Part 28 (2/2)

Every wight has his weird, and we maun a' dee when our day comes

Evil words cut mair than swords

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in nae ither

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Facts are chiels that winna ding

Faint heart ne'er wan fair lady

Fair an' foolish, black an' proud, lang an' lazy, little an' loud

How far this proverb is borne out by fact is certainly open to question It appears in Ray's collection as English, and as a reo hand in hand, and are often s far

”Who goes softly goes safely, and he that goes safely goes far”--_Italian_

Fair exchange is nae robbery

Fair fa' gude drink, for it gars folk speak as they think

”Fair fa',” well betide; good luck to This is the Scotch version of the co, ”When the wine is in, the wit is out;” or, ”What is in the heart of the sober ue of the drunken i'es us e, It kindles wit, it waukens lair, It pangs us fu' o' knowledge: Be't whisky gill, or penny wheep, Or ony stronger potion, It never fails, on drinking deep, To kittle up our notion, By night or day”--_Burns_

Fair fa' the wife, and weel may she spin, that counts aye the lai'

a pint to coood luck to the hostess who includes a pint _still to co, so far as we can discover, is exclusively Scottish

Fair fa' you, and that's nae fleaching

”Fleach,” to flatter A good wish sincerely expressed

Fair folk are aye foisonless

Kelly says of the word ”foisonless,” that it th or sap; dried up; withered” Scott, in _Old Mortality_, uses it in the ae they, fair co that they go and coularly, decently, and in order

Fair hair may hae foul roots

Fair hechts mak fools fain

”_Hope_ puts that haste into zour heid, Quhilk boyls zour barmy brain; Howbeit fulis haste cums huly speid, Fair hechts will mak fulis fain”--_Cherrie and the Slae_