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Proverbs starting with M

1: Made in heaven
expression meaning:

2: Make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
said to mean:

3: Make haste slowly.
suggests that:

4: Make hay while the sun shines.
advices that:

5: Man cannot live by bread alone
means that:

6: Man is the measure of all things
means that:

7: Man proposes but God disposes.
said to mean that:

8: Man's extremity is God's opportunity
means that:

9: Manners make the man.
said to mean that:

10: Many a fine dish has nothing on it.
said when:

11: Many a good cow has a bad calf.
said when:

12: Many a good father has but a bad son.
expresses that:

13: Many a little makes a mickle.
used to say that:

14: Many a true word is spoken in jest.
used to say that:

15: Many hands make light work.
expresses the idea that :

16: Many men, many minds.
used to mean that:

17: Many things happen between the cup and the lip
expresses that:

18: Many words hurt more than swords.
used to say that:

19: Many words will not fill a bushel.
declares that:

20: March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.
used to mean that:

21: March to the beat of a different drummer
describes :

22: March winds bring April showers; April showers bring May flowers.
expression for:

23: Marriage is a loottery
suggests that:

24: Marriages are made in heaven.
suggests that:

25: Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
said to mean that:

26: Marry in May, rue for aye
an old superstition:

27: Measure for measure.
meaning that:

28: Measure seven times, cut one.
meaning:

29: Memory is the treasure of the mind.
said to mean that:

30: Men make houses, women make homes.
states that:

31: Men may meet but mountains never.
expression meaning:

32: Mend or end.
advices that:

33: Might goes before right.
said to mean that:

34: Misery loves company
suggests that:

35: Misfortunes never come alone (or singly).
It has been observed that:

36: Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
suggests that:

37: Money begets money.
used to say that:

38: Money can't buy happiness
depends:

39: Money doesn't grow on trees.
said to mean that:

40: Money has no smell.
means that:

41: Money is a good servant but a bad master.
said to mean that:

42: Money is power
said to mean that:

43: Money is the root of all evil
meaning that:

44: Money like manure, does no good till it is spread
suggests that:

45: Money makes money
meaning that:

46: Money makes the mare to go
meaning that:

47: Money often unmakes the men who make it.
said to mean that:

48: Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
in other words:

49: Monkey see, monkey do
suggests that:

50: More haste, less speed.
used to say that:

51: More people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows
suggests that:

52: Morning dreams come true
a very old supestition:

53: Much ado about nothing.
meaning:

54: Much cry and little wool
:

55: Much will have more.
meaning:

56: Muck and money go together.
signifies that:

57: Murder will out.
used to say that:

58: My house is my castle.
used to say that:

59: My house, my rules
expression meaning that :