Proverbs starting with "M"

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• M1 You might carry (have) an M under your girdle
• M2 A MACKEREL SKY
• M3 MADAM PARNELL, crack the nut and eat the kernel
• M4 Go here away, go there away, quoth MADGE WHITWORTH when she rode the mare in the tedder
• M5 When the MAGGOT bites
• M6 To have MAGGOTS in the brain
• M7 The MAGICIAN mutters and knows not what he mutters
• M8 He that buys MAGISTRACY must sell justice
• M9 As proper as the MAGNIFICAT in the morning (at matins)
• M10 Some correct MAGNIFICAT that know not Te Deum (Quid significat)
• M11 You correct MAGNIFICAT
• M12 MAGNITUDE is no virtue
• M13 To be suspended like MAHOMET's tomb between heaven and earth
• M14 As good a MAID as her mother
• M15 Every MAID is undone
• M16 A gazing and gadding MAID seldom proves good housewife
• M17 He that woos a MAID must come seldom in her sight but he that woos a widow must woo her day and night
• M18 He that woos a MAID must feign, lie, and flatter; but he that woos a widow must down with his breeches and at her
• M19 A MAID and a virgin is not all one
• M20 A MAID oft seen, a gown oft worn, are dis-esteemed and held in scorn
• M21 A MAID that gives yields
• M22 A MAID that laughs is half taken
• M23 A MAID that loves too soon will repent too late
• M24 The MAID which takes, sells herself; the maid which gives, forsakes herself
• M25 She is a good MAID, but for thought, word, and deed
• M26 She is neither MAID, wife, nor widow
• M27 This MAID was born odd
• M28 To speak with a MAID
• M29 While the tall MAID (a tall Meg of Westminster¹) is stooping the little one (a short wench) sweeps the house
• M30 Who knows who's a good MAID?
• M31 A young MAID married to an old man is like a new house thatched with old straw
• M32 All the MAIDS in Wanswell may dance in an egg-shell
• M33 As merry as the MAIDS
• M34 MAIDS say nay and take it
• M35 MAIDS want nothing but husbands and when they have them they want everything
• M36 Meeterly,¹ as MAIDS are in fairness
• M37 Old MAIDS lead apes in hell
• M38 Suffolk fair MAIDS
• M39 There are more MAIDS than Malkin
• M40 There are never the fewer MAIDS for her
• M41 He that invented the MAIDEN first hanselled¹ it
• M42 A tear-eyed MAIDEN was aye thrice greedy
• M43 You are like an old MAIDEN, you look aloft
• M44 MAIDENS should be meek till they be married
• M45 MAIDENS should be seen and not heard
• M46 The MAIN lost, cast the bye¹ away
• M47 If you MAKE it not better make it not worse
• M48 To MAKE or mar
• M49 You MAKE me scratch (claw) where it does not itch.
• M50 MALICE has a sharp sight and a strong memory
• M51 MALICE hurts itself most
• M52 MALICE is mindful
• M53 MALICE never speaks well
• M54 More MALICE than matter
• M55 More MALLETS than anvils
• M56 As the MALT is so will the drink be, strong or small, good or bad
• M57 The MALT is above the water
• M58 MALT is above the wheat (meal) with him
• M59 The MALTMAN comes on Monday
• M60 It is merry when MALTMEN meet
• M61 I stand in a MAMMERING
• 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
• M621 He has stolen a MANCHET¹ out of the brewer's basket
• M622 As full of good MANNERS as an egg is of oatmeal
• M623 Good MANNERS are durable but beauty is per-ishing
• M624 Good MANNERS to except my Lord Mayor of London
• M625 Ill MANNERS (lives) produce good laws
• M626 It is not good MANNERS to offer salt or brains
• M627 It is not good MANNERS to show your learning before ladies
• M628 Let him mend his MANNERS, it will be his own another day
• M629 MANNERS make a man, quoth William of Wickham
• M630 MANNERS make often fortunes
• M631 You know good MANNERS but you use but a few
• M632 Thou wilt lie all MANNER of colors but blue and that is gone to the litting¹
• M633 To take one with the MANNER
• M634 He that works after his own MANNER his head aches not at the matter
• M635 You are a MAN OF DURSLEY
• M636 As wise as a MAN OF GOTHAM¹
• M637 Between MAN OF WAR and man of war there's nothing got but dry blows
• M638 Too MANY to be good
• M639 The fine MARBLE needs no painting
• M640 He is as sure as MARCH in Lent
• M641 MARCH comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
• M642 MARCH in Janiveer, Janiveer in March I fear
• M643 MARCH many weathers
• M644 A windy MARCH and a rainy April make a beau-tiful May
• M645 He is MARCHED off
• M646 Away the MARE
• M647 The gray MARE is the better horse
• M648 He that speaks ill of the MARE will buy her
• M649 I will not go (run) before my MARE to market
• M650 The MARE lame, the colt the like
• M651 My old MARE would have a new crupper
• M652 Ride who will, the MARE is shod
• M653 She simpers as a MARE when she eats thistles
• M654 This (Thus) bit the MARE by the thumb
• M655 To ride (shoe) the wild MARE
• M656 When the MARE has a bald face the filly will have a blaze
• M657 Whose MARE is dead?
