Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
The magistrate's son gets out of every
scrape.
The magpie cannot leave her hopping.
The magpie is competing with the
nightingale.
The magpie rattles, a guest vill come.
The magpie wants too much, but her tail is
unable to carry it.
The main road is an easy way, but everyone
loves the side streets.
The main thing is that we can smile at our
duties -- yes even at our suffering.
The mair cost, the mair honour.
The mair haste, the war speed.
The mair mischief the better sport.
The maker of laws must be severe; who
executes them must be generous.
The maker of wooden spoons saves his
hand from fire.
The malady that is more incurable is folly.
The male is born to be slaughtered.
The malicious cow disturbs the whole herd.
The Malt is above the Meal.
The man and his woman is like the grave
and its dead.
The man being carried does not realize how
far away the town really is.
The man brings the good, but the woman
maintains it.
The man deliberates, the woman decides.
The man does not see the brisket he is
eating.
The man dying to hang himself can always
find a noose.
The man has neither sense nor reason who
leaves a young wife at home.
The man in boots does not know the man in
shoes.
The man in the moon stole the wood.
The man is a river, the woman a lake.
The man is as good as the day is long.
The man is heaven and earth in miniature.
The man is the flame, the woman the glow.
The man loves with his head, the woman
thinks with her heart.
The man makes the house and not the
dowry.
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The man may be the head of the home but
the wife is the heart.
The man of courage never lost it.
The man of many trades begs his bread on
Sunday.
The man of sense does not hang up his
knowledge.
The man of your own trade is your enemy.
The man on his feet carries off the share of
the man sitting down.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
The man that serves is not prevented from
being served in turn.
The man that walks his own rode, walks
alone.
The man that won't marry a woman with
other admirers won't marry a woman at
all.
The man to whom god gives no children,
the devil gives nieces and nephews.
The man who builds his own throne rules
over a desert.
The man who can not dance thinks the band
is no good.
The man who can sharpen hundred stakes
between two meals, can take a wife.
The man who can't dance says the band
can't play.
The man who can't dance thinks the band is
no good.
The man who chases mules and believes
women will never get to Heaven.
The man who claims to be the boss in his
own home will lie about other things as
well.
The man who comes with a tale about others
has himself an ax to grind.
The man who counts the bits of food he
swallows is never satisfied.
The man who does not learn is dark, like
one walking in the night.
The man who does not love a horse cannot
love a woman.
The man who flatters you is a liar: the
greater the flattery, the bigger the liar.