Dictionary of Quotations

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Ma vie est un combat—My life is a battle. Voltaire.

Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep; / Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, / The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, / Chief nourisher in life's feast. Macb., ii. 2.

Mach' dich nicht zu hoch, die Thür ist niedrig—Don't carry your head too high; the door is low. Ger. Pr.

Mach' es Wenigen recht: Vielen gefallen ist 30 schlimm—Be content to please a few; to please many is bad. Schiller.

Machines cannot increase the possibilities of life, only the possibilities of idleness. Ruskin.

Macht, was ihr wollt; nur lasst mich ungeschoren—Produce what ye like, only leave me unmolested (lit. unshorn). Goethe.

Mächtig in Werke, nicht in Worte—Mighty in deeds, not in words. Ger. Pr.

Macies et nova febrium / Terris incubuit cohors—A wasting disease and an unheard-of battalion of fevers have swooped down on the earth. Hor.

Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra—Go 35 on in new deeds of valour, my son! That is the way to the stars. Virg.

Macte virtute—Persevere in virtue; go on and prosper.

Macte virtute diligentiaque esto—Persevere in virtue and diligence. Livy.

Maculæ quas incuria fudit—The blemishes, or errors, which carelessness has produced. Hor.

Mad bulls cannot be tied up with a packthread. Pr.

Mad dogs cannot live long. Pr. 40

Mad people think others mad. Pr.

Madame fut douce envers la mort, comme elle l'était envers tout le monde—She was gentle towards death, as she was towards every one. Bossuet.

Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. Ham., iii. 1.

Madness is consistent, which is more than can be said for poor reason. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason. Sterne.

Madness is the last stage of human debasement. 45 It is the abdication of humanity. Better to die a thousand times! Napoleon.

Madruga y verás, trabaja y habrás—Rise betimes, and you will see; labour diligently, and you will have. Sp. Pr.

Magalia quondam—Formerly humble huts stood here. Virg.

Magasins de nouveautés—Linen-draper's, or fancy goods', shop. Fr.

Magis gaudet quam qui senectam exuit—He rejoices more than an old man who has put off old age, i.e., has become young again. Pr.

Magis magni clerici non sunt magis sapientes—The 50 greater scholars are not the wisest men. Pr.

Magister alius casus—Misfortune is a second master. Pliny the elder.

Magister artis ingeniique largitor / Venter—The belly (i.e., hunger or necessity) is the teacher of arts and the bestower of genius. Pers.

Magister dixit—The master has said so.

Magistratum legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum—A judge is a speaking law, law a silent judge. Cic.

Magistratus indicat virum—Office shows the 5 man. M.

Magna Charta—The Great Charter (obtained from King John in 1215).

Magna civitas, magna solitudo—A great city is a great desert. Gr. and L. Pr.

Magna comitante caterva—A great crowd accompanying. Virg.

Magna est admiratio copiose sapienterque dicentis—Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. Cic.

Magna est veritas et prævalebit—Truth is 10 mighty, and will in the end prevail.

Magna est vis consuetudinis: hæc ferre laborem, contemnere vulnus et dolorem docet—Great is the power of habit: teaching us as it does to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. Cic.

Magna fuit quondam capitis reverentia cani, / Inque suo pretio ruga senilis erat—Great was the respect paid of old to the hoary head, and great the honour to the wrinkles of age. Ovid.

Magna servitus est magna fortuna—A great fortune is a great slavery. Sen.

Magna vis est, magnum nomen, unum et idem sentientis senatus—Great is the power, great the authority, of a senate which is unanimous in its opinions. Cic.

Magnæ felicitates multum caliginis mentibus 15 humanis objiciunt—Great and sudden prosperity has a deadening (lit. densely darkening) effect on the human mind. Sen.

Magnæ fortunæ comes adest adulatio—Adulation is ever the attendant on great wealth.

Magnanimiter crucem sustine—Bear up bravely under the cross. M.

Magnanimity is the good sense of pride, and the noblest way of acquiring applause. La Roche.

Magnanimity owes to prudence no account of its motives. Vauvenargues.

Magnas inter opes inops—Poor in the midst 20 of great wealth. Hor.

Magni animi est injurias despicere—It is the mark of a great mind to despise injuries. Sen.

Magni animi est magna contemnere, ac mediocria malle quam nimia—It is a sign of a great mind to despise greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. Sen.

Magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus, et cogitationem a consuetudine abducere—It argues a mind of great native force to be able to emancipate itself from the thraldom of the senses, and to wean its thoughts from old habits. Cic.

Magni nominis umbra—The shadow of a great name. Lucan.

Magni refert quibuscum vixeris—It matters a 25 great deal with whom you live. Pr.

Magnificat—The song of the Virgin Mary (lit. she magnifies). Luke, i. 44-45.

Magnificence cannot be cheap, for what is cheap cannot be magnificent. Johnson.

Magnis excidit ausis—He failed in bold attempts. Ovid.

Magno conatu magnas nugas—By great efforts to obtain great trifles. Ter.

Magno cum periculo custoditur, quod multis 30 placet—That is guarded at great risk which is coveted by many. Pub. Syr.

Magno de flumine mallem / Quam ex hoc fonticulo tantundem sumere—I had rather take my glass of water from a great river like this than from this little fountain. Hor., in reproof of those who lay by large stores and never use them.

Magnorum haud unquam indignus avorum—Never unworthy of his illustrious ancestors. Virg.

Magnum est argumentum in utroque fuisse moderatum—It speaks volumes for man that, when placed in quite different situations, he displays in each the same spirit of moderation.

Magnum hoc ego duco / Quod placui tibi qui turpi secernis honestum—I account it a great honour that I have pleased a man like you, who know so well to discriminate between the base and the honourable. Hor.

Magnum hoc vitium vino est, / Pedes captat 35 primum; luctator dolosus est—This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. Plaut.

Magnum pauperies opprobrium jubet / Quidvis aut facere aut pati—Poverty, that deep disgrace, bids us do or suffer anything. Hor.

Magnum vectigal est parsimonia—Thrift is a great revenue. Cic.

Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo—The great cycle of the ages begins its round anew. Virg.

Magnus Alexander corpore parvus erat—The great Alexander was small in stature. Pr.

Magnus animus remissius loquitur et securius—The 40 talk of a great soul is at once more careless and confident than that of other men. Sen.

Magnus Apollo—A great oracle.

Magnus sine viribus ignis / Incassum furit—A great fire, unless you feed it, spends its rage in vain. Virg.

Mãi aguçosa, filha preguiçosa—A busy mother makes slothful daughters. Port. Pr.

Maidens' bairns and bachelors' wives are aye weel bred. Sc. Pr.

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught with 45 glare, / And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Byron.

Maidens should be mild and meek, / Swift to hear, and slow to speak. Pr.

Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. As You Like It, iv. 1.

Maids should be seen and not heard. Pr.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them they want everything. Somerset Pr.

Maids well summered, and warm kept, are like 50 flies at Bartholomew-tide—blind, though they have their eyes. Hen. V., v. 2.

Maintien le droit—Maintain the right. M.

Mair by luck than gude guiding (management). Sc. Pr.

Mais au moindre revers funeste / Le masque tombe, l'homme reste / Et le héros s'évanouit—But at the least sad reverse the mask drops off, the man remains, and the hero vanishes. J. B. Rousseau.

Mais de quoi sont composées les affaires du monde? Du bien d'autrui—By of what is the business of the world made up? Of the wealth of other people. Béroalde Verville.

Maison d'arrêt—A jail, a prison. Fr.

Maison de force—A house of correction. Fr.

Maître Jacques—A handy fellow who is ready to 5 undertake all kinds of work. Fr.

Major e longinquo reverentia—Respect is greater at a distance. Tac.

Major famæ sitis est quam / Virtutis; quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam, / Præmia si tollas?—The thirst for fame is greater than that for virtue; for, if you take away its reward, who would embrace virtue? Juv.

Major hereditas venit unicuique nostrum a jure et legibus, quam a parentibus—A more valuable inheritance falls to each of us in our civil and legal rights than comes to us from our fathers. Cic.

Major privato visus, dum privatus fuit, et omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset—He was regarded as greater than a private individual so long as he remained one, and, by the consent of all, would have been deemed worthy to rule had he never ruled. Tac., of the Emperor Galba.

Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo—A greater 10 succession of events presents itself to my muse. Virg.

Major sum quam cui possit Fortuna nocere / Multaque ut eripiat, multo mihi plura relinquet. / Excessere metum mea jam bona—I am above being injured by fortune; though she snatch away much, more will remain to me. The blessings I now enjoy transcend fear. Ov.

Majore tumultu / Planguntur nummi quam funera, nemo dolorem / Fingit in hoc casu /... Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris—Money is bewailed with a greater tumult than death. No one feigns grief in this case.... The loss of money is deplored with true tears. Juv.

Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ—And the shadows lengthen as they fall from the lofty mountains. Virg.

Majori cedo—I retire before my superior.

Majority is applied to number, and superiority 15 to power. Johnson.

Majus et minus non variant speciem—Greater and less don't change the nature of a thing.

Make a crutch of your cross. Pr.

Make a virtue of necessity. Burton.

Make all sure, and keep all pure. Pr.

Make clean thy conscience; hide thee there. 20 Quarles.

Make clean work, and leave no tags. Allow no delays when you are at a thing; do it and be done with it. Prof. Blackie.

Make doors fast upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the keyhole. As You Like It, iv. 1.

Make every bargain clear and plain, / That none may afterwards complain. Pr.

Make good cheese, if you make little. Pr.

Make haste slowly. Pr. 25

Make hay while the sun shines. Pr.

Make it an invariable and obligatory law to yourself never to mention your own mental diseases. When you talk of them, it is plain that you want either praise or pity; for praise there is no room, and pity will do you no good. Johnson.

Make knowledge circle with the winds; / But let her herald, Reverence, fly / Before her to whatever sky / Bear seed of men and growth of minds. Tennyson.

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm. Colton.

Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy sad 30 soul.... He goes always heavy-loaded, and thou must bear half. Fenélon.

Make not another's shoes by your own foot. Pr.

Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. Pr.

Make not thy sport abuses; for the fly, / That feeds on dung, is coloured thereby. George Herbert.

Make not thy tail broader than thy wings. Pr.

Make not two sorrows of one. Pr. 35

Make short the miles with talk and smiles. Pr.

Make temperance thy companion, so shall health sit on thy brow. Dodsley.

Make the most and the best of your lot, and compare yourself not with the few that are above you, but with the multitudes which are below you. Johnson.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time. Goethe.

Make the night night, and the day day, and 40 you will have a pleasant time of it. Port. Pr.

Make the plaster as large as the sore. Pr.

Make thee my knight? my knights are sworn to vows / Of utter hardihood, utter gentleness, / And, loving, utter faithfulness in love, / And uttermost obedience to the king. Tennyson.

Make thick my blood, / Stop up the access and passage to remorse, / That no compunctious visitings of Nature / Shake my fell purpose. Macb., i. 5.

Make thy claim of wages for this world, and all worlds, at zero—at nothing; thus, and thus only, hast thou the world at thy feet. Carlyle.

Make your educational laws strict, and your 45 criminal ones may be gentle; but leave youth its liberty, and you will have to dig dungeons for age. Ruskin.

Make your hay as best you may. Pr.

Make your mark, but mind what your mark is. Pr.

Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders. Dan. Pr.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. Carlyle.

Make yourself necessary to the world and 50 mankind will give you bread. Emerson.

Make yourselves necessary to somebody. Emerson.

Mal à propos—Ill-timed; unseasonable. Fr.

Mala causa silenda est—'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause. Ovid.

Mala fides—Bad faith.

Mala gallina, malum ovum—Bad hen, bad egg. Pr.

Mala grammatica non vitiat chartam—Bad grammar does not vitiate a deed. L.

Mala mali malo mala contulit omnia mundo—The jawbone of the evil one by means of an apple brought all evils into the world.

Mala mens, malus animus—Bad mind, bad 5 heart. Ter.

Mala merx hæc, et callida est—She's a bad bargain and a crafty one. Plaut.

Mala ultro adsunt—Misfortunes come unsought. Pr.

Maladie du pays—Home-sickness. Fr.

Male cuncta ministrat / Impetus—Violence (of passion) conducts everything badly. Stat.

Male imperando summum imperium amittitur—By 10 misgovernment the supreme rule is lost. Pub. Syr.

Male parta male dilabuntur—Things ill gotten go ill. Pr.

Male partum male disperit—Property ill got is ill spent; lightly come, lightly go. Plaut.

Male secum agit æger, medicum qui hæredem facit—A sick man acts foolishly for himself who makes his doctor his heir.

Male verum examinat omnis / Corruptus judex—Badly is the truth weighed by a corrupt judge. Hor.

Male vivunt qui se semper victuros putant—They 15 live ill who think they will live for ever. Pub. Syr.

Malebranche saw all things in God, and M. Necker saw all things in Necker. Mirabeau.

Maledicus a malefico non distat nisi occasione—An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer in nothing but want of opportunity. Quinct.

Malesuada fames—Hunger that tempts to evil. Virg.

Malheureux celui qui est en avance de son siècle—Unhappy is the man who is in advance of his time. Fr. Pr.

Mali principii malus finis—Bad beginnings have 20 bad endings (lit. a bad end of a bad beginning). Ter.

Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient. Government of the Tongue.

Malice sucks up the greatest part of our own venom, and poisons herself. Montaigne.

Malim indisertam prudentiam, quam stultitiam loquacem—I prefer sense that is faulty in expression to loquacious folly. Cic.

Malim inquietam libertatem quam quietum servitium—I would prefer turbulent liberty to quiet slavery.

Malis avibus—With a bad omen (lit. with bad 25 birds). Cic.

Malo benefacere tantumdem est periculum / Quantum bono malefacere—To do good to the bad is a danger just as great as to do bad to the good. Plaut.

Malo cum Platone errare, quam cum aliis recte sentire—I had rather be wrong with Plato than think right with others. Cic.

Malo mihi male quam molliter esse—I prefer being ill to being idle. Sen.

Malo mori quam fœdari—I had rather die than be disgraced. M.

Malo nodo malus quærendus cuneus—For a 30 hard knot a hard tool must be sought. Pr.

Malorum facinorum ministri quasi exprobrantes aspiciuntur—Accomplices in evil actions are always regarded as reproaching the deed. Tac.

Malum consilium consultori pessimum—Bad advice is most pernicious to the adviser. Ver. Flaccus.

Malum est consilium quod mutari non potest—That is bad counsel which cannot be changed. Pub. Syr.

Malum in se—A thing evil in itself.

Malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum 35 fit robustius—An evil habit is easily subdued in the beginning, but when it becomes inveterate it gains strength. Cic.

Malum prohibitum—A crime because forbidden by law, such as smuggling. L.

Malum vas non frangitur—A worthless vessel is seldom broken. Pr.

Malus bonum ubi se simulat, tunc est pessimus—A bad man, when he pretends to be a good one, is worst of all. Pub. Syr.

Malus est enim custos diuturnitatis metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis vel ad perpetuitatem—Fear is a bad preserver of that which is intended to last; whereas mildness and good-will ensure fidelity for ever. Cic.

Malus usus est abolendus—An evil custom should 40 be abolished. L.

Mammon has enriched his thousands, and has damned his ten thousands. South.

Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell / From heaven. Milton.

Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Byron.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. Sir W. Temple.

Man always worships something; always he 45 sees the infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon. Carlyle.

Man am I grown, a man's work must I do. / Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King, / Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King—/ Else wherefore born? Tennyson.

Man and man only can do the impossible; /... He to the moment endurance can lend. Goethe.

Man becomes greater in proportion as he learns to know himself and his faculty. Let him once become conscious of what he is, and he will soon also learn to be what he should. Schelling.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart. Amiel.

