ProverbPedia

Scottish Proverb:
A blinde man should not judge of colours.
English Translation:
A blind man should not judge colors.

Scottish Proverb:
A fair fire makes a roome flet.
English Translation:
A bright fire makes a spacious room (inner house).

Scottish Proverb:
A swallow makes not summer or spring time.
English Translation:
One swallow does not make summer or springtime.

Scottish Proverb:
A mean pot plaid never evin.
English Translation:
A shared pot never boiled evenly.

Scottish Proverb:
All crakes, all beares.
English Translation:
All boast, all endure.

Scottish Proverb:
A mache and a horse shoe are both alike.
English Translation:
A maggot and a horseshoe are both alike.

Scottish Proverb:
Better hand louse nor bound to an ill baikine.
English Translation:
Better to have a free hand than to be tied to a bad stake (tether).

Scottish Proverb:
It is hard to fling at the brod, or kick at the prick.
English Translation:
It is hard to kick against the goad (pricks).

Scottish Proverb:
It is good sleeping in a heal skin.
English Translation:
It is good sleeping in a whole (unwounded) skin.

Scottish Proverb:
It is a good goose that drops ay.
English Translation:
It is a good roasting goose that drips fat continually.

Scottish Proverb:
Black will be no other hew.
English Translation:
Black will take no other dye (hue).

Scottish Proverb:
I wald I had as meikle pepper as he compts himself worthy myse dirt.
English Translation:
I wish I had as much pepper as he thinks himself worth in mouse dirt.