• M658 He has found a MARE's nest and laughs at the eggs
• M659 A MARE's shoe and a horse's shoe are both alike
• M660 There are more MARES in the wood than Grissel
• M661 MARGERY, good cow, gives a good meal (pail) of milk but throws it down with her heels
• M662 To water the MARIGOLDS
• M663 MARINERS' craft is the grossest and the subtlest handicraft that is
• M664 Well remembered, MARION
• M665 She has a MARK after her mother
• M666 To make one to toe his MARK
• M667 He shoots well that hits the MARK
• M668 He shoots wide of the MARK
• M669 To miss his MARK (aim)
• M670 As the MARKET goes wives must sell
• M671 Forsake not (He loses) the MARKET for the toll
• M672 He has made a good MARKET
• M673 He that cannot abide a bad MARKET deserves not a good one
• M674 He that means to make a good MARKET of his ware must watch an opportunity to open his shop
• M675 The MARKET is the best garden
• M676 You may know how the MARKET goes by the market folks
• M677 To make our own MARKETS
• M678 To walk penniless in MARK LANE¹
• M679 An ill MARRIAGE is a spring of ill fortune
• M680 MARRIAGE and magistrate be destinies of heaven
• M681 MARRIAGE is a lottery
• M682 MARRIAGE is destiny
• M683 MARRIAGE is honorable
• M684 MARRIAGE is honorable but housekeeping is a shrew
• M685 MARRIAGE rides upon the saddle and repentance on the crupper
• M686 This is a goodly MARRIAGE (match) were the woman away
• M687 At MARRIAGES and burials friends and kinsfolk be known
• M688 MARRIAGES are made in heaven
• M689 Blow out the MARROW and throw the bone to the dogs
• M690 He is blind that eats his MARROW but far blinder that lets him
• M691 The MARROWBONE of the matter
• M692 It is better to MARRY than to burn
• M693 It is good to MARRY late or never
• M694 MARRY today repent tomorrow
• M695 They who MARRY where they do not love will love where they do not marry
• M696 To MARRY young is too early, to marry old is too late
• M697 He that MARRIES late marries ill
• M698 Who MARRIES does well, who marries not does better
• M699 He that is needy when he is MARRIED shall be rich when he is buried
• M700 It is dangerous MARRYING a widow because she has cast her rider
• M701 MARRYING is marring
• M702 MARTIN said to his man, Who is the fool now?
• M703 It is better to be a MARTYR (confessor) than a confessor (martyr)
• M704 No MARVEL if old men be sick
• M705 No MARVEL if water be lue¹
• M706 No MARVEL it is if the imps follow when the devil goes before
• M707 He is an ill MASON that refuses any stone
• M708 Neither MASS nor matins
• M709 Short MASS and long dinner
• M710 Better speak to the MASTER than the man
• M711 Do as thy MASTER commands thee and sit down at table
• M712 Early MASTER long knave¹
• M713 Everyone is MASTER and servant
• M714 He can ill be MASTER that never was scholar
• M715 He is MASTER of another man's life who contemns his own
• M716 He never thrives who with his MASTER strives
• M717 He that is a MASTER must serve another
• M718 He that serves a good MASTER shall have good wages
• M719 If the MASTER bid go the servant must run
• M720 If the MASTER say the crow is white the servant must not say 'tis black
• M721 An ill MASTER makes bad scholars
• M722 It is better to be a MASTER than a servant
• M723 Like (Such a) MASTER like (such a) man (ser-vant)
• M724 Like MASTER like scholar
• M725 The MASTER absent and the house dead
• M726 A MASTER of straw eats a servant of steel
• M727 Most MASTER wears no breech
• M728 None is born a MASTER
• M729 One MASTER in a house is enough
• M730 Right, MASTER, right; four nobles a year is a crown a quarter
• M731 A sleepy MASTER makes his servant a lout
• M732 You challenge him that may be your MASTER
• M733 The MASTER's eye makes the horse fat
• M734 The MASTER's footsteps fatten the soil
• M735 Many MASTERS, quoth the paddock¹ to the harrow when every tine took her a knock
• M736 MASTERS love services and not the servants
• M737 MASTERS should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf
• M738 He is like the MASTER BEE that leads forth the swarm
• M739 Blurt, MASTER CONSTABLE
• M740 O MASTER VIER, we cannot pay you your rent, for we had no grace of God this year, no ship-wreck upon our coast
• M741 MASTERY mows the meadow down
• M742 A MASTIFF grows the fiercer for being tied up
• M743 The MASTIFF never loves the greyhound (A churl never cares for a gentleman)
• M744 Though the MASTIFF be gentle yet bite him not by the lip
• M745 He has met with his MATCH
• M746 A MATCH, quoth Jack (Hatch, John) when he kissed his dame (when he got his wife by the breech )
• M747 Meddle with your MATCH
• M748 They are well MATCHED
• M749 As comfortable as MATRIMONY
• M750 All the MATTER is not in my Lord Judge's hand
• M751 He would carry the MATTER invisibly in a cloud (not be seen in the matter)
• M752 It is an easy MATTER to kiss a man's tail when the breeches be down
