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Little odds between a feast and a fu' wame Loud at the loan was ne'er a good milk cow Love's as warm amang cottar's as couitiers Love your friend and look to yoursel

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MAIDENS' bairns are aye weel bred Mair by luck than gude guiding Mair lamely than welcome Make ae lang stap and down ye gae Make a kirk or a mill o't                Make the best of an ill bargain Make your hay when the sun shines Malike is aye mindfu' May bees flee not at this time o' the year Meat and mass hinders nae man Men are not to be met by inches Mickle wad aye hae mair Mickle mouth'd fouk have aye hap to their meat Money makes a man free ilka where Money hands make light wark Many masters, quoth the paddock to the harrow Mony hounds may soon worry ae hare Mony cxcuses that pishes the bed Mony a ane serves a thankless master Mony wyte their wife for their ain thriftless life Mony dogs die or you fa' heir Mony a anes gear has hastened his hinder end Mony aunts, mony eems, mony kin and few friends Mony gude nights is laith away Mony ways to kill a dog though ye dinna hang him Mony cooks ne'er made gude kail Mony a ane speirs the gate they ken fu' weel Must is a king's word My tongue is no beneath your belt My son's my son aye till he get a wife, my daugh- ter's my daughter a' the days o' her life My market's made ye may lick a whip shaft