Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Make peace with man and war with your
sins.
Make peace with people; wage war with
your sins.
Make short the miles, with talk and smiles.
Make some money but don’t let money
make you.
Make sure better than cock-sure.
Make sure to be in with your equals if
you're going to fall out with your
superiors.
Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel
of Death.
Make sure you have many books and many
friends -- as long as they are good ones.
Make sure you leave some fat for the other
side.
Make sure your blanket covers your feet.
Make the amount of sauce you use
correspond to the amount of rice you
have.
Make the best of a bad bargain.
Make the cap fit the head.
Make the night night, and the day day, and
you will live pleasantly.
Make thyself a noble man before advicing
others.
Make thyself a sheep, and the wolf is ready.
Make too much haste and pay the penalty.
Make use of the sun while it shines.
Make way for a madman and a bull.
Make your bargain before beginning to
plow.
Make your brain save your heels.
Make your enemy your friend.
Make your experiment on a worthless
subject.
Make your hay before the fine weather
leaves you.
Make your hay when the sun shines.
Make your son you heir and not your
steward.
Make your testimony and confessions while
you're eating sausages and macaroni.
Make yourself a sheep and the wolf is ready.
Make yourself a sheep and the wolf will eat
you.
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Make yourself all honey and the flies will
devour you.
Make yourself an ass, and every one will lay
his sack on you.
Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every
man's sack on your shoulders.
Make yourself honey and the flies will eat
you.
Makes the bed soft, yet hard to sleep.
Making a long nose.
Making a rod for your own back.
Making a thousand decisions, even the wise
will make a mistake.
Making money is like digging with a needle.
Making money on manure is better than
losing money on musk.
Making money selling manure is better than
losing money selling musk.
Making the beginning is one third of the
work.
Malice drinketh its own poison.
Malice is aye mindfu'.
Malice leaves reality behind.
Maliciously acquired gold never lasts long.
Mallet strikes chisel; chisel splits wood.
Mallow will cure you.
Malta would be a nice place, if every knight
were a tree.
Man alone is the measure of all things.
Man and wife are one flesh.
Man and woman, fire and chaff.
Man can adjust to anything except not
eating.
Man cannot live by bread alone.
Man cannot stir one inch without the push
of heaven's finger.
Man can't live in this world alone.
Man changes often but improves seldom.
Man concocts a million schemes; god knows
but one.
Man dat carry straw no fe fool wid fire.
Man does not live by bread alone
Man does what he can, God does what he
will.
Man fears time - Time fears the pyramids.