• M753 The MATTER itself will lie for neither of us both
• M754 Much MATTER of a wooden platter
• M755 To mince the MATTER
• M756 Do not speak of secret MATTERS in a field that is full of little hills
• M757 Great MATTERS are not compassed in a moment
• M758 Let him meddle with his own MATTERS
• M759 No MATTER how but whether
• M760 No MATTER what's the disease when God is the physician
• M761 It is not the MATTER (words) but the mind
• M762 Go dig at MAVORN¹ HILL
• M763 As fresh as MAY
• M764 A cold MAY and a windy makes a full barn and a findy¹
• M765 Come it early, come it late, in MAY comes the cowquake
• M766 A hot MAY makes a fat churchyard
• M767 A red gay MAY is best in any year, February full snow is to the ground most dear, a whistling March that makes the plowman blithe, and moist April that fits him for the scythe
• M768 To match MAY with December (January)
• M769 Who that MAY not as they would, will as they may
• M770 Every MAYBE has a may not be
• M771 A MAY FLOOD never did good
• M772 To do what one can to get up MAY HILL
• M773 The MAYOR OF ALTRINGHAM and the Mayor of Over, the one is a thatcher, the other a dauber
• M774 The MAYOR OF ALTRINGHAM lies in bed while his breeches are mending
• M775 He is to be summoned before the MAYOR OF HALGAVER
• M776 Like the MAYOR OF HARTLEPOOL, you cannot do that
• M777 The MAYOR OF NORTHAMPTON opens oysters with his dagger
• M778 As tall as a MAYPOLE
• M779 Little MEAD little need
• M780 He will hide himself in a mown MEADOW
• M781 A thin MEADOW is soon mowed
• M782 He can hold MEAL in his mouth and blow
• M783 Many care for MEAL that have baked bread enough
• M784 The MEAL of the devil turns half to bran
• M785 To leave the MEAL and take the bran
• M786 A good MEAL, a bad meal, and a middling meal preserves a man in health
• M787 He fasts enough that has a bad MEAL
• M788 Better are MEALS many than one too merry
• M789 Two hungry (ill) MEALS make the third a glutton
• M790 Poor be your MEAL-POKE and aye your neive¹ in the nook of it
• M791 He is MEALYMOUTHED
• M792 The golden MEAN is best
• M793 The MEAN (The merry mean) is the best
• M794 Fair MEANS prevail more than foul
• M795 Many MEANS to get money
• M796 Use the MEANS and God will give the blessing
• M797 One may know your MEANING by your gaping (mumping)
• M798 London¹ (Water, Billingsgate) MEASURE
• M799 Macclesfield (Maxfield) MEASURE, heap and thrust
• M800 MEASURE for measure
• M801 With what MEASURE you mete it shall be measured unto you
• M802 Feed by MEASURE (sparingly) and defy the physician
• M803 He that forsakes MEASURE, measure forsakes him
• M804 MEASURE is a merry mean
• M805 MEASURE is treasure
• M806 There is a MEASURE (mean) in all things
• M807 MEASURE thrice what thou buyest and cut it but once
• M808 He that MEASURES not himself is measured
• M809 After MEAT comes mustard
• M810 All MEAT pleases not all mouths
• M811 Better have MEAT than fine clothes
• M812 Dear MEAT is a thief
• M813 Eat thy MEAT and drink thy drink and stand thy ground, old Harry
• M814 Eaten MEAT is good to pay
• M815 Good to be merry at MEAT
• M816 He brings (carries) MEAT in his mouth
• M817 He has eaten his roast MEAT first
• M818 He hides his MEAT and seeks more
• M819 He loves roast MEAT well that licks the spit
• M820 I never loved MEAT that crowed in my crop
• M821 If you wanted me and your MEAT you would want one good friend
• M822 It is better to want MEAT than guests or company
• M823 It is not MEAT for every mouth
• M824 MEAT and drink and leisure is good for work-folks
• M825 MEAT (Oats) and mass (matins) never hindered man (hinder no man's journey)
• M826 MEAT is much (good) but manners (mense¹) is more (better)
• M827 MEAT makes and cloth shapes but manners make a man
• M828 MEAT was made for mouths
• M829 Much MEAT much malady
• M830 Never be ashamed to eat your MEAT
• M831 New MEAT begets a new appetite
• M832 No MEAT for mowers (your mowing)
• M833 Of all the MEAT in the world drink goes best down
• M834 Put not thy MEAT in an unclean dish
• M835 Quick at MEAT quick at work
• M836 Salt MEAT draws down drink apace
• M837 She is MEAT for your master
• M838 Show me not (Look not on) the MEAT but show me (look on) the man
• M839 Sweet MEAT must have sour sauce
• M840 There is MEAT in a goose eye¹
• M841 They that have no other MEAT, bread and butter are glad to eat
• M842 To be MEAT and drink to one
• M843 To mar good MEAT by ill cooking
• M844 To measure the MEAT by the man
• M845 What they want in MEAT let them take in drink
• M846 When MEAT is in anger is out
• M847 The wholesomest MEAT is at another man's cost
• M848 You are in your roast MEAT when others are in their sod
• M849 You cannot fare well but you must cry roast MEAT
• M850 All MEATS to be eaten, all maids to be wed
• M851 Every MEDAL has its reverse
• M852 I will neither MEDDLE nor make
