Spend, and God will send; spare, and be bare.
Spilt ale is waur than water.
Spit in your loof and haud fast.
This means, simply, take a firm hold of a thing.
Spit on a stane and it will be wat at last.
Stable the steed, and put your wife to bed when there's night wark to do.
"'Am I no gaun to the ploy, then?' said Maggie, in a disappointed tone, 'And what for should ye?' said her lord and master; 'to dance a' night, I'se warrant, and no to be fit to walk your tae's-length the morn, and we have ten Scots miles afore us? Na, na. Stable the steed, and pit your wife to bed when there's night wark to do.'"- Redgauntlet.
Standers-by see mair than gamesters.
Staunin' dubs gather dirt.
"Standing pools gather filth."- English.
Stay and drink o' your ain browst.
"Take a share of the mischief that you have occasioned."-- Kelly.
"But gae your wa's, Bessie, tak on ye,
And see wha'll tak care o' ye now;
E'en gae wi' the Bogle, my bonnie--
It's a browst your ain daffery did brew."
0ld Ballad.
Stay nae langer in a friend's house than ye're welcome.
Step by step climbs the hill.
Stickin' gangsna by strength, but by the right use o' the gully.
Stretching and gaunting bodes sleep to be wanting.
Strike as ye feed, and that's but soberly.
Strike the iron while it's hot.
Stuffing hauds out storms.
"Advising men to take some good thing before they travel in a bad day."-- Kelly.
Sturt pays nae debt.
"Spoken with resentment to them who storm when we crave of them our just debts."--Kelly.
Sudden friendship's sure repentance.
Sue a beggar and gain a louse.
Sunday wooin' draws to ruin.
Supp'd out wort ne'er made gude ale.
"Spoken when one asks us for a drink of our wort, for what is drunk in wort will never be ale, good or bad."- Kelly.
Suppers kill mair than doctors cure.
Surfeits slay mair than swords.
Swear by your burnt shins.
Sweet at the on-taking, but soor in the affputting.
In allusion to the contraction of debt and other liabilities.
Sweet i' the bed and sweer up i' the morning was ne'er a gude housewife.
"A jocose reproof to young maids when they lie long a-bed."-- Kelly.

TAK a hair o' the dog that bit you.
This is a familiar rendering of the great law of Homoeopathy, Similia similibus curantur; but is usually interpreted thus: Sober yourself by taking another glass.
Tak a piece; your teeth's langer than your beard.
Addressed to children who are diffident in accepting a "piece."
Tak a seat on Maggie Shaw's Crocky.
"Maggy Shaw's Crocky is a broad flat stone, near to the brink of a precipice, overhanging the sea-shore, about a mile to the north of Eyemouth. This stone was placed over the remains of an old woman who had hanged herself, and who is said to be frequently seen at night sitting upon it, in the shape of a white sea-mew-sitting lonely on the
'glitty stane,
Grwen wi' the dow o' the jauping main.'"
G. Henderson.
Tak a tune on your ain fiddle; ye'll dance till't afore it's dune.
"'I can hear no remonstrances,' he continued, turning away from the Bailie, whose mouth was open to address him ; 'the service I am on gives me no time for idle discussions.' 'Aweel, aweel, sir,' said the Bailie, 'you're welcome to a tune on your ain fiddle ; but see if I dinna gar ye dance till't afore a's dune.'"-- Rob Roy.
Tak care o' that man whom God has set his mark upon.
"I went once to a conventicle on a mountain side, in company of a very sage intelligent gentleman, who, seeing the preacher want two joints of each ring finger, having a nail upon the third, he immediately took horse and rode away. I asked him what ailed him? He said, 'God had set a mark upon that man, and he was sure it was not for nothing.' This man proved a guest plague to his country, was the death of a great many, and came to a violent end himself."-- Kelly.
Tak a man by his word and a cow by her horn.
