ProverbPedia

Scottish Proverb:
Take tyme while time is, for time will away.
English Translation:
Take time while time lasts, for time will slip away.

Scottish Proverb:
The tree fals not at the first straike.
English Translation:
The tree does not fall at the first stroke of the axe.

Scottish Proverb:
Three may keep counsel if twa be away.
English Translation:
Three can keep a secret if two of them are away.

Scottish Proverb:
This bolt came never out of your bag.
English Translation:
This arrow (clever idea) never came out of your own quiver (bag).

Scottish Proverb:
The grace of God is geir enough.
English Translation:
The grace of God is wealth enough.

Scottish Proverb:
Wrang compt, is na paiment.
English Translation:
A wrong reckoning is no payment.

Scottish Proverb:
Unskild mediciners, and horsemarshels, slayes both man and beast.
English Translation:
Unskilled doctors and horse-farriers kill both man and beast.

Scottish Proverb:
Ye will get war bods or Belten.
English Translation:
You will get worse offers before Beltane (May Day).

Scottish Proverb:
Seik your sauce where you get your ail.
English Translation:
Seek your sauce (relish) where you get your ale.

Scottish Proverb:
There came never a large fart forth of a Wrans arse.
English Translation:
There never came a loud fart out of a wren's backside.

Scottish Proverb:
The piper wants meikle that wants the nether chafts.
English Translation:
The bagpiper lacks a great deal when he lacks his lower jaw.

Scottish Proverb:
The mair ye tramp in a turde, it growes the breader.
English Translation:
The more you tread on a turd, the broader it spreads.

Scottish Proverb:
They are good willie of their horse that hes nane.
English Translation:
People are very generous with lending their horse when they don't own one.

Scottish Proverb:
Thy tongue is na slander.
English Translation:
Your tongue carries no weight as slander.

Scottish Proverb:
Twa hungrie meltiths makes the third a glutton.
English Translation:
Two hungry (skipped) meals make the third meal a gluttonous one.

Scottish Proverb:
Wrang hears, wrang answer gives.
English Translation:
He who hears wrongly gives a wrong answer.