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MACHINES : One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. But no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. (Elbert Hubbard, U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, 1856-1915)
MACHINES - TOOLS : Men have become the tools of their tools. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
MAINTENANCE : To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. (Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997)
MAJORITY : It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
MALES : I love the male body; it’s better designed than the male mind. (Andrea Newman, English author and teacher, Born 1938)
MAN : It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
MAN : Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him? (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
MAN : Man is a social animal. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCE–AD 65)
MANAGEMENT : Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. (J.C. Pollard, U.S. actor, Born 1939)
MANAGEMENT : Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. (Peter Drucker, Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)
MANNERS : Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. (Lord Chesterfield, British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)
MANNERS : Men make laws; women make manners. (De Sequr, French diplomat and historian, 1753-1830)
MANNERS : What once were vices are now manners. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCE–AD 65)
MARRIAGE : A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. (Anne Taylor Fleming, U.S. journalist, novelist, and television commentator)
MARRIAGE : Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. (Barnett R. Brickner, U.S. Rabbi and founder of the Natl. Jewish Education Association, 1892-1958)
MARRIAGE : A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. (Robert Quillen, U.S. journalist and cartoonist, 1887-1948)
MARRIAGE : Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. (Phyllis Diller, U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)
MARRIAGE : She: ‘Before we got married, you told me you were well-off.’ He: ‘I was and didn’t know it.’ Jacob Braude, U.S. writer of wit and humor books) (Unknown Source)
MARRIAGE : A wise woman will always let her husband have her way. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, 1751-1816)
MARRIAGE : It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. (Benjamin Disraeli, British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)
MARRIAGE : Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
MARRIAGE : Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. (Simone Signoret, French cinema actress who won a U.S. Academy Award, 1921-1985)
MARRIAGE : If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it. (Ezra Bowen, U.S. politician)
MARRIAGE : Let there be spaces in your togetherness. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
MARRIAGE : A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. (Danish proverb)
MARRIAGE : Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
MARRIAGE : Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
MARRIAGE : The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
MARRIAGE : You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being. (Richard J. Needham, Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996)
MARRIAGE : One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
MARRIAGE : One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
MARRIAGE : The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. (Peter de Vries, U.S. editor and novelist known for his satiric wit, 1910-1993)
MARRIAGE : A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. (Mignon McLaughlin, U.S. journalist and author, 1913-1983)
MARRIAGE : If men and women really suit each other . . . they should live next door---and just visit now and then. (Katharine Hepburn, U.S. Academy award-winning actress, 1907-2003)
MARRIAGE : Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
MARTYRDOM : Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
MASKS : Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
MASTURBATION : Masturbation is the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century, it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. (Thomas Szasz, U.S. professor of psychiatry and author, 1920-2012)
MATHEMATICS : Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
MATHEMATICS : As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)
MATURATION : We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. (David Lynch, U.S. film director, screenwriter, producer, Born 1946)
MATURATION : To live is to change, and to be growing is to have changed often. (Cardinal Newman, Anglican priest, poet, theologian, and later a Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890)
MATURATION : There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man. (Louis L'Amour, U.S. author of novels and short stories, man of which were made into films, 1908-1988)
MATURATION : If only I may grow firmer, simpler -- quieter, warmer. (DagHammarskjold, Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who served as the second Secretary-General of theUnited Nations, 1905-1961)
MATURITY : The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. (Muhammad Ali, U.S. professional boxer, Born 1942)
MATURITY : Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself. (Kejetan von Schlaggenberg, Austrian writer)
MATURITY : Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. (John Finley, Canadian singer/songwriter, Born 1945)
MATURITY : Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live. (Andre Gide, French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)
MATURITY : It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
MATURITY : You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Irish Proverb)
MATURITY : We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (T.S. Eliot, U.S.-born British subject , an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1888-1965)
MATURITY : The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980)
MATURITY : The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other. (Francis Ward Weller, U.S. author of children's books)
MATURITY : When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
MATURITY : The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. (Moliere, French actor and playwright, 1622-1673)
MEDIA : If it bleeds, it leads (Unknown Source)
MEDIA : If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
MEDIA : We're entering an era in which our enemies can make anyone say anything at any point in time. (Barack Obama, U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)
MEDIA : If it bleeds, it leads [in coverage]. (Unknown source)
