Proverbs with Keyword: "MAN"

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• M62 An active MAN can never be idle
• M63 As a MAN is friended so the law is ended
• M64 As a MAN lives so shall he die, as a tree falls so shall it lie
• M65 As a MAN must take a wife, for better or for worse
• M66 As good a MAN as ever trod on shoe (neat's) leather (as ever went on legs)
• M67 As honest a MAN as any is in the cards when the kings are out
• M68 As honest a MAN as ever broke bread
• M69 As honest a MAN as the sun shone on
• M70 As if a MAN that is killed should come home upon his feet
• M71 As long lives a merry MAN as a sad
• M72 As near to other as MAN and wife
• M73 As soon as MAN is born he begins to die
• M74 As the blind MAN casts his staff (shoots the crow)
• M75 As the MAN is so is his talk
• M76 Ask not a sick MAN if he would be sound
• M77 The best MAN in the company when there is no more
• M78 Beware of a silent MAN (dog) and still water
• M79 A black MAN is a pearl (jewel) in a fair woman's eye
• M80 A blind MAN can (should) judge no colors
• M81 A blind MAN may sometimes catch (hit, shoot) a hare (crow, the mark)
• M82 A blind MAN might see that
• M83 Brave MAN at arms but weak to Balthasar
• M84 Command your MAN and do it yourself
• M85 A covetous MAN does nothing good until he dies
• M86 A covetous MAN is good to none but worst to himself
• M87 A covetous MAN is like a dog in a wheel, that roasts meat for others
• M88 A covetous MAN is never rich
• M89 The deceitful MAN falls oft into the snares of deceit
• M90 A discontented MAN knows not where to sit easy
• M91 Do well and doubt no MAN (all men)
• M92 A drowning MAN will catch at a twig (rush, straw)
• M93 A drunken MAN (wife) gets aye a drunken penny
• M94 A drunken MAN (Drunken folk) seldom catches (take) harm
• M95 A dumb MAN holds all
• M96 An envious MAN grows lean
• M97 An envious MAN will pluck out one of his own eyes to pull out both of his neighbor's
• M98 Every ill MAN has his ill day
• M99 Every MAN a little beyond himself is a fool
• M100 Every MAN (one) after his fashion
• M101 Every MAN (one) as he loves (likes)
• M102 Every MAN as he loves, let him send to the cooks
• M103 Every MAN (one) as he loves, quoth the good man when he kissed his cow
• M104 Every MAN as his business lies
• M105 Every MAN before he dies shall see the devil
• M106 Every MAN (one) can rule a shrew but he that has her
• M107 Every MAN cannot be a master (lord)
• M108 Every MAN cannot be Vicar of Bowden
• M109 Every MAN cannot go to the price
• M110 Every MAN cannot hit the nail on the head
• M111 Every MAN cannot speak with the king
• M112 Every MAN for himself (for one)
• M113 Every MAN for himself and God for us all
• M114 Every MAN for himself and the devil for all
• M115 Every MAN has his delight
• M116 Every MAN has (No man is without) his faults
• M117 Every MAN has his proper gift
• M118 Every MAN has his weak side
• M119 Every MAN has his wife
• M120 Every MAN has his wife
• M121 Every MAN in his humor
• M122 Every MAN in his way
• M123 Every MAN is a king (master) in his own house
• M124 Every MAN is best known to himself
• M125 Every MAN is either a fool or a physician to himself
• M126 Every MAN is the architect of his own fortune
• M127 Every MAN is wise in his own conceit
• M128 Every MAN keeps not his promise
• M129 Every MAN (The wearer) knows best where the shoe wrings (pinches)
• M130 Every MAN knows what is best for himself
• M131 Every MAN likes his own thing best
• M132 Every MAN loves himself best
• M133 Every MAN may not wear a furred hood
• M134 Every MAN must choose and use his own wife
• M135 Every MAN must eat a peck of dirt (ashes, salt) before he dies
• M136 Every MAN must have something to bring him to his end
• M137 Every MAN must see by his own eyes
• M138 Every MAN must suffer his afflictions
• M139 Every MAN will have his own turn served
• M140 Every MAN will have his vie
• M141 Every MAN will shoot at an enemy but few will go to fetch the shaft
