Kings and bears aft worry their keepers.
"Witness the tragical end of many courtiers."—Kelly.
Kings are kittle cattle to shoe behint.
"'Kittill to scho behind,' not to be depended on; not worthy of trust."—Jamieson.
King's cheese gaes half away in parings.
For a greater part of the income is absorbed in the expenses of collecting it.
King's cauff's worth ither folk's corn.
"'I am sure,' said Ritchie, composedly, 'I wish Laurie a higher office, for your lordship's sake and for mine, and specially for his ain sake, being a friendly lad; yet your lordship must consider that a scullion—if a yeoman of the king's most royal kitchen may be called a scullion—may weel rank with a master-cook elsewhere; being that king's cauff, as I said before, is better than ——.'"—Fortunes of Nigel.
Kings hae lang hands.
Kiss and be kind, the fiddler is blind.