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14 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 cotters as courtiers

Love your friend and look to yoursel

M MAIDENS’ bairns are aye well bred

Mair by luck than good guiding

Mair hamely than welcome

Make ae lang step 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 of 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

Mony hands make light wark

Mony masters, quoth the paddock to the harrow

Mony hounds may soon worry ae hare

Mony excuses that pishes the bed

Mony a ane serves a thankless master

Mony wyte their wife for their ain thriftless life

Mony dogs die or ye fa' heir

Mony a anes gear has hastened his hinder end

Mony aunts, mony eems, mony kin and few friends

Mony good nights is laith away

Mony ways to kill a dog though ye dinna hang him

Mony cooks ne'er made good kail

Mony a ane speirs the gate they ken fu' well

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 daughters my daughter a' the days of her life My market's made ye may lick a whip shaft