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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 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 Malice is aye mindfu' May bees flee not at this time of the year Meat and mass hinders no man Men are not to be met by inches Mickle wad aye hae mare Mickle mouth'd fouk havę aye hap to their meat Money makes a man free ilka where Money 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 ane's gear bas hastened his hinder end Mony aunts money 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 age 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 wiſe, my daugh- ter's my daughter a' the days of her life My market's made, ye may lick a whip shaft