938 Proverbs about King / Page 8
141. Kissing is cried down since the shaking o' hands.
142. A fool is happier thinking weel o' himself than a wise man is of others thinking weel o' him.
143. It's stinking praise comes oot o' ane's own mouth.
144. A' stuarts are no sib to the king.
145. A' Stewarts are no sib to the king.
146. A taking hand will never want.
147. A twapenny cat may look at the king.
148. Eating and drinking wants but a beginning.
149. It is good baking beside the meal.
150. It is past joking when the head's aff.
151. Kings and bears aft worry their keepers.
152. Must is a kings word.
153. Neck or naething, the king loes nae cripples.
154. She hauds up her head like a hen drinking water.
155. The banes of a great estate is worth the piking.
156. The king's errand may come in the cadger's gate.
157. There is a skill in gruel making.
158. Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.
159. Ye go far about seeking the nearest.
160. Ye're busy seeking the thing that's no tint.
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