• M142 Every MAN will shoot at an enemy but few will go to fetch the shaft
• M143 Find me a true MAN Trent northward and I will find you an honest whore
• M144 For the same MAN to be a heretic and a good subject is impossible
• M145 From a choleric MAN withdraw a little, from him that says nothing, forever
• M146 Give a MAN luck (fortune) and throw him into the sea
• M147 Give a MAN (dog) roast meat and beat him with the spit
• M148 A good honest MAN nowadays is but a better word for a fool
• M149 A good MAN (She) can no more harm than a sheep (she-ape)
• M150 A good MAN is never in danger but when he is in the danger of a coward
• M151 Good to fetch a sick MAN sorrow or a dead man woe
• M152 The great MAN is the spider, the poor man is the fly
• M153 The greater the MAN the greater the crime
• M154 A greedy MAN God hates
• M155 Greet a red MAN and a bearded woman three miles off
• M156 A handsome-bodied MAN in the face
• M157 Happy MAN happy cavil
• M158 Happy MAN happy dole (be his dole)
• M159 A hasty (angry) MAN never wants woe
• M160 He commands enough that obeys a wise MAN
• M161 He is a MAN, every inch of him
• M162 He is (is not) a MAN of God's making
• M163 He is a tall MAN of his hands
• M164 He is a wise MAN who can make a friend of a foe
• M165 He is as good a MAN as bears hands (hair, hide on his face)
• M166 He is as good a MAN as belts him in a belt
• M167 He is as good a MAN as ever drew sword
• M168 He is as good a MAN as lives (breathes)
• M169 He is as good a MAN as the earth bears (as steps, as treads the grass down)
• M170 He is now become a new MAN
• M171 He that can catch and hold, he is the MAN of gold
• M172 He that cannot be angry is no MAN (a fool)
• M173 He that is a wise MAN by day is no fool by night
• M174 He that is beholden to another MAN is not himself
• M175 He that kills a MAN when he is drunk shall be hanged when he is sober
• M176 He that swears till no MAN trust him, he that lies till no man believe him, he that borrows till no man will lend him, let him go where no man knows him
• M177 He that would take a Lancashire MAN at any time or tide must bait his hook with a good egg pie¹ or an apple with a red side
• M178 He was a bold MAN that first ate an oyster
• M179 He will be a MAN before his mother
• M180 He will kill a MAN for a mess of mustard
• M181 He wrongs not an old MAN that steals his supper from him
• M182 The healthful MAN can give good counsel to the sick
• M183 An honest MAN and a good bowler
• M184 An honest MAN is as good as his word
• M185 An honest plain MAN without pleats
• M186 A houndless MAN comes to the best hunting
• M187 A hungry MAN an angry man
• M188 A hungry MAN sees far
• M189 I hope that a MAN may live by you
• M190 I hope to see him an honest MAN
• M191 I love not that any MAN should play with my apple lest he should bite out a piece
• M192 If a MAN live not well he will soon enough be ill spoken of
• M193 If a MAN look not to his horse his halter will strangle him
• M194 If a MAN once fall all will tread on him
• M195 If a MAN will have his business well done he must do it himself
• M196 If every MAN mend one all shall be mended
• M197 If the young MAN knew and the old man could there is nothing but would be done
• M198 It is good to know what a MAN is to trust to
• M199 It is good to work wisely lest a MAN be prevented
• M200 It is hard for one (any) MAN to amend all faults
• M201 It is meet that every MAN be at his own bridal
• M202 It is not given to every MAN to go to Corinth
• M203 It is not good for a MAN to be alone
• M204 It is true that every MAN says
• M205 It would make a MAN scratch where it does not itch to see a man live poor to die rich
• M206 The last MAN that he killed keeps hogs in Hinckley field
• M207 A learned MAN carries his treasure about with him
• M208 Let an ill MAN lie in thy straw and he looks to be thy heir
• M209 Let every MAN have his own
• M210 Let every MAN praise the bridge he goes over
