Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.

The age of miracles is past.

A grey mare is the better horse.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Long and lazy, little and loud; fat and fulsome, pretty and proud.

Poverty is not a crime.

Turkey, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year.

Lookers-on see most of the game.

The tongue always returns to the sore tooth.

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

A cat may look at a king.

If you gently touch a nettle it’ll sting you for your pains; grasp it like a lad of mettle, an’ as soft as silk remains.

Never choose your women or linen by candlelight.

Small choice in rotten apples.

You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back.

The third time pays for all.

If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.

Eagles don’t catch flies.

Jove but laughs at lovers’ perjury.

One Englishman can beat three Frenchmen.

There’s no fool like an old fool.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Every man for himself and the Devil take the hindmost.

The best doctors are Dr Diet, Dr Quiet, and Dr Merryman.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Fortune favours fools.

Love me little, love me long.

Put a stout heart to a stey brae.

Virtue is its own reward.

Money makes the mare to go.

The weakest go to the wall.

Delays are dangerous.

Confess and be hanged.

If you’re born to be hanged then you’ll never be drowned.

Never do evil that good may come of it.

Something is better than nothing.

You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Tomorrow is another day.

It is a wise child that knows its own father.

An Englishman’s home is his castle.

Kings have long arms.

One man may steal a horse, while another may not look over a hedge.

There’s no place like home.

Children and fools tell the truth.

The eyes are the window of the soul.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Man is the measure of all things.

Gold may be bought too dear.

Many go out for wool and come home shorn.