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A A bad bush is better than the open field 314 A bad horse eats as much as a good one 793 A bad workman complains of his tools 172 A barber learns to shave by shaving fools 1655 A barking cur does not bite 128 A bashful dog never fattens 220 A blind man is no judge of colours 782 A blind man will not thank you for a looking glass 18 A cask that will never fill 408 A chip of the old block 1977 A cow from afar gives plenty of milk 1530 A deluge of words and a drop of sense 502 A diamond is valuable though it lie on a dung¬ hill 645 A drop in the ocean 1147 A flattering speech is honied poison 839 A fool’s bolt may sometimes hit the mark 2030 A fool’s speech is a bubble of air 2437 A fool’s tongue is long enough to cut his own throat 919 A fox should not be of the jury at a goose trial 405 A friend in court makes the process short 1937 A friend in need is a friend indeed 196 A friend’s frown is better than a fool’s smile 1245 A full purse never lacked friends 2270 A good bargain is a pick purse 858 A good gaper makes two gapers 207 A goose-quill is more dangerous than a lion’s claw 533 A growing youth has a wolf in his belly 1611 A guilty conscience needs no accuser 786 A hasty man never wants woe 177 A hog in armour is still but a hog 371 A honey tongue, a heart of gall 834 A hundred tailors, a hundred millers, and a hun¬ dred weavers are three hundred thieves 2647 A hungry ass eats any straw 606 A hungry man 1 discovers more than a hundred lawyers 541 A hungry man sees far 541 18 A joke never gains an enemy, but often loses a friend 2097 A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy 150 A leaden sword in an ivory scabbard 887 A little dog, a cow without horns, and a short man are generally proud 1441 A little fire burns up a great deal of corn 674 A little leaven leavens a great mass 1748 A little man sometimes casts a long shadow 1441 A little neglect may breed great mischief 586 A man may lead a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink unless he will 1835 A man may love his house weel and no ride on the riggin o’t 226 A man may make his own dog bite him 638 A man under no restraint is a bear without a ring 1834 A man without money is a bow without an arrow 1876 A man without money is like a ship without sails 2168 A modest man at court is the silliest wight breathing 220 A nod for a wise man and a rod for a fool 1661 A pebble and a diamond are alike to a blind man 782 A precipice ahead, wolves behind 1749 A proud mind and a poor purse are ill met 20 A shoemaker’s wife and a smith’s mare are always the worst shod 2532 A short man needs no stool to give a great lubber a box on the ear 1552 A shower in July when the corn begins to fill, Is worth a plough of oxen and all belongs there till 876 A sin confessed is half forgiven 937 A slip of the foot may be soon recovered; but that of the tongue perhaps never 603 A stingy man is always poor 1912 A story without a head 534, 1006 A table friend is changeable 1534 A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf 2406 A thief thinks every man steals 2404 ( 137 ) INDEX II. A wolf in sheep’s clothing 1809 A woman’s mind and winter wind change oft 170 A word and a stone once let go cannot be recalled 603 A word to the wise is sufficient 1060 Advice whispered in the ear is worth a jeer 9.14 After a dream of a wedding comes a corpse 99 After a feast a man scratches his head 1972 After a storm comes a calm 457 After one loss come many 794 After shaving there is nothing to shear 810 All beginnings are hard, said the thief, and began by stealing an anvil 1117 Ab bite the bitten dog 908 All his geese are swans 1049 AH is not gold that glitters 566 All saint without, all devil within 1911 All’s lost that’s put iDto a riven dish 1078 All’s well that ends well 608 All tastes are tastes 1616 All that he says is law 1990 All things are difficult before they are easy 1117 Among the common people Scogginis a doctor 141 An envious man waxes lean with the fatness of his neighbour 386 An ill man in office is a mischief to the public 798 An ill shearer never got a good hook 172 An ill wound may be cured but not an ill name 1395 An old dog will learn no tricks 126 An old physician, a young lawyer 1655 Ane may lead a horse to the water, but four an’ twenty canna gar him drink 1835 Anger is a sworn enemy 2297 Anger is the fever and frenzy of the soul 2297 Anger makes a rich man hated, and a poor man scorned 1538 Anger punishes itself 237 6 Anger without power is folly 1538 Anoint a villain and he will prick you, prick a villain and he will anoint you 92 Appearances are deceitful 276 As broad as long 