839 Scotch Proverbs / Page 42
821.
Ye cannot make a silk purse of a sows lug.822.
Ye drive a Snail to Rome.823.
Ye have a face to God, and another to the Devil.824.
Ye have a ready mouth for a ripe cherry.825.
Ye learn your Father to get bairns.826.
Ye may drink of the burn, but not bite of the brae.827.
Ye may not sit in Rome, and strive with the Pope.828.
Ye may puind for debt, but not for unkindnesse.829.
Ye ride a bootlesse errand.830.
Ye seek grace at a gracelesse face.831.
Ye seek hot water under cold ice.832.
Ye should be a King of your word.833.
Ye strive against the stream.834.
Ye will break your crag as soon as your fast in his house.835.
Ye will get war bodes ere Beltan.836.
Ye would doe little for God, and the Devil were dead.837.
Your winning is no my tinsel.838.
Youth and age will never agree.839.
Youth never casts for peril.