As gude ne'er a bit, as ne'er the better.
"Unless you make a thing the better for you, you had as good let it alone."—Kelly.
A's gude that God sends.
A shave aff a new cut loaf's never missed.
A shor'd tree stands lang.
"Men do not die of threats."—Dutch.
A short grace is gude for hungry folk.
A short horse is sune wispit.
A sight o' you is gude for sair een.
"'Wha's this o't?' again exclaimed Madge Wildfire. 'Douce Davie Deans; the auld doited whig body's daughter, in a gipsy's barn, and the nicht setting in! this is a sight for sair een!—Eh, sirs, the falling off o' the godly!—and the t'other sister's in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh.'"—Heart of Midlothian.