579 British Proverbs / Page 28
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Women's counsel is cold.542.
Wonder at your auld shoon when ye hae gotten your new.543.
Words and feathers the wind carries away.544.
Words are but wind, but blows unkind.545.
Work for nought makes folks dead lazy.546.
Wrath often consumes what goodness husbands.547.
Ye ca' hardest at the nail that drives fastest.548.
Ye canna mak a silk purse out o' a sow's lug.549.
Ye hae been smelling the bung.550.
Ye hae the best end a' the string.551.
Ye learn your father to get bairns.552.
Ye look like a rinner, quo' the deil to the lobster.553.
Ye maun spoil or ye spin.554.
Ye may be heard where ye're no seen.555.
Ye may drive the deil into a wife, but ye'll ne'er ding him oot o' her.556.
Ye needna mak a causey tale o't.557.
Ye should be a king of your word.558.
Ye wad marry a midden for the muck.559.
Ye'll be hang'd and I'll be harried.560.
Ye'll beguile nane but them that lippens to you.