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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. among 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 millo't Make the best of an ill bargain Make your hay when the sun shines Malike is aye mindfu' May bees flee pot at this time of the year Meat and mass hinders nae man Men are not to be met by inches Mickle wad aye hae more Mickle mouth'd fouk have aye hap to their meat Money makes a man free ilka where Mony hands make light work 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 "Meny ways to kill a dog though ye dinna hang him Mony cooks ne'er made good kail Mony a ane speirs the gate they kee 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 daughter's my daughter a' the days of her life My market' made ye may lick a whip shaft