Cleanliness is next to godliness.

If in February there be no rain, Itis neither good for hay nor grain.

Care killed the cat.

What can you expect from a pig but a grunt.

Two blacks don’t make a white.

Be just before you’re generous.

Experience keeps a dear school.

He that will eat the fruit must climb the tree.

Extremes meet.

Learning is better than house and land.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do.

When all fruit fails, welcome haws.

Death is the great leveler.

Birds in their little nests agree.

A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Lay-overs for meddlers.

Nothing for nothing.

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

Jouk and let the jaw go by.

The devil looks after his own.

Brag is a good dog, but Hold fast is better.

Fools and bairns should never see half-done work.

Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.

Length begets loathing.

Obey orders, if you break owners.

A money less man goes fast through the market.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Jack is as good as his master.

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

The greater the sinner the greater the saint.

Money is power.

One volunteer is worth two pressed men.

As the twig is bent, so is the tree inclined.

Don’t halloo till you are out of the wood.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Give and take is fair play.

The robin and the wren are God’s cock and hen; the martin and the swallow are God’s mate and marrow.

Ne’er cast a clout till May be out.

There is always a first time.

Civility cost nothing.

Drive gently over the stones.

Many a mickle makes a muckle.

Give credit where credit is due.

A bird never flew on one wing.

No man is a hero to his valet.

There is no accounting for tastes.

A creaking door hangs longest.

First impressions are the most lasting.

The best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley.