ainsel.

There's nae sport where there's neither auld folk nor bairns.

There's naething for misdeeds but mends.

There's naething sae gude on this side o' time but it might hae been
better.

There's naething ill said that's no ill ta'en.

There's naething sae like an honest man as an arrant knave.

There's nae woo sae coorse but it'll take some colour.

There's nane sae blind as them that winna see.

There's nane sae busy as him that has least to do.

There's nane sae deaf as them that winna hear.

There's ne'er a great feast but some fare ill.

There's ower mony nicks in your horn.

That is, you are too knowing or cunning for me.

There's plenty o' raible when drink's on the table.

To "raible" is to speak in a riotous, careless, or loose manner.

There's remede for a' but stark dead.

"For ony malledy ze ken,
Except puir love, or than stark deid,
Help may be had frae hands of men,
Thorow medicines to mak remeid."--_The Evergreen._

There's skill in gruel making.

"There's sma sorrow at our pairting," as the auld mear said to the
broken cart.

"'If ye dinna think me fit,' replied Andrew, in a huff, 'to speak
like ither folk, gie me my wages, and my board-wages, and I'se gae
back to Glasgow--there's sma sorrow at our pairting, as the auld
mear said to the broken cart.'"--_Rob Roy._

There's steel in the needle point, though little o't.

"Spoken when a thing, commendable for its kind, is found fault with
for its quantity."--_Kelly._

There's the end o' an auld sang.

Or, all the information I can give you.

There's tricks in a' trades but honest horse-couping.

There's twa enoughs, and ye hae got ane o' them.

"That is, big enough and little enough; meaning that he has gotten
little enough. An answer to them who, out of modesty, say they have
enough."--_Kelly._

There's twa things in my mind, and that's the least o' them.

Spoken by a person who declines to give a reason for a thing which
he does not wish to do.

There was anither gotten the night that you was born.

"If one won't another will."--_English._

There was mair lost at Sherramuir, where the Hielandman lost his faither
and his mither, and a gude buff belt worth baith o' them.

Spoken jocularly when a person meets with a trifling loss.
Sheriffmuir is the name of the field between Stirling and Dunblane,
where a disastrou