Proverbs and Sayings
“I'll no wirry upo' kliers”
means “I'll speak my mind freely”; and of slanderers it is said:
“Ye may lock afore a haand t'ief, bit no afore a tongue t'ief.”
“The mair dirt the mair luck”
has reference to a fisherman's superstition that it is unlucky to wash out his boat during the fishing season.
“It's guid ta hae a freend, an' no pluck oot his een”—
One should be careful not to make frequent and excessive demands on а generous friend.
“If ye döna tak' gaengers, riders may gae by.”
This was the reply of a young lady whose friends objected to her marriage with one whom they considered below her station in life.
“The ill-vicked coo haes short horns”—
Persons of a tyrannical disposition are
sometimes deprived of the power to hurt.
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