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PROVERBS STARTING WITH  - M -

Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced.
Proverb, (Hebrew)

Make not balks of good ground.
Proverb

Make not mickle of little.
Proverb

Make not thy tail broader than thy wings.
[Keep not too many attendants.]
Proverb

Make not two sorrows of one.
Proverb

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Proverb, (Jewish)

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Make sure you leave some fat for the other side.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Make sure your blanket covers your feet.
Proverb, (Azerbaijani)

Make the best of a bad bargain.
Proverb, (German)

Make the cap fit the head.
Proverb

Make the night night, and the day day, and you will live pleasantly.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Make too much haste and pay the penalty.
Proverb, (Latin)

Make use of the sun while it shines.
Proverb, (Danish)

Make way for a madman and a bull.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Proverb

Make your experiment on a worthless subject.
Proverb, (Latin)

Make your son you heir and not your steward.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Make yourself a sheep and the wolf will eat you.
Proverb, (French, German, Italian)

Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.
Proverb, (Italian)

Make yourself an ass, and every one will lay his sack on you.
Proverb, (German)

Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders.
Proverb

Make yourself honey and the flies will eat you.
Proverb, (Italian, Portuguese)

Making money selling manure is better than losing money selling musk.
Proverb, (Egyptian)

Malice drinketh its own poison.
Proverb

Malice is mindful.
Proverb

Mallet strikes chisel; chisel splits wood.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Malt is above meal with him.
Proverb

Man and woman, fire and chaff.
Proverb, (Latin)

Man can't live in this world alone.
Proverb, (American)

Man cannot stir one inch without the push of heaven's finger.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Man concocts a million schemes; god knows but one.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Man counts what he has refused, not what he has given.
Proverb, (Kikuyu [Kenyan])

Man doth what he can, and God what He will.
Proverb

Man fools himself. He prays for a long life and he fears old age.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Man has a thousand plans, heaven but one.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Man has responsibility, not power.
Proverb, (Native American Tuscarora)

Man is a bubble.
Proverb, (Greek)

Man is fire, woman is tow, and the devil comes and blows.
Proverb, (French, Portuguese)

Man is fire, woman is tow; the devil comes with a bellows.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Man is greater than the tools he invents.
Proverb, (American)

Man is heaven and earth in miniature.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Man is himself the author of every sorrow he endures.
Proverb, (Latin)

Man is like a banana: when he leaves the bunch, he gets skinned.
Proverb, (American)

Man is the only animal who can be skinned twice.
Proverb, (American)

Man is to man a wolf, man is to man a demon.
Proverb, (Latin)

Man loves but once.
Proverb, (German)

Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Man only ever scores nine out of ten.
Proverb, (Hausa)

Man proposes, God disposes.
Proverb, (Danish, Dutch, German, Spanish)

Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
Proverb

Man without woman, is head without body; woman without man, is body without head.
Proverb, (German)

Man's affairs are evaluated only after his coffin is closed.
Proverb, (Korean)

Man's extremity, God's opportunity.
Proverb

Man's life is a sojourn in a strange land.
Proverb, (Latin)

Man's life's a vapor, and full of woes; he cuts a caper, and down he goes.
Proverb

Man's mind is a watch that needs winding daily.
Proverb, (Welsh)

Man, woman, and devil, are the three degrees of comparison.
Proverb

Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Manchester bred: long in the arms, and short in the head.
Proverb

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Mankind scorns a virtuous man, but heaven does not.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Manners maketh man.
Proverb

Manual jokes are clown's jokes.
Proverb, (French, Spanish)

Manual play, clown's play.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Many a cow stands in the meadow and looks wistfully at the common.
Proverb, (Danish)

Many a fool might pass for a wise man if he would only keep his mouth shut.
Proverb

Many a good cow has a bad calf.
Proverb, (German)

Many a good cow hath a bad calf.
Proverb

Many a good face is under a ragged hat.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Many a little make a mickle.
Proverb

Many a little makes a mickle.
Proverb

Many a man digs his grave with his teeth.
Proverb, (Puritan)

Many a man is a good friend but a bad neighbour.
Proverb, (Danish)

Many a man labours for the day he will never live to see.
Proverb, (Danish)