Man, behind his everlasting blind, which he 50 only colours differently, and makes no thinner, carries his pride with him from one step to another, and on the higher step blames only the pride of the lower. Jean Paul.

Man can dispense with much but not with men. Börne.

Man can elect the universal man, / And live in life that ends not with his breath. R. W. Dixon.

Man can invent nothing nobler than humanity. Ruskin.

Man can only learn to rise from the consideration of that which he cannot surmount. Jean Paul.

Man cannot be a naturalist, until he satisfies all the demands of the spirit. Emerson.

Man cannot choose his duties. George Eliot.

Man cannot live without his formulas. Dr. Walter Smith.

Man carries under his hat a private theatre, 5 wherein a greater drama is acted than ever on the mimic stage, beginning and ending in eternity. Carlyle.

Man consists in truth. If he exposes truth, he exposes himself. If he betrays truth, he betrays himself. We speak not here of lies, but of acting against conviction. Novalis.

Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the day of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl. Sydney Smith.

Man creeps into childhood, bounds into youth, sobers into manhood, and softens into age. H. Giles.

Man darf nur sterben, um gelobt zu werden—One has but to die to be praised. Ger. Pr.

Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither. 10 Ham., ii. 2.

Man disputirt mehr über die Schaale, als über den Kern—People dispute more about the shell than the kernel. Ger. Pr.

Man does not willingly submit himself to reverence; or rather, he never so submits himself: it is a higher sense which must be communicated to his nature, which only in some peculiarly favoured individuals unfolds itself spontaneously, who on this account too have of old been looked upon as saints and gods. Goethe.

Man does not wish to be told the truth. Pascal.

Man doth what he can, and God what He will. Pr.

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to 15 love. Tennyson.

Man ever tends to reckon his own insight as final, and goes upon it as such. Carlyle.

Man everywhere is the born enemy of lies. Carlyle.

Man findet tausend Gelehrte, bis man auf einen weisen Mann stösst—We may come upon a thousand men of learning before we stumble upon a single wise man. Klinger.

Man for the field and woman for the hearth; / Man for the sword and for the needle she: / Man with the head and woman with the heart: / Man to command and woman to obey; / All else confusion. Tennyson.

Man, forget not death, for death certainly forgets 20 not thee. Turkish Pr.

Man gives up all pretension to the infinite while he feels here that neither with thought nor without it is he equal to the finite. Goethe.

Man had not a hammer to begin, not a syllabled articulation; they had it all to make—and they have made it. Carlyle.

Man has a brief flowering season and a long fading. Uhland.

Man has a silent and solitary literature written by his heart upon the tables of stone in Nature; and next to God's finger, a man's heart writes the most memorable things. Ward Beecher.

Man has a soul as certainly as he has a body; 25 nay, much more certainly; properly it is the course of his unseen spiritual life, which informs and rules his external visible life, rather than receives rule from it, in which spiritual life the true secret of his history lies. Carlyle.

Man has always humour enough to make merry with what he cannot help. Goethe.

Man has ever been a striving, struggling, and, in spite of wide-spread calumnies to the contrary, a veracious creature. Carlyle.

Man has in his own soul an Eternal; can read something of the Eternal there, if he will look. Carlyle.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself. Petrarch.

Man has quite a peculiar pleasure in making 30 proselytes; in causing others to enjoy what he enjoys, in finding his own likeness represented and reflected back to him. Goethe.

Man has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman but she has a presentiment of it some moments before. Sterne.

Man has two and a half minutes here below—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies. Jean Paul.

Man, if he compare himself with all he can see, is at the zenith of his power; but if he compare himself with all he can conceive, he is at the nadir of his weakness. Colton.

Man is a born owl. Carlyle.

Man is a bundle of habits. Pr. 35

Man is a darkened being; he knows not whence he comes, nor whither he goes; he knows little of the world and least of himself. Goethe.

Man is a fallen god, who remembers heaven, his former dwelling-place. Lamartine.

Man is a forked radish with head fantastically carved. Swift.

Man is a forked straddling animal with bandy legs. Swift.

Man is a military animal, / Glories in gunpowder 40 and loves parade. P. J. Bailey.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Sir T. Browne.

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction. Hazlitt.

Man is a spirit, and bound by invisible bonds to all men. Carlyle.

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Emerson.

Man is a substance clad in shadows. John 45 Sterling.

Man is a sun; his senses are the planets. Novalis.

Man is a tool-using animal;... without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. Carlyle.

Man is actually here, not to ask questions but to do work; in this time, as in all times, it must be the heaviest evil for him if his faculty of action lie dormant, and only that of sceptical inquiry exert itself. Carlyle.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals. Burke.

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this. Adam Smith.

Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd. Schiller.

Man is, and always was, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest than to think and consider. Carlyle.

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. Saadi.

Man is born not to solve the problems of the 5 universe, but to find out where the problem begins, and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible. Goethe.

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Bible.

Man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and, in his manners, equal the majesty of the world. Emerson.

Man is but a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a reed that thinks. Pascal.

Man is created free, is free, even if he were born in chains. Schiller.

Man is created to fight; he is perhaps best of 10 all definable as a born soldier; his life "a battle and a march" under the right generals. Carlyle.

Man is emphatically a proselytising creature. Carlyle.

Man is ever the most interesting object to man, and perhaps should be the only one to interest him. Goethe.

Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. Emerson.

Man is fire and woman tow; the devil comes and sets them in a blaze. Pr.

Man is first a spirit, bound by invisible bonds 15 to all men; and secondly, he wears clothes, which are the visible emblems of that fact. Carlyle, the two main ideas emphasised in "Sartor."

Man is for ever the born thrall of certain men, born master of certain other men, born equal of certain others, let him acknowledge the fact or not. Carlyle.

Man is for ever the brother of man. Carlyle.

Man is free as the bird is in its cage: he can move about within certain limits. Lavater.

Man is God's image; but a poor man is / Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard. / God reckons for him, counts the favour His. George Herbert.

Man is greater than a world, than systems of 20 worlds; there is more mystery in the union of soul with the physical than in the creation of a universe. H. Giles.

Man is his own star, and the soul that can / Render an honest and a perfect man, / Commands all light, all influence, all fate; / Nothing to him falls early or too late. Beaumont and Fletcher.

Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should. Goethe.

Man is like the worker at Gobelins, who weaves on the wrong side a tapestry of which he does not see the design. Renan.

Man is made great or little by his own will. Schiller.

Man is man by virtue of willing, not by virtue 25 of knowing and understanding; and as he is, so he sees. Emerson.

Man is man everywhere. Carlyle.

Man is man only as he makes life and nature happier to us. Emerson.

Man is more often injured than helped by the means he uses. Emerson.

Man is more than constitutions. Whittier.

Man is neither an angel nor a brute, and it is 30 his evil destiny if he aspires to be the former, to sink into the latter. Pascal.

Man is neither the vile nor the excellent being which he sometimes imagines himself to be. Disraeli.

Man is not a piece of clay to be moulded, but a plant to be cultivated. Garve.

Man is not as God, / But then most godlike, being most a man. Tennyson.

Man is not born to be free, and for the noble there is no fairer fortune than to serve a prince whom he honours. Goethe.

Man is not God, but hath God's end to serve, / 35 A master to obey, a course to take, / Somewhat to cast off, somewhat to become. Browning.

Man is not made to question, but adore. Young.

Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. Disraeli.

Man is nothing but contradiction; the less he knows it the more dupe he is. Amiel.

Man is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest. Carlyle.

Man is often a wolf to man, a serpent to God, 40 and a scorpion to himself. Spurgeon.

Man is one, and he hath one great heart. Bailey.

Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him. George Herbert.

Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Disraeli.

Man is only what he becomes, but he becomes only what he is. Amiel.

Man is physically as well as metaphysically a 45 thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. Emerson.

Man is placed in this world as a spectator; when he is tired with wondering at all the novelties about him, and not till then, does he desire to be made acquainted with the causes that create those wonders. Goldsmith.

Man is properly an incarnated word; the word that he speaks is the man himself. Carlyle.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon Hope, he has no other possession but Hope; this world of his is emphatically the Place of Hope. Carlyle.

Man is quite sufficiently saddened by his own passions and destiny, and need not make himself more so by the darkness of a barbaric past. He needs enlightening and cheering influences, and should therefore turn to those eras in art and literature during which remarkable men obtained perfect culture. Goethe.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his belief to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another. Macaulay.

Man is so prone to occupy himself with what is most common, the soul and the senses are so easily blunted to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that one ought by all means to preserve the capability of feeling it. We ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see an excellent painting, and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. Goethe.

Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward. Emerson.

Man is the arch-machine of which all these 5 shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is. Emerson.

Man is the circled oak, woman the ivy. Aaron Hill.

Man is the dwarf of himself. Emerson.

Man is the end towards which all the animal creation has tended. Agassiz.

Man is the favourite (Günstling) of Nature, not in the sense that Nature has done everything for him, but that she has given him the power of doing everything for himself. Zachariae.

Man is the higher sense of our planet, the 10 star which connects it with the upper world, the eye which it turns towards heaven. Novalis.

Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in. Theo. Parker.

Man is the maker of expedients, but not of laws. In his solicitude as to his approaching lot, he has neither time nor desire to raise his eyes to the heavens to watch and record their phenomena; no leisure to look upon himself and consider what and where he is. In the imperious demand for a present support, he dare not venture on speculative attempts at ameliorating his state; he is doomed to be a helpless, isolated, spellbound savage, or, if not isolated, the companion of other savages as careworn as himself. Draper.

Man is the merriest species of the creation. Addison.

Man is the Messiah of Nature. Novalis.

Man is the meter of all things; the hand is 15 the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms. Arist.

Man is the Missionary of Order; he is the servant not of the devil and chaos, but of God and the universe. Carlyle.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, / And souls are ripened in our northern sky. Mrs. Barbauld.

Man is the slave of beneficence. Arab. Pr.

Man is the sum-total of all the animals. Oken.

Man is the sun of the world; more than the 20 real sun. The fire of his wonderful heart is the only light and heat worth gauge or measure. Where he is, are the tropics; where he is not, the ice-world. Ruskin.

Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest. Pliny.

Man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie enfolded already in the first man. Emerson.

Man is the will and woman is the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail. Emerson.

Man is to man the sorest, surest ill.... / Earth trembles ere her yawning jaws devour; / And smoke betrays the wide-consuming fire; / Ruin from man is most conceal'd when near, / And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow. Young.

Man is too near all kinds of beasts—a fawning 25 dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, a rapacious vulture. Cowley.

Man ist nur eigentlich lebendig, wenn man sich des Wohlwollens Anderer freut—A man is only truly alive when he enjoys the goodwill of others. Goethe.

Man, it's surely a pity that thou should'st sit yonder, with nothing but the eye of Omniscience to see thee, and thou with such gift to speak. James Carlyle to his son, when he first discovered this gift in him.

Man kan geen loopend paard beslaan—One cannot shoe a running-horse. Dut. Pr.

Man kann den Menschen nicht verwehren, / Zu denken, was sie wollen—There is no hindering people from thinking what thoughts they like. Schiller.

Man kann ein klarer Denker ohne Gefühl, 30 aber kein starker, kühner Denker ohne dasselbe sein—Without feeling one may be a clear thinker, but not a powerful and a bold. Klinger.

Man kann in wahrer Freiheit leben / Und doch nicht ungebunden sein—One may enjoy true freedom, and yet be in chains. Goethe.

Man kann nicht stets das Fremde meiden, / Das Gute liegt uns oft so fern. / Ein echter deutscher Mann mag keinen Franzen leiden, / Doch ihre Weine trinkt er gern—We cannot always avoid what is foreign; what is good often lies so far off. A true German cannot abide the French, and yet he will drink their wines with the most genuine relish. Goethe.

Man kann nicht wider sein Geshick—There is no striving against one's fate. Schiller.

Man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience. Wieland.

Man kommt zu schaun, Man will am liebsten 35 sehn—People come to look; their greatest pleasure is to feast their eyes. Goethe.

Man lebt nur einmal in der Welt—Only once is it given us to live in the world. Goethe.

Man, like the gen'rous vine, supported, lives;/ The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives. Pope.

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them. Goldsmith.

Man lives in Time, has his whole earthly being, endeavour, and destiny shaped for him by Time; only in the transitory Time-symbol is the ever-motionless eternity we stand on made manifest. Carlyle.

Man lives where he acts. Renan.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the overmastering present. Schiller.

Man lobt den Künstler dann erst recht, wenn 5 man über sein Werk sein Lob vergisst—We first truly praise an artist when the merit of his work is such as to make us forget himself. Lessing.

Man löst sich nicht allmählich von dem Leben!—It is by no gradual process we detach ourselves from (lose our hold of) life. Schiller.

Man loves before he sees; his heart is open before his eyes; love must irradiate his world for him before he well knows he is in it, what it is made of, and what to make of it. Ed.

Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely. Basta.

Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason. Emerson.

Man mag Amphion sein und Fels und Wald 10 bewegen, / Deswegen kann man doch nicht Bauern widerlegen—One may be a very Amphion and be able to move trees and rocks, and yet be unable to reduce peasants to reason. Gellert.

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt. H. R. Haweis.

Man muss die Menschen nur mit dem Krämergewicht, keinesweges mit der Goldwage wiegen—We must weigh men with merchant's scales, and by no means with the goldsmith's. Goethe.

Man muss handeln können, wie man will, um zu handeln, wie man soll—We must be able to act as we would in order to act as we should. Zachariæ.

Man muss keinem Menschen trauen, der bei seinen Versicherungen die Hand auf's Herz legt—We should trust no man who in his protestations lays his hand on his heart. Lichtenberg.

Man muss nicht reicher scheinen wollen, als 15 man ist—We must not wish to appear richer than we are. Lessing.

Man muss seine Irrthümer theuer bezahlen, wenn man sie los werden will, und dann hat man noch von Glück zu sagen—Men must pay dearly for their errors, if they would be free from them, and then they may regard it a happiness to do so. Goethe.

Man muss, will man ein Glück geniessen, / Die Freiheit zu behaupten wissen—If we would enjoy what fortune gives us, we must know how to maintain our freedom. Gellert.

Man must hold fast by the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible, otherwise he would not search. Goethe.

Man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure; critics all are ready made. Byron.

Man never comprehends how anthropomorphic 20 he is. Goethe.

Man, never so often deceived, still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own. Emerson.

Man, on the dubious waves of error tost. Cowper.

Man only can create music, for nothing is perfect until, in some way, it touches or passes through man. T. T. Munger.

Man only mars kind Nature's plan, / And turns the fierce pursuit on man. Scott.

Man ought always to have something which 25 he prefers to life. Seume.

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Browning.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. Arist.

Man proposes, God disposes. Pr.

Man, proud man, / Dress'd in a little brief authority; / Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, / His glassy essence, like an angry ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, / As make the angels weep. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

Man reconciles himself to almost every event, 30 however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary that he rebels against. W. v. Humboldt.

Man rettet gern aus trüber Gegenwart / Sich in das heitere Gebiet der Kunst, / Und für die Kränkungen der Wirklichkeit / Sucht man sich Heilung in des Dichters Träumen—We are fain to escape out of the distracted present into the untroubled sphere of art, and for the miseries of real life we seek healing in the dreams of the poet. Uhland.

Man schont die Alten, wie man die Kinder schont—We bear with old people as we do with children. Goethe.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Bible.

Man should let alone other's prejudices and examine his own. Locke.

Man should not be over-anxious for a subsistence, 35 for it is provided by the Creator. The infant no sooner droppeth from the womb than the breasts of the mother begin to stream. Hitopadesa.

