1393 Scottish Proverbs / Page 38
741.
Keep something for a sair foot.742.
Keep the feast to the feast day.743.
Keep the staff in your ain hand.744.
Keep your breath to cool your crowdie.745.
Keep your tongue a prisoner, and your body will gang free.746.
Keep your tongue within your teeth.747.
Ken when to spend and when to spare, and ye needna be busy, and ye'll ne'er be bare.748.
Kend fouk's nae company.749.
Kindness comes o will, it canna be coft.750.
Kings and bears aft worry their keepers.751.
Kissing is cried down since the shaking o' hands.752.
Laith to bed and laith to rise.753.
Lang ere ye saddle a foal.754.
Lang fasting hains nae meat.755.
Lang leal, lang poor.756.
Lang look'd for comes at last.757.
Lang straes are nae motes, quo' the wife when she haul'd the eat out o' the kirn.758.
Lang straes are nae mots.759.
Langest at the fire soonest finds cauld760.
Laugh at leisure ye may greet ere night.