Many a man speirs the gate he knows full well.
Proverb

Many a mickle makes a muckle.
Proverb

Many a one for land takes a fool by the hand.
Proverb

Many a one is good because he can do no mischief.
Proverb, (French)

Many a one leaves the roast who afterwards longs for the smoke of it.
Proverb, (Italian)

Many a one suffers for what he can't help.
Proverb, (French)

Many a one threatens and yet is afraid.
Proverb, (Italian)

Many a one threatens, while he quakes for fear.
Proverb, (German)

Many a one would like to lay his own shame on another man's back.
Proverb, (Danish)

Many a pupil has gained more wealth than his master.
Proverb, (Greek)

Many a sheep goes out woolly and comes home shorn.
Proverb, (Danish)

Many a thing whispered into one ear is heard over the whole town.
Proverb, (Danish)

Many a true word in spoken in jest.
Proverb, (Italian)

Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Proverb, (English)

Many an injury comes from a fool's speech.
Proverb, (Latin)

Many annoyances surround an aged man.
Proverb, (Latin)

Many are brave when the enemy flies.
Proverb, (Italian)

Many are called but few are chosen.
Proverb

Many are esteemed, only because they are not known.
Proverb, (French)

Many are the roads that do not lead to the heart.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Many asses have only two legs.
Proverb, (Latin)

Many blame the wife for their own thriftless life.
Proverb

Many books do not use up words; many words do not use up thoughts.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Many bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Proverb, (Romanian)

Many can drive an ox; few can plough.
Proverb, (Latin)

Many can drive oxen, few can plough.
Proverb, (Latin)

Many can help one.
Proverb, (German)

Many can pack the cards that cannot play.
Proverb

Many children, and little bread, is a painful pleasure.
Proverb

Many complain of their looks, but none of their brains.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Many cooks spoil the broth.
Proverb, (German)

Many desire the tree who pretend to refuse the fruit.
Proverb, (Italian)

Many dogs are the death of the hare.
Proverb, (Danish)

Many dogs kill a hare, no matter how many turns it makes.
Proverb, (Hindu)

Many estates are spent in the getting,
Since women, for tea, forsook spinning and knitting,
And men, for punch, forsook hewing and splitting.
Proverb

Many fall by the sword, but more from gluttony.
Proverb, (Latin)

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn.
Proverb, (German, Spanish)

Many grains of sand will sink a ship.
Proverb, (Danish)

Many hands make light work.
Proverb,
(Latin, Dutch), also see William Patten Expedition into Scotland (1547)

Many hands make quick work.
Proverb, (German)

Many have good intentions, but something comes across them.
Proverb, (German)

Many have too much, but none have enough.
Proverb, (Danish)

Many heads, many minds.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Many hips and haws, many frosts and snaws.
Proverb

Many hounds are the death of the hare.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

Many kinsfolk and few friends.
Proverb

Many kiss hands they would fain see chopped off.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Many kiss the child for the nurse's sake.
Proverb, (Danish)

Many kiss the hand they would gladly see cut off.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Many little makes a mickle.
Proverb

Many little rivulets make a great river.
Proverb, (Danish)

Many look with one eye at what they give, but with seven at what they receive.
Proverb, (German)

Many love to praise right and do wrong.
Proverb, (Danish)

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.
Proverb, (Greek)

Many men, many minds.
Proverb

Many open a door to shut a window.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Many promises impair confidence.
Proverb, (Latin)

Many return from the war who cannot give an account of the battle.
Proverb, (Italian)

Many sands will sink a ship.
Proverb

Many scruple to spit in church, and afterwards defile the altar.
Proverb, (Italian)

Many see more with one eye that others with two.
Proverb, (German)

Many seek good nights and lose good days.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Many shun the brook, and fall into the river.
Proverb, (German)

Many shun the sword, and come to the gallows.
Proverb, (German)

Many small make a great.
Proverb

Many speak much who cannot speak well.
Proverb, (American)

Many stars cannot be concealed by a small cloud.
Proverb, (Maaori)

Many stop their noses at ambergris.
Proverb, (Italian)

Many strokes fell great oaks.
Proverb

Many take by the bushel, and give with the spoon.
Proverb, (German)

Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot his bow,
And many talk of Little John that never did him know.
Proverb

