her away;--since I'll no do wi' foul play, try me wi' fair.

A yeld sow was never gude to gryces.

This more expressive than elegant proverb means that those people
who have no family of their own are rarely inclined to be kind to
the children of others.

Aye takin' out o' the meal pock and ne'er puttin' in't soon comes to the
bottom.

Aye tak the fee when the tear's in the ee.

Aye to eild, but never to wit.

That is, he is always growing older, but never any wiser.

A' you rin you win.

"Taken from playing at bowls: applied to endeavours about a project
that seems not feasible, where what you can make is clear
gain."--_Kelly._

A Yule feast may be done at Pasche.

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Bachelors' wives and auld maids' bairns are aye weel bred.

Bad legs and ill wives should stay at hame.

Bairns are certain care, but nae sure joy.

Bairns speak i' the field what they hear i' the ha'.

Baith weal and woe come aye wi' world's gear.

"'And I positively must not ask you how you have come by all this
money?' said the clergyman.... 'Is it anything that distresses your
own mind?' 'There is baith weal and woe come wi' warld's gear,
Reuben: but ye maun ask me naething mair.--This siller binds me to
naething, and can never be speered back again.'"--_Heart of
Midlothian._

Baked bread and brown ale winna bide lang.

Bannocks are better than nae bread.

"Half a loaf is better than no bread."--_English._

Barefooted folk shouldna tread on thorns.

"Those who live in glass houses should not throw
stones."--_English._

Bare gentry, bragging beggars.

Bare words mak nae bargain.

Bastard brood are aye proud.

Be a friend to yoursel, and others will.

Bear and forbear is gude philosophy.

Bear wealth weel, poortith will bear itsel.

Beauty, but bounty's but bauch.

Beauty is but skin deep.

Beauty's muck when honour's tint.

Beauty is worthless when honour is lost.

Be aye the thing you would be ca'd.

"Because" is a woman's reason.

"I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I
think him so."--_Shakespeare._

Beds are best, quo' the man to his guest.

We presume he said so on the score of economy, _i.e._, to evade
supplying supper.

Beefsteaks and porter are gude belly mortar.

Bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails.

Before an ill wife be gude, even if s