4817 Proverbs about Ther / Page 184

3663.

You may light another's candle with your own without loss.

3664.

There is not the thickness of a peso between good and evil.

3665.

He who lacks ideas makes those of others his own.

3666.

The fathers ate the cranberries and the children are left with the aftertaste.

3667.

There were people before us and there will be people after us.

3668.

There is only one good - knowledge; there is only one evil - ignorance.

3669.

Messengers should be neither beheaded nor hanged.

3670.

Friendship is one thing and tobacco is another.

3671.

There would be no good fortune had misfortune not helped.

3672.

One fisherman knows another from afar.

3673.

A wise man carries his cloak in fair weather, an' a fool wants his in rain.

3674.

When falkland hill puts on his cap, the howe o' fife will get a drap, and when the bishop draws his cowl, look out for wind and weather fowl.

3675.

The men o' the east are pykin their geese, and sendin' their feathers here-awa there-awa.

3676.

Ae man may steal a horse where another daurna look ower the hedge.

3677.

I would rather be your bible than your horse.

3678.

A fool is happier thinking weel o' himself than a wise man is of others thinking weel o' him.

3679.

Let aye the bell'd wether break the snaw.

3680.

As ane flits anither flits, and that keeps mailins dear.