1306 A 3 clear as crystal 119 As clear as the sun 1741 As demure as if butter would not melt in Lis mouth, and yet cheese will not choke him 2615 As long as I was a daughter-in-law I never had a good mother-in-law, as long as I was a mother-in-law I never had a good daughter- in-law 55 (i As old as the hills 1242 As plain as a pike-staff 119 As plain as the nose* on a man’s face 1741 As the old cock crows, so crows the young 1019 As wary as a blind horse 1427 As you make your bed, so you must lie on it 287 As you sow you shall reap 287 Ask my chum if I am a thief 1127 Ask which was born first, the hen or the egg 905 Asking costs little 1009 At the gate where suspicion enters, love goes out 56 Avarice bursts the bag 71 B Beads about the neck and the devil in the heart 941 Bees that have honey in their mouths have Stings in their tails 834 Beggars breed, and rich men feed 943 Beggars must not be choosers 606 Bend the tree while it is young 901 Better a bare foot than no'foot at all 1906 Better a blind horse than an empty halter 1906 Better a friendly denial than an unwilling com¬ pliance 10 Better a lean jade than an empty halter 314 Better a slip of the foot than of the tongue 603 Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad 69 Better lose a jest than a friend 2097 Better sit idle than work for nought 1996 Between two stools fall to the bottom 331 Birds of a feather flock together 1698 Bleed him, and purge him; if he dies, bury him 1259 Boil not the pap before the child is born 526 Both in the same boat 878 Bought wit is best 1865 Broad thongs are cut from other men’s leather 1500 Broken friendship may be soldered but never made sound 257 Burn not your house to fright away the mice 407 Building and the marrying of children are great wasters 263 Building castles in the air 553 Buy and sell and live by the loss 104 By working we become workmen 2044 C Calm weather in June sets corn in tune 876 Cat after kind 1494 Catching a Tartar 311 8 ) index II. Change of fortune is the lot of life 475 Charity begins at home 985 Come but come stooping 1010 Come uncalled sit unserved 68 Coming events cast their shadows before them 903 Confession of a fault makes half amends 937 Consideration is the parent of wisdom 180 Constant dropping wears the stone 2044 Continuance becomes usage 2531 Count not your chickens before they are hatched 204 Cringing is a gainful accomplishment 599 Crocodile tears 50 Crooked by nature is never made straight by education 632 Crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them 1452 Cupboard love 1981 Custom makes all things easy 94 Cut your coat according to-your cloth 556 Cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s fae 53 D Daub yourself with honey, and you’ll be covered with flies 2507 Daylight will come, though the cock do not crow 1255 Death at the tae door an’ heirship at the tither 711 Death keeps no calendar 1963 Debt is the worst poverty 85 Deeds are love, and not fine phrases 2068 Deep rivers move in silence, shallow brooks are noisy 1274 Despair gives courage to a coward 844 Desperate ills require desperate remedies 758 Devils must be driven out with devils 703 Diamond cut diamond 1316 Did you ever before hear an ass play upon a lute ? 1852 Diet cures more than the lancet 498 Do good to a knave and pray God he requite thee not 1079 Do not all you can ; spend not all you have ; believe not all you hear; and tell not all you know 2610 Do not strip before bed time 461 Dogs run away with whole shoulders 1968 Don’t buy a'pig in a poke 617 Don’t halloo till you are out of the wood 2302 Don’t play with the bear if you don’t want to v be bit 1284 Don’t reckon your eggs before they are laid 1470 Don't teach fish to swim 935 (is Drop by drop the lake is drained 481 Dry August arid warm doth harvest no harm 876 E Each cross hath its inscription 414 Early up, and never the nearer 369 Eat and welcome ; fast and heartily welcome 306 Eaten bread is soon forgotten 399 Either Caesar or nobody 106 Either live or die wi’ honor 1716 Empty vessels give the greatest sound 1274 Envy is its own torturer 386 Every couple is not a pair 391 Every day hath its night, every weal its woe 561 Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can’t remedy 512 Every man has his faults 222 Every man hath his lot 14&0 Every man hath his own planet 1720 Every man in his way 479 Every man is a fool or a physician at forty 2038 Every man kens best where his own shoe pinches 802 Every man’s tale is gude till anithefs be tauld 918 Every one bears his cross 414 Every one feels his own burden heavy 2665 Every one is a king in his own house 991 Every why has a wherefore 590 Experience teache