Many things are lost for want of asking.
Proverb, (English)

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Many things slip between cup and lip.
[Lat., Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Many trades, begging the best.
Proverb, (German)

Many who build castles in the air cannot build a hut on earth.
Proverb, (German)

Many will hate you if you love yourself.
Proverb, (Latin)

Many will show you the way once your cart has overturned.
Proverb, (Kurdish)

Many women, many words.
Proverb

Many words do not fill a basket.
Proverb, (Yoruban)

Many words don't fill the sack.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Many words go to a sackful.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Many words will not fill a bushel.
Proverb, (American, Dutch)

Many words, little credit.
Proverb, (Latin)

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Proverb

March borrows of April
Three days, and they be ill.
Proverb

March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
Proverb

March in Janiveer, Janiveer in March I fear.
Proverb

March many weathers.
Proverb

March wind and May sun
Makes clothes white and maids dun.
Proverb

March winds and April showers
Bring forth May flowers.
Proverb

Marriage is a lottery.
Proverb

Marriage is heaven and hell.
Proverb, (German)

Marriage is honourable, but housekeeping is a shrew.
Proverb

Marriage is like a groundnut: you have to crack them to see what is inside.
Proverb, (Akan)

Marriage, with peace, is this world's paradise; with strife, this life's purgatory.
Proverb

Marriages are all happy. It's having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.
Proverb, (Irish)

Marriages are not as they are made, but as they turn out.
Proverb, (Italian)

Marriages are written in heaven.
Proverb, (French)

Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Married life without children is as the day deprived of the sun's rays.
Proverb, (Latin)

Married to-day, married to-morrow.
Proverb, (French)

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
Proverb, (Irish)

Marry a person in your own rank in life.
Proverb, (Latin)

Marry first and love will follow.
Proverb

Marry in haste and repent at leisure.
Proverb, (Dutch, French, German)

Marry in haste repent at leisure.
Proverb

Marry in Lent, live to repent.
Proverb

Marry in May, rue for aye.
Proverb

Marry in May, you'll rue it for aye.
Proverb, (Latin)

Marry me forthwith, mother, for my face is growing wrinkled.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Marry with your match.
Proverb, (Latin)

Marry you son when you will, and your daughter when you can.
Proverb, (Danish, Spanish)

Marry your son when you please, your daughter when you can.
Proverb, (French, Italian, Portuguese)

Marry, and grow tame.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Marry, marry, and what about the housekeeping.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Marry, marry, sounds well but tastes ill.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Marrying in the blood is never good.
Proverb, (German)

Marrying is easy, but housekeeping is hard.
Proverb, (German)

Martha sings well when she has had her fill.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Mary Busybody never wants a bad day, and Mary Drone has God to give and bring to her.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Master yourself and you can master anything.
Proverb

Masters' hints are commands.
Proverb, (Italian)

Mastiff never liked greyhound.
Proverb, (French)

Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.
Proverb

May and December never agree.
Proverb

May bees don't fly this month.
Proverb

May chickens come cheeping.
Proverb

May God not so prosper our friends that they forget us.
Proverb, (Spanish)

May the man be damned and never grow fat,
Who wears two faces under one hat.
Proverb

May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right.
Proverb, (Gypsy)

May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.
Proverb, (Eskimo)

May your charity increase as much as your wealth.
Proverb

Meaningless laughter is a sign of ill-breeding.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Measure a thousand times and cut once.
Proverb, (Turkish)

Measure is a merry mean.
Proverb

Measure the corn of others with your own bushel.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Measure three times and cut once.
Proverb, (Italian)

Measure thrice before you cut once.
Proverb, (Dutch, Italian)

Measure twice, cut once.
Proverb

Measure your guilt, then stretch your legs.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Meat and mass never hindered man.
Proverb

Meat and matins hinder no man's journey.
Proverb

Meat is much, but manners is more.
Proverb

Meddle not in what you don't understand.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Meddle with dirt and some of it will stick to you.
Proverb, (Danish)

Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.
Proverb, (Icelandic)

Meikle crack fills nae sack.
Proverb, (Scotch)

Men after the modern fashion, and asses after the ancient.
Proverb, (Italian)

Men apt to promise are apt to forget.
Proverb, (American)

