Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Miguel, Miguel, you have no bees, and yet
sell honey.
Mildness governs more than anger.
Milestone cornmeal unites families.
Milk and honey have different colors, but
they share the same house peacefully.
Milk and honey have different colours, but
they share the same house peacefully.
Milk and wine together make an excellent
poison.
Milk belongs to the cow, but the bull cow
gets the publicity.
Milk for a child, meat for a man, beer for the
old.
Milk is procured form a cow which has a
calf.
Milk the cow that standeth still.
Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
Millers and bakers do not steal, people bring
to them.
Millers take ay the best Multar with their
own Hand.
Millers, tailors, and weavers are not hanged,
or the trade would soon be extinct.
Mills an wifes is aye wantin.
Mills and wives are ever wanting.
Mind other men, but most yourself.
Mind over matter.
Mind what you must live by.
Mind your own business.
Mind your p's and q's.
Minds are like parachutes; they only
function when they are open.
Mine and thine are the sources of all
quarrels.
Mint flower: the more you say "go away",
the closer it comes.
Mint, ere ye strike.
Mirrors were not made for the blind.
Mirth is the sugar of life.
Mirth must be indulged in to prepare the
mind for more serious matters.
Mischief comes by the pound and goes
away by the ounce.
Mischief comes soon enough.
Mischief has swift wings.
Misers' money goes twice to market.
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Misery acquaints a man with strange
bedfellows.
Misery and poverty are two sisters; discord
is their first cousin.
Misery loves company.
Misfortune comes on horseback and goes
away on foot.
Misfortune comes to all men.
Misfortune conquers timid souls while great
minds subdue misfortune.
Misfortune does not always result in harm.
Misfortune does not restrict his visits to one
day.
Misfortune does not visit the weak-hearted.
Misfortune has no horn.
Misfortune is easier to bear if you share it
with many others.
Misfortune is not that which can be avoided,
but that which cannot.
Misfortune of soup made of shanks and feet.
Misfortune seldom comes alone to the
house.
Misfortune sits on a rich man's lap but grabs
the throat of the pauper.
Misfortune teaches us to pray.
Misfortune upon misfortune is not
wholesome.
Misfortune, wood, and hair, grow
throughout the year.
Misfortunes always come in threes. These
things always come in threes.
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.
Misfortunes come of themselves.
Misfortunes come on horseback and depart
on foot.
Misfortunes do not flourish on one path,
they grow everywhere.
Misfortunes hasten age.
Misfortunes make friends.
Misfortunes make happiness more sweet
when it comes.
Misfortunes make strange bedfellows.