ProverbPedia

Scottish Proverb:
Of need make vertue.
English Translation:
Make a virtue of necessity.

Scottish Proverb:
Pryde will have a fall.
English Translation:
Pride will have a fall.

Scottish Proverb:
Quhat better is the house that the da rises in the morning.
English Translation:
What better off is the house when a lazy sluggard (daw) rises early in the morning?

Scottish Proverb:
Quhen the good man is fra hame, the boardcleaths tint.
English Translation:
When the master of the house is away from home, the tablecloth is missing (hospitality ceases).

Scottish Proverb:
Sike lippes, sike latace.
English Translation:
Such lips, such lettuce (like matches like).

Scottish Proverb:
Efter lang mint, never dint.
English Translation:
After a long aim (threat), never a blow.

Scottish Proverb:
For fault of wise men, fooles sits on binks.
English Translation:
For lack of wise men, fools sit on the judge's benches.

Scottish Proverb:
God sends men cauld as they have clothes to.
English Translation:
God sends men cold according to the clothes they have.

Scottish Proverb:
He that crabbes without cause, should mease without mends.
English Translation:
He who gets angry without cause should calm down without compensation (apology).

Scottish Proverb:
He is a proud Tod that will not scrape his own hole.
English Translation:
He is a proud fox that will not dig his own den.

Scottish Proverb:
He that evil does, never good weines.
English Translation:
He who does evil never expects good.

Scottish Proverb:
He is worth na weill that may not byde na wae.
English Translation:
He does not deserve prosperity who cannot endure adversity.