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| A blockhead can find more faults than a wise man can mend. | 1 |
| A friend’s eye is a good looking-glass. | 2 |
| A king’s son is no nobler than his company. | 3 |
| A man in a farm and his thoughts away, is better out of it than in it. | 4 |
| A man is king in his own house. | 5 |
| A man may survive distress, but not disgrace. | 6 |
| A man’s wife is his blessing or his bane. | 7 |
| A promise is a debt. | 8 |
| A thing is the bigger of being shared. | 9 |
| All good has an end but the goodness of God. | 10 |
| All the difference between the wise man and the fool is, that the wise man keeps his counsel, and the fool reveals it. | 11 |
| All will be as God wills. | 12 |
| As a man makes his bed, so must he lie. | 13 |
| Assurance is two-thirds of success. | 14 |
| Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee. | 15 |
| Better be unborn than untaught. | 16 |
| Better knot straws than do nothing. | 17 |
| Better understand the world than condemn it. | 18 |
| Blue are the hills that are far from us. | 19 |
| Carelessness is worse than theft. | 20 |
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| Choose a good mother’s daughter, though her father were the devil. | 21 |
| Choose thy speech. | 22 |
| Choose your wife as you wish your children to be. | 23 |
| Correct counting keeps good friends. | 24 |
| Courtesy never broke one’s crown. | 25 |
| Death-bed repentance is sowing seed at Martinmas. | 26 |
| Dry shoes won’t catch fish. | 27 |
| Every creature can bear well-being except man. | 28 |
| Every foot will tread on him who is in the mud. | 29 |
| Far-off cows have long horns. | 30 |
| Fear is worse than fighting. | 31 |
| Flesh will warm in a man to his kin against his will. | 32 |
| For whom ill is fated, him it will strike. | 33 |
| Forwardness spoils manners. | 34 |
| Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. | 35 |
| Friendship’s as it’s kept. | 36 |
| From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man. | 37 |
| God comes in distress, and distress goes. | 38 |
| God has not said all that thou hast said. | 39 |
| Going to ruin is silent work. | 40 |
| Good is not got without grief. | 41 |
| Good sword has often been in poor scabbard. | 42 |
| Half-wits greet each other. | 43 |
| Hard is the factor’s rule; no better is the minister’s. | 44 |
| He that conquers himself conquers an enemy. | 45 |
| He that doth not plough at home won’t plough abroad. | 46 |
| He that flees not will be fled from. | 47 |
| He that is courteous at all, will be courteous to all. | 48 |
| He that knows is strong. | 49 |
| He that lives longest sees most. | 50 |
| He that waits long at the ferry will get over some time. | 51 |
| He that won’t plough at home won’t plough abroad. | 52 |
| He thinks no evil who means no evil. | 53 |
| High is the head of the stag on the mountain crag. | 54 |
| Honour is nobler than gold. | 55 |
| Honour won’t patch. | 56 |
| Hunger is a good cook. | 57 |
| If you tell me all you see, you’ll tell what will make you feel shame. | 58 |
| Ignorance is a heavy burden. | 59 |
| “I shall go to-morrow,” said the king. “You shall wait for me,” quoth the wind. | 60 |
| It’s bad flesh that won’t take salt; worse is the body that won’t take warning. | 61 |
| It’s difficult to give sense to a fool. | 62 |
| It’s poor friendship that needs to be constantly bought. | 63 |
| Lazy is the hand that ploughs not. | 64 |
| Losing the bundles gathering the wisps. | 65 |
| Love hides ugliness. | 66 |
| Love the good and forgive the bad. | 67 |
| Meal is finer than grain; women are finer than men. | 68 |
| Modesty is the beauty of women. | 69 |
| Monday is the key of the week. | 70 |
| Neither seek nor shun the fight. | 71 |
| Night is a good herdsman; she brings all creatures home. | 72 |
| None lie that would not steal. | 73 |
| Not less in God’s sight is the end of the day than the beginning. | 74 |
| Patience wears out stones. | 75 |
| Pity him who has his choice, and chooses the worse. | 76 |
| Poor when I have, poor when I haven’t, poor will I ever be. | 77 |
| Repentance won’t cure mischief. | 78 |
| Say little and say well. | 79 |
| Sense hides shame. | 80 |
| Short lived is all rule but the rule of God. | 81 |
| Slippery is the flagstone at the great house door. | 82 |
| Take a bird from a clean nest. | 83 |
| Take your thirst to the stream, as the dog does. | 84 |
| The betrayer is the murderer. | 85 |
| The day is longer than the brae; we’ll be at the top yet. | 86 |
| The dependant is timid. | 87 |
| The fated will happen. | 88 |
| The heaviest head of corn hangs its head lowest. | 89 |
| Their own will to all men, all their will to women. | 90 |
| There is no greater fraud than a promise unfulfilled. | 91 |
| There is no hiding of evil but not to do it. | 92 |
| There was never good or ill but women had to do with it. | 93 |
| What’s the good of the pipe if it’s not played on? | 94 |
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