Poetry, expressions and stories, with their sources and authors.
Browse all published languages. Each work opens only an available, reviewed reading. 1963 entries
Ye're busy to clear yourself when naebody files you.
None so deaf as he that will not hear.
Let every herring hang by its own gills.
Drawn wells have sweetest water
It is not easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling.
Covetousness brings nothing home.
I wad rather my friend should think me framet than fashious.
He that has a goose will get a goose.
Time and the hour run through the longest day.
Save a thief from the gallows, and he will be the first to cut your throat.
Gear is easier gained than guided.
The pot calls the kettle black bottom.
Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
If the grass grow in Janiveer, It grows the worse for it all the year.
Lifeless, faultless.
Drawn wells are seldom dry.
He that will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
Let him that owns the cow take her by the tail.
He that will to Cupar maun to Cupar.
He can say, "My jo," an' think it na.
A May flood never did good.
The hardest step is over the threshold.
Knock a man down, and kick him for falling.
He is like a cat, he always falls on his feet.