1393 Scottish Proverbs / Page 9
161.
Any thing for a quiet life.162.
As ane flits anither flits, and that keeps mailins dear.163.
As brisk as bottled ale.164.
As broken a ship has come to land.165.
As lang lives the merry man as the sad.166.
As the auld cock craws the young one learns.167.
As the fool thinks ay the bell clinks.168.
As the fool thinks the bell clinks.169.
As the sow fills the draff sours.170.
As wight as a wabster's doublet, that ilka day taks a thief by the neck.171.
At my leisure, as lairds dee.172.
At open doors dogs come in.173.
Auld folk are twice bairns.174.
Auld men are twice bairns.175.
Auld sparrows are ill to tame.176.
Auld springs gie me price.177.
Auld wives and bairns mak fools o' physicians.178.
Bad legs and ill wives should stay at hame.179.
Bairns speak i' the field what they hear i' the ha'.180.
Bannocks are better than nae bread.