an can live langer in peace than his neighbours like.

"For an ill neighbour, with his scolding noise, complaints,
lawsuits, and indictments, may be very troublesome."--_Kelly._

Nae man can mak his ain hap.

Or plan his own destiny.

Nae man can seek his marrow i' the kirn sae weel as him that has been
in't himsel.

"Spoken to those who suspect us guilty of a thing in which they take
measure of us by their practices and inclinations."--_Kelly._

Nae man can thrive unless his wife will let him.

Nae man has a tack o' his life.

Nae man is wise at a' times, nor on a' things.

Nae mills, nae meal.

Nae penny, nae paternoster.

Nae plea is the best plea.

Nae rule sae gude as rule o' thoom--if it hit.

Nae service, nae siller.

Nae sooner up than her head's in the aumrie.

Applied to lazy or greedy servants; implying that the first thing
they do in the morning is to go to the "aumrie" or cupboard for
something to eat.

Nae swat, nae sweet.

Naething but fill and fetch mair.

A philosophic way of meeting troubles. If a thing be wrong done, do
it over again; or if it be lost, procure another.

Naething comes fairer to light than what has been lang hidden.

Naething comes out o' a close hand.

Naething freer than a gift.

Naething is got without pains but an ill name and lang nails.

Naething is ill said if it's no ill ta'en.

Naething is ill to be done when will's at hame.

Naething like being stark dead.

Meaning there is nothing like doing a thing thoroughly. "A vile,
malicious proverb," says Kelly, "first used by Captain James Stewart
against the noble Earl of Morton, and afterwards applied to the Earl
of Strafford and Archbishop Laud."

Naething's a bare man.

"A jocose answer to children when they say they have gotten
nothing."--_Kelly._

Naething's a man's truly but what he comes by duly.

Naething sae bauld as a blind mear.

"Who so bold as blind Bayard?"--_English._

"Ignorance breeds confidence; consideration, slowness and
wariness."--_Ray._

Naething sae crouse as a new wash'd louse.

"Spoken of them who have been ragged and dirty, and are proud and
fond of new or clean clothes."--_Kelly._

Naething sooner maks a man auld-like than sitting ill to his meat.

"To sit ill to one's meat, to be ill fed."--_Jamieson._

Naething to be done in haste but gripping fleas.

In his intro