A toom purse maks a thrawn face.
At open doors dogs gae ben.
A travelled man has leave to lee.
A tree's no a mast till its hewn.
"I like the lassie, Mundy, wi' my heart,
An' as she's bonny, dootna but she's smart;
The creature's young, she'll shape to ony cast—
Nae tree till it be hewn becomes a mast."
—Ross's Helenore.
A tricky man's easiest tricket.
A turn weel done is sune done.
A twalpenny cat may look at a king.
Auld chimes and auld rhymes gar us think on auld times.