Part 18 (2/2)

It is better to be rough in manners, if coupled with prosperous circuenteel” and at the same time poverty stricken

Better rue sit than rue flit

Better not reret it

”Didna I see when gentle Geordie was seeking to get other folk out of the Tolbooth forby Jocky Porteous? but ye are of my mind, hinny--better sit and rue, than flit and rue--ye needna look in s than that, maybe”--_Heart of Midlothian_

Better saucht wi' little aucht than care wi' mony cows

Better comfort and peace of mind with little, than care and contention with much

Better saut than sour

Better say ”Here it is” than ”Here it was”

Better short and sweet than lang and lax

Better sit idle than work for nought

Better sit still than rise an' fa'

Better skaith saved than iven than coized for

Better sma' fish than nane

Better soon as syne

”I tell'd your honour a while syne, that it was lang that I hae been thinking o' flitting,as frae the first year I caude earnest--better soon as syne--better a finger aff as aye wagging”--_Rob Roy_

Better spared than ill spent

Better speak bauldly out than aye be grumphin'

If a cohtforwardly, instead of continuing to fret about it in an indirect manner

Better the barn filled than the bed

Because a full barn denotes prosperity, a full bed trouble

Better the end o' a feast than the beginning o' a fray

Better the mother wi' the pock, than the faither wi' the sack