Threatened folk live long.
Threatened folk live long.
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Threatened folk live long.
The langer we live the mair ferlies [wonders] we see.
An idle brain's the devil's workshop.
Two to one are odds at football.
Forbidden fruit is sweet.
Better learn frae your neebor's scathe than frae your ain.
Fools' haste is no speed.
Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.
Throw in a sprat to catch a salmon.
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
Need makes the naked man run.
He that lives on hope has a slim diet.
Set hard heart against hard hap.
"There's ne'er a best among them," as the fellow said of the fox cubs.
Jedwood justice--hang in haste, and try at leisure.'"
You may pay too dear for your whistle.
Measure twice, cut but once.
Wilful waste makes woeful want.
To wed in May is to wed poverty.
Let every tub stand on its own bottom.
The clerk wishes the priest to have a fat dish.
A kindly aver will never make a good nag.
Beware of had I wist.
Home is home, be it ever so homely.