Punctuality is the soul of business.

Purposing without performing is mere fooling.

Put your finger in the fire, and say it was your fortune.

Q

QUACKERY has no friend like gullibility.

Quarrelling dogs come halting home.

Quietness is best.

R

RECKON not your chickens before they are hatched.

Reckoners without their host reckon twice.

Remember, man, and keep in mind, a faithfu' friend is hard to find.

Remember that your thoughts as well as deeds are recorded in heaven.

Remove an old tree, and it will wither to death.

Remove not the ancient land-marks which thy fathers have

set.

Reproach not the unhappy as the hand of God is upon them. Reserve the master-blow; i.e., teach not all thy skill, lest the scholar over-reach or insult the master.

Resolutions taken without thought may bring disasters without remedy.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

Reverence the aged and treat your juniors with kindness. Riches have sometimes made good men worse, but never bad men better.

Riches well got, and well used, are a great blessing.
Right principles will by no means suit wrong practices.
Ripe fruit is soonest rotten.

Rise early, live soberly, and apply thyself with industry.
Rolling stones gather no moss.

Rome was not built in a day.

S

SADNESS and gladness succeed each other.

Saith Solomon the wise, "A good wife's a good prize."
Sceptres and suitors hate competitors.

Search not a wound too deep, lest thou make a new one.
Second thoughts are best.

Seein's believin' a' the world ower.

Seek love and it will shun you, haste away, and 'twill out

run you.

Seek not to reform every one's dial by your own watch.
Self-love is a mote in every man's eye.

Self-love renders man the enemy of man, and perpetually tends to the disturbance of society.

Self-respect is the purest raiment in which we can clothe ourselves.

Self-will would break the world in two to make a stool to

sit upon.

Send a fool to France, and a fool he'll come back.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will buy. Sentiments of friendship which flow from the heart cannot be frozen in adversity.

Servants will not be diligent where the master's negligent.

Set a stout heart to a stay brae.

Seven may be company, but nine are confusion.

She who is born a beauty is half married.
Short reckonings make long friends.

Shouther to shouther stands steel and pouther.

Sickness tells us what we are.

Sift him grain by grain, and you will find him all chaff.
Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dangerous.
Silence and thought hurt nae man.

Silence is a fine jewel for a woman, but it's little worn.
Sit in your place, and none can make you rise.

Slight not good counsel, come from what quarter it may.
Sloth is the key to poverty.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears.

Sloth turneth the adage of wit, but study sharpeneth the

memory.

Sluggards are never great scholars.

Small faults indulged in are little thieves that let in greater. Smooth water rins deep.

So live and hope as if thou would'st die immediately.

So many men, so many minds.

So yourself be good, a fig for your grandfather.

Sodgers, fire, and water soon mak room for themsels.

Soldiers are martyrs to ambition.

Some are atheists only in fair weather.

Some are wise, and some are otherwise.

Some can stand the sword better than the pint-stcup.
Some tak a', but ye leave naething.

Sometimes it is better to give your apple away than eat it

yourself.

Sometimes words hurt more than swords.

Sorrow is soon enough when it comes.

Sour grapes, as the fox said when he could not reach them.

Sow good works, and thou shalt reap gladness.

Spare when you are young, and spend when you are old.
Sparrows fight for corn, which is none of their own.
Speak little and to the purpose, and you will pass for some-
body.

Speak well of your friend, of your enemy say nothing.
Speak what you think, but not always all you know.
Speech is the picture of the mind.

Spend and be free, but make no waste.

Spread the table, and contention will cease.

Standers-by see more than gamesters.

Standing pools gather filth.

Stay till you have sheep before you shear them.

Step after step the ladder is ascended.

Strength and beauty are the goods of the body; temperance

and prudence are the crown of old age.

Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.

Strike the iron while it's hot.

Strive not against the stream.

Subtility set a trap, and caught itself.

Success consecrates the foulest crimes.

Such as are careless of themselves, can hardly be mindful

of others.

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Such as give ear to slanderers, are worse than slanderers

themselves.

Such as the tree is, such is the fruit.

Suffering for a friend doubleth the friendship.

Sunday wooin' draws to ruin.

Suppers kill mair than doctors cure.

Surfeits slay mair than swords.

Surgeons should have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a

lady's hand.

Suspect the meaning, and regard not speeches.
Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it is a great one.

T

TAK' a pint an' 'gree, the law's costly.

Tak nae mair on your back than ye're able to bear.

Tak' your ain will o't, as the cat did wi' the haggis.

Take your venture, as many a good ship hath done.
Take your wife's first advice, not her second.

Tell not all you know, nor do all you can.

Tell nothing to thy friend which thine enemy may not

know.

That is a wise delay which makes the road safe.

That which has its value from fancy is not very valuable.

That which will not make a pot may make a pot-lid.

That's but ae doctor's opinion.

That's felling twa dogs wi' ac stane.

The anvil fears no blows.