Tak him up on his fine eggs, and ane o' them rotten.
Tak nae mair on your back than ye're able to bear.
Tak pairt o' the pelf when the pack's dealing.
Tak the bit and the buffet wi't.
"What tho' sometimes, in angry mood,
When she puts on her barlik hood,
Her dialect seems rough and rude,
Let's ne'er be fleet,
But tak our bit, when it us gude,
An' buffet wi't."-- Allan Ramsay.
Bear patiently taunts and ill usage, if advantages conic with them.
Tak the head for the washing.
Tak the readiest to serve the needfu'ist.
Tak the will for the deed.
Tak time ere time be tint.
"Tak tyme, in tyme, or tyme be tint,
For tyme will not remain."-- Cherrie and the Slae.
Tak your ain will and ye'll no dee o' the pet.
Tak your ain will o't, as the cat did o' the haggis--first ate it, and then creepit into the bag.
This and the preceding proverb. Kelly says, "are spoken to them who obstinately persist in an unreasonable design."
Tak your meal wi' ye an' your brose will be thicker.
Used sarcastically by those who take a good meal before they go to partake of one with a friend ; signifying that they do not expect to be too well treated.
Tak your thanks to feed your cat.
Tak your venture, as mony a gude ship has done.
Tak your will, you're wise enough.
Tak wit wi' your anger.
Tam-tell-truth's nae courtier.
Tappit hens like cock-crowing.
Tarry breeks pays nae freight.
Persons in the same trade are generally willing to oblige one another. "Pipers don't pay fiddlers."-- English. "One barber shaves another."-- French.
Tarry lang brings little hame.
Tell nae tales out o' schule.
Tell the truth and shame the deil.
Thank ye for cakes, I have scones in my pocket.
That bolt came ne'er out o' your bag.
That is, such a thing is better done or told than you could do it.
That'll be a sap out o' my bicker.
Or will injure me by reducing my income or prospects.
That's abune your thoom.
Spoken to a person who is about to attempt a thing of which he is considered incapable.
That's a piece a stepmother never gied.
A hearty expression accompanying a substantial "piece" or meal.
That's a sair hair in my neck.
"I canna but think I maun hae made a queer figure without my hat and my periwig, hanging by the middle like bawdrons, or a cloak flung ower a cloakpin. Bailie Grahame wad hae an undo hair in my neck an he got that tale by the end."-- Rob Roy.
That's as ill as the ewes in the yaird and nae dogs to hunt them.
The "yaird" being the safest place where the ewes could be, the proverb means that a thing is quite right.
That's a tale o' twa drinks.
That's a tee'd ba'.
That's but ae doctor's opinion.
That's equal aqual.
"Mr Novit, ye'll no forget to draw the annual rent that's due on the yerl's band--if I pay debt to other folk, I think they suld pay it to me--that equals aquals.--Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping. My father tauld me sae forty years sin', but I ne'er fand time to mind him."-- Heart of Midlothian.
That's felling twa dogs wi' ae stane.
That's for that, as butter's for fish.
Meaning that such a timing is exactly what is wanted.
That's for the faither, and no for the son.
"Spoken when a thing is done with slight materials, and, consequently, will not be lasting."- Kelly.
That's Halkerston's cow, a' the ither way.
Halkerston, a lawyer and landed proprietor, gave permission to one of his tenants to graze an ox. The tenant's ox was gored to death by a heifer belonging to the lawyer. The tenant went to Halkerston, and told the story the reverse of what had occurred. "Why, then," said the lawyer, "your ox must go for my heifer--the law provides that." "No," said the man, "your heifer killed my ox." "Oh," said Halkerston, "the case alters there," and forthwith reversed his tactics.
That's ill paid maut sillcr.
"Metaphorically, a benefit ill requited."-- Jamieson.
That's like seekin' for a needle in a windlin o' strae.
That's my gude that does me gude.
That's my tale, whaur's yours?
