"It is a troublesome and thankless office to concern ourselves in the jars and outfalls of near relations, as man and wife, parents and children, &c."—Kelly.
It's ill praising green barley.
Because it is hard to tell how it will turn out.
It's ill speaking between a fu' man and a fasting.
"I have been waiting this hour for you, and I have had a snack myself; and, as they used to say in Scotland in my time—I do not ken if the word be used now—there is ill talking between a full body and a fasting."—Heart of Midlothian.
It's ill taking corn frae geese.
It's ill to be ca'd a thief, an' aye found picking.
"It is ill to have a bad name, and to be often found in a suspicious place or posture."—Kelly.
It's ill to mak an unlawful oath, but waur to keep it.