=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.