• M211 Like a MAN in a dropsy, the more he drinks the more he may
• M212 A little (low) MAN can fell a great oak
• M213 The lone MAN is wolves' meat
• M214 A long-nosed MAN is seldom a cuckold
• M215 A MAN after one's own heart
• M216 A MAN alone is either a saint or a devil
• M217 A MAN (One) among a thousand
• M218 A MAN assaulted (surprised) is half taken
• M219 A MAN can die but once
• M220 A MAN can do no more than he can
• M221 A MAN cannot be in two places at once
• M222 A MAN cannot be robbed of his learning
• M223 A MAN cannot be too wary
• M224 A MAN cannot be warm without clothes
• M225 A MAN cannot hate music except he be deaf
• M226 A MAN cannot live on air like a chameleon
• M227 A MAN cannot spin and reel at the same time
• M228 A MAN cannot tell where to have him
• M229 A MAN condemned is half beheaded
• M230 A MAN dies of the ill he fears
• M231 MAN does what he can and God what he will
• M232 A MAN far from his good is nigh his harm
• M233 A MAN for all companies
• M234 A MAN has free choice to begin love but not to end it
• M235 A MAN has many enemies when his back is to the wall
• M236 The MAN has no more goods than he gets good of (has need of)
• M237 A MAN heats his iron until it be red hot
• M238 MAN honors the place, not the place the man
• M239 A MAN (thing) in print
• M240 The MAN in the moon
• M241 MAN is a god to man
• M242 A MAN is a lion in his own cause
• M243 A MAN is a man
• M244 A MAN is a man though he have but a hose on his head
• M245 MAN is a wolf to man
• M246 MAN is but a bubble
• M247 MAN is either a god (saint) or a wolf (devil) to man
• M248 A MAN is known by the company he keeps
• M249 A MAN is known to be mortal by sleep and lust
• M250 A MAN is never enriched by another man's goods
• M251 A MAN is never the better for going to Rome
• M252 A MAN is not so soon healed as hurt
• M253 A MAN is nothing but worms' meat
• M254 A MAN is weal or woe as he thinks himself so
• M255 A MAN may as well turn the wind as a woman
• M256 A MAN may bear until his back break
• M257 A MAN may buy gold too dear
• M258 A MAN may cause his own dog to bite him
• M259 A MAN may come soon enough to an ill bargain
• M260 A MAN may hold his peace (tongue) in an ill time
• M261 A MAN may know by his color what is his dolor
• M262 A MAN may lead a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink unless he will
• M263 A MAN may learn wit every day
• M264 A MAN may lose his goods (Many things are lost) for want of demanding (asking) them
• M265 A MAN may lose more in an hour than he can get in seven
• M266 A MAN may love his house (the kirk) well though he ride not on the ridge
• M267 A MAN may soon see what is in him
• M268 A MAN may speer¹ the gate² to Rome
• M269 A MAN may spit in his hand and do full ill
• M270 A MAN may strain his nose until it bleed
• M271 A MAN may woo where he will but he must wed where his hap is
• M272 A MAN must ask excessively to get a little
• M273 A MAN must come to the court as Job and abide there as Ulysses
• M274 A MAN must fear a woman and thunder
• M275 A MAN must go old to the court and young to a cloister that would go from thence to heaven
• M276 A MAN must have an eye in the field and an-other in the village
• M277 A MAN must hear and see in the court and for the rest be blind
• M278 A MAN must keep an even hand
• M279 A MAN must not be too venturous
• M280 A MAN must not leave his way for a little rain
• M281 A MAN must not leave the king's highway for a pathway
• M282 A MAN must not roam above his reach
• M283 A MAN must not shape an answer before that he know the question (errand)
• M284 A MAN must sell his wares according to the rates of the market
• M285 A MAN must take all well in worth that God has sent
• M286 A MAN must yield to the tempest
• M287 A MAN need not look in your mouth to know how old you are (your age)
• M288 A MAN never surfeits of too much honesty
• M289 A MAN of courage (A man who will fight) never wants weapons
