Famous Proverbs
1466 Proverbs about Scottish / Page 9
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If the Devil were dead, folk would do little for God's sake.82.
If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it.83.
If ye had as little money as ye have manners, ye would be the poorest man of all your kin.84.
It ill becomes a carpenter to be heavy-handed, a smith to be shake-handed, or a physician to be tenderhearted.85.
It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.86.
It's an ill cause that a lawyer thinks shame of.87.
It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.88.
Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.89.
Law's costly -- take a pint and agree.90.
Married folk are like rats in a trap -- fain to get others in, but fain to be out themselves.