MEDICINE : The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. (Unknown Source)
MEDICINE : Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. (Norman Cousins, U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)
MEDICINE : It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. (William Osier, Canadian physician and one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1849-1919)
MEDICINE : As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be . . . well paid. (Jean de la Bruyere, French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)
MEDICINE : I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. (John Donne, English poet and cleric, 1572-1631)
MEDICINE : The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. (Florence Nightingale, English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910)
MEDICINE : There are some remedies worse than the disease. (Publilius Syrus, Syrian Latin writer, 85-43 BCE)
MEDICINE : It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying. (Thomas Horder, English physician recognized as a leading clinician and diagnostician of his day, 1871-1955)
MEDICINE : Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. (H.G. Bohn, British publisher and founder of Bohns Libraries, 1796-1884)
MEDICINE : The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)
MEDITATION : Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Enjoy this bewilderment. It leads us to a wondrous path of being able to negotiate, to engage in dialogue, and to make compromises on a daily basis. (Rumi, Persian poet, jurist, and theologian, 1207-1273)
MEDITATION : Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. It leads us to a wondrous path of being able to negotiate, to engage in dialogue, and to make compromises on a daily basis. (Rumi, Persian poet, jurist, and theologian, 1207-1273)
MEMORABLE MOMENTS : Life is not so much about the breath that we take but rather about those moments that take our breath away - those precious memories. (Unknown source)
MEMORIES : I use memories but I do not allow memories to use me. (Verse in the Sanskrit volume, Shiva Sutras)
MEMORIES : Memory is the scribe of the soul. (Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher, scientist,and a member of Plato's Academy, 384-322 BCE)
MEMORIES : Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. (Cyril Connolly, English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)
MEMORIES : It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. (Lewis Carroll, English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1832-1898)
MEMORIES : We do not remember days, we remember moments. (Cesare Pavese, Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator, 1908-1950)
MEMORIES : People forget years and remember moments. (Ann Beattie, U.S. novelist and short-story writer, Born 1947)
MEMORIES : Nothing is more beautiful than the visiting of memories, EXCEPT, of course, the making of them. (Unknown source)
MEMORIES : I never forgive, but I always forget. (James Balfour, Scottish landowner and politician, 1775-1845)
MEMORIES : Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. (Ben Johnson, English playwright, 1572-1637)
MEMORIES : It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)
MEMORIES : Nostalgia is a seductive liar. (George W. Ball, U.S. diplomat and banker, 1909-1994)
MEMORIES : The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. (Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist and caricaturist, 1872-1956)
MEMORIES : That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
MEMORIES : Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. (Sholem Asch, Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language, 1880-1957)
MEMORIES : The palest ink is better than the best memory. (Chinese proverb)
MEMORIES : A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. (Clifton Fadiman, U.S. editor, critic, radio and television personality, 1904-1999)
MEMORIES : The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)
MEMORIES : To want to forget something is to think of it. (French proverb)
MEMORIES : To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. (Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet, 1777-1844)
MEMORIES : Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. (Joseph Conrad, Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924)
MEMORIES : The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. (R.B. Sheridan, Irish satirist, a playwright and poet, 1751-1816)
MEMORIES : To improve your memory, lend people money. (Unknown source)
MEMORIES : Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. (Saul Bellow, Canadian-born U.S. writer, Nobel laureate, 1915-2005)
MEMORIES : The most dangerous political force In America today is a long memory � and memory will not die in the Special Collections room of a good library. (J. Quinn Brisben, U.S. teacher and political activist, 1934-2012)
MEMORIES : Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. (Corrie ten Boom, Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust, but who was arrested and sent to a Nazi concentration camp, 1892-1983)
MEMORIES : There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. (Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, 1862-1932)
MEMORIES : Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. (Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher, 1894-1963)
MEMORIES : Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. (Cyril Connolly, English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)
MEN : Macho does not prove mucho. (Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite, 1917-2016)
MEN : Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882) (Unknown Source)
MEN : There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)
MEN : A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. (Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)
MEN : Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. (J.A. Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor, 1818-1894)
MENTORING : The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. (Steven Spielberg, U.S. filmmaker who has been considered one of the most popular directors and producers in film history, Born 1946)
MERCY : I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician who served as the 16th U.S. President, 1809-1865Justice: I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician who served as the 16th US President, 1809-1865Discipline: Freedom is on the other side of discipline. (Jake Gyllenhaal, U.S. actor, Born 1980)
MERCY : When you experience mercy . . . you begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us. (Bryan Stevenson, professor of law, author, and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative non-profit organization, Born 1959)
MERCY : I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)