Man sieht sich, lernt sich kennen, / Liebt sich, muss sich trennen—We greet each other, learn to know each other, love each other, and then—we part.

Man soll die Stimmen wägen und nicht zählen—Votes ought to be weighed, not counted. Schiller.

Man soll kein Buch nach dem Titelblatt beurtheilen—We should not judge of a book from the title-page. Ger. Pr.

Man soll nicht mehr Teufel rufen, als man bannen kann—One should raise no more devils than one can lay. Ger. Pr.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, 40 complaining of the present, and trembling for the future. Rivarol.

Man spricht selten von der Tugend, die man hat; aber desto öfter von der, die uns fehlt—We seldom boast (lit. speak) of the virtue which we have, but oftener of that which we have not. Lessing.

Man spricht vergebens viel, nur zu versagen, / Der and're hört von allem nur das Nein!—In vain we speak much only to refuse; the other, of all we say, hears only the "No!" Goethe.

Man spricht vom vielen Trinken stets, / Doch nie vom vielen Durste—They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst. Scheffel.

Man steigt den grünen Berg des Lebens hinauf, um oben auf dem Eisberge zu sterben—We ascend the green mountain of life in order to die up there upon the glaciers. (?)

Man steigt nicht ungestraft vom Göttermahle / Herunter in den Kreis der Sterblichen—One does not descend from a banquet with the gods into a company of common mortals without suffering for it. Grillparzer.

Man supposes that he directs his life and 5 governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny. Goethe.

Man, that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. Bible.

Man, the aristocrat amongst the animals. Heine.

Man, the little god of this world, is still ever of the same stamp, and is as whimsical as on the first day. Mephisto in Goethe.

Man the peasant is a being of more marked national character than man the educated and refined. Ruskin.

Man thee for the high endeavour, / Shun the 10 crowd's ignoble ease! / Fails the noble spirit never, / Wise to think and prompt to seize. Goethe.

Man thereby (by his fantasy as the organ of the godlike), though based to all seeming on the small visible, does nevertheless extend down into the infinite deeps of the Invisible, of which Invisible, indeed, his life is properly the bodying forth. Carlyle.

Man thinks he has an estate of reputation, and is glad to see one that will bring any of it home to him; it is no matter how dirty a bag it is conveyed to him in, or by how clownish a messenger, so the money is good. Steele.

Man! / Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and a tear. Byron.

Man, though, as Swift has it, "a forked straddling animal with bandy legs," yet is also a spirit, and unutterable mystery of mysteries. Carlyle.

Man unconnected is at home everywhere, 15 unless he may be said to be at home nowhere. Johnson.

Man verändert sich oft und bessert sich selten—People change often enough, but seldom for the better. Ger. Pr.

Man wants but little here below, / Nor wants that little long. Goldsmith.

Man was created to work—not to speculate, or feel, or dream. Carlyle.

Man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother. Bacon.

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved. 20 Lamb.

Man, who lives to die, dies to live well, / So if he guide his ways by blamelessness / And earnest will to hinder not, but help, / All things both great and small which suffer life. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Man wird nie betrogen; man betrügt sich selbst—We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. Goethe.

Man without patience is the lamp without oil, and pride in a rage is a bad counsellor. A. de Musset.

Man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. Ward Beecher.

Man yields to custom as he bows to fate, / 25 In all things ruled—mind, body, and estate; / In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply / To them we know not, and we know not why. Crabbe.

Man's activity is all too fain to relax; he soon gets fond of unconditional repose. Goethe.

Man's best candle is his understanding. Pr.

Man's body and his mind are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining—rumple the one, you rumple the other. Sterne.

Man's conviction should be strong, and so well timed that worldly advantages may seem to have no share in it. Addison.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity. Pr. 30

Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. Addison.

Man's grand fault is, and remains, that he has so many small ones. Jean Paul.

Man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality. Young.

Man's gullability is not his worst blessing. Carlyle.

Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry 35 still. Young.

Man's highest merit always is as much as possible to rule external circumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. Goethe.

Man's history is little else than a narrative of designs that have failed and hopes that have been disappointed. Johnson.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of his neighbours. Farrar.

Man's life and nature is as it was, and as it 40 will ever be. Carlyle.

Man's life is a progress, and not a station. Emerson.

Man's life is an appendix to his heart. South.

Man's life is filed by his foe. Pr.

Man's life is never anything but an ever-vanishing present. Schopenhauer.

Man's life is not an affair of mere instinct, but 45 of steady self-control. Goethe.

Man's life never was a sport to him; it was a stern reality—altogether a serious matter to be alive. Carlyle.

Man's life now, as of old, is the genuine work of God; wherever there is a man, a God also is revealed, and all that is godlike; a whole epitome of the Infinite, with its meanings, lies enfolded in the life of every man. Carlyle.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; / 'Tis woman's whole existence. Byron.

Man's obligations do not tend toward the past. We know of nothing that binds us to what is behind: our duty lies ahead. C. Richet.

Man's only true happiness is to live in Hope of something to be won by him, in Reverence of something to be worshipped by him, and in Love of something to be cherished by him, and cherished—for ever. Ruskin.

Man's own heart must be ever given to gain that of another. Goldsmith.

Man's own judgment is the proper rule and measure of his actions. Thomas à Kempis.

Man's philosophies are usually the "supplement 5 of his practice;" some ornamental logic-varnish, some outer skin of articulate intelligence, with which he strives to render his dumb instinctive doings presentable when they are done. Carlyle.

Man's second childhood begins when a woman gets hold of him. J. M. Barrie.

Man's spiritual nature is essentially one and indivisible. Carlyle.

Man's true, genuine estimate, / The grand criterion of his fate, / Is not—Art thou high or low? / Did thy fortune ebb or flow? Burns.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which, with all his cunning, he cannot quite bury under the finite. Carlyle.

Man's walk, like all walking, is a series of 10 falls. Carlyle.

Man's word is God in man. Tennyson.

Man's work lasts till set of sun; / Woman's work is never done. Pr.

Manche gingen nach Licht und stürzten in tiefere Nacht nur; sicher im Dämmerschein wandelt die Kindheit dahin—Many have gone in quest of light and fallen into deeper darkness; whereas childhood walks on secure in the twilight. Schiller.

Mancher wähnt sich frei, und siehet / Nicht die Bande, die ihn schnüren—Many a one thinks himself free and sees not the bands that bind him. Rückert.

Mandamus—We enjoin. A writ issuing from the 15 Queen's Bench, commanding certain things to be done. L.

Manebant vestigia morientis libertatis—There still remained traces of expiring liberty. Tac.

Manège—Riding-house; horsemanship. Fr.

Manet alta mente repostum, / Judicium Paridis spretæque injuria formæ—Deep seated in her mind remains the judgment of Paris, and the wrong done to her slighted beauty. Virg., of Juno's vengeance.

Mange-tout—A spendthrift (lit. eat-all). Fr.

Manhood begins joyfully and hopefully, not 20 when we have made a truce with necessity, or even surrendered to it, but only when we have reconciled ourselves to it, and learned to feel that in necessity we are free. Carlyle.

Manhood, when verging into age, grows thoughtful, / Full of wise saws and modern instances. As You Like It, ii. 7.

Manibus pedibusque—With hands and feet; with tooth and nail.

Manibus victoria dextris—Victory by my right hand. M.

Manifold is human strife, / Human passion, human pain; / Yet many blessings still are rife, / And many pleasures still remain. Goethe.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them. 25 Hawthorne.

Mankind are unco' weak, / And little to be trusted; / If self the wavering balance shake, / It's rarely right adjusted. Burns.

Mankind at large alway resemble frivolous children; they are impatient of thought, and wish to be amused. Emerson.

"Mankind follow their several bell-wethers; and if you hold a stick before the wether, so that he is forced to vault in his passage, the whole flock will do the like when the stick is withdrawn; and the thousandth sheep will be seen vaulting impetuously over air, as the first did over an otherwise impassable barrier." Carlyle, quoting Jean Paul.

Mankind in general agree in testifying their devotion, their gratitude, their friendship, or their love, by presenting whatever they hold dearest. Burns.

Mankind is a science that defies definitions. 30 Burns.

Mankind suffer to this hour, and will for long, as is like, because they do not know what to make of the fire of Prometheus. He dared to purloin from the gods and commit into the hands of ordinary men an element (fire), which, as the result has shown, only gods and their wise-hearted offspring can with safety handle. Ed.

Mankind will never lack obstacles to give it trouble, and the pressure of necessity to develop its powers. Goethe.

Manliana—A Manlian, i.e., a harsh and severe sentence, such as that of Titus Manlius, who ordered his son to be scourged and beheaded for fighting contrary to orders.

Männer richten nach Gründen; des Weibes Urteil ist seine Liebe; wo es nicht liebt, hat schon gerichtet das Weib—Men judge on rational grounds; the woman's judgment is her love; where the woman does not love, she has judged. Schiller.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit / Of loyal 35 nature and of noble mind. Tennyson.

Manners are of more importance than laws; upon them in a great measure laws depend. Burke.

Manners are stronger than laws. Pr.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into a usage. Emerson.

Manners are the root, laws only the branches. Horace Mann.

Manners are the shadows of virtues, the 40 momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect. Sydney Smith.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time. A. B. Alcott.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. Horace Mann.

Manners make laws, manners likewise repeal them. Johnson.

Manners make the man. M.

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. Chesterfield.

Männliche, tüchtige Geister werden durch Erkennen eines Irrthums erhöht und gestärkt—Sturdy manly souls are exalted and strengthened in the presence of (lit. by the knowledge of) an error. Goethe.

[Greek: Mantis d' aristos hostis eikazei kalôs]—He is the best diviner who conjectures well. Eurip.

Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc / Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces—Mantua bore me, Calabria carried me off, Naples holds me now. I sang of pastures, fields and heroes. Virgil's epitaph.

Mantua, væ! miseræ nimium vicina Cremonæ—Mantua, 5 alas! too near the unhappy Cremona. Quoted by Dean Swift on seeing a lady sweep a violin off a table with her dress.

Manu forti—With a strong hand. M.

Manu scriptum—Written by the hand.

Manufacture is intelligible but trivial; creation is great and cannot be understood. Carlyle.

Manum de tabula!—Hand off the picture! i.e., leave off touching up.

Manum non verterim, digitum non porrexerim—I 10 would not turn my hand or stretch out my finger. Cic.

Manus e nubibus—Hand from the clouds.

Manus hæc inimica tyrannis—This hand is hostile to tyrants. M.

Manus manum lavat—One hand washes the other.

Many a cow stands in the meadow and looks wistfully at the common. Pr.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us 15 in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep. Henry.

Many a discord betwixt man and man the returning seasons soften by degrees into sweetest harmony; but that which bridges over the greatest gap is Love, whose charm unites the earth with heaven above. Goethe.

Many a father might say,... "I put in gold into the furnace, and there came out this calf." Spurgeon.

Many a fine dish has nothing on it. Pr.

Many a genius has been of slow growth. Oaks, that flourish for a thousand years, do not spring up into beauty like a reed. G. H. Lewis.

Many a good cow hath a bad calf. Pr. 20

Many a good drop of broth may come out of an old pot. Pr.

Many a good father hath but a bad son. Pr.

Many a hand moulded by Nature to give elegance of form to a kid glove is "stinted of its fair proportion" by grubbing toil. S. Lover.

Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having perceived it. Johnson.

Many a man settleth more by an inch of his 25 will than by an ell of his thrift. Pr.

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. Hare.

Many a meandering discourse one hears, in which the preacher aims at nothing, and—hits it. Whately.

Many a one is good because he can do no mischief. Pr.

Many a one labours for the day he will never live to see. Dan. Pr.

Many a one threatens while he quakes for 30 fear. It. and Ger. Pr.

Many a seeming farce played on the great stage of the world is in reality a tragedy, if we could but see into the heart of it. Anon.

Many a true word is spoken in jest. Pr.

Many a young damsel has been ruined by a fine copy of verses, which she would have laughed at if she had known it had been stolen from Mr. Waller. Lady Montagu.

Many acquaintances, but few friends. Johnson.

Many acres will not make a wiseacre. Pr. 35

Many an honest man stands in need of help that has not the face to beg it. Pr.

Many an irksome noise, when a long way off, is heard as music. Thoreau.

Many and many a heart of woman, who has not uttered a word during her whole life, has felt more truly and intensely than the poet that has sung most sweetly. Renan.

Many are called but few chosen. Jesus.

Many are idly busy. Domitian was busy, but 40 then it was catching flies. Jeremy Taylor.

Many are wise in jest but fools in earnest. Pr.

Many arrive at second masters / Upon their first lord's neck. Tim. of Athens, iv. 3.

Many beat the sack, and mean the miller. Pr.

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers. Colton.

Many by-walks, many balks; many balks, 45 much stumbling. Latimer.

Many can argue, not many converse. A. B. Alcott.

Many can bear adversity, but few contempt. Pr.

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. Love's L. Lost, iv. 2.

Many can make bricks, but cannot build. Pr.

Many causes that can plead well for themselves 50 in the courts of Westminster, have yet in the general court of the universe and free soul of man no word to utter. Carlyle.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. Bovee.

Many commit sin and blame Satan. Pr.

Many cooks spoil the broth. Pr.

Many cut broad thongs out of other people's leather. Pr.

Many deceive themselves, imagining to find 55 happiness in change. Thomas à Kempis.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts. Sir P. Sidney.

Many estates are spent in the getting, / Since women, for tea, forsook spinning and knitting, / And men, for their punch, forsook hewing and splitting. Pr.

Many find fault without any end, / And yet do nothing at all to mend. Pr.

Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him. Jean Paul.

Many get into a dispute well that cannot get out well. Pr.

Many go in quest of wool, and come back shorn. Ger. Pr.

Many go out for clothes, and come home stript. Pr.

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard. Philip Henry.

Many hands make light work. Pr. 5

Many have been harmed by speech; through thinking, few or none. Lord Vaux.

Many have been ruined by buying good penny-worths. Pr.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the little great. Zimmermann.

Many have come to port after a great storm. Pr.

Many have genius, / But, wanting art, are for 10 ever dumb. Longfellow.

Many have the talents which would make them poets if they had the genius; a few have the genius yet want the talents. J. Sterling.

Many have too much, but none enough. Dan. Pr.

Many hope that the tree may be felled who expect to gather chips by the fall. Fuller.

Many indifferent things which men originally did from a motive of some sort, they continue to do from habit. J. S. Mill.

Many kinds of books are permissible, but 15 there is one kind that is not permissible, the kind that has nothing in it—le genre ennuyeux (the kind that bore you). Carlyle.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off. Pr.

Many lick before they bite. Pr.

Many littles make a mickle. Pr.

Many are fain to praise what is right and do what is wrong. Dan. Pr.

Many men and women spend their lives in 20 unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. J. G. Holland.

Many men attain a knowledge of what is perfect, and of their own insufficiency, and go on doing things by halves to the end of their days. Goethe.

Many men fancy that what they experience they also understand. Goethe.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. Alex. Pope.

Many men, in all ages, have triumphed over death, and led it captive; converting its physical victory into a moral victory for themselves, into a zeal and immortal consecration for all that their past life had achieved. Carlyle.

Many men involve themselves deeper in temptations 25 by being too solicitous to decline them. Thomas à Kempis.

Many men know how to flatter; few men know how to praise. Wendell Phillips.

Many men love in themselves what they hate in others. Benzel Sternan.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof. Hare.

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet, and go whither He would have us. Ward Beecher.

Many of sounding name from Jamblicus down 30 to Aubrey have wasted their time in devising imaginary remedies for non-existing diseases. Scott.

Many of the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and often a worse, to what was well known before. Hare.

Many old camels carry the skins of the young ones to the market. Pr.

