1012 Russian Proverbs / Page 28
541.
Meanness looks through one eye only, ambition is blind.542.
Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once.543.
Men who watch their fortune grow find their houses too small.544.
Men will not be fortunate without a helping hand from misfortune.545.
Messengers should be neither beheaded nor hanged.546.
Misfortune does not visit the weak-hearted.547.
Mistrust is an axe in the tree of love.548.
Mock not the fallen, for slippery is the road ahead of you.549.
Mocking is catching.550.
Money is like down -- one puff and it's gone.551.
Money is only good for a weekday, a holiday, and a rainy day.552.
Moscow does not believe in tears.553.
Much noise from nothing.554.
Mute as a fish.555.
My job 'cock-a-doodle-doo'; from then on, it may not dawn.556.
My job is to scream, 'cock-a-doodle-doo'; from then on, it may not dawn.557.
Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.558.
Neither fish nor meat.559.
Neither rhyme nor harmony.560.
Never kiss an opportunity with a dirty mouth.