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The hypocrite was neatly described as Hit's ill for da kettle crook tae ca da kettle black , while ` Caff [chaff] aye flees heicher [flies higher] dan guid coarn summed up a false friend who deserts one in trouble.
A native caution is typical of many, like Better da ill kent [known] as da guid untried , which roughly parallels the old saying Better the devil you know... but expressed rather more forcefully.
Many of these ancient proverbs would provide excellent New Year's resolutions, but perhaps the best of them advises us to live one day at a time without so much worrying: It's a guid day at pitts aff da nicht!
The sheer toil experienced by most Shetlanders is another source of proverbs: Every man's back is shapit for his ain burden ; and A moothful is as guid as a belly fu firmly reminds of the days of real want.