rrows.

"Marrow," that is, an equal, match, or antagonist.

Love and light winna hide.

Love has nae lack, be the dame e'er sae black.

Love has nae law.

Love is as warm amang cottars as courtiers.

"The rose blooms gay on shairney brae,
As weel's in birken shaw;
And love will lowe in cottage low,
As weel's in lofty ha'."--_Tannahill._

Love ower het soon cools.

Love your friend and look to yoursel.

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Maidens should be mild and meek, quick to hear, and slow to speak.

Maidens should be mim till they're married, and then they may burn
kirks.

"Spoken often, by way of reflection, when we say that such a one is
a good-humoured girl, as if you would say, 'Observe how she'll prove
when she is married.'"--_Kelly._

Maidens' tochers and ministers' stipends are aye less than ca'd.

Maidens want naething but a man, and then they want a'thing.

Mair by luck than gude guiding.

That is, a person has been successful by mere force of
circumstances, and by no particular merit of his own.

Mair hamely than welcome.

"Mair haste the waur speed," quo' the tailor to the lang thread.

Mair nice than wise.

Mair pride than pith.

Mair than enough is ower muckle.

Mair than the deil wear a black manteel.

"Mair whistle than woo," quo' the souter when he sheared the sow.

The saying, "Great cry and little wool," is common to all nations;
the Scottish version, however, is the most expressive and humorous
we have met with.

Maister's will is gude wark.

For the master himself is sure to be pleased with it.

Maistry maws the meadows doun.

"The captain's a queer hand ... he keeps a high hand ower the
country, and we couldna deal with the Hielandmen without his
protection, sin' a' the keys o' the kintray hings at his belt; and
he's no an ill body in the main; and maistry, ye ken, maws the
meadows doun."--_Heart of Midlothian._

Mak ae wrang step and down ye gae.

Mak ae pair o' legs worth twa pair o' hands.

"He freed Rashleigh from my hold, and securing me, notwithstanding
my struggles, in his own Herculean gripe, he called out, 'Take the
bent, Mr Rashleigh--make ae pair o' legs worth twa pair o' hands; ye
hae done that before now.'"--_Rob Roy._

Mak a kiln o't, and creep in at the logie.

We surmise that this is intended as an advice to a person who has
become pos