Men are as old as they fell, and women as they look.
Proverb, (Italian)

Men are blind in their own cause.
Proverb, (American)

Men are bound by words, bulls' horns by ropes.
Proverb, (Latin)

Men are like bagpipes: no sound comes from them till they're full.
Proverb, (Irish)

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindnesses.
Proverb

Men are not to be measured by inches.
Proverb

Men are rare.
Proverb, (French)

Men can bear all things except good days.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Men cut large thongs of other men's leather.
Proverb, (Latin)

Men dig their graves with their teeth.
Proverb

Men don't die of threats.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Men fated to be happy need not haste.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Men go not laughing to heaven.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Men have faults, women have two:
There's nothing good they say, and nothing good they do.
Proverb

Men in office must work hard.
Proverb, (Latin)

Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Men know not all their faults, oxen all their strength.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Men leap over where the hedge is lowest.
Proverb

Men learn oratory by practice. [Practice in speaking makes us eloquent.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Men make wealth, and women preserve it.
Proverb, (Italian)

Men may meet, but mountains never.
Proverb

Men muse as they use.
Proverb

Men must sail while the wind serveth.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.
Proverb, (Greek)

Men prone to tears are good.
Proverb, (Greek)

Men see more of the business of others than of their own.
Proverb, (Latin)

Men seek less to be instructed than applauded.
Proverb, (American)

Men that have much business must have much pardon.
Proverb

Men who do things that count never stop to count them.
Proverb

Men who have no religion, no honour.
Proverb, (Latin)

Men worship the rising, not the setting sun.
Proverb, (Latin)

Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.
Proverb, (French)

Men's skins have many colors, but human blood is always red.
Proverb

Mention not a rope in the house of one whose father was hanged.
Proverb

Merchant to-day, beggar to-morrow.
Proverb, (German)

Merchant's goods are ebb and flood.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Mere intentions are not to be esteemed as actions.
Proverb, (Latin)

Mere words do not feed the friars.
Proverb, (Irish)

Merit consists in action.
Proverb, (Latin)

Merit is often belied by the countenance.
Proverb, (Latin)

Merry is the feast-making till we come to the reckoning.]
Proverb

Merry meet, merry part.
Proverb

Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse.
Proverb

Mice care not to play with kittens.
Proverb

Michael is quits; he lost a ducat and gained a rabbit.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Michael, Michael, you have no bees, and yet you sell honey!
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Mickle head, little wit.
Proverb

Midway between the earth and the starry Olympus. [In a quandary. In a fix.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Might and courage require wit in their suite.
Proverb, (Danish)

Might have gone further and have fared worse.
Proverb

Might is not right.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Might is right.
Proverb

Might knows no right.
Proverb, (French)

Might overcomes right.
Proverb

Miguel, Miguel, you have no bees, and yet sell honey.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Mildness governs more than anger.
Proverb

Milk says to wine, Welcome friend.
Proverb

Milk the cow that standeth still.
Proverb

Milk the cow, but don't pull off the udder.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Millers and bakers do not steal, people bring to them.
Proverb, (German)

Millers, tailors, and weavers are not hanged, or the trade would soon be extinct.
Proverb, (German)

Mills and wives are ever wanting.
Proverb, (Italian)

Mind over matter.
Proverb

Mind your own business.
Proverb

Mint ere you strike.
Proverb

Mirth must be indulged in to prepare the mind for more serious matters.
Proverb, (Latin)

Mischief comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.
Proverb

Mischief comes soon enough.
Proverb, (Danish)

Misers' money goes twice to market.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Misery loves company.
Proverb

Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot.
Proverb, (French)

Misfortune is not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Misfortune seldom comes alone to the house.
Proverb, (Danish)

Misfortune upon misfortune is not wholesome.
Proverb, (French)

Misfortune, wood, and hair, grow throughout the year.
Proverb, (German)

Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
Proverb, (French)

Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.
Proverb

Misfortunes make friends.
Proverb, (Latin)

Misfortunes make happiness more sweet when it comes.
Proverb, (Latin)

Misfortunes make strange bedfellows.
Proverb

Misfortunes never come single.
Proverb, (Dutch, French, Italian)

