A black plum is as sweet as a white.

A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.

A carrion crow never brings luck.

A cold April the barn will fill.

A fair booty makes a fair thief.

A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm

A fair October and a good blast, will blow the hag and her broom away fast.

A fly may sting a horse and make him wince

A fog from the sea brings corn to the mills.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

A good servant makes a bad enemy.

A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning.

A late spring is a great blessing.

A lawyer never goes to law himself

A leap year is never a good sheep year.

A maid who laughs is half taken.

A man can only die once.

A man does not have to attend church to be a Christian.

A man is as old as he feels himself to be

A man is as old as he feels himself to be.

A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks.

A man may lead a horse to water, but cannot make him drink.

A mother-in-law is what you inherit when you marry.

A proverb is the child of experience.

A shady lane breeds mud.

A small family is soon provided for.

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

A wicked book is the wickeder because it cannot repent.

A woman that loves to be at the window is a bunch of grapes on the highway.

A young doctor makes a humpy churchyard.

Absence is a shrew.

Absence sharpens love; presence strengthens it.

Absence, and a friendly neighbor, washeth away love.

Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves.

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.

Actions speak louder than words.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Adversity flatters no man.

Adversity is easier borne than prosperity forgot.

Advice is least heeded when most needed.

Advice to all, security for none.

Advice when most needed is least heeded.

After dark all cats are leopards

Age and wedlock bring a man to his nightcap.

Age and wedlock tame man and beast.

Age can be a bad travelling companion.

Ale in, wit out.

All be the same in a hundred years.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

All happiness is in the mind.

All temptations are found either in hope or fear.

Alms never make poor.

An abundance of money ruins youth.

An empty barrel makes the most noise.

An empty belly hears nobody.

An empty purse frightens away friends

An evil weed is soon grown.

An idle mind is the devil's workshop.

An ill workman always blames his tools.

An illiterate king is a crowned ass.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

Anger dies quickly with a good man.

Anger edges valor.

Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.

Anger is shortlived in a good man.

Anything may be spoken if it be under the rose.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he

As good have no time as make no good use of it.

As nimble as a cow in a cage.

Autumn steals summer like a thief.

Before St. John's Day for rain we pray, after that we get it anyway.

Beggars cannot be choosers.

Better reap two days too soon than one day too late.

Better say nothing, than nothing to the purpose.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

Better wear out shoes than sheets.

Better wed over the mixen than over the moor.

Beware of a man of one book.

Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting

Big boast, small roast.

Big thunder, little rain.

Black as night and devil's kite

Blest is the bride the sun shines on.

Blind is the bookless man.

Blind men can judge no colours.

Blind men should not judge of colours.

Cats hide their claws.

Children are a poor man's riches.

Children are poor men's riches.

Children pick up words as pigeons peas, And utter them again as God shall please.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Clogs to clogs in three generations

Confession is the first step to repentance.

Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Crooked logs make straight fires.

Cuckoo song, is summer song.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

Danger is next neighbor to security.

Death always comes too early or too late

Death always comes too early or too late.

Death closes all doors.

Death pays all debts.

Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.

Despair doubles our strength.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Desperate cuts must have desperate cures.

Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.

Discreet wives have neither eyes nor ears.

Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence.

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Disease is soon shaken By physic soon taken.

Diseases are the interest of pleasures.

Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.

Do not employ handsome servants

Do not halloo until you are out of the wood.

Do not triumph before the victory.

Do when ye may, or suffer ye the nay, in love 'tis the way.

Dog does not eat dog.

Dogs that bark at a distance never bite.

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

Don't empty the water jar until the rain falls

Don't fall before you're pushed.

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees

Elbow grease is the best polish.

Even if an ass goes travelling he'll not come home a horse.

Every ass loves to hear himself bray.

Every bean hath its black.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Every dog has his day.

Every dog hath its day.

Every dog is entitled to one bite.

Every garden may have some weeds.

Every mile in winter is two.

Every path has its puddle.

Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

Experience is good, if not bought too dear.

Fame is a magnifying glass.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Fancy passes beauty.

Far fowls have fair feathers.

Far from court, far from care.

Fine feathers make fine birds.

First deserve, and then desire.

First impressions are the most lasting.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

For a morning's rain leave not your journey.

Foul water will quench fire.

Get what you can and keep what you have; that's the way to get rich

Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.

Give the devil his due

Give the devil his due.

God help the rich man, let the poor man beg!

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

Gratefulness is the poor man's payment.

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.

Have you any Spanish? (Meaning, Have you got any money?)

He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

He is not wise that is not wise for himself.

He opens the door with an ax.

He teacheth ill, who teacheth all.

He that buyeth magistracy will seek justice.

He that does amiss may do well.

He that eats of the king's goose shall be choked with feathers.

He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.

He that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

He that scattereth thorns must not go barefoot.

He that seeks trouble always finds it.

He that seeks trouble never misses.

He that serves at the altar ought to live by the altar.

He that shippeth the devil must make the best of him.

He that takes the devil into his boat must carry him over the sound.

He that will steal an egg will steal an ox.

He that will take the bird must not scare it.

He that will thrive must first ask his wife.

He that will to Cupar maun to Cupar.

He that would the daughter win Must with the mother first begin.

He who is shipwrecked the second time, cannot lay the blame on Neptune

He who says what he likes will hear what he does not like.

He who searches for pearls should not sleep

He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon.

He who was never sick dies of the first fit.

He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.

His fore feet though you sever, his grip he'll make good.

Honesty is the best policy.

If a hen does not prate she'll never lay.

