=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._