Many people are sincere without being simple. They do not wish to be taken for other than they are; and they always fear lest they should be taken for what they are not. Fénelon.

Many people place virtue more in regretting than in amendment. Lichtenberg.

Many people take no care of their money till 35 they have come nearly to an end of it, and others do just the same with their time. Goethe.

Many people think of knowledge as of money. They would like knowledge, but cannot face the perseverance and self-denial that go to the acquisition of it. John Morley.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings. Longfellow.

Many rendings need many mendings. Pr.

Many sacrifices have been made just to enjoy the feeling of vengeance, without any intention of causing an amount of injury equivalent to what one has suffered. Schopenhauer.

Many see more with one eye than others with 40 two. Ger. Pr.

Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Bible.

Many so spend their whole term, and in ever-new expectation, ever-new disappointment, shift from enterprise to enterprise, and from side to side, till at length, as exasperated striplings of threescore and ten, they shift into their last enterprise, that of getting buried. Carlyle.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches and preferment; but they mean the riches and preferment possessed by other men. Colton.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, / Hew down and fell the hardest timber'd oak. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 1.

Many talk like philosophers and live like fools. 45 Pr.

Many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first. Jesus.

Many there be that buy nothing with their money but repentance. Pr.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more to be spoken. Novalis.

Many things difficult to design prove easy of performance. Johnson.

Many things there are / That we may hope to 50 win with violence; / While others only can become our own / Through moderation and wise self-restraint. / Such is virtue; such is love. Goethe.

Many times death passeth with less pain than the torture of a limb; for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense. Bacon.

Many ventures make a full freight. Pr.

Many walk into the battle and are carried out of it. Fielding.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. Bible.

Many words hurt more than swords. Pr. 5

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. Pr.

Many would have been worse if their estates had been better. Pr.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are really ill-mannered and coarse. La Roche.

Mar not what, marred, cannot be mended. Pr.

March dust is a thing / Worth ransom of a 10 king. Old saw.

March winds and April showers. Pr.

Marchand qui perd ne peut rire—The dealer who loses is not the one to laugh. Dandin.

Marchandise de rencontre—Second-hand goods. Fr.

Marchandise qui plait est à demie vendue—Goods which please are half sold. Fr. Pr.

Mare apertum—A sea open to commerce. 15

Mare clausum—A sea closed to commerce.

Mare cœlo miscere—To confound sea and sky.

Mare ditat, rosa decorat—The sea enriches, the rose adorns. M.

Mare quidem commune certo est omnibus—The sea surely is common to all. Plaut.

Margarita e stercore—A pearl from a dunghill. 20 Pr.

Maria montesque polliceri cœpit—He began to promise seas and mountains. Sall.

Mariage de convenance—A marriage from considerations of advantage. Fr.

Marie ton fils quand tu voudras, mais ta fille quand tu pourras—Marry your son when you like, your daughter when you can. Fr. Pr.

Mark if his birth makes any difference, if to his words it adds one grain of sense. Dryden.

Mark what another says; for many are / 25 Full of themselves, and answer their own notion. / Take all into thee; then with equal care / Balance each chain of reason, like a potion. George Herbert.

Marmoreo Licinus tumulo jacet, at Cato parvo, / Pompeius nullo. Quis putet esse deos? / Saxa premunt Licinum, levat altum Fama Catonem, / Pompeium tituli. Credimus esse deos—Licinus lies in a marble tomb, Cato in a humble one, Pompey in none. Who can believe that the gods exist? Ans.—Heavy lies the stone on Licinus; Fame raises Cato on high; his glories, Pompey. We believe that the gods do exist.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising. Bovee.

Marriage comes unawares, like a soot-drop. Irish Pr.

Marriage, indeed, may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners. Congreve.

Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in 30 Æsop were extremely wise; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again. Selden.

Marriage is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state. Johnson.

Marriage is the bloom or blight of all men's happiness. Byron.

Marriage is the feast where the grace is better than the dinner. Colton.

Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. Jeremy Taylor.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy 35 or of conquest. George Eliot.

Marriage with peace is the world's paradise; with strife, this life's purgatory. Pr.

Marriages are best of dissimilar material. Theo. Parker.

Marriages are made in heaven. Pr.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. Sydney Smith.

Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. 40 Congreve.

Marry above your match, and you get a master. Pr.

Marry and grow tame. Sp. Pr.

Marry for love and work for siller. Sc. Pr.

Marry for love, but only love that which is lovely. Pr.

Marrying is easy, but housekeeping is hard. 45 Pr.

Mars gravior sub pace latet—A more serious war lies concealed under a show of peace. Claud.

Martem accendere cantu—To waken up the war-spirit by his note. Virg.

Mas vale buen amigo que pariente primo—A good friend is better than a near relation. Sp. Pr.

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. Emerson.

Mässigkeit und klarer Himmel sind Apollo 50 und die Musen—Moderation and a clear sky are Apollo and the Muses. Goethe.

Masters are mostly the greatest servants in the house. Pr.

Masters should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf. Pr.

Masters two / Will not do. Pr.

Mastery passes often for egotism. Goethe.

Match-makers often burn their fingers. Pr. 55

Mater artium necessitas—Necessity is the mother of invention (lit. the arts).

Mater familias—The mother of a family.

Materia medica—Substances used in medicine; therapeutics.

Materia prima—The primary substance or substrate.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything; 60 makes everything vulgar, and every truth false. Amiel.

Materiem, qua sis ingeniosus, habes—You have a subject on which to show your ingenuity. Ovid.

Materiem superabat opus—The workmanship surpassed the material. Ovid.

Mathematic form is eternal in the reasoning memory; living form is eternal existence. Wm. Blake.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null. Goethe.

[Greek: mathousin audô, kou mathousi lêthomai]—I speak to experts; those who are not I ignore. Æsch.

Matinée—A morning recital or performance. 5 Fr.

Matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. Heine.

Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some idea and body it forth. Carlyle.

Matter, were it never so despicable, is spirit, the manifestation of spirit: were it never so honourable, can it be more? Carlyle.

Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esse senex—You must become an old man soon if you would be an old man long. Pr. in Cic.

Maulesel treiben viel Parlaren / Dass ihre 10 Voreltern Pferde waren—Mules boast much that their ancestors were horses. Ger. Pr.

Mauvaise honte—False shame. Fr.

Mauvaise langue—A slanderous tongue. Fr.

Mauvais pas—A scrape; a difficulty. Fr.

Mauvais sujet—A bad or worthless fellow. Fr.

Mauvais ton—Bad manners. Fr. 15

Maxim or aphorism, let us remember that this wisdom of life is the true salt of literature; that those books are most nourishing which are most richly stored with it, and that it is one of the main objects... which men ought to seek in the reading of books. John Morley.

Maxima debetur pueris reverentia—The greatest respect is due to youth (lit. our boys). Juv.

Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes—The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. Cic.

Maxima quæque domus servis est plena superbis—Every great house is full of haughty servants. Juv.

Maximas virtutes jacere omnes necesse est, 20 voluptate dominante—Where pleasure prevails, all the greatest virtues must lie dormant. Cic.

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct. Joubert.

Maximum remedium iræ dilatio est!—Deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger. Seneca.

Maximus in minimis—Very great in very little things.

Maximus novator tempus—Time is the greatest innovator. Pr.

"May-be" is very well, but "must" is the 25 master. Pr.

May cauld ne'er catch you but a hap, / Nor hunger but in plenty's lap. Burns.

May never wicked fortune touzle (tease) him! / May never wicked man bamboozle him! / Until a pow as auld's Methusalem / He canty (cheerily) claw. / Then to the blessed New Jerusalem / Fleet wing awa'! Burns.

May the idea of pureness, extending itself even to the very morsel which I take into my mouth, become ever dearer and more luminous within me. Goethe.

Me judice—In my opinion or judgment.

Me justum esse gratis oportet—It is my duty 30 to show justice without recompense. Sen.

[Greek: Mê kaka kerdainein; kaka kerdea is' atêsin]—Do not make evil gains; evil gains are equal to losses. Hesiod.

[Greek: Mê kinei Kamarinan]—Don't stir Lake Camarina (otherwise pestilence).

Me miseram, quod amor non est medicabilis herbis!—Oh, unhappy me, that there should be no herbs to cure love!

Me nemo ministro / Fur erit—No one shall play the thief with my help. Juv.

Me non solum piget stultitiæ meæ, sed etiam 35 pudet—I am not only annoyed at my folly, I am ashamed of it. L.

Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough. Tempest, i. 1.

Me (they will kill) when they are mad, but you when they recover their reason. Phocion to Demosthenes, who had threatened him with death at the hands of his fellow-citizens.

Mea virtute me involvo—I wrap myself in my virtue. Hor.

Meal is finer than grain; women are finer than men. Gael. Pr.

Meals and matins minish never. Pr. 40

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour. Randolph.

Measure men around the heart. Pr.

Measure not by a scale of perfection the meagre product of reality. Schiller.

Measure three times before you cut once. Pr.

Measure your cloth ten times; you can cut 45 it but once. Russ. Pr.

Measures, not men, have always been my mark. Goldsmith.

Meat and matins hinder no man's journey. Pr.

Meat is devoured by the birds in the air, by the beasts in the fields, and by the fishes in the waters; so, in every situation, there is plenty. Hitopadesa.

Meat is more than its carving, and truth is more than oratory. Pr.

Mecum facile redeo in gratiam—I easily recover 50 my good-will myself. Phædr.

[Greek: mêden agan]—No excess. Anon.

[Greek: Mêdena kakêgoreito mêdeis]—Let nobody speak mischief of anybody. Plato.

Medici, causa morbi inventa, curationem inventam putant—Physicians, when they have found out the cause of a disease, consider they have found out the cure. Cic.

Medicines are not meant to feed on. Pr.

Medio de fonte leporam / Surgit amari aliquid 55 quod in ipsis floribus angat—From the midst of the very fountain of delight something bitter arises to vex us even amid the flowers themselves. Lucret.

Medio tutissimus ibis—You will go most safely in the middle. Ovid.

Médiocre et rampant, et l'on arrive à tout—Be second-rate and fawning, and you may attain to anything. Beaumarchais.

Mediocria firma—The middle station is the most secure. M.

Mediocribus esse poetis / Non Di, non homines, non concessere columnæ—Mediocrity in poets is condemned by gods and men, and booksellers too. Hor.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. I. Disraeli.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets either by gods or men. Hor.

Mediocrity of enjoyment only is allowed to 5 man. Blair.

Meditation has taught all men in all ages that this world is after all but a show—a phenomenon or appearance, no real thing. Carlyle.

Meditation is a busy search in the storehouse of phantasy for some ideas of matters to be cast in the moulds of resolution into some forms of words and action; in which search I find this is the best conclusion, that to meditate on the best is the best of meditations, and a resolution to make a good end is a good end of my resolutions. A. Warwick.

Meditation is the life of the soul; action, the soul of meditation; honour, the reward of action. Quarles.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby in her long removes she discerneth God as if he were nearer at hand. Feltham.

Medium tenuere beati!—Happy they who 10 steadily pursue a middle course.

Meekness is not mere white-facedness, a mere contemplative virtue; it is maintaining peace and patience in the midst of pelting provocations. Ward Beecher.

Meekness is not weakness. Pr.

Meekness is the bridle of anger. Saying.

Meekness is the cherish'd bent / Of all the truly great and all the innocent. Wordsworth.

[Greek: Mega biblion mega kakon]—A great book is a 15 great evil. Callimachus.

Meglio amici da lontano che nemici d'appresso—Better be friends at a distance than enemies near each other. It. Pr.

Meglio solo che mal accompagnato—Better alone than in bad company. It. Pr.

Meglio tardi che mai—Better late than never. It. Pr.

Mehr Leute beten die aufgehende, als die untergehende Sonne an—More people pay homage to the rising than to the setting sun. Jean Paul.

Mehr Licht!—More light! Goethe's last words. (?) 20

Meikle crack fills nae sack. Sc. Pr.

Mein einz'ger Wunsch ist meiner Wünsche Ruhe—My only wish is that my wishes should be at rest. Rückert.

Mein erst Gesetz ist, in der Welt / Die Frager zu vermeiden—A first rule of mine is to avoid the inquiring class of people. Goethe.

Mein Herz gleicht ganz dem Meere, / Hat Sturm und Ebb' und Flut, / Und manche schöne Perle / In seiner Tiefe ruht—My heart altogether resembles the sea; it has its storms, its ebbs and floods, and far down in its quiet depths rests many a shining pearl. Heine.

Mein Leben ist für Gold nicht feil—My life is 25 not to be bartered away for gold. Bürger.

Mein Leipzig lob' ich mir! / Es ist klein Paris, und bildet seine Leute—Leipzig for me! It is quite a little Paris, and its people acquire an easy finished air (lit. it fashions its people). Goethe.

Mein Pathos brächte dich gewiss zum Lachen, / Hätt'st du dir nicht das Lachen abgewöhnt—My pathos would surely provoke you to mirth, if you had not long ago forborne to smile. Mephisto to the Lord, in Goethe's "Faust."

Mein Ruh' ist hin, / Mein Herz ist schwer; / Ich finde sie nimmer / Und nimmermehr—My peace is gone; my heart is heavy; I shall find it (peace) never and nevermore. Gretchen in Goethe's "Faust."

Mein Sohn, nichts in der Welt ist unbedeutend. / Das erste aber und Hauptsächlichste / Bei allem ird'schen Ding ist Ort und Stunde—My son, nothing in this world is without significance, but the first and most essential matter in every earthly thing is the place where and the hour when. Schiller.

Mein Wille ist rein, das weitere gebe ich der 30 Vorsehung anheim!—My intention is pure; the rest I leave in the hands of Providence. Frederick William II. of Prussia.

Meine Herren, did you never hear of the man that vilified the sun because it would not light his cigar? Carlyle's challenge to certain canting pietistic depreciators of Goethe.

Meine Zeit in Unruhe, meine Hoffnung in Gott!—The time I live in is a time of turmoil; my hope is in God. Frederick William III. of Prussia.

Meiner Idee nach ist Energie die erste und einzige Tugend des Menschen—In my regard energy is the first and only virtue of man. W. v. Humboldt.

Meines Lebens Wunsch ist stiller Friede—The wish of my life is a tranquil peace. Seume.

Mel in ore, verba lactis, / Fel in corde, fraus in 35 factis—Honey in his mouth, words of milk; gall in his heart, deceit in his deeds.

Melancholy advanceth men's conceits more than any humour whatever. Burton.

Melancholy attends on the best joys of a merely ideal life. Margaret Fuller.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. Victor Hugo.

Melancholy spreads itself betwixt heaven and earth, like envy between man and man, and is an everlasting mist. Byron.

[Greek: Meletê to pan]—Practice is everything. Periander. 40

Melior est conditio possidentis—The condition of the party in possession, or the defendant, is the better of the two. L.

Melior tutiorque est certa pax, quam sperata victoria—A certain peace is better and safer than an expected victory. L.

Meliora sunt ea quæ natura, quam quæ arte perfecta sunt—The things which are perfect by nature are better than those which are perfect by art. Cic.

Meliores priores—The better first. L.

Melioribus auspiciis—Under more favourable 45 auspices.

Melius est pati semel, quam cavere semper—It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension. Jul. Cæs.

Melius est peccata cavere quam mortem fugere—It is better to avoid sin than to fly from death. Thomas à Kempis.

Melius, pejus, prosit, obsit, nil vident nisi quod libuerit—Better or worse, for good or for harm, they see nothing but what they please. Ter.

Mellitum venenum, blanda oratio—A flattering speech is honied poison. Pr.

Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum; / Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum—The wounded limb shrinks from even a gentle touch, and the unsubstantial shadow strikes the timid with alarm. Ovid.