• M290 A MAN of gladness seldom falls into madness
• M291 The MAN of God is better for having his bows and arrows about him
• M292 A MAN of great memory without learning has a rock and a spindle and no stuff to spin
• M293 A MAN of many trades begs his bread on Sunday (thrives by none)
• M294 A MAN of straw is worth a woman of gold
• M295 A MAN of three letters
• M296 A MAN of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds
• M297 A MAN or a mouse
• M298 MAN proposes, God disposes
• M299 A MAN should hear all parts ere he judge any
• M300 A MAN that breaks his word bids others be false to him
• M301 A MAN that cannot sit still in his chamber is not fit for business
• M302 A MAN well mounted is ever choleric
• M303 A MAN were better be half blind than have both his eyes out
• M304 A MAN will rather hurt his body than displeas his palate
• M305 A MAN without money is a body without the soul
• M306 A MAN without reason is a beast in season
• M307 A MAN without religion is like a horse without a bridle
• M308 A MAN would live in Italy but he would choose to die in Spain
• M309 Many a MAN makes an errand to the hall to bid the lady good day
• M310 Many MAN serves a thankless master
• M311 Many MAN speers¹ the gate² he knows full well
• M312 A married MAN turns his staff into a stake
• M313 The miserable MAN makes a penny of a farthing, and the liberal, of a farthing sixpence
• M314 Never speak to a fasting MAN
• M315 No living MAN all things can
• M316 No MAN becomes worst at the first dash
• M317 No MAN better knows what is good than he who has endured evil
• M318 No MAN can do two things at once
• M319 No MAN can have every man's good word
• M320 No MAN can make his own hap
• M321 No MAN can play the fool so well as the wise man
• M322 No MAN can serve two masters
• M323 No MAN can thrive heir for¹ throng
• M324 No MAN dies of an ague or without it
• M325 No MAN ever cried stinking fish
• M326 No MAN ever lost his credit (honor) but he that had it not
• M327 No MAN has a lease of his life
• M328 No MAN holds you
• M329 No MAN is a prophet in his own country
• M330 No MAN is a prophet in his own country
• M331 No MAN is born wise
• M332 No MAN is content with his lot
• M333 No MAN is happy before his death
• M334 No MAN is his craft's master the first day
• M335 No MAN is wise at all times
• M336 No MAN knows so well what wealth is as he that has been poor
• M337 No MAN loses (wins) but another wins (loses)
• M338 No MAN loves his fetters though made of gold
• M339 No MAN makes haste to the market where there's nothing to be bought but blows
• M340 No MAN may puind¹ for unkindness
• M341 No MAN ought to be judge in his own cause
• M342 No MAN proves famous but by labor
• M343 No MAN so good (stout) but another may be as good (stout) as he
• M344 No MAN so wise but he may be deceived
• M345 No naked MAN is sought after to be rifled
• M346 An old MAN has one foot in the grave
• M347 An old MAN in a house is a good sign in a house
• M348 An old MAN in love hugs death
• M349 An old MAN is a bed full of bones
• M350 Old MAN, when thou diest give me thy doublet
• M351 One MAN is better than another
• M352 One MAN is better than three
• M353 One MAN (body) is no man (body)
• M354 One MAN is worth a hundred and a hundred are not worth one
• M355 A poor MAN gets a poor marriage
• M356 A poor MAN is fain of little
• M357 The poor MAN pays for all
• M358 The poor MAN turns his cake and another comes and takes it away
• M359 A poor MAN wants some things, a covetous man all things
• M360 The properer (honester) MAN the worse luck
• M361 Rather a MAN without money than money without a man
• M362 Respect a MAN, he will do the more
• M363 A rich MAN and a miserable
• M364 A rich MAN is either wicked himself or the heir of a wicked man
• M365 The rich MAN may dine when he will, the poor man when he may
• M366 The rich MAN walks to get a stomach to his meat, the poor man to get meat for his stomach.
