stands your great horse.
English Translation:
Where is your high horse stabled now?

Scottish Proverb:
Sike a man as thou wald be, draw thee to sik companie.
English Translation:
Draw yourself to the company of such men as you wish to become.