It's dear coft honey that's licked aff a thorn.
It's drink will you, but no drink shall you.
That is, a person's hospitality is not very warm. For courtesy's sake he offers refreshments, but does not press them.
It's easier to big lums than keep them reeking.
It's easier to forgie than to forget.
It serves naething to strive wi' cripples.
"'Aweel, aweel,' said Hobbie, mounting his horse, 'it serves naething to strive wi' cripples,—they are aye cankered; but I'll just tell you ae thing, neighbour, that if things be otherwise than weel wi' Grace Armstrong, I'se gie you a scouther if there be a tar barrel in the five parishes.'"—The Black Dwarf.
It sets a haggis to be roasted.
It sets you weel to gab wi' your bannet on.
It's far to seek an' ill to find.