The early bird might get the worm but what did the early worm get?
Can we be Scottish, there’s no swearin
“You’re born in pain, you live in fear, you die alone. Merry Christmas.” Traditional Scottish Christmas greeting.
This is hilarious. Are these really Scottish proverbs or a product of someone’s fertile imagination? First good chuckle I have had in a while!
"Its nah bad!"
Or when you say something like this on visiting your friends new house!
"Aye, its a beautiful new front door, but you'll nah be able to get a coffin out of it!
The blacksmith of a Scottish village came second in a local spelling bee. Leaving the competition, he was overheard to say, “How was I to know that ‘oss piss was spelled a-u-s-p-i-c-e?!”
I heard (from my Scottish grandfather, and later my father):
YE MAKE A BETTER DOOR THAN WINDA (window)!!
Said if one of us kids was standing in front of the TV.
LOL thanks
“If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!”
The Scottish Parliament just voted to have all the cars switch to driving on the right side of the road, like elsewhere in Europe, on a trial basis.
They say if it works out, they’ll vote to have the trucks do so as well.
Scottish Proverbs at Proverbicals.com
For the cunning linguists oot there we have Wikiquote's Scottish Gaelic proverbs with translations.
Someone was prescient about our current government when they wrote "There never was a five-pound note but there was a ten-pound road for it."
#5 is incorrect. It describes the “median”, not the average. It pains me to say this, because I’m 1/4th Scot...lol.