MERRIMENT : A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. (The Bible)
MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX : Beware of the military-industrial complex~ It may destroy within what it's protecting from without. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. politician and Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)
MIND : The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (John Milton, English poet, 1608-1674)
MINORITY GROUPS : How a minority, Reaching majority, Seizing authority, Hates a minority! (Leonard H. Robbins, U.S. 19th century writer)
MINORITY GROUPS : I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
MINORITY GROUPS : We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
MIRACLES : It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles. (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and Catholic theologian, 1623-1662)
MIRRORS : Mirrors - those revealers of the truth - are hated; but that does not prevent them from being of use. (Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and dramatist, 1802-1885)
MIS-INFORMATION : Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s hard to get it back in. (H.R. Haldeman, U.S. political aide and businessman, best known for his service as White House Chief of Staff to President Richard Nixon and his consequent involvement in the Watergate scandal, 1926-1933)
MISANTHROPES : The man who feels that he must be hopeful and cheerful to get along ignores the careers of some pretty successful misanthropes. (Henry S. Haskins, U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)
MISCOMMUNICATION : Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. (Unknown Source)
MISFORTUNES : Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them. (Czech proverb)
MISFORTUNES : Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. (Washington Irving, U.S. short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat, 1783-1859)
MISFORTUNES : We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
MISLEADING : It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
MISSIONARIES : When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land. (Desmond Tutu, South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop, Born 1931)
MISTAKES : Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future. (Dale Turner, U.S. singer-songwriter and rock musician, noted for his sophisticated song-craft)
MISTAKES : Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. (Phyllis Therous)
MISTAKES : The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer. (German proverb)
MISTAKES : It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. (St. Augustine, Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.)
MISTAKES : Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. (Chinese proverb)
MISTAKES : He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on the sea. (English proverb)
MISTAKES : Life is a series of relapses and recoveries. (George Ade, U.S. writer, 1866-1944)
MISTAKES : A mistake is not a failure, but rather it’s evidence that someone tried to do something. (Unknown source)
MISTAKES : What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road? (Proverb)
MISUNDERSTANDINGS : Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. (Freeman Teague)
MOBS : The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
MOBS : It has been . . . said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. (Antoine de Rivarol, Royalist French writer and translator, 1753-1801)
MODERATION : If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. (Epictetus, Greek Stoic philosopher, 55-135 A.D,)
MODERATION : Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. (Julia Child, U.S. chef, author and television personality who is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the U.S. public, 1912-2004)
MODERATION : In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. (Plautus, Roman playwright whose comedies have survived in their entirety, 254-184 B.C.E.)
MODERATION : Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess. (Unknown source)
MODESTY : Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. (Phillip Dormer Starhope [4th Earl of Chesterfield], British statesman, man of letters and wit, 1694-1773)
MODESTY : Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. (Lord Chesterfield, British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)
MODESTY : With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)
MODESTY : Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
MODESTY : Modesty is the conscience of the body. (Honore de Balzac, French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)
MONEY : Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. (Henry Fielding, English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)
MONEY : No man's credit is as good as his money. (John Dewey, U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)
MONEY : It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. (George H. Lorimer, U.S. journalist, author, publisher, and long-term editor of The Saturday Evening Post, 1867-1937)
MONEY : Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in a female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. (Unknown source)
MONEY : If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. [The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.] (Francis Bacon, British essayist, philosopher, scientist, and statesman 1561-1626)
MONEY : Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money. (Native American proverb)
MONEY : When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem. (Richard J. Needham, Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996)
MONEY : Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money. (Native American proverb)
MONEY : Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. (Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)
MONEY : Laws go where dollars please. (Portuguese proverb)
MONEY : Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in a female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. (Marya Marines, U.S. Marine Corps data base)
MONEY : Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. (Henry Fielding, English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)
MONEY : Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited. (Ogden Nash, U.S. poet well known for his light verse, 1902-1971)
MONEY : There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it. (Edgar Watson Howe, U.S. novelist and newspaper and magazine editor 1853-1937)
MONEY : Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? (Unknown source)
MONEY : A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
MONEY : Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
MONEY : If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. (The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.)
