There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

When a mouse makes fun of a cat, there is a hole.

By trying repeatedly, the monkey learns how to jump from the tree.

The stomach is not content with nice words.

Even clever hens sometimes lay their eggs among nettles.

Pluck not a courtesy in the bud.

Ye’re sair fash’d hadding naething together.

He wanders around by day a lot, learns a lot.

Courage is the father of success.

No root, no fruit.

Kindness is a language, which the blind can see and the deaf can hear.

Give you an inch you’ll take an ell.

An ounce of favour goes further, or is worth more, than a pound of justice.

He that forsakes missour, missour forsake him.

Better the gurgling of a camel than the prayers of a fish.

Happy is the man who knows he’s happy.

The laird may be laird and need his hind’s help.

The owl tells the sparrow that her head is big.

Thorns themselves will not harm you — you hurt yourself on the thorns.