Diamonds cut diamonds.

Diet cures mair than doctors.

Different sores must have different salves.

Diffidence is the right eye of prudence.

Diligence in execution is the mistress of success.

Dinna lee for want o' news.

Dinna straik against the hair.

Dinna stretch your arm farther than your sleeve 'ill let ye. Dinna tell your fae when your foot sleeps.

Dinna touch him on the sair heel.

Discontent is a sharp sword which cuts in twain the thread of life, but cheerfulness will destroy its edge.

Discontents arise from our desires oftener than from our

wants.

Dissembled sin is double wickedness.

Dissemblers oftener deceive themselves than others.

Do all you can to be good, and you'll be so.

Do a man a good turn, and he'll never forgie you.

Do as little as you can to repent of.

Do as most men do, and men will speak well of thee.

Do as you would be done by.

Do good, and then do it again.

Do good to those who do you evil, and by this means you

will gain the victory over them.

Do in the hole as thou would'st do in the hall.

Do not all you can; spend not all you have; believe not all you hear; and tell not all you know.

Do not close a letter without reading it, nor drink water without seeing it.

Do not halloo till you are out of the wood.
Do the likeliest, and hope the best.

Do what thou ought, let come what may.

Do your turn weel, and nane will speir what time ye took. Dogs never go into mourning when a horse dies.

Don't measure other people's corn by your own bushel.

Double charging will break even a cannon.

Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.

Drink little, that ye may drink lang.

Drive not a second nail till the first be clinched.

Drive not too many ploughs at once; some will make foul work.

Drop by drop the lake is drained.

Drunkenness is an egg from which all vices are hatched.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Drunkenness makes some men fools, some beasts, and some devils.

Drunkenness turns a man out of himself, and leaves a beast

in his room.

Dummie canna lee.

Dying is as natural as living.

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EARLY birds catch the worms.

East or west, hame is best.

Easy learning the cat the road to the kirn.
Easy to keep the castle that was never besieged.

Eat a peck of salt with a man before you trust him.

Eat in measure and defy the doctor.

Education polishes good natures, and correcteth bad ones. Enquire not what is in another's pot.

Eternity has no grey hairs.

Even a child may beat a man that's bound.

Even a pin is good for something, and that's more than you are.

Even an ass will not fall twice in the same quick-sand.
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Ever drunk, ever dry.

Ever spare, ever bare.

Every age confutes old errors, and begets new.

Every art is best taught by example; good deeds are

productive of good friends.

Every bird thinks its ain nest best.

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

Every craw thinks his ain bird the whitest.

Every cook praises his own broth.

Every couple is not a pair.

Every day hath its night, every weal its woc.
Every dog is valiant at his own door.

Every flow has its ebb.

Every fox must pay his own skin to the flayer.
Every good scholar is not a good schoolmaster.

Every herring must hang by its own gill.
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

Every lamb knows its own dam.

Every man a little beyond himself is a fool.

Every man can guide an ill wife weel but him that has her:

Every man has his ain bubbly-jock.

Every man hath his hobby horse.

Every man hath his weak side, and woman too.

Every man kens best where his own shoe pinches.

Every man loves justice at another man's house; nobody

cares for it at his own.

Every man wishes the water to his ain mill.

Every may-be hath a may-be not.

Every monkey will have his gambols.

Every one puts his faults on the times.

Every one should sweep before his own door.

Every one thinks himself able to advise another.

Every path hath a puddle.

Every plummet is not for every sound.

Every potter praises his own pot, and more if it be broken. Every shoe fits not every foot.

Every sin carries its own punishment.

Every thing hath its time, and that time must be watched.

Every tide hath its ebb.

Every vice fights against nature.

Every why has a wherefore.

Everything has a beginning.

Evil words cut mair than swords.

Example moves more than homily, though it be less

clamorous.

Expect nothing from him who promises a great deal.

Experience is good if not bought too dear.

Experience is the mother of science.

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FACTS are chiels that winna ding.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
Faint praise is disparagement.

Fair and softly, as lawyers go to heaven.
Fair faces need no paint.

Fair feathers make fair fowls.

Fair in the craddle may be foul in the saddle.
Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

Fall not out with a friend for a trifle.

False friends are worse than open enemies.

Falsehood could do little mischief if it did not gain the

credit of truth.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Fame, like a river, is narrowest at its source and broadest

afar off.

Fancy may kill or cure.

Fancy surpasses beauty.

Fann'd fire, and forced iove, never did well yet.

Far ahint that may na follow.

Farthest frae the kirk aye soonest at it.

Fat housekeepers make lean executors.

Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn.

Faults are thick where love is thin.

Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance

itself is so.

Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage only can support him in it.

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