Credit is better than ill-won gear.
Credit keeps the crown o' the causey.
Creep before ye gang.
"Ye will never make your bread that way, Maister Francie. Ye suld munt up a muckle square of canvass, like Dick Tinto, and paint folk's ainsells, that they like muckle better to see than ony craig in the haill water; and I wadna muckle objeck even to some of the Wallers coming up and sitting to ye. They waste their time war, I wis—and, I warrant, ye might mak a guinea a-head of them. Dick made twa, but he was an auld used hand, and folk maun creep before they gang."—St Ronan's Well.
Cripples are aye better planners than workers.
Cripples are aye great doers—break your leg and try.
People who are always very ready to give advice are generally slow in giving assistance.
"Crookit carlin," quo' the cripple to his wife.
"Oh wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
And foolish notion."
—Burns.