1393 Scottish Proverbs / Page 52
1021.
Slaw at meat slaw at wark.1022.
Slighted love is sair to bide.1023.
Slippery is the flagstone at the mansion-house door.1024.
Sma' fish are better than nae fish.1025.
Smooth waters run deep.1026.
Snailie, snailie, shoot out yer horn, and tell us if it'll be a bonny day the morn.1027.
Snapper, to stumble. Even the best of men may err.1028.
Soft fire makes sweet malt.1029.
Some cannot do two things at once.1030.
Some cut lang whangs aff ither folk's leather.1031.
Some folk look up, and ithers look down.1032.
Some hae a hantle o' fauts ye'er a ne'er-do-well.1033.
Some men are blind in their own cause.1034.
Soon gotten, soon spent.1035.
Soon ripe, soon rotten.1036.
Sorrow and ill weather come unsent for.1037.
Sorrow is soon enough when it comes.1038.
Spare when ye're young, and spend when ye're auld.1039.
Speak good of pipers your father was a fiddler.1040.
Speak when ye're spoken to, do what ye're bidden, come when ye're ca'd.