Ower muckle hameliness spoils gude courtesy.
"Too much familiarity breeds contempt."—English.
Ower muckle loose leather about your chafts.
A rude but expressive way of saying that a person is not looking well, or is, Scotice, "thin."
Ower muckle cookery spoils the brochan.
Ower muckle o' ae thing is gude for naething.
Ower narrow counting culyes nae kindness.
To "culye" is to gain, to draw forth. "When people deal in rigour with us we think ourselves but little obliged to them."—Kelly.
Ower reckless may repent.
Ower sicker, ower loose.