He that cannot obey cannot command.
—English 16th
God sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
Fine feathers make fine birds.
A little pot is soon hot.
Poverty is no disgrace, but it’s a great inconvenience.
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.
Better to be an old man’s darling than a young man’s slave.
A cat in gloves catches no mice.
If you don’t work you shan’t eat.
Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.
A slice off a cut loaf isn’t missed.
You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back.
The third time pays for all.
He that liveth in hope dances to an ill tune.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
It takes two to make a bargain.
One cannot love and be wise.
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 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.
Virtue is its own reward.
Money makes the mare to go.
The weakest go to the wall.
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’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
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 place like home.
Children and fools tell the truth.
The eyes are the window of the soul.
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.
What a neighbour gets is not lost.
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