1393 Scottish Proverbs / Page 13
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Better skaith sav'd than mends made.242.
Better sma' fish than nane.243.
Better tine life than gude fame.244.
Better to be a cuckold and not know it than to not be one and everybody say so.245.
Better to be alane than in ill company.246.
Better to be idle than ill employed.247.
Better to be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.248.
Better to be off with the old love before we be on with the new.249.
Better to bend than to break.250.
Better to haud than to draw.251.
Better unborn than untaught.252.
Better wade back mid water than gang forward and drown.253.
Better wait on the cook than the doctor.254.
Better wear out shoes than sheets.255.
Better wear shoon than sheets.256.
Binde fast, finde fast.257.
Birds of a feather flock together.258.
Birth's good but breeding's better.259.
Blaw the wind ne'er sae fast, it will lown at the last.260.
Blind men shoulna be judge o' colours.