Quotes and Sayings

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself

don't put all your eggs in one basket

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

if March comes in like a Lion it goes out like a Lamb

He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing

Don't wash your dirty linen in public

don't count your chickens before they're hatched

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

make hay whilst the sun shines

When one door closes, another one opens.

never make love in a cornfield for even the corn has ears

Never drink water... fish make love in water

Dinna be a hoose deil an a causey saint

Iris wrote:Dinna be a hoose deil an a causey saint

Translation required please.

Thick as a sack full of hammers.

malena stool wrote:

Iris wrote:Dinna be a hoose deil an a causey saint

Translation required please.

Thick as a sack full of hammers.

Do not behave like a devil indoors and a saint in public (remind you of anyone? ) And here's another,

He'd skin a louse for it's tallow,

one of my OHs sayings

she/he looks as rough as a badger's ar*e

Aw fur coat an' nae knickers.

The apple never falls far from the tree

mara thon wrote:The apple never falls far from the tree

The local version of that is -

The mither never hid a sang but the dochter hid a verse o' it.

In other words, like mother, like daughter.

never a mickle makes a muckle

it's nae loss whit a freen gets

I don't understand a word of that Iris

It will all come out in the wash

a scabbit yow'll smate a hale hirsel'

in other words, one bad apple spoils the whole barrel, but in Scotland it's about sheep

a guiness a day keeps the doctor away. (Irish)

keep your friends close and your enemies closer