we'en whiles see
mair than ither folk."--_The Monastery._

Hame's a hamely word.

"Hame's hamely," quo' the deil when he found himsel in the Court o'
Session.

Hand in gear helps weel.

Hand in use is father o' lear.

The constant practice of our profession is the surest road to "lear"
or affluence.

Handle your tools without mittens.

Hand ower head, as men took the covenant.

"Alluding to the manner in which the covenant, so famous in Scottish
history, was violently taken by above sixty thousand persons about
Edinburgh, in 1638; a novel circumstance at that time, though
afterwards paralleled by the French, in voting by
_acclamation_."--_Fielding._

Handsome is that handsome does.

Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no steal when he's auld.

Hang him that has nae shift, and hang him that has ower mony.

Hang hunger and drown drouth.

Hanging gaes by hap.

Hanging's nae better than it's ca'd.

Hanging's sair on the eesight.

Hankering an' hinging-on is a poor trade.

Hands aff is fair play.

Hap an' a ha'penny is world's gear enough.

Happiness and moderate means in this world are enough.

Happy for the son when the dad gaes to the deil.

"For commonly they who first raise great estates, do it either by
usury and extortion, by fraud and cozening, or by flattery, and by
ministering to other men's vices."--_Ray._

"Alas for the son whose father goes to heaven!"--_Portuguese._

Happy is the bride that the sun shines on; happy is the corpse that the
rain rains on.

Happy is the wooing that's no lang o' doing.

Happy man be his dool.

A good wish,--that happiness may be the greatest affliction sent
him.

Happy man, happy kavel.

Happy the man that belongs to nae party, but sits in his ain house, and
looks at Benarty.

"Sir Michael Malcolm, of Loch Ore, an eccentric baronet, pronounced
this oracular couplet in his old age, when troubled with the talk of
the French Revolution. As a picture of meditative serenity and
neutrality, it seems worthy of preservation."--_Robert Chambers._

Happy's the maid that's married to a mitherless son.

Hard fare maks hungry bellies.

Hardships seldom come single.

Haste and anger hinder gude counsel.

Haste maks waste, and waste maks want, and want maks strife between the
gudeman and the gudewife.

Hasty meet, hasty part.

"An observation upon marriage suddenly