ProverbPedia

Scottish Proverb:
Go to the Devil and bishop you.
English Translation:
Go to the Devil and get yourself confirmed (bishopped).

Scottish Proverb:
He that speakes the thing he should not, hears the things hee would not.
English Translation:
He who says what he should not hears what he would rather not.

Scottish Proverb:
Hear all parties.
English Translation:
Hear all sides.

Scottish Proverb:
Hanging ganges be hap.
English Translation:
Hanging goes by luck (fate).

Scottish Proverb:
Hulie and fair, men rides far journeys.
English Translation:
Slowly and steadily, men ride far journeys.

Scottish Proverb:
He cals me skabbed, because I will not call him skade.
English Translation:
He calls me scabby so that I won't get the chance to call him scald-headed first.

Scottish Proverb:
He will see day light at a little hole.
English Translation:
[Of greedy persons] He can see daylight through a tiny hole (sees the smallest chance for gain).

Scottish Proverb:
He looks like a Lochwhaber axe.
English Translation:
[Of frightened persons] He looks as grim/startled as a Lochaber axe.

Scottish Proverb:
He kens his groats among other folks kail.
English Translation:
[Of wily/crafty persons] He knows his own hulled oats (groats) even when boiled in other people's broth.

Scottish Proverb:
He is as bair as the birk at Zule evin.
English Translation:
[Of wastrels and bankrupts] He is as bare as the birch tree on Christmas Eve.

Scottish Proverb:
He brings a staff to his own head.
English Translation:
[Of ignorant persons] He brings a club down upon his own head.

Scottish Proverb:
He can say, My jo, and think it not.
English Translation:
[Of hypocrites] He can say 'My darling' (my jo) and not mean it.