• M853 I will not MEDDLE with him hot or cold
• M854 MEDDLE with what you have to do
• M855 A MEDDLER is as he that takes a wolf by the ears
• M856 It is no MEDDLING with our betters
• M857 It is no MEDDLING with short daggers
• M858 Of little MEDDLING comes great rest (ease)
• M859 Of much MEDDLING comes no sound sleeping
• M860 There is no MEDICINE (remedy) for fear
• M861 MEDICINES be not meat to live by
• M862 Unskillful MEDICINERS and horse marshals slay both man and beast
• M863 MEDLARS¹ are never good till they be rotten
• M864 Merry MEET and merry part
• M865 As long as MEG OF WESTMINSTER
• M866 MELANCHOLY is the pathway to madness
• M867 A MELON and a woman are hard to be known
• M868 A MELTETH¹ of meat is the best gift ever a man gave
• M869 He that has a good MEMORY gives few alms
• M870 MEMORY is the treasure of the mind
• M871 Who has no MEMORY (understanding) let him have legs
• M872 The MENDS¹ is in his own hands
• M873 MENDS¹ is worth misdeeds
• M874 Either MEND or end
• M875 It is never too late to MEND (repent)
• M876 They hold together as the MEN OF MARHAM when they lost their common
• M877 The MEN OF TIVIDALE have likers, lemans, and lier-bys
• M878 MERCHANDISE will have neither friends nor kindred
• M879 There is no MERCHANDISE but usury
• M880 As good MERCHANT tines¹ as wins
• M881 Either a MERCHANT or a thief
• M882 He is a MERCHANT of eelskins
• M883 He is a MERCHANT without money or ware
• M884 He is not a MERCHANT bare that has money, worth, or ware
• M885 He promises like a MERCHANT but pays like a man of war
• M886 He that buys and sells is called a MERCHANT
• M887 He that could know what would be dear need be a MERCHANT but one year
• M888 He that loses is MERCHANT as well as he that gains
• M889 A MERCHANT that gains not, loses
• M890 The MERCHANT that loses cannot laugh
• M891 To play the MERCHANT with us
• M892 Today a MERCHANT tomorrow a miscreant
• M893 A MERCURY is not made of every wood
• M894 Be thou sick or whole, put MERCURY in thy coal
• M895 He shall find MERCY that merciful is
• M896 I cry you MERCY, I killed your cushion
• M897 I cry you MERCY, I took you for a joint stool
• M898 It is in their MERCY that kings come closest to gods
• M899 MERCY is a salve for every sore
• M900 MERRY-GO-DOWN
• M901 A MERRY GREEK
• M902 To keep yet one MESS for Alyson in store
• M903 He is a corbie¹ MESSENGER
• M904 To come before the MESSENGER
• M905 MESSENGERS should neither be headed nor hanged
• M906 METAL upon metal is false heraldry
• M907 METE and measure make men wise
• M908 As old as METHUSELAH
• M909 METTLE is dangerous in a blind horse
• M910 MEUM and tuum
• M911 As light as a MEW
• M912 Make not two MEWS of one daughter
• M913 As MICKLE up with as mickle down with
• M914 Make not MICKLE of little
• M915 MICKLE must a good heart thole¹
• M916 MICKLE spoken, part must spill
• M917 Better woo (marry) over the MIDDEN¹ than over the moor (moss)
• M918 You would marry a MIDDEN¹ for muck
• M919 As slender in the MIDDLE as a cow in the waist
• M920 You ride as if you went to fetch the MIDWIFE
• M921 Either by MIGHT or by sleight
• M922 MIGHT overcomes right
• M923 With MIGHT and main
• M924 Every MILE is two in winter
• M925 A Welsh MILE
• M926 Within a MILE of an oak
• M927 I will go twenty MILES on your errand first
• M928 You are right for the first - MILES
• M929 The MILESIANS were valiant in the days of yore
• M930 As natural to him as MILK to a calf
• M931 As white as MILK
• M932 Bristol MILK
• M933 I will have none of your flat MILK
• M934 If you would live forever you must wash the MILK from your liver
• M935 MILK is white and lies not in the dike, but all men know it good meat
• M936 MILK says to wine, Welcome, friend
• M937 Suffolk MILK
• M938 Their MILK is sod over
• M939 To cry for spilt MILK
• M940 Born in a MILL
• M941 He that comes first to the MILL grinding first
• M942 His MILL will go with all winds
• M943 I am loath to change my MILL
• M944 The MILL cannot grind with the water that is past
• M945 The MILL gets by going
• M946 The MILL stands that wants water
• M947 A new MILL does grind the corn well
• M948 No MILL no meal
• M949 Who cannot go to one MILL let him essay another
• M950 You had as lief go to MILL as to mass
• M951 MILLS and wives are ever wanting
• M952 Every MILLER draws water to his own mill
• M953 An honest MILLER has a golden thumb
• M954 The MILLER got never better moulter¹ than he took with his own hands
• M955 The MILLER is a thief
• M956 Not grind with every false MILLER
• M957 Put a MILLER, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag and shake them, the first that comes out will be a thief
• M958 Toll it again, quoth the MILLER
• M959 As stout as a MILLER's waistcoat, that takes a thief by the neck every day
• M960 Like a MILLER's mare
• M961 No bigger than a MILLER's thumb
• M962 To put out the MILLER's eye