Même quand l'oiseau marche, on sent qu'il a des ailes—Even when a bird walks, we may see that it has wings. Fr. Pr.

Meminerunt omnia amantes—Lovers remember 5 everything. Ovid.

Memini etiam quæ nolo: oblivisci non possum quæ volo—I remember what I would not, and I cannot forget what I would. Themistocles.

Memor et fidelis—Mindful and faithful. M.

Memorabilia—Things to be remembered or recorded.

Memorem immemorem facit, qui monet quod memor meminit—He who reminds a man with a good memory of what he remembers, makes him forget. Plaut.

Memoria in æterna—In eternal remembrance. 10 M.

Memoria minuitur, nisi eam exerceas—Your power of recollection will wax feeble unless you exercise it. Cic.

Memoriter—By rote.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. Rivarol.

Memory, and thou, Forgetfulness, not yet / Your powers in happy harmony I find; / One oft recalls what I would fain forget, / And one blots out what I would bear in mind. Macedonius.

Memory is a Muse in herself; or rather the 15 mother of the Muses. (?)

Memory is like a purse: if it be over-full, that it cannot be shut, all will drop out of it. Fuller.

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true. G. D. Prentice.

Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council-chamber of thought. Basile.

Memory is the conservative faculty. Sir Wm. Hamilton.

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous 20 ally of invention. Colton.

Memory is the golden thread linking all the mental gifts and excellencies together. E. P. Hood.

Memory (Erinnerung) is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven. Jean Paul.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation. Johnson.

Memory is the scribe of the soul. Arist.

Memory, of all things good remind us still: / 25 Forgetfulness, obliterate all that's ill. Macedonius.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. Lactantius.

Memory, the warder of the brain. Macb., i. 7.

Men and communities in this world are often in the position of Arctic explorers, who are making great speed in a given direction, while the ice-floe beneath them is making greater speed in the opposite. John Burroughs.

Men and cucumbers are worth nothing as soon as they are ripe. Jean Paul.

Men and pyramids are not made to stand on 30 their head. G. K. Pfeffel.

Men and women who "grill" over the petty annoyances incident to existence, and inseparable from it, go to ruin like a careworn cat. C. J. Dunphie.

Men apt to promise are apt to forget. Pr.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. As You Like It, iv. 1.

Men are as the time is. Lear, v. 3.

Men are at best only stewards, and they are 35 very select men indeed who are elected of heaven to this honour. The most want the necessary discrimination, and are in their place only when, like Athenian maidens, "bearers of the basket." Ed.

Men are but children of a larger growth; / Our appetites are apt to change as theirs, / And full as craving too, and full as vain. Dryden.

Men are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature which it is the dearest desire of all to see enlarged and glorified. Emerson.

Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly. Swift.

Men are enlisted for the labour that kills; let them be enlisted for the labour that feeds; and let the captains of the latter be held as much gentlemen as the captains of the former. Ruskin.

Men are eternally divided into the two classes 40 of poet (or believer, maker, and praiser), and dunce (or unbeliever, unmaker, and dispraiser). Ruskin.

Men are everything, measures are comparatively nothing. Canning.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. W. Penn.

Men are happy in proportion as their range of vision, their sphere of action, and their points of contact with the world are restricted and circumscribed. Schopenhauer.

Men are impatient and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout his operations, accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps. Bishop Butler.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and 45 so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. Voltaire.

Men are led by trifles. Napoleon.

Men are less afraid of injuring one who awakens love than one who inspires fear. Machiavelli.

Men are like flies—for men are insects too, / Little in mind, howe'er our bodies run!—/ We're all in sects: in sects that hate each other, / And deem it love of God to hate one's brother. Edward Irwin.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one. Whately.

Men are made by nature unequal: it is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. Froude.

Men are men; the best sometimes forget. Othello, ii. 3.

Men are more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction. Pasquier Quesnel.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand. Pliny.

Men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 5 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. George Eliot.

Men are much in disposition and feelings according to the nature of the country which they inhabit. Polybius.

Men are much more prone (the greater is the pity) both to speak and believe ill than well of their neighbours. Thomas à Kempis.

Men are never so easily deceived as while they are endeavouring to deceive others. La Roche.

Men are never wise but returning from law. Pr.

Men are not always what they seem to be. 10 Lessing.

Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things. Epictetus.

Men are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves. Emerson.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly fiddled on by the fingers of joy. Ward Beecher.

Men are not so ungrateful as they are said to be. If they are often complained of, it generally happens that the benefactor claims more than he has given. Napoleon.

Men are not to be measured by inches. Pr. 15

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. Walpole.

Men are oftener treacherous through weakness than design. La Roche.

Men are readier to forgive calumny than admonition (Ermahnung). Jean Paul.

Men are respectable only as they respect. Emerson.

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and 20 good sense at the same time. Livy.

Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money. Johnson.

Men are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake himself what he sees done by others, whether he has aptitude for it or not. Goethe.

Men are solitary among each other; no one will help his neighbour; each has even to assume a defensive attitude lest his neighbour should hinder him. Carlyle.

Men are tatooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea islanders; but a real human heart, with divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. Holmes.

Men are the sport of circumstances, when 25 the circumstances seem the sport of men. Byron.

Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds them. Carlyle.

Men are very generous with that which costs them nothing. Pr.

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade / Of that which once was great is passed away. Wordsworth.

Men are what their mothers made them. Emerson.

Men are wiser than they know. Emerson. 30

Men at most differ as heaven and earth, / But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. Tennyson.

Men at some time are masters of their fate. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanities. La Bruyère.

Men can be estimated by those who know them not, only as they are represented by those who know them. Johnson.

Men / Can counsel, and speak comfort to that 35 grief / Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, / Their counsel turns to passion, which before / Would give preceptial medicine to rage, / Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, / Charm ache with air and agony with words. Much Ado, v. 1.

Men can make an idol of the Bible. Ward Beecher.

Men can see through a barn-door, they can. Perhaps that's the reason they can see so little o' this side on't. George Eliot.

Men cannot be well educated without the Bible. Dr. Nott.

Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpits from which the human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. Ruskin.

Men cannot live by lending money to each 40 other. Ruskin.

Men cannot live isolated; we are all bound together, for mutual good or else for mutual misery, as living nerves in the same body. No highest man can disunite himself from any lowest. Carlyle.

Men carry the head erect indeed, yet how mean and cringing are the thoughts within. Heine.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. Emerson.

Men chew not when they have no bread. Pr.

Men commonly think according to their inclinations, 45 speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom. Bacon.

Men complain of not finding a place of repose. They are in the wrong; they have it for seeking. What they indeed should complain of is, that the heart is an enemy to that very repose they seek. Goldsmith.

Men contemplate distinctions because they are stupefied with ignorance (viz., of the substantial identity of things). Eastern saying, quoted by Emerson.

Men deal with life as children with their play, / Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. Cowper.

Men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies. Goethe.

Men descend to meet. Emerson.

Men do not make their homes unhappy because they have genius, but because they have not enough genius. Wordsworth.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them: they don't live by trade but by work. Ruskin.

Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. Pope.

Men, elevated above all states, are now the 5 educators of states—dead men, for instance, like Plato. Jean Paul.

Men err from selfishness, women because they are weak. Mme. de Staël.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark. Bacon.

Men fear only him who does not know them, and he who shuns them will soon misjudge them. Goethe.

Men feed themselves rather upon illusion than upon truth. Amiel.

Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise. 10 Jean Paul.

Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed the same way. Johnson.

Men have but too much cause to secure themselves from men. Goethe.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. Emerson.

Men have many faults; / Poor women have but two; / There's nothing good they say, / And nothing right they do. Anon.

Men have their metal, as of gold and silver. 15 Koran.

Men in all ways are better than they seem. Emerson.

Men in general experience a great joy in colour. The eye needs it as much as it does light. Let any one recall the refreshing sensation one experiences when on a gloomy day the sun shines out on a particular spot on the landscape, and makes the colours of it visible. That healing powers were ascribed to coloured precious stones may have arisen out of the deep feeling of this inexpressible pleasure. Goethe.

Men in great place are thrice servants—servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business. Bacon.

Men, in spite of all their failings, best deserve our affections of all that exists. Goethe.

Men learn behaviour, as they take diseases, 20 one of another. Emerson.

Men like advising the women better than doing right themselves. Spurgeon.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. Jean Paul.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. Bovee.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. Holmes.

Men look to what people think of them; 25 women to what they say. Hippel.

Men love at first, and most warmly; women love last and longest. This is natural enough, for nature makes women to be won, and men to win. G. W. Curtis.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. Byron.

Men love things best; women love persons best. Jean Paul.

Men love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret, as an old friar would be without his hair-girdle. Ward Beecher.

Men love us, or they need our love. Keble. 30

Men make the best friends. La Bruyère.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. Young.

Men may rise on stepping-stones / Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson.

Men might live quiet and easy enough, if they would be careful not to give themselves trouble, and forbear meddling with what other people do and say, in which they are in no way concerned. Thomas à Kempis.

Men more easily renounce their interests than 35 their tastes. La Roche.

Men must be taught as though you taught them not. Pope.

Men must endure / Their going hence, even as their coming hither: / Ripeness is all. Lear, v. 2.

Men must have righteous principles in the first place, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. Luther.

Men must leave the ingle-nook, / And for a larger wisdom brook / Experience of a harder law, / And learn humility and awe. Dr. Walter Smith.

Men must work, and women must weep, / 40 Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, / And the harbour bar be moaning. Charles Kingsley.

Men no longer wholly believe; in this age of blindness and scientific pride, no one is any longer seen bowing before his god on both his knees. Victor Hugo.

Men no sooner find their appetites unanswered than they complain the times are injurious. Raleigh.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Bacon.

Men of courage, men of sense, and men of letters are frequent; but a true gentleman is what one seldom sees. Steele.

Men of few words are the best men. Henry 45 V., iii. 2.

Men of genius are dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to the earth, is only a stone. Longfellow.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. Coleridge.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel. Hazlitt.

Men of genius have acuter feelings than common men; they are like the wind-harp, which answers to the breath that touches it, now low and sweet, now rising into wild swell or angry scream, as the strings are swept by some passing gust. Froude.

Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer. Emerson.

Men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never. Emerson.

Men of great intellect live in the world without really belonging to it. Schiller.

Men of great learning or genius are too full to be exact, and therefore choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. Spectator.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in 5 the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination. Swift.

Men of humour are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. Coleridge.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. Milton.

Men of science should leave controversy to the little world below them. Goldsmith.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design. Emerson.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. 10 Aristophanes.

Men of the first quality learn nothing, and become wise; men of the second rank become sensible (klug), and learn long; men of the third sort remain stupid, and learn words. Rückert.

Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition, and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.

Men of true wisdom and goodness are contented to take persons and things as they are, without complaining of their imperfections or attempting to amend them. Fielding.

Men of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their powers. Goethe.

Men only associate in parties by sacrificing 15 their opinions, or by having none worth sacrificing; and the effect of party government is always to develop hostilities and hypocrisies, and to extinguish ideas. Ruskin.

Men only rightly know themselves as far as they have experimented on things. Emerson.

Men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Bacon.

Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. Froude.

Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evils. Goethe.

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. 20 Troil. and Cress., i. 2.

Men rate the virtues of the heart at almost nothing, while they idolise endowments of body and intellect. La Bruyère.

Men rattle their chains to show that they are free. Pr.

Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. Emerson.

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough seashore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,—that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness. Ruskin.

Men seek within the short span of life to 25 satisfy a thousand desires, each of which alone is insatiable. Goldsmith.

Men seem to be led by their noses, but in reality it is by their ears. Carlyle.

Men should be prized, not for their exemption from fault, but the size of those virtues they are possessed of. Goldsmith.

Men should be what they seem; / Or those that be not, would they might seem none. Othello, iii. 3.

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. Mme. Scudéri.

Men should not be told of the faults which 30 they have mended. Johnson.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. Goethe.

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; / But every woman is at heart a rake; / Men, some to quiet, some to public strife; / But every lady would be queen for life. Pope.

Men speak but little when vanity does not induce them to speak. La Roche.

Men spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives. Steele.

Men still are what they always have been, a 35 medley (Gemisch) of strength and weakness, often obedient to reason, and oftener to passion; so have they come down the stream of time for six thousand years, and mostly in such shape as the moment has fashioned them. Seume.

Men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. Burke.

Men that hazard all / Do it in hope of fair advantages. Mer. of Ven., ii. 7.

Men that make / Envy and crooked malice nourishment / Dare bite the best. Hen. VIII., v. 3.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. Hare.

Men think they are quarrelling with one 40 another, and both sides feel that they are in the wrong. Goethe.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape their shadows. Froude, Carlyle.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. Sterne.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual. Seneca.

Men understand not what is among their hands; as calmness is the characteristic of strength, so the weightiest causes may be the most silent. Carlyle.

Men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble, and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust. Sir T. More.

Men, who are knaves individually, are in the mass very honourable people. Montesquieu.

Men who begin by losing their independence will end by losing their energy. Buckle.

Men who, being always bred in affluence, 5 see the world only on one side, are surely improper judges of human nature. Goldsmith.

Men who earn nothing but compliments are not likely to be very diligent in so unprofitable a service. Spurgeon.

Men who form their judgment upon sense often err. Thomas à Kempis.

Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other. Emerson.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger. Bulwer Lytton.

Men who their duties know, / But know their 10 rights, and, knowing, dare maintain. Sir W. Jones.

Men will always act according to their passions. Therefore the best government is that which inspires the nobler passions and destroys the meaner. Jacobi.

Men will blame themselves for the purpose of being praised. Pr.

Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else. Hazlitt.

Men will face powder and steel, because they cannot face public opinion. Chapin.

Men will forget what we suffer, and not what 15 we do. Tennyson.

Men will marry a fool that sings, sooner than one that has learned to scoff. Dr. Walter Smith.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it—anything but live for it. Colton.

Men work themselves into atheistical judgments by atheistical practice. Whichcote.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Pope.

Men would not live long in society, were they 20 not the mutual dupes of each other. La Roche.

Men's actions are not to be judged of at first sight. Pr.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. Emerson.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments. Ward Beecher.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues / We write in water. Henry VIII., iv. 2.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one 25 another, but set with one another, and all against the evil thing only. Carlyle.

Men's ignorance makes the priest's pot boil. Fr. Pr.

Men's muscles move better when their souls are making merry music. George Eliot.

Men's natures wrangle with inferior things, / Though great ones are their object. Othello, iii. 4.

Men's prosperity is in their own hands, and no forms of government are, in themselves, of the least use. Ruskin.

Men's souls 'twixt sorrow and love are cast. 30 O. M. Brown.

Men's thoughts and opinions are, in a great degree, vassals of him who invents a new phrase or reapplies an old epithet. Lowell.

Men's thoughts are much according to their inclinations; their discourses and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions. Bacon.

Men's vows are women's traitors. Cymbeline, iii. 4.

Menace-moi de vivre et non pas de mourir—Threaten me with life and not with death. Fr.

Ménage—Housekeeping. Fr. 35

Mendacem memorem esse oportet—A liar ought to have a good memory. Quinct.

Mendaces, ebriosi, verbosi—Liars, drunkards, and wordy people.

Mendaci homini, ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus—We give no credit to a liar, even when he speaks the truth. Cic.

Mendici, mimi, balatrones, et hoc genus omne—Beggars, actors in farces, buffoons, and all that sort of people. Hor.

Mendico ne parentes quidem amici sunt—To 40 a beggar not even his own parents show affection. Pr.

Mendings are honourable, rags are abominable. Pr.

Mens æqua rebus in arduis—Equanimity in arduous enterprises. M.

Mens agitat molem—A mind moves or informs the mass. Virg.

