A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

MARCH comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb
The weather is traditionally wild at the beginning of March, but fair by the end.

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  a 1625 J. FLETCHER Wife for Month (1717) II. i. ‘I would chuse March, for I would come in like a Lion.’ . . ‘But you’d go out like a Lamb when you went to hanging.’ 1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 41 March hack ham [hackande = annoying] comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb. 1849 C. BRONTE Shirley II. iv. Charming and fascinating he resolved to be. Like March, having come in like a lion, he purposed to go out like a lamb. 1906 E. HOLDEN Country Diary of Edwardian Lady (1977) 25 March has come in like a lamb with a warm wind . . from the South-west. 2002 Times 2 Mar. 26 ‘When March comes in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb’ goes the old folklore saying.. The reverse, however, is also true, and the saying continues: ‘When March comes in like a lamb, it goes out like a lion,’ which does not bode well for us this year. ^weather lore
  

March see also APRIL showers bring forth May flowers; on the FIRST of March the crows begin to search; so many MISTS in March, so many frosts in May; a PECK of March dust is worth a king’s ransom.
march see an ARMY marches on its stomach.
mare see the GREY mare is the better horse; MONEY makes the mare to go; NOTHING so bold as a blind mare.
market see BUY in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest; a MONEYLESS man goes fast through the market.
MARRIAGE is a lottery

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  1642 T. FULLER Holy State III. xxii. Marriage shall prove no lottery to thee, when the hand of providence chuseth for thee, who, if drawing a blank, can turn into a prize by sanctifying a bad wife unto thee. 1875 S. SMILES Thrift xii. ‘Marriage is a lottery.’ It may be so, if we abjure the teachings of prudence. 1939 F. SULLIVAN Sullivan at Bay 14
  

What is marriage?.. Marriage is a lottery. "luck; marriage