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 Let never sorrow come sae near your heart.

Let the horns gang with the hide.

Let the morn come and the meat wi‘t.

Let the kirk stand in the kirk-yard.

Let them laugh that win.

Let them care that come behind.

Lie for him and he'll swear for you.

Light burdens break nae banes.

Like Scotsmen, ay wise behind the hand.

Like the cur in the crib, he‘ll neither do nor let do.

Like's an ill mark.

Like a sow playing on a trump

Like the wife, that never cries for the ladle till

the pot rins o'er.

Dippen to me but look to yoursel.

Little kend the less car‘d for.

Little odds between a feast and a fou wame.

Loud on the loan was ne‘er a good milk cow.

Love‘s as warm amang cotters as courtiers.

Love your friend and look to yoursel.

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Maidens’ bairns are ay well bred.

Mair by luck than good guiding.

Mair haste the war speed, quoth the tailor to

the lang thread.

Mair hamely than welcome.

Make ae wrang step and down ye gae.

Make a kirk and a mill o't.

Make the best of an ill bargain.

Make your hay when the sun shines.

Malice is ay mindfou.

May-bees flee not at this time of the year.

Meat feeds, and claith cleads, but manners make

the man.

Meat and mass hinder nae man.

Men are not to be met by inches.

Mickle wad ay hae mair.

Miukle-mouth'd fowk have ay bap to their meat.

Mickle may fa' between the cap and the lip.

Money makes a man free ilka where.