1393 Scottish Proverbs / Page 62
1221.
Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.1222.
Two hungry meals make the third a glutton.1223.
Unfit are some who complain of common food.1224.
Unskilfull mediciners and horse-marshels slayes both man and beast.1225.
Want of wit is waur than want of health.1226.
Want siller, want fish.1227.
War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.1228.
Waves will rise on silent water.1229.
We are aye to learn as lang as we live.1230.
We are bound to be honest, and no to be rich.1231.
We can shape their wylie coat, but no their word,1232.
We canna baith sup and blaw.1233.
We maun live by the living and no by the dead.1234.
We maun tak the crap as it grows.1235.
We'll bark oursels ere we buy dog.1236.
We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.1237.
Wealth, like want, ruins mony.1238.
Weans maun creep ere they gang.1239.
Wee things fley cowards.1240.
Weel kens the mouse when pussie's in.