Mens bona regnum possidet—A good mind possesses a kingdom. Pr.

Mens conscia recti—A mind conscious of rectitude. 45

Mens cujusque est quisque—The mind of the man is the man. M.

Mens immota manet; lachrymæ volvuntur inanes—His resolve remains unshaken; tears are shed in vain. Virg.

Mens interrita lethi—A mind undaunted by death. Ovid.

Mens invicta manet—The mind remains unsubdued.

Mens peccat, non corpus, et unde consilium 50 abfuit culpa abest—It is the mind that sins, not the body, and where there was no intention there is no criminality. Liv.

Mens sana in corpore sano—A sound mind in a sound body. Juv.

Mens sine pondere ludit—The mind is playful when unburdened.

Mensa et toro—From bed and board. L.

Menschenkenntniss ist Unglaube an Tugend und Redlichkeit—A knowledge of mankind tends to induce a want of faith in virtue and probity. C. J. Weber.

Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen, / Aber 55 göttlich zu verzeihn—To punish is merely human, but to forgive is divine. P. von Winter.

Mensque pati durum sustinet ægra nihil—A mind diseased cannot bear anything harsh. Ovid.

Mensuraque juris / Vis erat—And might was the measure of right. Lucan.

Mental courage, infinitely rarer than valour, presupposes the most eminent qualities. Diderot.

Mental pleasures never cloy: unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. Colton.

Mental prayer (mentale Gebet), which includes and excludes all religions, and only in a few God-favoured men permeates the whole course of life, develops itself in most men as only a blazing, beatific feeling of the moment, immediately after the vanishing of which the man, thrown in upon himself unsatisfied and unoccupied, lapses back into the most utter and absolute weariness. Goethe.

Mentally and bodily endowed men are the 5 most modest, while, on the other hand, all who have some peculiar mental defect think a great deal more of themselves. Goethe.

Mentis gratissimus error—A most delightful reverie of the mind. Hor.

Mentis penetralia—The inmost recesses of the mind; the secrets of the heart.

Menu—Bill of fare. Fr.

Menus plaisirs—Pocket-money. Fr.

Meo sum pauper in ære—I am poor, but I am 10 not in debt. Hor.

Merces virtutis laus est—Applause is the reward of virtue. Pr.

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Bible.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. Rom. and Jul., iii. 1.

Mercy is above this sceptred sway, / It is enthronéd in the hearts of kings, / It is an attribute to God himself; / And earthly power doth then show likest God's / When mercy seasons justice. Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; / Pardon 15 is still the nurse of second woe. Meas. for Meas., ii. 1.

Mercy, misericordia, does not in the least mean forgiveness of sins, but pity of sorrows. Ruskin.

Mercy to him that shows it is the rule. Cowper.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful. Quarles.

Mercy's gate opens to those who knock. Saying.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward, 20 and merit without modesty insolent; but modest merit has a double claim to acceptance. T. Hughes.

Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame. Skobeleff.

Mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich. Burton.

Mere pleasure ought not to be the prime motive of action. Johnson.

Mere sensibility is not true taste, but sensibility to real excellence is. Hazlitt.

Mere wishes are bony fishes. Pr. 25

Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest. Bacon.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Napoleon.

Merit in appearance is oftener rewarded than merit itself. La Roche.

Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud. Bovee.

Merit lives from man to man. Tennyson. 30

Merry be the first, / And merry be the last, / And merry be the first of August. Pr.

Merry larks are ploughmen's clocks. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

Merx ultronea putret—Proffered service stinks (i.e. is despised). Pr.

Mésalliance—A marriage with one of inferior rank. Pr.

Messe tenus propria vive—Live within your 35 means (lit. harvest).

[Greek: Metabolê pantôn glyky]—There is always a pleasure in variety. Euripides.

Metaphysicians and philosophers are, on the whole, the greatest troubles the world has got to deal with.... Busy metaphysicians are always entangling good and active people, and weaving cobwebs among the finest wheels of the world's business, and are, as much as possible, by all prudent persons, to be brushed out of their way. Ruskin.

Metaphysics, with which physics cannot dispense, is that wisdom of thought which was before all physics, lives with it, and will endure after it. Goethe.

[Greek: Mête dikên dikasês, prin amphoin mythou akousês]—Don't pronounce sentence till you have heard the story of both parties. Pr.

Method is the very hinge of business. Hannah 40 More.

Method will teach you to win time. Goethe.

Methods are the masters of masters. Talleyrand.

Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more! Macb., ii. 2.

Métier d'auteur, métier d'oseur—The profession of author is a daring profession. Fr.

Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum 45 est—It is meet that every man should measure himself by his own rule and standard. Hor.

Mettre les pieds dans le plat—To put one's foot in it. Fr. Pr.

Metuenda corolla draconis—The dragon's crest is to be feared.

Meum et tuum—Mine and thine.

Meus mihi, suus cuique est carus—Mine is dear to me, and dear is his own to every man. Plaut.

Mezzo termine—A middle course. It. 50

Micat inter omnes—It shines amongst all, i.e., it outshines all. Hor.

Mich dräng'st den Grundtext aufzuschlagen, / Mit redlichem Gefühl einmal / Das heilige Original / In mein geliebtes Deutsch zu übertragen—I must turn up the primitive text just to translate the sacred original with honest feeling into my dear German tongue. Faust, in Goethe.

Mich hat mein Glaube nicht betrogen!—My faith has not betrayed me. Schiller.

Mich plagen keine Scrupel noch Zweifel, / Fürchte mich weder vor Hölle noch Teufel—I am troubled by no scruples or doubts; I fear neither hell nor devil. Faust, in Goethe.

Mich schuf aus gröberm Stoffe die Natur, / Und zu der Erde zieht mich die Begierde—Out of coarser clay has Nature created me, and I am drawn by lust to the dust. Schiller.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, / Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; / A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, / Which, sought through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. J. H. Payne.

Midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, / To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, / And roam along, the world's tired denizen, / With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; /... This is to be alone; this, this is solitude! Byron.

Mieux nourri qu'instruit—Better fed than taught. Fr. Pr.

Mieux serra—Better times are coming. M. 5

Mieux vaut glisser du pied que de la langue—Better slip with the foot than the tongue. Fr. Pr.

Mieux vaut perdre la laine que la brebis—Better lose the wool than the sheep. Fr. Pr.

Mieux vaut un bon renom, que du bien plein la maison—Better a good name than a house full of riches. Fr. Pr.

Mieux vaut un "Tiens" que deux "Tu l'auras"—One "Take this" is better than two "You shall have it." Fr. Pr.

Mieux vaut une once de fortune qu'une livre 10 de sagesse—An ounce of fortune is better than a pound of wisdom. Fr. Pr.

Mieux vaut voir un chien enragé, qu'un soleil chaud en Janvier—Better see a mad dog than a hot sun in January.

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour; but give them centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical. Carlyle.

Mightier far / Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway / Of magic, potent over sun and star, / Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, / And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast. Wordsworth.

Mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, / And sleep, how oft, on things that gentlest be. B. M. Procter.

Mighty events turn on a straw; the crossing 15 of a brook decides the conquest of the world. Carlyle.

Migravit ab aure voluptas / Omnis—All pleasure has fled from the ear, (dumb show having taken the place of dialogue on the stage). Hor.

Mihi est propositum in taberna mori—I purpose to end my days in an inn.

Mihi forsan, tibi quod negarit, / Porriget hora—The hour will perhaps extend to me what it has denied to you. Hor.

Mihi istic nec seritur nec metitur—There is neither sowing nor reaping in that affair for my benefit. Plaut.

Mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor—My 20 aim is to subject circumstances to me, and not myself to them. Hor.

Mihi tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora—For me the time passes slowly and joyously away. Hor.

Mildness governs more than anger. Pr.

Militat omnis amans—Every lover is engaged in a war. Ovid.

Militiæ species amor est—Love is a kind of warfare. Ovid.

Mille hominum species et rerum discolor usus; / 25 Velle suum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno—There are a thousand kinds of men, and different hues they give to things; each one follows his own inclination, nor do they all agree in their wishes. Pers.

Mille verisimili non fanno un vero—A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. It. Pr.

Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum, / Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus—Though your threshing-floor should yield a hundred thousand bushels of corn, will your stomach therefore hold more than mine? Hor.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth / Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. Milton.

Minatur innocentibus qui parcit nocentibus—He threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. Coke.

Mind and body are intimately related; if the 30 former is joyful, the latter feels free and well; and many an evil flies before cheerfulness. Goethe.

Mind and body—that beauteous couple—exercise much and variously, but at home, at home, indoors, and about things indoors; for God is there too. Landor.

Mind is stronger than matter; mind is the creator and shaper of matter; not brute force, but only persuasion and faith is the king of this world. Carlyle.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. Webster.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything. Rivarol.

Mind not high things, but condescend to men 35 of low estate. St. Paul.

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed. Bovee.

Mind your P's and Q's. Pr.

Mind your work, and God will find your wages. Pr.

Minds are of celestial birth; / Make we then a heaven of earth. Montgomery.

Minds that have nothing to confer / Find little 40 to perceive. Wordsworth.

Minds that never rest are subject to many digressions. Joubert.

Mind the corner where life's road turns. Pr.

Mine honour my life is; both grow in one; / Take honour from me, and my life is done. Richard II., i. 1.

Minimæ vires frangere quassa valent—Very little avails to break a bruised thing. Ov.

Minima de malis—Of two evils choose the least. 45 Pr.

Minister flicken am Staate, / Die Richter flicken am Rate, / Die Pfarrer an dem Gewissen, / Die Aerzte an Händen und Füszen! O Jobsen! was flickest denn du? / Weit besser! Gerissene Schuh!—Ministers cobble away at the state, judges at the law, parsons at the conscience, doctors at our hands and feet; what cobblest thou at, friend Jobson? Far better—shoes that have been torn. Weisse.

Minor est quam servus, dominus qui servos timet—A master who fears his servants is lower than a servant.

Minorities lead and save the world, and the world knows them not till long afterwards. John Burroughs.

Minuentur atræ / Carmine curæ—Black care will be soothed by song. Hor.

Minuit præsentia famam—Acquaintanceship lessens fame. Claud.

Minus afficit sensus fatigatio quam cogitatio—Bodily fatigue affects the mind less than intense thought. Quinct.

Minuti / Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas / Ultio—Revenge is ever the delight of a stinted and weak and petty mind. Juv.

Minutiæ—Trifles; minute details. 5

Mir gäb' es keine gröss're Pein, / Wär' ich im Paradies allein—There were for me no greater torment than to be in Paradise alone. Goethe.

Mir wird bei meinem kritischen Bestreben / Doch oft um Kopf und Busen bang—Often during my critical studies I fear as if I would lose both head and heart. Wagner in Goethe's "Faust."

Mira quædam in cognoscendo suavitas et delectatio—There is a certain wonderful sweetness and delight in gaining knowledge.

Mirabile dictu!—Wonderful to be told!

Mirabile visu!—Wonderful to behold! 10

Miracles are ceased, and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected. Hen. V., i. 1.

Miracles do not serve to convert, but condemn. Pascal.

Miramur ex intervallo fallentia—We admire at a distance things which deceive us. Pr.

Miremur te non tua—Let me have something to admire in yourself, not in what belongs to you. Juv.

Mirth is God's medicine. Ward Beecher. 15

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Addison.

Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Addison.

Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem—Mix a little folly with your serious thoughts. Hor.

Miscellaneous reading avoid. Prof. Blackie to young men.

Mischief, thou art afoot; / Take thou what 20 course thou wilt. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

Mise en scène—The getting up or putting in preparation for the stage. Fr.

Misera contribuens plebs!—The poor tax-paying people. Verböczy.

Misera est magni custodia census—The custody of a large fortune is a wretched business. Juv.

Misera est servitus ubi jus est aut vagum aut incognitum—Obedience to the law is a hardship where the law is either unsettled or unknown. L.

Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness 25 is that unhappy pair who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day. Johnson.

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari—An unhappy peace may be profitably exchanged for war. Tac.

Misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontem—Between bridge and stream the Lord's mercy may be found. St. Augustine.

Miseros prudentia prima relinquit—Prudence is the first thing to forsake the wretched. Ovid.

Miserrima est fortuna quæ inimico caret—Most wretched is the lot of him who has not an enemy. Pub. Syr.

Miserum est aliorum incumbere famæ / Ne 30 collapsa ruant subductis tecta columnis—It is a wretched thing to lean for support on the reputation of others, lest the roof should fall in ruins when the pillars are withdrawn. Juv.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. Tempest, ii. 2.

Misery and ruin to thousands are in the blast that announces the destructive demon (war). Burns.

Misery doth part / The flux of company. As You Like It, ii. 1.

Misery is like love; to speak its language truly, the author must have felt it. Burns.

Misery is trodden down by many, / And, being 35 low, never relieved by any. Shakespeare.

Misery that I miss is a new mercy. Isaac Walton.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Mrs. L. M. Child.

Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the head of the woman, and brings forth germs of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession. Anna C. Mowatt.

Misfortune, when we look upon it with our eyes, is smaller than when our imagination sinks the evil down into the recesses of the soul. Goethe.

Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot. 40 Pr.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power. G. S. Hillard.

Misfortunes never come single. Pr.

Misfortunes when asleep are not to be wakened. Pr.

Mislike me not for my complexion, / The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun, / To whom I am a neighbour and near bred. Mer. of Ven., ii. 1.

Misreckoning is no payment. Pr. 45

Mist of words, / Like halos round the moon, though they enlarge / The seeming size of thoughts, make the light less / Doubly. Bailey.

Mistake not, man; the devil never sleeps. Thomas à Kempis.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, and the man who finds everything evil, and still more the man who is indifferent to everything. Lavater.

Misunderstanding brings lies to town. Pr.

Misunderstanding goes on like a fallen stitch 50 in a stocking, which in the beginning might have been taken up with a needle. Goethe.

Mit deinem Meister zu irren ist dein Gewinn—To err with thy master is thy gain. Goethe.

Mit dem Genius steht die Natur im ewigen Bunde! / Was der eine verspricht, leistet die andre gewiss—Nature stands in eternal league with genius; what the one promises the other as surely performs. Schiller.

Mit dem Wissen wächst der Zweifel—Doubt ever grows alongside of knowledge. Goethe.

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens—With stupidity the gods themselves fight in vain. Schiller.

Mit Frauen soll man sich nie unterstehn zu scherzen—One should never venture to joke with ladies. Mephisto in Goethe's "Faust."

Mit fremdem Gut ist leicht ein Prasser sein—It is easy to live riotously (be a rake) at another's expense. Platen.

Mit Kleinen thut man kleine Thaten, / Mit Grossen wird der Kleine gross—With little people we do little deeds, with great people the little one becomes great. Goethe.

Mit seltsamen Geberden / Giebt man sich 5 viele Pein; / Kein Mensch will etwas werden, / Ein jeder will schon was sein—We are easily disconcerted by strange manners; no man is willing to become anything, every one gives himself out as already something. Goethe.

Mit vier Strangschlägern zu fahren ist gefährlich, aber ich werde es versuchen—It is risky to drive with four horses that kick over the traces, but I shall try. Bismarck.

Mit Worten lässt sich trefflich streiten / Mit Worten ein System bereiten, / An Worten lässt sich trefflich glauben, / Von einem Wort lässt sich kein Iota rauben—With words disputes may be effectively carried on; with words a system may be built up; on words one may rest religious belief; from a word must not one iota be taken. Mephisto in Goethe's "Faust."

Mit Worten nicht, mit Thaten lasst mich danken—Let me thank you with deeds, not with words. Körner.

Mitgefühl erweckt Vertrauen; / Und Vertrauen ist der Schlüssel / Der des Herzens Pforte öffnet—Sympathy awakens confidence, and confidence is the key which unlocks the doors of the heart. Bodenstedt.

