Proverb
March wind and May sun
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
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Proverb
March winds and April showers
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Poetry
Mary Morison
The speaker asks Mary to come to her window at the appointed hour, recalls sitting at a lighted dance seeing and hearing nothing because she was not there, and finally asks for her love or at least her pity.
Proverb
Measure twice, cut but once.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Fable
Mercury and the Sculptor
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Fable
Mercury and the Workmen
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Proverb
Misers' money goes twice to market.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Misfortunes come by forties.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Misfortunes seldom come single.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Poetry
Mooring for the Night on the Jiande River
宿建德江I move the boat and moor by a misted sandbar; the sun sets, and a traveler's sorrow is new again. The plain is wide, the sky hangs below the trees; the river is clear, and the moon comes close to a person.
Poetry
Mooring on the Qinhuai
泊秦淮Mist wraps the cold water, moonlight wraps the sand; at night I moor on the Qinhuai, close by the wine houses. The singing women do not know the grief of a fallen state; across the water they are still singing 'Flowers of the Rear Courtyard.'
Proverb
More flies are caught with a drop of honey than with a tun of vinegar.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Mouth of ivy, heart of holly.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Much ado about nothing.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Much would have more.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Murder will out.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Poetry
Music, when Soft Voices die
Music, scent, and rose leaves outlast their immediate forms; the final address imagines love resting upon the thoughts left by someone who is gone.
Poetry
My Bonnie Mary
Before boarding, the speaker calls for wine in a silver cup to drink a toast to his love, then says that neither the roar of sea and shore nor the noise of war, but only leaving her, makes parting hard.
Proverb
Naethin is got without pains but dirt and lang nails.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Naething in haste but gripping o' fleas.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Ne'er go to the deil wi' a dishclout in your hand.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Near is my petticoat, but nearer is my smock.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Neck or nothing, for the king loves no cripples.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Proverb
Need makes the naked man run.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.