Chapter L

Ladies and turkies need delicate upbringing.
Laith to bed and laith to rise.—Lang straes are nae motes.
Lang fasting hains nae meat.—Learn young, learn fair.
Lang tongu’d wives gae lang wi’ bairn.
Langest at fire soonest finds cauld.
Lang speaking part maun spill.—Love me love my dog.
Law’s costly, tak a pint and gree.
Law-makers should na be law-breakers.
Laugh at leisure, ye may greet ere night.
Laugh and lay’t down again.—Let alane maks mony loons.
Lay the head o’ the sow to the tail o’ the grice.
Learn the cat to the kirn and she’ll ay be licking.
Letna the plough stand to kill a mouse.
Let a’ treads live, quoth the wife, when she burnt her besom.
Let ay bell’d wathers break the snaw.
Let by-ganes be by-ganes.—Let horns gang wi’ the hide.
Let him tak a spring on his ain fiddle.
Let him haud the bairn that aught the bairn.
Let him cool in the skin he het in.
Let ilka sheep hang by its ain shank.
Let the muckle horse get the muckle wonlyn.
Let the morn come and the meat wi’t.
Let the kirk stand in the kirk-yard.—Live and let live.
Lie for him and he’ll swear for you.—Little gear the less care.
Light supper mak lang life-days.—Like’s an ill mark.
Little winning maks a heavy purse.—Love o’erlooks mony fauts.
Lightly come, lightly gane.—Little kend the less cared for.
Like draws to like, as a scabbed horse to a fail dyke.
Like Scotsmen, ay wise ahint the hand.
Likely lies aft i’ the mire, when unlikely wins through.
Like the maidens o’ Bayordine ye learn by the ear.
Like hens, ye rin ay to the tap o’ the heap.
Like the bairns o’ Falkirk, ye mind naething but mischief.
Like frien’less dogs mair sleep than meat.
Like the cat, fain fish wad ye eat, but ye are laith to weet your feet.
Like the wife wi’ the mony daughters, the best comes hindmost.
Lippen to me but look to yoursel’.
Little Jock gets the little dish, and that hauds him lang little.
Little said is soon mended, little gear’s soon spended.
Little wit i’ the head maks muckle travel to the feet.
Little may an auld nag do that maunna nicher.
Live upon love as lavrocks do on leeks.
Loud on the loan was ne’er a gude milk cow.
Love and light winna hide.—Love me lightly love me lang.
Love’s as warm among cotters as courtiers.
Love o’er het soonest cools.