Misfortunes never come singly.
Proverb

Misfortunes that can't be avoided must be sweetened.
Proverb

Misfortunes, when asleep, are not to be awakened.
Proverb

Misreckoning is no payment.
Proverb, (German)

Mistakes are to be pardoned.
Proverb, (Latin)

Mock not the fallen, for slippery is the road ahead of you.
Proverb, (Russian)

Mocking is catching.
Proverb

Moderate measures succeed best.
Proverb, (Latin)

Moderation in all things.
Proverb

Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health,
Wednesday the best day of all:
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at all.
Proverb

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe.
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for its living,
And a child that's born of the Sabbath day
Is fair and wise and good and gay.
Proverb

Money advances meacocks.
Proverb, (French)

Money and friendship break the arms of justice.
Proverb, (Italian)

Money begets money.
Proverb, (Italian)

Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.
Proverb, (French)

Money burns many.
Proverb, (French)

Money buys everything but good sense.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Money doesn't grow on trees.
Proverb

Money gets money.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Money grows on the tree of persistence.
Proverb, (Japanese)

Money in the purse dispels melancholy.
Proverb, (German)

Money is a good servant but a had master.
Proverb, (French)

Money is an epitome of human power.
Proverb, (Italian)

Money is lost only for want of money.
Proverb, (French)

Money is money's brother.
Proverb, (Italian)

Money is more eloquent that a dozen members of parliament.
Proverb, (Danish)

Money is not gained by losing time.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Money is often lost for want of money.
Proverb

Money is power.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Money is round and rolls away.
Proverb, (Italian)

Money is round, and rolls.
Proverb, (Italian)

Money is round, it must roll.
Proverb, (French)

Money is the measure of all things.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Money is the queen of the world.
[Lat., Pecunia regina mundi.]
Proverb, (Money)

Money is the root of all evil.
Proverb

Money is the sinew of war.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Money is the sinews of war.
Proverb, (Latin)

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
Proverb

Money isn't everything, but it's way ahead of whatever is in second place.
Proverb

Money isn't everything.
Proverb

Money lent, an enemy made.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Money makes a man.
Proverb

Money makes dogs dance.
Proverb, (French)

Money makes money.
Proverb

Money makes the mare to go.
Proverb

Money rules the world.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Money saved is as good as money gained.
Proverb, (Danish)

Money soothes more than a gentleman's words.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Money soothes more than the words of a cavalier.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Money taken, freedom forsaken.
Proverb, (German)

Money talks.
Proverb

Money turns bad into good.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Money will do more than my lord's letter.
Proverb

Money wins the battle, not the long arm.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Money, like a queen, gives rank and beauty.
Proverb, (Latin)

Monks, mice, rats, vermin, seldom sunder without harming.
Proverb, (German)

Mony sma's mak a great.
Proverb

More afraid than hurt.
Proverb

More are drowned in the bowl than in the sea.
Proverb, (German)

More belongs to dancing than a pair of dancing-shoes.
Proverb, (Dutch)

More belongs to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.
Proverb

More belongs to riding than a pair of boots.
Proverb, (German)

More blind than the cast-off skin of a serpent.
Proverb, (Latin)

More cost, more worship.
Proverb

More die by food than famine.
Proverb

More flies are caught with a drop of honey than with a barrel of vinegar.
Proverb, (Danish)

More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup than with a cask of vinegar.
Proverb, (Dutch)

More flies are taken with a drop of honey than a tun of vinegar.
Proverb

More grows in a garden than the gardener sows there.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

More hair than wit.
Proverb

More haste, less speed.
Proverb

More is done with words than with hands.
Proverb, (German)

More know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.
Proverb

More like than egg to egg.
Proverb, (Latin)

More luck than wit.
Proverb, (Dutch)

More naked than the cast-off skin of a serpent.
Proverb, (Latin)

More people are slain by supper than by the sword.
Proverb, (Danish)

More people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows.
Proverb

More than enough is too much.
Proverb

More than we use is more than we want.
Proverb

More unlucky than dogs in church.
Proverb, (Italian)

Morn with her rosy locks dispels the shades of night, and the sun puts to flight the stars, lighting up the world.
Proverb, (Latin)

Morning dreams come true.
Proverb, (Latin)

