ProverbPedia

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.

Scottish Proverb:
Better be happie nor wise.
English Translation:
Better to be lucky than wise.

Scottish Proverb:
Better sit still, nor rise and get a fall.
English Translation:
Better to sit still than to rise up and take a fall.

Scottish Proverb:
Better be alone, nor in ill companie.
English Translation:
Better to be alone than in bad company.

Scottish Proverb:
Bannoks is better nor na kin bread.
English Translation:
Oatcakes (bannocks) are better than no kind of bread at all.