579 British Proverbs / Page 29
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Ye'll neither dee for your wit nor be drowned for a warlock.562.
Ye'll no sell your hen in a rainy day.563.
Ye're a foot behint the foremost.564.
Ye're black aboot the mou' for want o' kissing.565.
Ye're like a bad liver--the last day there's aye maist to do wi' ye.566.
Ye're like the miller's dog--ye lick your lips ere the pock be opened.567.
Ye're very foresighted, like Forsyth's cat.568.
You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink.569.
You can't tell a book by its cover.570.
You cannot catch old birds with chaff.571.
You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.572.
You may break a horse's back, be he never so strong.573.
You win some, you lose some.574.
Young folk may dee, auld folk maun dee.575.
Your een's greedier than your guts.576.
Your thrift's as gude as the profit o' a yeld hen.577.
Yourself first, others afterward.578.
Youth never casts for peril.579.
Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.