| M |
| Saying - Author |
|
| Make a friend when you don't need one. - Jamaican (on friendship) |
| Make a meal and contention will cease.- Hebrew (on the human comedy) |
| Make do with what you have. - unknown |
| Make haste slowly. - Suetonius (c.69-140) |
| Make hay while the sun shines. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580) |
| Make the most of every situation. - unknown |
| Making money selling manure is better than losing money selling musk. - Egyptian (on buying and selling) |
| Man cannot live by bread alone. - Bible |
| Man is made by his beliefs; as he believes, so he is. - The Bhagahvad Gita (a Sanskrit poem) |
| Manana (tomorrow) is often the busiest day of the week. -Spanish (on procrastination) |
| Many hands make light work. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580) |
| Many have quarreled about religion that never practised it. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Many meet the gods but few salute them. - Latin (on courtesy and respect) |
| Marry in haste, repent in leisure. - unknown |
| Masterly retreat is in itself a victory. - Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) |
| May the outward and inward man be at one. - Socrates (469-399 BC) |
| May the wind be always at your back. - unknown |
| Measure a thousand times; cut once. - Turkish (on caution and care) |
| Medicine left in the container can't help. - Yoruba (West African) |
| Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating. - Icelandic (on work) |
| Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) |
| Men willingly believe what they wish. - Julius Caesar (c.102-44 BC)) |
| Mess with the bull and one usually gets the horns. - Latin American saying |
| Mind your p's and q's. - English Proverb |
| Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC) |
| Mistakes are doorways to discovery. - unknown |
| Money buys everything but good sense.- Yiddish (on money) |
| Money has no value if it is not used. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC) |
| Monkey see, monkey do. - attributed to his great grandfather, Hercurmer Jones by Mr. Glenn McQueen Sr. |
| More than enough is too much. - unknown |
| Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Much ado about nothing. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Music has charms to soothe a savage beast. - William Congreve (1670-1729) |