Mittagsschlaf ist ein brennend Licht am Tage—Sleep 10 at midday is a candle burning in the daytime. Hippel.

Mitte hanc de pectore curam—Dismiss these anxieties from your breast. Virg.

Mittimus—We send. A writ for transferring records from one court to another; a precept committing an accused person to prison by a justice of the peace. L.

Mobilis et varia est ferme natura malorum—Misfortunes generally are of a variable and changeable nature. Juv.

Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo—It grows by moving, and gathers strength as it speeds on. Virg., of Fame.

Mobilium turba Quiritium—A crowd of fickle 15 citizens. Hor.

Mock me not with the name of free, when you have but knit up my chains into ornamental festoons. Carlyle.

Mockery is the fume of little hearts. Tennyson.

Moderari animo et orationi, cum sis iratus, non mediocris ingenii est—To be able to temper your indignation and language when you are angry is evidence of a chastened disposition. Cic.

Moderata durant—Things we use in moderation last long. Sen.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, 20 excessive grief the enemy to the living. All's Well, i. 1.

Moderate riches will carry you; if you have more, you must carry them. Pr.

Moderation and judgment are, for most purposes, more than the flash and the glitter even of genius. J. Morley.

Moderation is good, but moderation alone is no virtue (Tugend). Rückert.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with genius it has not even a nodding acquaintance. Colton.

Moderation is the silken string running through 25 the pearl chain of all virtues. Thomas Fuller.

Moderation is the virtue best adapted to the dawn of prosperity. Pitt.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain we can no more manage our mobs. Ruskin.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrists. J. Sterling.

Modern poets put a great deal of water in their ink. Goethe.

Modern Protestantism sees in the cross, not a 30 furca to which it is to be nailed, but a raft on which it, and all its valuable properties, are to be floated into Paradise. Ruskin.

Modern revolution has nothing grand about it; it is merely the resolution of society into its component atoms. Froude.

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism. No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces. Ruskin.

Modest demeanour's the jewel of a'! Burns.

Modest dogs miss much meat. Pr.

Modest doubt is called / The beacon of the 35 wise, the tent that searches / To the bottom of the worst. Troil. and Cres., ii. 2.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius. Chapin.

Modest humility is beauty's crown, for the beautiful is a hidden thing, and shrinks from its own power. Schiller.

Modeste tamen et circumspecto judicio de tantis viris pronunciandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quæ non intelligunt—We should, however, pronounce our opinions with modesty and circumspect judgment of such men, lest, as is the case with many, we should be found condemning what we do not understand. Quinct.

Modesty and presumption are moral things of so spiritual a nature, that they have little to do with the body. Goethe.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised 40 by the women than liked. Sheridan.

Modesty is a very good thing, but a man in this country may get on very well without it. M. on a banner in the Far West.

Modesty is so pleased with other people's doings that she has no leisure to lament her own. Ruskin.

Modesty is the beauty of women. Gael. Pr.

Modesty is the colour of virtue. Diogenes.

Modesty is the sweet song-bird which no open 45 cage-door can tempt to flight. Hafiz.

Modesty is to merit what the shadows are to the figures on a picture; it imparts to it force and relief. La Bruyère.

Modesty ruins all that bring it to court. Pr.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. Goldsmith.

Modesty when she goes, is gone for ever. Landor.

Modo et forma—In manner and form. 5

Modo me Thebis, modo ponit Athenis—He sets me down now at Thebes, now at Athens, i.e., the poet does so by his magic art. Hor.

Modo vir, modo femina—Now as a man, now as a woman. Ovid.

Modus operandi—The manner of operation.

Mögt ihr Stück für Stück bewitzeln, / Doch das Ganze zieht euch an—You may jeer at it bit by bit, yet the whole fascinates you. Goethe.

Moi, moi, dis je, et c'est assez—I, I, say I, and 10 that is enough. Corneille.

Moins on pense plus on parle—The less people think, the more they talk. Fr.

Moles and misers live in their graves. Pr.

Molesta et importuna salutantium frequentia—A troublesome and annoying crowd of visitors.

Molle meum levibus cor est violabile telis—My tender heart is vulnerable by his (Cupid's) light arrows. Ovid.

Mollis educatio nervos omnes et mentis et 15 corporis frangit—An effeminate education weakens all the powers both of mind and body. Quinct.

Mollissima corda / Humano generi dare se natura fatetur, / Quæ lachrymas dedit: hæc nostri pars optima sensus—Nature confesses that she gives the tenderest of hearts to the human race when she gave them tears. This is the best part of our sensations. Juv.

Mollissima tempora fandi—The most fitting moment for speaking, or addressing, one. Hor.

Molliter austerum studio fallente laborem—The interest in the pursuit gently beguiling the severity of the toil. Hor.

Molliter ossa cubent—Let his bones softly rest. Ovid.

Momento mare vertitur; / Eodem die ubi 20 luserunt, navigia sorbentur—In a moment the sea is agitated, and on the same day ships are swallowed up where they lately sported gaily along.

Mon âme a son secret, ma vie a son mystère—My soul has a secret of its own, my life its mystery. Arvers.

Mon cœur aux dames, / Ma vie au roi, / A Dieu mon âme, / L'honneur pour moi—My heart to the ladies, my life to the king, and my soul to God, but my honour is my own. On a shield in the Royal Schloss, Berlin.

Mon Dieu est ma roche—My God is my rock. M.

Mon frère a mis son bonnet de travers—My brother is cross (lit. has put on his cap the wrong way). Fr. Pr.

Monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, 25 but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water. Fisher Ames.

Monday is the key of the week. Gael. Pr.

Monday religion is better than Sunday profession. Pr.

Mone sale—Advise with salt, i.e., with discretion. M.

Money answers everything, / Save a guilty conscience sting. Pr.

Money begets money. Pr. 30

Money borrowed is soon sorrowed. Pr.

Money calls, but does not stay: / It is round and rolls away. Pr.

Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned. Kazlay.

Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master. Bouheurs.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; 35 he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money. Schopenhauer.

Money is like an icicle, soon found at certain seasons, and soon melted under other circumstances. Spurgeon.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Thoreau.

Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. Fielding.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet. Heine.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; 40 health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. Colton.

Money is the ruin of many. Pr.

Money is the sinew of love as well as of war. Pr.

Money, like manure, does no good till it is spread. (?)

Money makes the mare to go. Pr.

Money masters all things. Pr. 45

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Ben. Franklin.

Money often costs too much. Emerson.

Money often unmakes the men who make it. Pr.

Money refused loses its brightness. Pr.

Money spent on the brain is never spent in 50 vain. Pr.

Moniti, meliora sequamur—Admonished, let us follow better counsels. Virg.

Monkeys, as soon as they have brought forth their young, keep their eyes fastened on them, and never weary of admiring their beauty; so amorous is Nature of whatever she produces. Dryden.

Monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare: semita certe / Tranquillæ per virtutem patet unica vitæ—I show you what you can do for yourself; the only path to a tranquil life lies through virtue. Juv.

Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum—A monster horrible, misshapen, huge, and bereft of his one eye. Virgil, of Polyphemus.

Monstrum nulla virtute redemptum / A vitiis—A 55 monster whose vices are not redeemed by a single virtue. Juv.

Mont de piété—Pawnshop; originally store of money to lend without interest to poor people. Fr.

Montes auri pollicens—Promising mountains of gold. Ter.

Montesquieu, with his cause-and-effect philosophy, is but a clever infant spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic Book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity, in Heaven. Carlyle.

Monuments, like men, submit to fate. Pope.

Monuments themselves memorials need. Crabbe.

Mony an honest man needs that hasna the 5 face to seek it. Sc. Pr.

Mony ane speirs the gate (inquires the way) they ken fu' weel. Sc. Pr.

Mony kinsfolk, but few freends. Sc. Pr.

Moonlight is sculpture. Hawthorne.

Moping melancholy. Milton.

Mora omnis odio est, sed facit sapientiam—All 10 delay is hateful, but it produces wisdom. Pub. Syr.

Moral culture must begin with a change (Umwandlung) in the way of thinking, and with the founding of a character. Kant.

Moral education begins in making the creature to be educated clean and obedient; and it is summed up when the creature has been made to do its work with delight, and thoroughly. Ruskin.

Moral inability aggravates our guilt. Scott.

Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence. Hare.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short 15 distances the senses are despotic. Emerson.

Morality is a curb, not a spur. Joubert.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion. Chapin.

Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourses. Immermann.

Morals are generated as the atmosphere is. 'Tis a secret the genesis of either; but the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than salt or sulphur springs. Emerson.

Morceau—A morsel; a bit. Fr. 20

Morceau d'ensemble—Piece of music harmonised for several voices. Fr.

More are drowned in the beaker than in the sea. Ger. Pr.

More are made good by exercitation than by nature. Democritus.

More credit may be thrown down in a moment than can be built up in an age. Pr.

More hearts pine away in secret anguish for 25 unkindness from those who should be their comforters than for any other calamity in life. Young.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. George Eliot.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly. Bulwer Lytton.

More knave than fool. Marlowe.

More light, more life, more love. Pr.

More majorum—After the manner of our ancestors. 30

More matter with less art. Ham., ii. 2.

More meat and less mustard. Pr.

More pleased we are to see a river lead / His gentle streams along a flowery mead, / Than from high banks to hear loud torrents roar, / With foamy waters on a muddy shore. Dryden.

More potatoes and fewer potations. Motto for Working-men.

More servants wait on man / Than he'll take 35 notice of. George Herbert.

More sinn'd against than sinning. Lear, iii. 2.

More springs up in the garden than the gardener sows there. Pr.

More suo—After his usual manner; as is his wont.

More than all things, avoid fault-finding and a habit of criticism. Prof. Blackie to young men.

More than kisses letters mingle souls. Donne. 40

More than we use is more than we want. Pr.

More things are wrought by prayer / Than this world dreams of. Tennyson.

More water glideth by the mill / Than wots the miller of. Tit. Andron., ii. 1.

Mores amici noveris, non oderis—Know well, but take no offence at the manners of a friend. Pr.

Mores multorum vidit—He saw the manners of 45 many men. Hor. of Ulysses.

Morgen können wir's nicht mehr, / Darum lasst uns heute leben!—To-morrow is no longer in our power, therefore let us live to-day. Schiller.

Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute! / Sprechen immer träge Leute—To-morrow, to-morrow, only not to-day, is the constant song of the idle. C. F. Weisse.

Morgenstunde hat Gold im Munde—The morning hour has gold in its mouth. Gr. Pr.

Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus—Let us die, and rush into the thick of the fight. Virg.

Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque—The 50 Roman commonwealth stands by its ancient manners and men. Enn.

Moribus et forma conciliandus amor—Pleasing manners and a handsome figure conciliate love. Ovid.

Morituri morituros salutant—The dying salute the dying.

Morose thoughts one should never send to a distance. Goethe.

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence. Landor.

Mors et fugacem persequitur virum—Death 55 pursues the man as he flees from it. Hor.

Mors ipsa refugit sæpe virum!—Death itself often takes flight at the presence of a man. Lucan.

Mors janua vitæ—Death is the gate of life.

Mors laborum ac miseriarum quies est!—Death is repose from all our toils and miseries. Cic.

Mors potius macula—Death rather than disgrace. M.

Mors sola fatetur / Quantula sint hominum 60 corpuscula—Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of us men. Juv.

Mors ultima linea rerum est—Death is the farthest limit of our changing life. Hor.

Mortales inimicitias, sempiternas amicitias—Be our enmities for time, our friendships for eternity. Cic.

Mortalia acta nunquam Deos fallunt—The deeds of man never can be hid from the gods.

Mortalia facta peribunt, / Nedum sermonum stet honos et gratia vivax—All man's works must perish; how much less shall the power and grace of language long survive! Hor.

Mortality is beset on every side with crosses, and exposed to suffering every moment. Thomas à Kempis.

Mortalium rerum misera beatitudo—The miserable 5 bliss of all moral things. Boëthius.

Morte carent animæ, semperque priore relicta / Sede novis domibus vivunt habitantque receptæ—Souls are immortal; and admitted, after quitting their first abode, into new homes, they live and dwell in them for ever. Ovid.

Mortem effugere nemo potest!—No one can escape death.

Mortuo leoni et lepores insultant—Even hares insult a dead lion. Pr.

Mos pro lege—Usage, or custom, for law. L.

Moses and Mahomet were not men of speculation, 10 but men of action; and it is the stress they laid upon the latter that has given them the power they wield over the destinies of mankind. Renan.

Most authors steal their works, or buy. Pope.

Most dangerous / Is that temptation that doth goad us on / To sin in loving virtue. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

Most felt, least said. Pr.

Most joyful let the poet be; / It is through him that all men see. W. E. Channing.

Most men and most women are merely one 15 couple more. Emerson.

Most men do not know what is in them till they receive the summons from their fellows; their hearts die within them, sleep settles upon them—the lethargy of the world's miasmata; there is nothing for which they are so thankful as for that cry, "Awake, thou that sleepest." Ruskin.

Most men forget God all day, and ask Him to remember them at night. (?)

Most men I ask little from; I try to render them much, and to expect nothing in return, and I get very well out of the bargain. Fénelon.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean. Lowell.

Most men never reach the glorious epoch, that 20 middle stage between despair and deification, in which the comprehensible appears to us common and insipid. Goethe.

Most men of action incline to fatalism, and most men of thought believe in Providence. Balzac.

Most men take no notice of what is plain, as if that were of no use; but puzzle their thoughts to be themselves in those vast depths and abysses which no human understanding can fathom. Sherlock.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness. Johnson.

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? Bible.

Most men write now as if they expected that 25 their works should live no more than a month. Lord Orford.

Most natures are insolvent; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually. Emerson.

Most of our evils come from our vices. Pr.

Most of the appearing mirth in the world is not mirth, but art; the wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise. South.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances, to the elevation of mankind. Thoreau.

Most of the mischief in the world would never 30 happen if men would only be content to sit still in their parlours. Pascal.

Most people think now-a-days the only hopeful way of serving your neighbour is to make a profit out of him; whereas, in my opinion, the hopefulest way of serving him is to let him make a profit out of me. Ruskin.

Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. Billings.

Most people who ask advice of others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. Knigge.

Most potent, effectual for all work whatsoever, is wise planning, firm combining and commanding among men. Carlyle.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his 35 power. Seneca.

Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Lowell.

Most strange that men should fear, / Seeing that death, a necessary end, / Will come when it will come. Jul. Cæs., ii. 2.

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds. 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.

Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Helps.

Most things have two handles, and a wise 40 man takes hold of the best. Pr.

Most women have no characters at all. Pope.

Most wretched men / Are cradled into poetry by wrong; / They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Shelley.

Mot à mot—Word for word.

Mot à mot on fait les gros livres—Word by word big books are made. Fr. Pr.

Mot d'ordre—Watchword. Fr. 45

Mot pour rire—A jest. Fr.

Mother, a maiden is a tender thing, / And best by her that bore her understood. Tennyson.

Mother's darlings are but milksop heroes. Pr.

Mother's love is the cream of love. Pr.

Mother's truth keeps constant youth. Pr. 50

Motives are better than actions. Bovee.

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Coleridge.

Motley's the only wear. As You Like It, ii. 7.

Mots d'usage—Phrases in common use. Fr.

Motu proprio—Of his own accord. 55

Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, who had else / Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Cowper.

Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep company some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men. Hare.

Mourning only lasts till morning with the children of the morning. Saying.

Mourning tendeth to mending. Pr.

Movet cornicula risum / Furtivis nudata coloribus—The 5 crow, stript of its stolen colours, provokes our ridicule. Hor.

