fremit friends that canna be fash'd.
That is, they are strange or false friends who will not allow
themselves to be troubled in the least about their relations.
They're keen o' company that taks the dog on their back.
They're lightly harried that hae a' their ain.
They're like the grices, if ye kittle their wame they fa' on their
backs.
Synonymous with "Give him an inch and he'll take an
ell."--_English._
They're no a' saints that get the name o't.
They're no to be named in the same day.
Or they are so different that there is no room for comparison.
They're queer folk that hae nae failings.
They're scant o' horseflesh that ride on the dog.
They're weel guided that God guides.
They rin fast that deils and lasses drive.
They should kiss the gudewife that wad win the gudeman.
They speak o' my drinking, but ne'er think o' my drouth.
"They censure my doing such a thing who neither consider my
occasions of doing it, or what provocations I have had."--_Kelly._
They that bourd wi' cats may count upon scarts.
They that burn you for a witch will lose their coals.
Applied to stupid people who pretend to be very clever. "Nobody will
take you for a conjuror."--_English._
They that come wi' a gift dinna need to stand lang at the door.
They that deal wi' the deil get a dear pennyworth.
They that drink langest live langest.
They that get neist best are no ill aff.
"'Well, my good friend,' said Tyrrel, 'the upshot of all this is, I
hope, that I am to stay and have dinner here?' 'What for no?'
replied Mrs Dods. 'And that I am to have the Blue room for a night
or two--perhaps longer?' 'I dinna ken that,' said the dame. 'The
Blue room is the best--and they that get neist best are no ill aff
in this warld.'"--_St Ronan's Well._
They that get the word o' sune rising may lie a' day.
They that hae maist need o' credit seldom get muckle.
They that herd swine think aye they hear them grumphin'.
They that hide ken where to seek.
"What! the siller?--Ay, ay--trust him for that--they that hide ken
best where to find--he wants to wile him out o' his last guinea, and
then escape to his ain country, the landlouper."--_The Antiquary._
They that laugh in the morning will greet ere night.
They that lie down for love should rise up for hunger.
They that like the midden see nae motes in't.
They that live langest fet
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