Moses (i.e. a Jew) does not play because he has not the means.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Most bitter are the quarrels of brothers.
Proverb, (Latin)

Most haste, worst speed.
Proverb

Mother's love is ever in its spring.
Proverb, (French)

Mother's truth keeps constant youth.
Proverb, (German)

Mother, I must have a husband, or I shall set fire to the house.
Proverb, (German)

Mother, marry me, marry me, or the gull will fly away with me.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Mother, what is marrying? Spinning, bearing children, and crying, daughter.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, storm and hail.
Proverb, (Italian)

Mountain does not meet mountain, but a face meets another face.
Proverb, (Maltese)

Mountains never unite. [Haughty people rarely fraternize.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Mouth and heart are wide apart.
Proverb, (German)

Mouth of honey, heart of gall.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Mouth shut and eyes open.
Proverb, (Italian)

Move your neck according to the music.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)

Much ado and little help.
Proverb, (English)

Much broth is sometimes made with little meat.
Proverb, (Danish)

Much bruit, little fruit.
Proverb, (French)

Much caution does no harm.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Much chatter, little wit.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Much coin, much care.
Proverb, (Latin)

Much cry and little wool.
Proverb

Much kindred, much trouble.
Proverb, (French)

Much laughter, little wit.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Much law, but little justice.
Proverb

Much meat, much maladies.
Proverb

Much memory and little judgment.
Proverb, (French)

Much money, much friends.
Proverb, (German)

Much never cost little.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Much noise and little wool, said the devil, when he was shearing the sow.
Proverb, (Danish)

Much smoke, and little roast.
Proverb, (Italian)

Much straw and little corn.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Much talk little work.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Much talking, much erring.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Much taste, much waste.
Proverb, (German)

Much water goes by the mill the millet knows not of.
Proverb

Much water passes by the mill that the miller perceives not.
Proverb, (Italian)

Much water runs by while the miller sleeps.
Proverb, (Danish)

Much wisdom is lost in poor men's mouths.
Proverb, (German)

Much wisdom is smothered in a poor man's head.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Much wit is lost in a poor man's purse.
Proverb, (German)

Much worship, much cost.
Proverb, (French)

Much would have more, and lost all.
Proverb

Much would have more.
Proverb

Muck and money go together.
Proverb

Muddy springs will have muddy streams.
Proverb

Muddy water won't do for a mirror.
Proverb, (Italian)

Mules help to scratch each other. [The bad commend each other.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Mules make a great fuss about their ancestors having been horses.
Proverb, (German)

Murder will out.
Proverb

Music helps not the toothache.
Proverb

Music induces more madness in many than wine.
Proverb, (Latin)

Music is the best cure for a sorrowing mind.
Proverb, (Latin)

Music is the handmaid of divinity.
Proverb, (Latin)

Music provokes love.
Proverb, (Latin)

Must is a hard nut.
Proverb, (German)

Must is a king's word.
Proverb

My belly thinks my throat cut.
Proverb

My chest locked, my soul safe.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

My daughter-in-law tucked up her sleeves, and upset the kettle into the fire.
Proverb, (Spanish)

My friend's enemy is often my best friend.
Proverb, (German)

My gossips don't like me because I tell them truths.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

My inclination first leads me in one direction, then in the opposite.
Proverb, (Latin)

My life and soul (are at your service), but not my pack-saddle.
Proverb, (Spanish)

My life and soul at your service, but not the pack-saddle.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

My money, your money, let us go to the tavern.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

My neighbour's goat gives more milk than mine.
Proverb, (Spanish)

My neighbour's hen lays more eggs than mine.
Proverb, (Spanish)

My No is as good as your Yes.
Proverb, (Italian)

My shirt is nearer than my cloak.
Proverb, (Dutch)

My sister's son is a kinsman beyond dispute.
Proverb, (Spanish)

My skirt with tears is always wet: I have forgotten to forget.
Proverb, (Japanese)

My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
Proverb

My son is my son till he have got him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
Proverb, from Fuller's "Gnomologica"

My son's my son till he gets him a wife,
My daughter's my daughter all her life.
Proverb

My teeth are nearer than my kindred.
Proverb, (Spanish)

My teeth before my relations.
Proverb, (Spanish)

My word is my bond.
Proverb

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