It's gude gear that pleases the merchant.
It's gude sleeping in a hale skin.
It's gude to begin weel, but better to end weel.
It's gude to be in your time; ye kenna how lang it may last.
"It's gude to be merry and wise," quo' the miller when he mouter'd twice.
The miller must have been more rogue than fool when he thus took advantage of his customers, for to "mouter," as he did, is to take the fees twice over.
It's gude to be out o' harm's gate.
It's gude to be sib to siller.
To be "sib to siller," is to be related to rich persons.
It's gude to dread the warst, the best will be the welcomer.