Proper noun
Mais
A surname.
Lenin was a Great Russian peasant et rien de plus, mais r-r-rien de plus. Oh yes, he was a dialectician, the only true one among them. But most of all he was a Russian and that is to be a peasant. Whittaker Chambers
Mais apud me omnia fiunt Mathematicè in Natura. René Descartes
On donne des conseils mais on n'inspire point de conduite. François de La Rochefoucauld
Mais vale prevenir do que remediar. Portuguese Proverb
Berlioz, p. 430 According to the musical scholar Jean Gallois, it was apropos of this episode that Berlioz made his well-known bon mot about Saint-Saëns, "He knows everything, but lacks inexperience" ("Il sait tout, mais il manque d'inexpérience"). Source: Internet
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Monday ordered partial military mobilisation and General Mais Barkhudarov vowed to “fight to the last drop of blood in order to completely destroy the enemy and win.” Source: Internet