• M367 A Scottish MAN and a Newcastle grindstone travel all the world over
• M368 A Scottish MAN is wise behind the hand
• M369 A scrupulous MAN stumbles and staggers among quicksands and flint stones
• M370 Seldom is a long MAN wise or a low man lowly
• M371 Send a wise MAN on an errand and say nothing unto him
• M372 Shake a Leicestershire MAN by the collar and you shall hear the beans rattle in his belly
• M373 A short MAN needs no stool to give a great lubber a box on the ear
• M374 Show a good MAN his error and he turns it to a virtue; but an ill, it doubles his fault
• M375 Show me the MAN and I will show you the law
• M376 The singing MAN keeps his shop in his throat
• M377 A sleeping MAN is no better than a dead man
• M378 A slothful MAN is a beggar's brother
• M379 A sober MAN a soft answer
• M380 A solitary MAN is either a beast (brute, devil) or an angel (saint, god)
• M381 Speak not of a dead MAN at the table
• M382 Such a MAN as thou would be draw thee to such company
• M383 Such a MAN is one of Saint Paul's mariners
• M384 Such MAN such master
• M385 Take a MAN by his word and a cow by her horn
• M386 That MAN falls low that never again does rise
• M387 That which a MAN causes to be done he does himself
• M388 That which comes from above let no MAN question
• M389 There is no MAN though never so little but sometimes he can hurt
• M390 Therefore a MAN is a cuckold because two can do more than one
• M391 This is that must needs be, quoth the good MAN when he made his wife pin the basket
• M392 A till¹ MAN a will man
• M393 To a crafty MAN a crafty and a half
• M394 To a grateful MAN give money when he asks
• M395 To a red MAN read thy rede, with a brown man break thy bread, at a pale man draw thy knife, from a black man keep thy wife
• M396 To beat a MAN of straw
• M397 To grease a MAN in the fist
• M398 To kill a MAN with a cushion
• M399 To stagger like a drunken MAN
• M400 To take a MAN up as short as a dog in a halter
• M401 To tell a MAN a lie and give him a reason for it
• M402 Today a MAN tomorrow a cuckold
• M403 Today a MAN tomorrow a mouse
• M404 Today a MAN tomorrow none
• M405 What's a MAN but his mind?
• M406 Whatsoever chances to one MAN may happen likewise to all men
• M407 When a MAN is full of lust his womb is full of leasing¹
• M408 When a MAN loses his wife he loses his earthly treasure
• M409 When a MAN sleeps his head is in his stomach
• M410 When an old MAN will not drink go to see him in another world
• M411 Where a MAN does force veins he draws too much blood
• M412 Where every MAN is master the world goes to wrack
• M413 Where shall a MAN have a worse friend than he brings from home?
• M414 Where there is a MAN, there do not thou show thyself a man
• M415 Wherever a MAN dwells he shall be sure to have a thornbush near his door
• M416 Why should a rich MAN steal?
• M417 A wicked MAN is his own hell
• M418 A wight¹ MAN never wanted a weapon
• M419 A willful MAN should be very wise
• M420 A wise MAN changes his mind, a fool never will
• M421 A wise MAN commonly has a fool to his heir (has foolish children)
• M422 Wise MAN if thou art, of thy God take part
• M423 A wise MAN is a wonder
• M424 The wise MAN is deceived but once, the fool twice
• M425 The wise MAN knows himself to be a fool, the fool thinks he is wise
• M426 A wise (valiant) MAN makes every country his own
• M427 A wise MAN makes more opportunities than he finds
• M428 A wise MAN may sometimes (He is not wise who cannot) play the fool
• M429 A wise MAN must bear with many faults
• M430 The wise MAN must carry the fool upon his shoulders
• M431 A wise MAN ought not to be ashamed (need not blush) to change his purpose
• M432 The wisest MAN may be overseen¹
• M433 You are a MAN among the geese when the gander is away
• M434 You are a MAN of a gruellie¹ spirit
• M435 You can call a MAN no worse than unthankful
• M436 You dare as well take a dead MAN by the toe
• M437 You live well when no MAN can lay aught to your charge
• M438 You look like a Murray MAN melting brass
• M439 You may be a wise MAN though you cannot make a watch
• M440 You may know the MAN by his manners
• M441 You'll needs be a MAN before your time
• M442 You'll see the last MAN born
• M443 A young MAN and woman is a match of God's making but a young man and an old woman is of the devil's making