Moving accidents by flood and field. Othello, i. 3.

Mrs. Chatterbox is the mother of mischief. Pr.

Much bruit, little fruit. Pr.

Much corn lies under the straw that is not seen. Pr.

Much debating goes on about the good that 10 has been done and the harm by the free circulation of the Bible. To me this is clear: it will do harm, as it has done, if used dogmatically and fancifully; and do good, as it has done, if used didactically and feelingly. Goethe.

Much exists under our very noses which has no name, and can get none. Carlyle.

Much food is in the tillage of the poor. Bible.

Much in the world may be done by severity, more by love, but most of all by discernment and impartial justice. Goethe.

Much learning is a weariness of the flesh. Pr.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; 15 much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. Young.

Much lies among us convulsively, nay, desperately, struggling to be born. Carlyle.

Much meat, much disease. Pr.

Much might be said on both sides. Addison.

Much of the good or evil that befalls persons arises from the well or ill managing of their conversation. Judge Hale.

Much of the pleasure, and all the benefit of 20 conversation, depends upon our own opinion of the speaker's veracity. Paley.

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy—by consulting the oracular dead. Hare.

Much of what is great, and to all men beneficial, has been wrought by those who neither intended nor knew the good they did; and many mighty harmonies have been discoursed by instruments that had been dumb and discordant but that God knew their stops. Ruskin.

Much reading makes one haughty and pedantic; much observation (Sehen) makes one wise, sociable, and helpful. Lichtenberg.

Much religion, but no goodness. Pr.

Much rust needs a rough file. Pr. 25

Much there is that appears unequal in our life, yet the balance is soon and unexpectedly restored. In eternal alternation a weal counterbalances the woe, and swift sorrows our joys. Nothing is constant. Many an incongruity (Missverhältniss) as the days roll on, is gradually and imperceptibly dissolved in harmony. And ah! love knows how to reconcile the greatest discrepancy and unite earth with heaven. Goethe.

Mucho sabe la zorra, pero mas el que la toma—The fox is cunning, but he is more cunning who takes him. Sp. Pr.

Mud chokes no eels. Pr.

Mudar costumbre a par de muerte—To change a custom is next to death. Sp. Pr.

Muddy spring, muddy stream. Pr. 30

Mugitus labyrinthi—The bellowing of the labyrinth (a threadbare theme among weak poets). Juv.

Mules deliver great discourses because their ancestors were horses. Pr.

Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, / In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua—What a woman says to an ardent lover ought to be written on the winds and the swiftly flowing water. Catull.

Mulier profecto nata est ex ipsa mora—Woman is surely born of tardiness itself. Plaut.

Mulier quæ sola cogitat male cogitat—The 35 thoughts of a woman when alone tend to mischief. Pr.

Mulier recte olet ubi nihil olet—A woman smells sweetest when she smells not at all. Plaut.

Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra—Many things fall between the cup and the lip. Laber.

Multa dies, variusque labor mutabilis ævi, / Retulit in melius—Many a thing has time and the varying sway of changeful years altered for the better. Virg.

Multa docet fames—Hunger (i.e., necessity) teaches us many things. Pr.

Multa fero ut placeam genus irritabile vatum—Much 40 I endure to appease the irritable race of poets. Hor.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum; / Multa recedentes adimunt—The coming years bring with them many advantages; as they recede they take many away. Hor.

Multa gemens—Groaning deeply. Virg.

Multa me docuit usus, magister egregius—Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things. Pliny the younger.

Multa novit vulpis, sed felis unam magnum—The fox knows many shifts, the cat only one great one, viz., to run up a tree. Pr.

Multa paucis—Much in little. 45

Multa petentibus / Desunt multa—Those who crave much want much. Hor.

Multa quidem scripsi; sed quæ vitiosa putavi, / Emendaturis ignibus ipse dedi—Much have I written; but what I considered faulty I myself committed to the correcting flames. Ovid.

Multa renascentur quæ jam cecidere, cadentque / Quæ nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, / Quem penes arbitrium est, et jus, et norma loquendi—Many words now in disuse will revive, and many now in vogue will be forgotten, if usage wills it, in whose hands is the choice and the right to lay down the law of language. Hor.

Multa rogant utenda dari; data reddere nolunt—They ask many a sum on loan, but they are loath to repay. Ovid.

Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda—Many 50 are the discomforts that gather round old age. Hor.

Multa tacere loquive paratas—Ready to suppress much or speak much.

Multa tulit, fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit—Much from early years has he suffered and done, sweating and chilled. Hor.

Multæ manus onus levius faciunt—Many hands make light work. Pr.

Multæ regum aures et oculi—Kings have many ears and eyes.

Multæ terricolis linguæ, cœlestibus una—The inhabitants of earth have many tongues, those of heaven have but one.

Multarum palmarum causidicus—A pleader who has gained many causes.

Multas amicitias silentium diremit—Silence, or 5 neglect, dissolves many friendships. Pr.

Multi adorantur in ara qui cremantur in igne—Many are worshipped at the altar who are burning in flames. St. Augustine.

Multi / Committunt eadem diverso crimina fato, / Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadema—Many commit the same crimes with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villany, another wears a crown. Juv.

Multi mortales, dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere; quibus profecto contra naturam corpus voluptati, anima oneri—Many men bave passed through life like travellers in a strange land, without spiritual or moral culture, and given up to the lusts of appetite and indolence, whose bodies, contrary to their nature, were enslaved to indulgence, and their souls a burden. Sall.

Multi multa, nemo omnia novit—Many know many things, no one everything. Coke.

Multi nil rectum nisi quod placuit sibi ducunt—Many 10 deem nothing right but what suits their own conceit. Hor.

Multi te oderint si teipsum ames—Many will detest you if you spend all love on yourself.

Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit / Nulli flebilior quam tibi—He fell lamented by many good men, by none more lamented than by thee (Virgil). Hor., of Quinctilius.

Multis minatur, qui uni facit injuriam—He who wrongs one threatens many. Pub. Syr.

Multis parasse divitias non finis miseriarum fuit, sed mutatio; non est in rebus vitium sed in animo—The acquisition of riches has been to many, not the end of their miseries, but a change in them; the fault is not in the riches, but in the disposition. Sen.

Multis terribilis caveto multos—If you are a 15 terror to many, then beware of many. Auson.

Multitudinem decem faciunt—Ten constitute a crowd. Coke.

Multo plures satietas quam fames perdidit viros—Many more die of surfeit than of hunger.

Multos castra juvant, et lituo tubæ / Permistus sonitus, bellaque matribus / Detestata—The camp and the clang of the trumpet mingled with the clarion, and wars detested by mothers, have delights for many. Hor.

Multos in summa pericula misit / Venturi timor ipse mali—The mere apprehension of coming evil has driven many into positions of great peril. Pr.

Multos ingratos invenimus, plures facimus—We 20 find many men ungrateful; we make more. Pr.

Multos qui conflictari adversis videantur, beatos; ac plerosque, quanquam magnas per opes, miserrimos—We may see many struggling against adversity who yet are happy; and more, although abounding in wealth, who are most wretched. Tac.

Multum abludit imago—The picture is outrageously unlike. Hor.

Multum demissus homo—A modest reserved man. Hor.

Multum in parvo—Much in little.

Multum, non multa—Much, not many. Pliny. 25

Multum sapit qui non diu desipit—He is very wise who does not long persist in folly. Pr.

Mundæque parvo sub lare pauperum / Cœnæ, sine aulæis et ostro, / Sollicitam explicuere frontem—A neat, simple meal under the humble roof of the poor, without hangings and purple, has smoothed the wrinkles of an anxious brow. Hor.

Munditiæ, et ornatus, et cultus hæc feminarum insignia sunt, his gaudent et gloriantur—Neatness, ornament, and dress, are peculiar badges of women; in these they delight and glory. Livy.

Munditiis capimur—We are captivated by neatness. Ovid.

Mundus est Dei viva statua!—The world is the 30 living image of God. T. Campanella.

Mundus universus exercet histrionem—All men practise the actor's art. Petron.

Mundus vult decipi; ergo decipiatur—The world wishes to be deceived; therefore let it be deceived.

Munera accipit frequens, remittit nunquam—He often receives presents, but never gives any. Plaut.

Munera, crede mihi, capiunt hominesque deosque; / Placatur donis Jupiter ipse datis!—Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and gods; Jupiter himself is won over and appeased by gifts. Ovid.

Munificence is not quantity, but quality. 35 Pascal.

Munit hæc, et altera vincit—This defends, and the other conquers. M.

Munus Apolline dignum—A present worthy of Apollo. Hor.

Munus ornare verbis—To enhance the value of a present by words. Ter.

Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak / With most miraculous organ. Ham., ii. 2.

Murder will out. Chaucer. 40

Muras æneus conscientia sana—A sound conscience is a wall of brass. M.

Mus in pice—A mouse in pitch; "a fly wading through tar."

Mus non uni fidit antro—The mouse does not trust to one hole only. Plaut.

Music fills up the present moment more decisively than anything else, whether it awakens thought or summons to action. Goethe.

Music hath charms to soothe the savage 45 breast. Congreve.

Music in the best sense has little need of novelty (Neuheit); on the contrary, the older it is, the more one is accustomed to it, the greater is the effect it produces. Goethe.

Music, in the works of its greatest masters, is more marvellous, more mysterious, than poetry. H. Giles.

Music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze that. Carlyle.

Music is a language directed to the passions; but the rudest passions put on a new nature and become pleasing in harmony. James Usher.

Music is a prophecy of what life is to be, the rainbow of promise translated out of seeing into hearing. Mrs. Child.

Music is an invisible dance, as dancing is a silent music. Jean Paul.

Music is but wild sounds civilised into time and tune. Fuller.

Music is our fourth great material want—first 5 food, then raiment, then shelter, then music. Bovee.

Music is the art of the prophets, the only art which can calm the agitations of the soul. Luther.

Music is the crystallisation of sound. Thoreau.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Beethoven.

Music is the most immediate means possessed by the will for the manifestation of its inner impulses. A. R. Parsons.

Music is the only one of the fine arts in which 10 not only man, but all other animals, have a common property. Jean Paul.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral and religious feelings. Addison.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus. Emerson.

Music is the true universal speech of mankind. Weber.

Music makes people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. Luther.

Music, of all the arts, has the greatest influence 15 over the passions, and the legislator ought to give it the greatest encouragement. Napoleon.

Music of the spheres. Pericles, v. 1.

Music oft hath such a charm / To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. Meas. for Meas., iv. 1.

Music, once admitted into the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. Bulwer Lytton.

Music so softens and disarms the mind, / That not an arrow does resistance find. Waller.

Music stands in a much closer connection with 20 pure sensation than any of the other arts. Helmholtz.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Auerbach.

Music, when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order; and also when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. Ruskin.

Music will not cure the toothache. Pr.

Music wraps us in melancholy, and elevates in joy. James Usher.

Musik ist der Schlüssel vom weiblichen Herzen—Music 25 is the key to the female heart. Seume.

Musik ist die wahre allgemeine Menschensprache—Music is the true universal speech of mankind. C. J. Weber.

Muss ist eine harte Nuss—Must is a hard nut to crack. Ger. Pr.

Müsset im Naturbetrachen / Immer eins wie alles achten; / Nichts ist drinnen, nichts ist draussen, / Denn was innen, das ist aussen. / So ergreifet ohne Säumness / Heilig öffentlich Geheimniss—In the study of Nature you must ever regard one as all; nothing is inner, nothing is outer, for what is within that is without. Without hesitation, therefore, seize ye the holy mystery thus lying open to all. Goethe.

Müssiggang ist aller Laster Anfang—Idleness is the beginning of all vices.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet 30 kernel. Spurgeon.

"Must" is hard, but by "must" alone can man show what his inward condition is. Any one can live unrestrainedly. Goethe.

Must not a great history be always an epic? Dr. Walter Smith.

Mutability is the badge of infirmity. Charron.

Mutare vel timere sperno—I disdain either to change or to fear. M.

Mutatis mutandis—After making the necessary 35 changes. L.

Mutato nomine, de te / Fabula narratur—Change but the name, the story's told of you. Hor.

Mutum est pictura poema—A picture is a poem without words.

My alms-people are to be the ablest bodied I can find, the ablest minded I can make, and every day will be a duty... shall stand with tools at work, mattock or flail, axe or hammer. Ruskin

My ancient but ignoble blood / Has crept through scoundrels ever since the Flood. (?)

My better half. Sir Philip Sidney. 40

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

My dame fed her hens on thanks, but they laid no eggs. Pr.

My days are in the yellow leaf; / The flowers and fruits of love are gone; / The worm, the canker, and the grief / Are mine alone. Byron.

"My family begins with me, yours ends with you." Iphicrates, when upbraided by a young aristocrat for his low birth.

My fate cries out, / And makes each petty 45 artery in this body / As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. Ham., i. 4.

My first and last secret of Art is to get a thorough intelligence of the fact to be painted, represented, or, in whatever way, set forth—the fact deep as Hades, high as heaven, and written so, as to the visual face of it on this poor earth. Carlyle.

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind. Lucrece.

"My hand," said Napoleon, "is immediately connected with my head," but the sacred courage is connected with the heart. Emerson.

My heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky: / So was it when my life began, / So is it now I am a man; / So be it when I shall grow old, / Or let me die. Wordsworth.

My heart is true as steel. Mid. N. Dream, 50 ii. 2.

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb, and flow; / And many a beautiful pearl / Lies hid in its depths below. Heine.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here. Burns.

My highest wish is to find within the God whom I find everywhere without. Kepler.

My house is my castle. Pr.

My house, my house, though thou art small, / Thou art to me the Escurial. Pr.

"My ideal of a society is one in which I would 5 be guillotined as a Conservative." Proudhon, to Prince Napoleon.

My inheritance how wide and fair! / Time is my seed-field, to Time I'm heir. Goethe.

My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation. Emerson.

My joy is death;—/ Death, at whose name I oft have been afeared, / Because I wish'd this world's eternity. 2 Hen. VI., ii. 4.

My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being. Fichte.

My mind to me a kingdom is, / Such perfect joy 10 therein I find. Byrd.

My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills my father feeds his flock. Home.

My notions of life are much the same as they are about travelling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road, but, after all, one wants to be at rest. Southey.

My offence is rank; it smells to heaven. Ham., iii. 3.

My only books / Were woman's looks,—/ And folly's all they've taught me. Moore.

My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in 15 strength and sureness the moment a second mind has adopted it. Novalis.

My pen was never dipped in gall. Crébillon.

My perception of a fact is as much a fact as the sun. Emerson.

My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, / And makes as healthful music. Ham., iii. 4.

My purposes lie in the churchyard. Philip Henry.

My rigour relents: I pardon something to the 20 spirit of liberty. Burke.

My son, be not now negligent, for the Lord hath chosen thee to stand before Him. Apoc.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife, / But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. Pr.

My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. / Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind. / What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? / This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought. Quarles.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. Tennyson.

My way of life / Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow 25 leaf; / And that which should accompany old age, / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but in their stead, / Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath / Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not. Macb., v. 3.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; / Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go. Ham., iii. 3.

My yoke is easy and my burden light. Jesus.

Myn leeren is spelen, myn spelen is leeren—My learning is play, and my play is learning. Van Alphen.

Mysteries are due to secrecy. Bacon.

Mysteries which must explain themselves are 30 not worth the loss of time which a conjecture about them takes up. Sterne.

Mysterious to all thought, / A mother's prime of bliss, / When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss. Keble.

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun; the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying influence from the want of a body. Colton.

Mystic, deep as the world's centre, are the roots a man has struck into his native soil; no tree that grows is rooted so. Carlyle.

Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for a universal one. Emerson.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be 35 regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology. Hare.