If thou canst not see the bottom, wade not.

If thou hast not a capon, feed on an onion.

If three dogs chase a rabbit they cannot kill it.

If you swear you will catch no fish.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed are king

In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish.

In the year when plums flourish, all else fails.

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, In times of adversity, not one in twenty.

Innocent actions carry their warrant with them.

It is a bold mouse that nestles in the cat's ear.

It is an equal failing to trust everybody and to trust nobody.

It is easier to pull down than to build up

It is ill fishing before the net.

It is ill prizing of green barley.

Keep counsel of thyself first.

Keep counsel, thyself first.

Keep may out, keep death out.

Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Kisses that are easily obtained are easily forgotten.

Kissing goes by favour.

Knock on wood.

Last ship, best ship.

Late children are early orphans.

Learning makes people fit company for themselves.

Least said is soonest mended.

Least said, soonest mended.

Lend your money and lose your friend.

Length begets loathing.

Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

Let no man deceive you with vain words

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Light Christmas, light wheatsheaf; dark Christmas, heavy wheatsheaf.

Like a cat on hot bricks.

Little fish's sweet.

Long a widow weds with shame.

Luck has a slender anchorage.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Money never cometh out of season.

Much ado and little help.

Nature goes her own way.

Nettles don't sting in the month of May.

Never fall out with your bread and butter.

Never give advice in a crowd

Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.

No man cries stinking fish.

No time like the present.

None can guess the jewel by the casket.

None ever took a stone out of the temple but the dust did fly in his eyes.

Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best.

One funeral makes many.

One of these day is none of these days

One today, is worth two tomorrow

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches

Peace makes plenty.

Physicians faults are covered with earth, and rich men's money

Plenty know good ale, but don't know much after that.

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

Poor Trust is dead; Bad Pay killed him.

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.

Prosperity discovers vices, and adversity virtue.

Proverbs are the children of experience.

Rain before seven; clear before eleven.

Rainbow at noon, rain comes soon.

Raw cucumber makes the churchyards prosperous.

Raw leather will stretch.

Revenge is a dish that should be eaten cold.

Riches serve a man, but command a fool.

Ruse only flourishes if it be stolen.

s cross as a bear with a sore head.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Scratch an Englishman, find a seaman.

Sea sickness is like dying several separate deaths

Self-praise is no praise at all.

Servants like ornaments should be used in their proper places.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Set out wisely at first; custom will make every virtue more easy and pleasant to you than any vice can be.

Set trees poor and they grow rich; set them rich and they oft grow poor.

Short acquaintance brings repentance.

Silver silence is golden.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.

Soft fire makes sweet malt.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

Sow fennel, sow trouble

Spread the table and contention will cease.

Spring has come when you can put your foot on three daisies.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

Still he fisheth that catcheth one.

Sweep in front of your own door.

Tailors and writers must mind the fashion.

Take a dog for a companion and a stick in your hand.

Take a hair of the dog that has bitten you.

Take care of your pennies and your pounds will take care of your heirs and barristers.

Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.

Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand

That which comes of a cat will catch mice.

The afterthought is good for nought, except it be to catch blind horses with.

The ass that is common property is always the worst saddled

The bait hides the hook.

The best manure is under the farmer's foot

The best surgeon is he that hath been hacked himself.

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

The camel asking for horns lost also his ears. [In grasping for things we need not, we often lose what we have.]

The cat has nine lives: three for playing, three for straying, three for staying.

The crow went travelling abroad and came home just as black.

The darkest hour is that before the dawn.

The devil owed a cake and paid a loaf.

The devil take the hindmost

The Devil's children have the Devil's luck.

The difference is wide that the sheets will not decide.

The eyes are the window of the soul.

The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people

The face is no index to the heart.

The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living.

The first and last frosts are the worst.

The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water

The golden age never was the present age.

The greater the sinner, the greater the saint.

The greater the truth, the greater the libel.

The greatest barkers bite not sorest.

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night

The more acquaintance, the more danger.

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

The New Year is a new beginning.

The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air.

The noisy fowler catches no birds.

The north wind has no corn and a poor man no friend.

The old ox plows a straight furrow.

The owl is the kind of the night.

The person who is tired will find time to sleep. A person with a bad name is already half hanged.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

The pitcher will go to the well once too often.

The sun shines upon all alike.

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

There is but one good mother-in-law and she is dead

There is honour even among thieves.

There is time for all things.

There's many a good cock come out of a tattered bag.

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

They are not all saints who use holy waters

They love too much that die for love.

Think of ease, but work on.

Tomorrow is a new day.

Too far East is West.

Too hot to last.

Two wrongs do not make a right.

Use soft words and hard arguments.

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake

Venture not to defend what your judgment doubts of.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.

We are all Adam's children, but silk makes the difference.

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.

When a cow tries to scratch its ear, It means a shower be very near, When it begins to thump its rib with its tail, Look out for thunder, lightning and hail.

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

When harvest flies hum, there's warm weather to come.

When the pigeons go abenting, the farmers go lamenting.

When two agree in their desire, One sparke will set them both on fire.

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.

Who goes a beast to Rome, a beast returns.

Whom we love best, to them we can say least.

Whoredom and grace ne'er dwelt in one place.

Witches and harlots come out at night.

Write down the advice of him who love you, though you like it not at present.

Year of snow fruit will grow.

You can't get blood out of a stone.

You can't get blood out of a turnip.

You never miss a slice from a cut loaf.

You never miss the water till the well runs dry.

Young men may die, old men must.

Young men's knocks old men feel.

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.

Youth will be served

Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.