• M963 You breed of the MILLER's dog, you lick your lips (mouth) ere the poke be open
• M964 To have thwitten¹ a MILLPOST to a pudding-prick
• M965 I can see as far into a MILLSTONE as another man
• M966 The lower MILLSTONE grinds as well as the upper
• M967 He weeps MILLSTONES
• M968 To rain MILLSTONES
• M969 A contented MIND is a continual feast
• M970 His bashful MIND hinders his good intent
• M971 His MIND is on his meat
• M972 My MIND to me a kingdom is
• M973 The resolved MIND has no cares
• M974 A sound MIND in a sound body
• M975 A willing MIND makes a light foot
• M976 Crabbed MINDS are pleased with nothing
• M977 Unsound MINDS, like unsound bodies, if you feed you poison
• M978 You will never be mad (married), you are of so many MINDS
• M979 MIND that you must live by
• M980 What is MINE is yours and what is yours is mine (your own)
• M981 MINISTERS are the chariots of souls
• M982 When the MINSTREL plays at his own charges it is meet that he have an instrument after his own mind
• M983 After long MINT never dint¹
• M984 He that takes MINT to the bed will never get bairns
• M985 New out of the MINT
• M986 MINT¹ ere you strike
• M987 The first MINUTE after noon is night
• M988 He is gotten out of the MIRE and is fallen into the river
• M989 To leave (lie) in the MIRE
• M990 The best MIRROR is an old friend
• M991 A mirk¹ MIRROR is a man's mind
• M992 The MIRROR of a prince is justice
• M993 MIRTH without measure is madness
• M994 There is no MIRTH without mourning
• M995 Better once a MISCHIEF than always an inconvenience
• M996 He that MISCHIEF hatches mischief catches
• M997 If we would avoid a MISCHIEF we must not be very kind and familiar with an evil man
• M998 MISCHIEF comes by pounds and goes away by ounces
• M999 MISCHIEF comes without calling for
• M999a One must not bemoan (wail) a MISCHIEF but find out a remedy for it
• M1000 There is no MISCHIEF but a priest at one end
• M1001 There is no MISCHIEF in the world done but a woman is always one
• M1002 To practice MISCHIEF in huggermugger
• M1003 With a MISCHIEF
• M1004 MISCHIEFS, like waves, never come alone
• M1005 A MISER, like a hog, does no good until he dies
• M1006 He bears MISERY best that hides it most
• M1007 MISERY may be the mother when one beggar begs of another
• M1008 MISERY shows the man what he is
• M1009 No MISERY to imprisonment
• M1010 Once to have been happy is MISERY enough (Remembrance of past pleasures augments present pains)
• M1011 He gains enough that loses MISFORTUNE (for-tune)
• M1012 MISFORTUNE (Evil) never (seldom) comes alone
• M1013 One MISFORTUNE comes on the neck of another
• M1014 MISRECKONING (Wrong count) is no payment
• M1015 He will be MISSED when he is gone
• M1016 A Scotch MIST will wet an Englishman to the skin
• M1017 To cast a MIST before one's eyes
• M1018 MISTER¹ makes men of craft
• M1019 Hackney¹ MISTRESS hackney maid
• M1020 He that makes (makes not) his MISTRESS (wife) a goldfinch may perhaps find her a wagtail
• M1021 If you can kiss the MISTRESS never kiss the maid
• M1022 Like MISTRESS like maid
• M1023 You cannot love both at once the MISTRESS and her maid Malkin
• M1024 The MISTRESS's eye feeds the capon
• M1025 MISUNDERSTANDING brings lies to town
• M1026 I care not (Not worth) a MITE
• M1027 No MITER no crown
• M1028 To handle without MITTENS
• M1029 The MOB has many heads but no brains
• M1030 To MOCK and mow
• M1031 He who MOCKS shall be mocked
• M1032 MODESTY sets off one newly come to honor
• M1033 She that loses her MODESTY and honesty has nothing else worth losing (never finds them again)
• M1034 As blind as a MOLE
• M1035 Of a MOLEHILL he makes a mountain
• M1036 MONDAY flit, never sit
• M1037 MONDAY is Sunday's fellow
• M1038 Dally not with MONEY or women
• M1039 He begins to build too soon that has not MONEY to finish it
• M1040 He for my MONEY
• M1041 He that has it and will not keep it, he that wants it and will not seek it, he that drinks and is not dry shall want MONEY as well as I
• M1041a He that has MONEY has most things
• M1042 He that has MONEY in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders
• M1043 He that has no MONEY needs no purse
• M1044 He that hoards up MONEY takes pains for other men
• M1045 He that plays his MONEY ought not to value it
• M1046 He that wants MONEY wants all things
• M1047 He who has MONEY and capers is provided for Lent
• M1048 His MONEY burns in his purse (pocket)
• M1049 His MONEY comes from him like drops of blood
• M1050 If MONEY go before all ways lie open
• M1051 MONEY and good manners make the gentle-man
• M1052 MONEY answers all things
• M1053 MONEY begets money
• M1054 MONEY breeds rage; love, marriage
• M1055 MONEY does either serve as a slave (servant) or command as a master
• M1056 MONEY is a dangerous bait for soldiers
• M1057 MONEY is a great comfort
• M1058 MONEY is a great master in a market
• M1059 MONEY is a great traveler in the world
