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| Proverb - M
Mad as a wet hen.Maidens must be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak.Maidens should be mim till they're married, and then they may burn kirks.Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them they want everything.Make every bargain clear and plain, that none may afterwards complain.Make hay when the sun shines.Make no more haste than good speed.Make not balks of good ground.Make not mickle of little.Make not thy tail broader than thy wings.
[Keep not too many attendants.]Make not two sorrows of one.Make the cap fit the head.Make your bargain before beginning to plow.Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders.Malice drinketh its own poison.Malice is mindful.Malt is above meal with him.Man cannot live by bread alone.Man doth what he can, and God what He will.Man punishes the action, but God the intention.Man's extremity, God's opportunity.Man's life's a vapor, and full of woes; he cuts a caper, and down he goes.Man, woman, and devil, are the three degrees of comparison.Manchester bred: long in the arms, and short in the head.Many blame the wife for their own thriftless life.Many can pack the cards that cannot play.Many children, and little bread, is a painful pleasure.Many estates are spent in the getting,
Since women, for tea, forsook spinning and knitting,
And men, for punch, forsook hewing and splitting.Many hips and haws, many frosts and snaws.Many kinsfolk and few friends.Many little makes a mickle.Many men, many minds.Many sands will sink a ship.Many small make a great.Many strokes fell great oaks.Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot his bow,
And many talk of Little John that never did him know.Many women, many words.Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.March borrows of April
Three days, and they be ill.March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.March in Janiveer, Janiveer in March I fear.March many weathers.March wind and May sun
Makes clothes white and maids dun.March winds and April showers
Bring forth May flowers.Marriage is a lottery.Marriage is honourable, but housekeeping is a shrew.Marriage, with peace, is this world's paradise; with strife, this life's purgatory.Marriages are made in heaven. Marry first and love will follow.Marry in haste repent at leisure.Marry in Lent, live to repent.Marry in May, rue for aye.Master yourself and you can master anything.Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.May and December never agree.May bees don't fly this month.May chickens come cheeping.May the man be damned and never grow fat,
Who wears two faces under one hat.May your charity increase as much as your wealth.Measure is a merry mean.Measure twice, cut once.Meat and mass never hindered man.Meat and matins hinder no man's journey.Meat is much, but manners is more.Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindnesses.Men are not to be measured by inches.Men dig their graves with their teeth.Men have faults, women have two:
There's nothing good they say, and nothing good they do.Men leap over where the hedge is lowest.Men may meet, but mountains never.Men muse as they use.Men that have much business must have much pardon.Men who do things that count never stop to count them.Men's skins have many colors, but human blood is always red.Mention not a rope in the house of one whose father was hanged.Merry is the feast-making till we come to the reckoning.]Merry meet, merry part.Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse.Mice care not to play with kittens.Mickle head, little wit.Might have gone further and have fared worse.Might is right.Might overcomes right.Mildness governs more than anger.Milk says to wine, Welcome friend.Milk the cow that standeth still.Mind over matter.Mind your own business.Mint ere you strike.Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.Misery loves company.Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.Misfortunes make strange bedfellows.Misfortunes never come singly.Misfortunes that can't be avoided must be sweetened.Misfortunes, when asleep, are not to be awakened.Mocking is catching.Moderation in all things.Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health,
Wednesday the best day of all:
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at all.Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe.
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for its living,
And a child that's born of the Sabbath day
Is fair and wise and good and gay.Money doesn't grow on trees.Money has no smell.Money is often lost for want of money.Money is the root of all evil.Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.Money isn't everything, but it's way ahead of whatever is in second place.Money isn't everything.Money makes a man.Money makes money.Money makes the mare to go.Money makes the mare to go.Money talks.Money will do more than my lord's letter.Money will do more than my lord's letter.Mony sma's mak a great.More afraid than hurt.More belongs to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.More cost, more worship.More die by food than famine.More flies are taken with a drop of honey than a tun of vinegar.More hair than wit.More haste, less speed.More have repented of speech than of silence.More know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.More noise than wool.More people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.More than enough is too much.More than we use is more than we want.Most haste, worst speed.Much cry and little wool.Much law, but little justice.Much meat, much maladies.Much water goes by the mill the millet knows not of.Much would have more, and lost all.Much would have more.Muck and money go together.Muddy springs will have muddy streams.Murder will out.Music helps not the toothache.Must is a king's word.My belly thinks my throat cut.My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.My son's my son till he gets him a wife,
My daughter's my daughter all her life.My word is my bond. |
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