Maybe's a big book.
Maybe your pat may need my clips.
Perhaps some day you will be glad of my assistance, although you despise it just now.
May birds are aye cheeping.
This refers to the popular superstition against marrying in the month of May, the children of which marriages are said to "die of decay."
May he that turns the clod ne'er want a bannock.
Mealy mou'd maidens stand lang at the mill.
Measure twice, cut but ance.
Meat and mass ne'er hindered wark.
"'Happy will I be to serve you, my gude auld acquaintance,' said the clerk; 'but sit you down—sit you down—sit you down, Mrs Dods,—meat and mass never hindered wark. Ye are something overcome wi' your travel—the spirit canna aye bear through the flesh, Mrs Dods.'"—St Ronan's Well.