• M1060 MONEY is a monarch
• M1061 MONEY is heard everywhere
• M1062 MONEY is often lost for want of money
• M1063 MONEY is round and so quickly rolls away
• M1064 MONEY is that which art has turned up trump
• M1065 MONEY is the best lawyer
• M1066 MONEY is the principal word in this house
• M1067 MONEY is the sinews of war
• M1068 MONEY is welcome everywhere
• M1069 MONEY is welcome though it come in a dirty clout
• M1070 MONEY is wise, it knows its way
• M1071 MONEY, like dung, does no good till it is spread
• M1072 MONEY makes all right that is wrong
• M1073 MONEY makes friends enemies
• M1074 MONEY makes marriage
• M1075 MONEY makes masteries (masters)
• M1076 MONEY makes the man
• M1077 MONEY makes the mare to go (the old wife trot)
• M1078 MONEY makes the merchant
• M1079 MONEY never comes out of season
• M1080 MONEY refused loses its brightness
• M1081 MONEY stands always with cap in hand to take exchange
• M1082 MONEY wants no followers
• M1083 MONEY wants no followers
• M1084 MONEY will do anything
• M1085 MONEY will do more than my lord's letter
• M1086 MONEY will make the pot boil
• M1087 Much MONEY makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on everything
• M1088 No MONEY (chink) no drink
• M1089 No MONEY no Swiss
• M1090 Put MONEY in thy purse
• M1091 Ready MONEY is a ready medicine
• M1092 Ready MONEY will away
• M1093 Tell¹ MONEY after your own father
• M1094 They can find MONEY for mischief when they can find none to buy corn
• M1095 They left him as bare of MONEY as an ape of a tail
• M1096 They that take MONEY must pay all the charges
• M1097 To get MONEY from him is like pulling teeth
• M1098 To have MONEY is a fear, not to have it a grief
• M1099 To make MONEY with one's teeth
• M1100 To send good MONEY after bad
• M1101 Too much MONEY makes one mad
• M1102 What will not (cannot) MONEY (gold) do?
• M1103 When the MONEY is paid the arms are broken
• M1104 Would you know what MONEY is? Go borrow some
• M1105 MONMOUTH CAPS
• M1106 The merry MONTH of May
• M1107 Who intends to have a good MONTH, let him to the bath; a good year, let him marry; a good week, let him kill a hog; who will be happy always, let him turn priest
• M1108 Better is one MONTH's cheer than a churl's whole life
• M1109 To have a MONTH's mind to a person (thing)
• M1110 All the MONTHS in the year curse a fair February
• M1111 As changeful (inconstant) as the MOON
• M1112 As full as the MOON
• M1113 A fine MOON, God bless her
• M1114 He casts beyond the MOON
• M1115 He will shoot higher that shoots at the MOON (sun) than he who aims at the tree
• M1116 He would make him believe that the MOON is made of green cheese
• M1117 It is midsummer MOON with you
• M1118 The MOON directs more than the sun
• M1119 The MOON does not heed the barking dog
• M1120 The MOON is not seen where the sun shines
• M1121 Once in a MOON
• M1122 Pale MOON does rain, red moon does blow
• M1123 To bark against the MOON
• M1124 To take the MOON between one's teeth
• M1125 To watch in the MOON and sleep in the sun is neither profit nor honor
• M1126 White MOON does neither rain nor snow
• M1127 Old MOON-MIST never dies of thirst
• M1128 He strives for the MOONSHINE in the water
• M1129 Thou shalt have MOONSHINE in the mustard pot (water pot) for it
• M1130 As tawny (black) as a MOOR¹
• M1131 The more MOORS the better victory (the more gain)
• M1132 Three MOORS to a Portuguese, three Portuguese to an Englishman
• M1133 It is a bare MOOR he goes over and gets not a cow
• M1134 As melancholy as MOORDITCH¹
• M1135 Good is the MORA¹ that makes all sure
• M1136 He is up with the MORE and down with the less
• M1137 He knew no MORE than the Pope of Rome
• M1138 He owes MORE than he is worth
• M1139 He that does kiss and do no MORE may kiss behind and not before
• M1140 He that is suffered to do MORE than is fitting will do more than is lawful
• M1141 He that is suffered to do MORE than is fitting will do more than is lawful
• M1142 I will say no MORE till the day be longer
• M1143 It costs MORE to do ill than to do well
• M1144 The MORE a man has the more he desires
• M1145 The MORE a man loses the less he has
• M1146 MORE belongs to marriage than four bare legs in a bed
• M1147 MORE favor lusty youth than crooked age
• M1148 MORE have repented speech than silence
• M1149 The MORE one drinks (eats) the more one may
• M1150 The MORE one spends the less one puts in one's will
• M1151 MORE spends the niggard than the liberal
• M1152 MORE than enough is too much
• M1153 The MORE the merrier, the fewer the better cheer (fare)
• M1154 The MORE you heap the worse you cheap
• M1155 Put no MORE in the pocket than it will hold
• M1156 There belongs MORE than whistling to going to plow
• M1157 There belongs MORE to a bed than four bare legs
• M1158 There is MORE in it than you are ware of
