16 Scottish Proverbs

1 – Be happy while you’re living. For you’re a long time dead.

2 – Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him.

3 – Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

4 – Better bend than break.

5 – Confessed faults are half mended.

6 – Fools look to tomorrow. Wise men use tonight.

7 – Get what you can and keep what you have; that’s the way to get rich.

8 – Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more.

9 – Luck never gives; it only lends.

10 – Never let your feet run faster than your shoes.

11 – Take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.

12 – They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

13 – They that will not be counselled cannot be helped.

14 – What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

15 – When the heart is full the tongue will speak.

16 – Willful waste makes woeful want.

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