1393 Scottish Proverbs / Page 54
1061.
Take your thanks to feed your cat.1062.
Take your venture as many a good ship has done.1063.
Take your will o't as the cat did o' the haggis.1064.
Tell nae tales out of the school.1065.
That person is welcome who brings presents.1066.
That's as ill as the ewes in the yaird and nae dogs to hunt them.1067.
That's but ae doctor's opinion.1068.
That's for that as butter for fish.1069.
That's for the father and no for the son.1070.
That's Halkerston's cow, a' the ither way.1071.
That's my tale where's yours.1072.
That's the best gown that gaes up and down the house.1073.
That's the piece a step-bairn never got.1074.
The back and the belly hauds every ane busy.1075.
The banes o' a great estate are worth the picking.1076.
The banes of a great estate is worth the piking.1077.
The best mirror is a friend's eye.1078.
The better day the better deed.1079.
The biggest rogue cries loudest out.1080.
The cow may dee ere the grass grow.