• M1159 They shall have no MORE of our prayers than we of their pies, quoth the Vicar of Layton
• M1160 To be MORE than he can answer
• M1161 To do MORE than the priest spoke of on Sunday
• M1162 To have MORE of the serpent than the dove
• M1163 We can have no MORE of the fox but the skin
• M1164 We leave MORE to do when we die than we have done
• M1165 Who MORE than he is worth does spend, he makes a rope his life to end
• M1166 Who spends MORE than he should shall not have to spend when he would
• M1167 You can have no MORE of a cat than her skin
• M1168 You pay MORE for your schooling than your learning is worth
• M1169 By the MORNING one knows the day
• M1170 Drink in the MORNING staring, then all the day be sparing
• M1171 A fine MORNING to catch herrings on New-market heath
• M1172 He who sleeps all the MORNING may go a begging all the day after
• M1173 In the MORNING mountains, in the evening fountains
• M1174 In the MORNING the heights, in the evening the depths
• M1175 A red MORNING foretells a stormy day
• M1176 Some laugh in the MORNING that weep at night
• M1177 Tomorrow MORNING I found a horseshoe
• M1178 Cloudy MORNINGS turn to clear evenings (days)
• M1179 I was taken by a MORSEL, says the fish
• M1180 An upbraided MORSEL never choked any
• M1181 No more MORTAR no more brick
• M1182 The MORTAR smells always of the garlic
• M1183 Backare,¹ quoth MORTIMER to his sow
• M1184 He may remove MORT STONE
• M1185 To take one napping, as MOSSE took his mare
• M1186 MOST takes all
• M1187 Who knows MOST speaks least
• M1188 Every MOTE is a beam in his eye
• M1189 He is a MOTE in their eyes
• M1190 A MOTE may choke a man
• M1191 You can see a MOTE in another man's eye but cannot see a beam in your own
• M1192 As many as there are MOTES in the sun
• M1193 Ask the MOTHER if the child be like his father
• M1194 Better a thigging¹ MOTHER than a riding father
• M1195 The good MOTHER says not, Will you? but gives
• M1196 If your MOTHER had not lost her virginity you would not have been born
• M1197 It is not as thy MOTHER says but as thy neighbors say
• M1198 A light-heeled MOTHER makes a heavy-heeled daughter
• M1199 Like MOTHER like daughter
• M1200 The MOTHER of mischief is no more¹ than a midge wing
• M1201 A pitiful MOTHER makes a scabby daughter (a scald¹ head)
• M1202 Every MOTHER's son (child)
• M1203 He was lapped (wrapped) in his MOTHER's smock
• M1204 His MOTHER's milk is not out of his nose
• M1205 The MOTHER's side is the surer side
• M1206 Four good MOTHERS beget four bad daughters: great familiarity, contempt; truth, hatred; virtue, envy; riches, ignorance
• M1207 He that will not hear MOTHERHOOD shall hear stepmotherhood
• M1208 The MOTHER-IN-LAW does not remember that she has been a daughter-in-law
• M1209 He scorns the MOTION
• M1210 MOTIONS are not marriages
• M1211 He that MOUNTS (climbs) higher than he ought falls lower than he would
• M1212 The higher MOUNTAIN the greater descent
• M1213 If the MOUNTAIN will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the mountain
• M1214 A MOUNTAIN and a river are good neighbors
• M1215 The MOUNTAIN was in labor and brought forth a mouse
• M1216 He promises MOUNTAINS (golden hills) and performs molehills (dirty dales)
• M1217 To promise MOUNTAINS (golden mountains)
• M1218 That MOURNING is well bestowed that helps the mourner
• M1219 As drunk as a MOUSE (rat)
• M1220 As dun as a MOUSE
• M1221 As safe (snug) as a MOUSE in a cheese
• M1222 As safe as a MOUSE in a malt heap
• M1223 As safe as a MOUSE in a mill
• M1224 As still (mute, silent) as a MOUSE
• M1225 As sure as a MOUSE tied with a thread
• M1226 As warm as a MOUSE in a churn
• M1227 A dead MOUSE feels no cold
• M1228 The escaped MOUSE ever feels the taste of the bait
• M1229 Every MOUSE has its shadow
• M1230 I gave the MOUSE a hole and she is become my heir
• M1231 It is a bold (wily) MOUSE that breeds (nestles) in the cat's ear
• M1232 The MOUSE goes abroad where the cat is not lord
• M1233 A MOUSE in a bag, a serpent in your lap, and fire in your bosom
• M1234 A MOUSE in pitch
• M1235 A MOUSE in time may bite in two a cable
• M1236 The MOUSE that has but one hole is quickly taken
• M1237 To look like (As wet as) a drowned MOUSE (rat)
• M1238 To speak like a MOUSE in a cheese
• M1239 Well kens the MOUSE that the cat is out of the house
• M1240 Whist (Peace), and catch a MOUSE
• M1241 You are like a MOUSE under a firloť¹
• M1242 As merry as MICE in malt
• M1243 MICE (Rats) quit a falling house (sinking ship)
• M1244 He will beat him into a MOUSEHOLE
• M1245 You must not let your MOUSETRAP smell of cheese
• M1246 As like him as if he had been spit out of his MOUTH
• M1247 A close MOUTH catches no flies
• M1248 A cool MOUTH and warm feet live long
• M1249 He never speaks but his MOUTH opens
• M1250 He speaks as if he would creep into one's MOUTH
• M1251 He that has a MOUTH of his own must not say to another, Blow
