.

"A cock is valiant on his own dunghill."--_Danish._

A' complain o' want o' siller, but nane o' want o' sense.

A coward's fear maks a brave man braver.

A crackit bell will never mend.

A' cracks mauna be trew'd.

All that is heard must not be believed.

A crafty man's ne'er at peace.

A' craiks a' bears.

"Craik," to complain: great complainers wish to make others believe
that their own lot is a very hard one.

A crammed kyte maks a crazy carcase.

"A full belly sets a man jigging."--_French._

A craw will no wash white.

A crooked man should sow beans, and a woad man peas.

"The one agrees to be thick sown, the other thin."--_Kelly._

A crookit stick will throw a crookit shadow.

A croonin cow, a crawin hen, and a whistlin maid, were ne'er very
chancy.

"The two first are reckoned ominous, but the reflection is on the
third, in whom whistling is unbecoming."--_Kelly._

A cuddy's gallop's sune done.

A cumbersome cur is hated in company.

A daft nurse maks a wise wean.

A day to come seems langer than a year that's gane.

A dear ship lies lang in the harbour.

A dink maiden aft maks a dirty wife.

A "dink," neat or trim, maiden often forgets her "dinkness" after
marriage.

A dish o' married love grows sune cauld.

A dog's life--muckle ease, muckle hunger.

"We have dogs' days, hunger and aise, through the blue
month."--_Irish._ The "blue month" being the interval between the
failure of the old crop of potatoes and the coming on of the new
one, commonly the month of July.

A dog winna yowl if ye fell him wi' a bane.

"Pelt a dog with bones, and you will not offend him."--_Italian._

A doucer man ne'er brak warld's bread.

A saying expressive of unqualified respect.

A drap and a bite's but a sma' requite.

Used to induce a friend to sit down to dinner or tea, meaning that
such is but a poor requital of the friend's past services.

A dreigh drink is better than a dry sermon.

A drink is shorter than a tale.

An excuse for drinking during the telling of a story.

A drudger gets a darg, and a drucken wife the drucken penny.

A willing labourer gets a day's work, and people fond of drink,
however poor they are, contrive to get it some way or other.

A dry summer ne'er made a dear peck.

"Drought never bred dearth."--_English._

A duck winna dabble aye in ae hole.

A dumb man hau