ProverbPedia

Scottish Proverb:
As long runs the fox as he feet hath.
English Translation:
The fox runs as long as he has feet.

Scottish Proverb:
A skade mans head is soon broken.
English Translation:
A scald-headed (scabby) man's head is easily broken.

Scottish Proverb:
A travelled man hath leave to lie.
English Translation:
A well-traveled man has permission to tell tall tales (lie).

Scottish Proverb:
As good merchant tynes as wins.
English Translation:
As good a merchant loses as wins.

Scottish Proverb:
An ill shearer gat never a good hook.
English Translation:
A bad reaper never got a good sickle.

Scottish Proverb:
A man may speir the gate to Rome.
English Translation:
A man may ask his way to Rome.

Scottish Proverb:
Anuch is a feast (of bread and cheise).
English Translation:
Enough is a feast (even of bread and cheese).

Scottish Proverb:
A man is a lyon in his own cause.
English Translation:
A man is a lion in his own cause.

Scottish Proverb:
A begun work is half ended.
English Translation:
A work begun is half finished.

Scottish Proverb:
Better learn by your neighbors skaith nor by your own.
English Translation:
Better to learn from your neighbor's harm (loss) than from your own.

Scottish Proverb:
Better bide the cookes nor the mediciners.
English Translation:
Better to endure the cooks than the doctors.

Scottish Proverb:
It is a sairie collope that is tain off a Capone.
English Translation:
It is a meager slice of meat that is carved off a capon.