• M1252 His MOUTH runs over
• M1253 Into the MOUTH of a bad dog often falls a good bone
• M1254 It will melt in your MOUTH like a mare's turd
• M1255 Let me spit in your MOUTH
• M1256 The MOUTH that lies slays the soul
• M1257 One MOUTH does nothing without another
• M1258 Out of one MOUTH to blow hot and cold
• M1259 Spit in his MOUTH and make him a mastiff (as men do with dogs)
• M1260 They mense¹ little the MOUTH that bite off the nose
• M1261 To drop in one's MOUTH
• M1262 To fill the MOUTH with empty spoons
• M1263 To make up one's MOUTH
• M1264 To stop one's MOUTH
• M1265 What is sweet in the MOUTH is oft sour (bitter) in the maw (stomach)
• M1266 Whoso has but a MOUTH will never in England suffer drought
• M1267 You have a ready MOUTH for a ripe cherry
• M1268 Your MOUTH has beguiled your hands
• M1269 To stop two MOUTHS with one morsel
• M1270 It is good MOWS¹ that fills the wamb (belly)
• M1271 Drink as MUCH after an egg as after an ox
• M1272 He has as MUCH as he can turn him to
• M1273 He is not rich that has MUCH but he that covets least
• M1274 He that hears MUCH and speaks not all shall be welcome both in bower and hall
• M1275 He that spends MUCH and gets nought, he that owes much and has nought, he that looks in his purse and finds nought, he may be sorry and say nought
• M1276 He that travels far knows MUCH
• M1277 Hear MUCH but speak little
• M1278 If you make not MUCH of a threepence you'll never be worth a groat¹
• M1279 If you may spend MUCH put the more to the fire
• M1280 Make MUCH of nought
• M1281 Make MUCH of one, good men are scarce
• M1282 Make MUCH of what you have
• M1283 MUCH abides behind what a fool thinks
• M1284 MUCH in little
• M1285 MUCH on earth, little in heaven
• M1286 MUCH on earth, little in heaven
• M1287 MUCH would have more
• M1288 One must live long to learn MUCH
• M1289 One must live long to see MUCH
• M1290 So MUCH is mine as I possess and give for God's sake
• M1291 They need MUCH whom nothing will content
• M1292 To offer MUCH is a kind of denial
• M1293 To speak MUCH and to the matter is two men's labor
• M1294 Too MUCH spoils, too little does not satisfy
• M1295 Who too MUCH grips (grasps, embraces) the less he holds (holds nothing fast)
• M1296 Whoso makes MUCH of thee that was not wont either will deceive or stands in need of thee
• M1297 MUCK and money go together
• M1298 MUCK of the world
• M1299 Not worth his MUCK
• M1300 You will have his MUCK for his meat
• M1301 He has a good MUCKHILL at his door
• M1302 You make a MUCKHILL on my trencher, quoth the bride
• M1303 Old MUCKILLS will bloom
• M1304 A good MULE, a good goat, and a good woman are three unhappy creatures
• M1305 Neither a MULE with a black muzzle, nor a maid that has passed the sea, nor a knavish parasitical servant, nor a neighbor abbot, nor a well at the door is ever good
• M1306 One MULE (ass, horse) does scrub (scratch, claw) another
• M1307 Sick of the MULLIGRUBS with eating chopped hay
• M1308 A MULTITUDE of people is a beast of many heads
• M1309 Where there is a MULTITUDE there is confusion
• M1310 MUM is counsel (the word)
• M1311 MUMBUDGET
• M1312 He looks (stands) like MUMCHANCE (Mumhazard), who was hanged for saying nothing
• M1313 Mock not, quoth MUMFORD when his wife called him cuckold
• M1314 He will not change his old MUMPSIMUS for the new sumpsimus
• M1315 MURDER will out
• M1316 He that lives with the MUSES shall die in the straw (Learning ever dies in beggary)
• M1317 Nought (Ill, Sad) is that MUSE that finds no excuse
• M1318 You MUSE as you use
• M1319 A MUSHROOM grows in a night
• M1320 MUSIC helps not the toothache
• M1321 MUSIC is a sweet folly
• M1322 MUSIC is the eye of the ear
• M1323 You may make as good MUSIC on (as) a wheel-barrow
• M1324 He is a bad MUSICIAN that can sing but one song
• M1325 When a MUSICIAN has forgot his note he makes as though a crumb stuck in his throat
• M1326 MUSICIANS are magicians
• M1327 MUSICIANS are the parrots of paradise
• M1328 MUSICIANS (Singers) know no means to be entreated either to begin or end
• M1329 Look not for MUSK in a dog's kennel
• M1330 MUST is for the king
• M1331 What MUST (shall, will) be must (shall, will) be
• M1332 As strong (keen, hot) as MUSTARD
• M1333 He looks as if he lived on Tewkesbury MUSTARD¹
• M1334 MUSTARD takes one by the nose
• M1335 He that will not live long let him dwell at MUSTON, Tenham, or Tong
• M1336 MUTABILITY is the badge of infirmity
• M1337 A MUTE among the vowels
• M1338 He loves laced MUTTON
• M1339 He loves MUTTON (sheep's flesh) well that dips (wets) his bread in the wool
• M1340 It is hard to make MUTTON of a sow
• M1341 MUTTON is meat for a glutton
• M1342 To put on MUTTON-TAFFETY (beggar's velvet)
• M1343 He can say MY JO¹ and think it not
• M1344 A MYRTLE among thorns (nettles) is a myrtle still
• M1345 There is a MYSTERY¹ in the meanest trade