• M444 Better to be an old MAN's darling than a young man's warling¹ (worldling)
• M445 Better to be an old MAN's darling than a young man's warling¹ (worldling)
• M446 The blind MAN's wife needs no painting
• M447 Every MAN's censure¹ is first molded in his own nature
• M448 Every MAN's neighbor is his looking glass
• M449 Every MAN's nose will not make (He has a nose like) a shoeing-horn
• M450 He esteems each MAN's birds and jewels better than his own
• M451 He is in every MAN's debt and danger¹
• M452 He is no MAN's enemy but his own
• M453 He that fills every MAN's mouth needs much meal
• M454 He that keeps another MAN's dog shall have nothing left him but the line
• M455 He that looks in a MAN's face knows not what money is in his purse
• M456 He that meddles with another MAN's trade milks his cow in a pannier
• M457 He that waits on another MAN's trencher¹ makes many a late dinner
• M458 An honest MAN's word is as good as his bond
• M459 An honest MAN's word is his master
• M460 I am no MAN's wife
• M461 In the wise MAN's mouth what is public (manifest) is secret
• M462 It is best to use another MAN's madness
• M463 It is dangerous to feed another MAN's dog
• M464 It is every MAN's case
• M465 A jealous MAN's horns hang in his eyes
• M466 The liberal MAN's bags are always ready
• M467 A MAN's best fortune or his worst is a wife
• M468 A MAN's country is where he does well
• M469 A MAN's destiny is always dark
• M470 A MAN's discontent is his worst evil
• M471 MAN's extremity is God's opportunity
• M472 A MAN's gift makes room for him
• M473 A MAN's house is his castle
• M474 A MAN's liberty is his paradise
• M475 A MAN's mind often gives him warning of evil to come
• M476 A MAN's praise in his own mouth does stink
• M477 A MAN's wisdom is his sobriety
• M478 An old MAN's best praise is his prayer
• M479 An old MAN's end is to keep sheep
• M480 The old MAN's staff is the rapper at death's door
• M481 An old wise MAN's shadow is better than a young buzzard's sword
• M482 One MAN's breath is another man's death
• M483 One MAN's meat is another man's poison
• M484 A poor MAN's cow dies, a rich man's child
• M485 A poor MAN's table is soon spread
• M486 A poor MAN's tale cannot (may now) be heard
• M487 Put another MAN's child in your bosom and he'll creep out at your elbow (sleeve)
• M488 Ready to dance to (run at) every MAN's pipe (whistle)
• M489 A rich MAN's money hangs him oftentimes (is his enemy)
• M490 To be MAN's meat
• M491 To go on a dead MAN's errand
• M492 To kiss a MAN's wife or wipe his knife is a thankless office
• M493 To meddle (Meddle not) with another MAN's matter
• M494 To play at blind MAN's buffet
• M495 An unhappy MAN's cart is easy to tumble
• M496 A valiant MAN's look is more than a coward's sword
• M497 When a MAN's house burns it's not good playing at chess
• M498 A wicked MAN's gift has a touch of his master
• M499 You knock (sing) at a deaf MAN's door
• M500 You set an old MAN's head on a young man's shoulders
• M501 All MEN are made of the same metal
• M502 All Men are mortal
• M503 All MEN be not true
• M504 All MEN cannot abide to hear the truth
• M505 All MEN must die
• M506 Amongst good MEN two men suffice
• M507 Barefooted MEN need not tread on thorns
• M508 Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other MEN
• M509 Charitable MEN lose nothing
• M510 Dead MEN bite not (do no harm)
• M511 Dead MEN tell no tales
• M512 Do as most MEn do and fewest will speak evil of you
• M513 Do well and let MEN say what they will
• M514 Dying MEN speak true (prophesy)
• M515 Feared MEN be fearful
• M516 Few MEN and much meat make a feast
• M517 Few MEN have been admired by their domes-tics (familiars)
• M518 From good MEN comes goodness
• M519 Good MEN are a public good
• M520 Good MEN are pitiful¹
• M521 Good MEN are scarce
• M522 Good MEN find not their country kind
• M523 Great MEN are great idols
• M524 Great MEN have great faults
• M525 Great MEN have their ends when they countenance the poor
• M526 He that all MEN will please shall never find ease
• M527 He that converses not with MEN knows nothing
• M528 Honest MEN and knaves may possibly wear the same cloth
• M529 Honest MEN marry soon, wise men not at all
• M530 Hooly¹ and fair, MEN ride far journeys
• M531 If all MEN may say that thou art an ass then bray