Spoken by a person who has forestalled another by telling the same news or story which the other was about to do.
That's no a heel to my shoe.
That's the ane the souter killed his wife wi'.
That's the best gown that gaes up and down the house.
That's the way to marry me, if ere you should hap to do it.
A sharp reply to those who presume to be too familiar.
That's waur and mair o't.
That which God will gie the deil canna reeve.
"Spoken when we have attained our end in spite of opposition."-- Kelly.
That will be when the deil's blind, and he's no bleer-ee'd yet.
That winna be a mote in your marriage.
The ass that's no used to the sunks bites his crupper.
"Sunks," a sort of saddle made of cloth, and stuffed with straw, on which two persons can sit at once."- Jamieson.
The back and the belly hauds ilka ane busy.
The ha' maun aye row some way.
The banes bear the beef hame.
The banes o' a great estate are worth the picking.
The best is aye the cheapest.
The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley.
The best o' wabs are rough at the roons.
The best that can happen to a poor man is that ae bairn dee and the rest follow.
Kelly is democratically angry at the questionable sentiment of this proverb,--"A cursed distrustful proverb!" he says. "God is able to maintain the poor man's child as well as the young master or young miss, and often in a more healthy and plump condition."
The better day the better deed
The jocular answer of a person who is blamed for doinq something on Sunday.
The biggest horse is no aye the best traveller.
The biggest rogue cries loudest out.
The bird maun flicher that has but ae wing.
The bird that can sing, an' winna sing, should be gar'd sing.
The black ox ne'er trod on his foot.
The blind horse is aye the hardiest.
The blind man's peck should be wed measured.
The blind mear's first in the mire.
The bonny moon is on her back, mend your shoon and sort your thack.
"When the new moon is in such a part of the ecliptic as to appear turned much over upon her back, wet weather is expected."- Robert Chambers.
The book o' may-be's is very braid.
The breath o' a fause friend's waur than the fuff o' a weasel.
The cart doesna lose its errand when it comesna hame toom-tail.
"To come back toom-tail is to go away with a load and come back empty."- Jamesion.
The proverb is applied to those who accomplish more than their errand.
The cat kens whase lips she licks.
The cat's oot o' the pock.
The cause is gude, and the word's "fa' tae."
A profane grace of hungry persons who sit down to a good meal.
The clartier the cosier.
Literally, the dirtier the more comfortable. Whether true or not we cannot say.
The cost owergangs the profit.
The cow may dee ere the grass grow.
"While the grass is growing the steed is starving."-- German.
The cow may want her tail yet.
"You may want my kindness hereafter, though you deny me yours just now."-- Kelly.
The cow that's first tip gets the first o' the dew.
Used as an incentive to diligence and industry.
"The early bird catches the worm."-- English.
The cure may be waur than the disease.
The day has een, the night has lugs.
Prudence and caution are necessary at all times.
The day you do weel there will be seven munes in the lift and ane on the midden.
The inference is, that the person addressed has a very remote chance indeed of ever doing well.
The death o' ae bairn winna skail a house.
The death o' his first wife made sic a hole in his heart that a' the lave slippit easily through.
"It is supposed that he who has lost the wife of his youth and love will easily bear the loss of a second or third, who are commonly married rather for convenience than lose."-- Kelly.
The deil and the dean begin wi' ae letter; when the deil gets the dean the kirk will be better.
The deil aye drives his hogs to an ill market.
The deil bides his time.
The deil doesna aye show his cloven cloots.
The deil gaes awa when he finds the door steekit against him.
The deil gaes ower Jock Wabster.
"The deil gaes ower Jock Wabster, hame grows hell;
And Pate misca's ye mair nor tongue can tell."
Gentle Shepherd.
The deil gae wi' ye and a sixpence, and ye'll neither want money nor company.
The deil made souters sailors that can neither steer nor row.
Applied to those who undertake work of which they are incapable.