ProverbPedia

Scottish Proverb:
It is ill to draw a strea before an auld cat.
English Translation:
It is hard to trick an old cat with a trailing straw.

Scottish Proverb:
It is not good to want and to have.
English Translation:
You cannot both lack and have at the same time.

Scottish Proverb:
Beware of had I wist.
English Translation:
Beware of saying 'Had I only known'.

Scottish Proverb:
I cannot finde you baith tailes and eares.
English Translation:
I cannot supply you with both tails and ears (everything you demand).

Scottish Proverb:
Its a fair field where all are dung down.
English Translation:
It is a strange battlefield where everybody is beaten down.

Scottish Proverb:
Kamesters are ay creeshie.
English Translation:
Wool-combers are always greasy.

Scottish Proverb:
Do as ye wald be done to.
English Translation:
Do as you would be done by.

Scottish Proverb:
Daffing dow nothing.
English Translation:
Fooling around (frivolity) accomplishes nothing.

Scottish Proverb:
Earlie maister, lang knave.
English Translation:
A master too early, a servant for a long time.

Scottish Proverb:
Let him drink as he hes browin.
English Translation:
Let him drink just as he has brewed.

Scottish Proverb:
Mony masters, quoth the poddock to the harrow, when everie tind took her a knock.
English Translation:
'Too many masters!' said the frog (paddock) to the harrow, when every spike gave her a knock.

Scottish Proverb:
Man propons, but God dispons.
English Translation:
Man proposes, but God disposes.