• M532 If great MEN would have care of little ones both would last long
• M533 In young MEN to err is less shame
• M534 It is not good to trust to all MEN
• M535 Keep good MEN company and you shall be of the number
• M536 Keep not ill MEN company lest you increase the number
• M537 Many MEN do lack¹ what they would fain have in their pack
• M538 Married MEN need (need not) many eyes
• M539 MEN are best loved farthest off
• M540 MEN are blind in their own cause
• M541 MEN are but men
• M542 MEN are made of clay but women are made of men
• M543 MEN are never wise but returning from law
• M544 MEN are not angels
• M545 MEN are not made of steel
• M546 MEN are not measured by the yard or ell (by inches)
• M547 MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark
• M548 MEN get wealth and women keep it
• M549 MEN go over the dike at the lowest
• M550 MEN know when they were born but not where they shall die
• M551 MEN love to hear well of themselves
• M552 MEN make the wolf worse than he is
• M553 MEN (Women) may blush to hear what they were not ashamed to act (do)
• M554 MEN must do as they may (can), not as they would
• M555 MEN (Men's love), not walls, make the city (prince) safe
• M556 MEN of his hair are seen oftener at the B- court than at the gallows
• M557 MEN speak of the fair as things went with them there
• M558 MEN take bitter potions for sweet health
• M559 MEN use him ill that has ill luck
• M560 MEN use to do as their betters
• M561 MEN will strain hard for profit
• M562 MEN will talk on it when we be dead, do what we can
• M563 Mind other MEN but most yourself
• M564 Most MEN are great braggers
• M565 Never speak ill of MEN behind their backs
• M566 Of young MEN die many, of old men scape not any
• M567 Old MEN and far travelers may lie by authority
• M568 Old MEN are covetous by nature
• M569 Old MEN are forgetful
• M570 Old MEN are twice children (bairns)
• M571 Old MeN carry an almanac in their bones
• M572 Old MEN go to death, death comes to young men
• M573 Old MEN when they scorn (seem) young make much of death
• M574 Old MEN wish, wise men warn, and young men work
• M575 Passionate MEN, like fleet hounds, are apt to overrun the scent
• M576 Poor MEN go to heaven as soon as rich
• M577 Poor MEN have no souls
• M578 Rich MEN are stewards for the poor
• M579 Rich MEN may do anything
• M580 Rich MEN may have what they will
• M581 Say as MEN say but think to yourself
• M582 So many MEN in court and so many strangers
• M583 So many MEN so many minds
• M584 Some MEN plant an opinion they seem to eradicate
• M585 Temperate MEN are the wisest
• M586 There are more MEN threatened than struck
• M587 There be many witty MEN yet their brains cannot fill their bellies
• M588 Think well of all MEN
• M589 Threatened MEN eat bread
• M590 Three merry MEN and three merry men and three merry men be we
• M591 To dead MEN and absent there are no friends left
• M592 Two MEN bear a feather
• M593 We are but MEN, not gods
• M594 Weak MEN had need be witty
• M595 When all MEN have what belongs to them it cannot be much
• M596 When all MEN speak no MAN hears
• M597 Where MEN are well used they will frequent there
• M598 Whom great MEN wrong they hate
• M599 Wise MEN are caught in wiles
• M600 Wise MEN care not for what they cannot have
• M601 Wise MEN do the work and fools brag of it
• M602 Wise MEN have their mouth (tongue) in their heart, fools their heart in their mouth (tongue)
• M603 Wise MEN labor, good men grieve, knaves invent, and fools believe
• M604 Wise MEN make proverbs and fools repeat them
• M605 Wise MEN propose and fools dispose
• M606 Wise MEN silent, fools talk
• M607 Worthy MEN shall be remembered
• M608 You go as if nine MEN held you
• M609 Young MEN may die, old men must die
• M610 Young MEN think old men fools but old men know that young men be fools
• M611 Great MEN's sons seldom do well
• M612 Happy is he whom other MEN's harms make beware
• M613 He fares well of other MEN's cost
• M614 He lives upon other MEN's death
• M615 It is good to (He is wise who can) beware by other MEN's harms
• M616 Old MEN's counsel and young men's actions
• M617 They are wise in other MEN's matters and fools in their own
• M618 Who can hold MEN's tongues?
• M619 Who waits for dead MEN's shoes shall go long barefoot
• M620 Young MEN's knocks old men feel