MONTHS : March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. (English proverb)
MONTHS : Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. (Unknown source)
MONTHS : Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers. (Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer, 1524-1580)
MOODS : What is up if you know nothing of down? (Hugh Laurie, English actor, musician, comedian, Born 1981)
MORALITY : The day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race. (Jill Tweedie, British feminist, writer and broadcaster 1936-1993)
MORALITY : Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. (Isaac Asimov, U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)
MORALITY : It is the confession, not the priest that give us absolution. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
MORALITY : Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to b faithless and cannot. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
MORALITY : The books that the world calls immoral books are books that show the world its own shame. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
MORALITY : Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. (Isaac Asimov, U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992Life: Life is to be lived forward, but understood backward. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, and poet, 1813-1855)
MORALITY : A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent. (William Blake, English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)
MORALITY : In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
MORALITY : The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned. (Lord Shawcross, British lawyer, politician, and the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal, 1902-2003)
MORALITY : A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. (Albert Schweitzer, French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)
MORALITY : Morality is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. (Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher, 1861-1947)
MORALITY : Many people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. (Logan Pearsall Smith, American-born British essayist and critic, 1865-1946)
MORALITY : What is morality but immemorial custom? (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
MORALITY : Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess. (Unknown source)
MORALITY : When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward. (Swedish proverb)
MORALITY : Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
MORALITY : You can't legislate morality. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
MORNINGS : It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. (John Steinbeck, U.S. writer and recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1902-1968)
MORNINGS : We are new every day. (Irene Claremont de Castillego, British-Spanish writer and Jungian analyst, 1885-1967)
MORNINGS : Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. (Edgar Watson Howe, U.S. novelist and newspaper and magazine editor, 1853-1937)
MORNINGS : A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts. (Lewis K. Bendele)
MORNINGS : Only that day dawns to which we are awake. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)
MORNINGS : Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it. (Charles M. Sheldon, U.S. minister and leader of the Social Gospel movement,1857-1946)
MORNINGS : Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it. (Richard Whately, English rhetorician, logician, economist, academic and theologian, 1787-1863)
MOTHERHOOD : No matter how old a mother is, she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. (Florida Scott-Maxwell, U.S. playwright, author and psychologist, 1883-1979)
MOTHERHOOD : The term working mother is ridiculously redundant. (Donna Reed, U.S. film and television actress,1921-1986)
MOTHERHOOD : The heart of a mother is a deep abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. (Honore de Balzac, French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)
MOTHERHOOD : An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish proverb)
MOTHERHOOD : A mother is only as happy as her least happy child. (Unknown source)
MOTHERS : For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. (William Rose Wallace, U.S. poet, 1819-1881)
MOTIVATION : To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)
MOTIVATION : I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses. (Soichire Honda, Japanese engineer and industrialist who In 1948, he established the Honda Motor Co., 1906-1991)
MOTIVATION : Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. (Erwin Rommel, German general and military theorist who served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II, 1891-1944)
MOTIVATION : Necessity is the mother of taking chances. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
MOTIVATION : What you praise you increase. (Catherine Ponder, minister and founder of Unity Church Worldwide, Born 1927)
MOTIVATION : When we are listened to . . . ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. (Brenda Ueland, U.S. journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing, 1891-1985)
MOTIVATION : We talk on principle, but we act on interest. (Walter Savage Landor, English writer, poet, and activist, 1775-1864)
MOTIVATION : The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
MOTIVATION : Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. (Caroline Schoeder, U.S. writer and professor)
MOTIVATION : One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love and to long life. (Alexander A. Bogomoletz, Ukrainian pathphysiologist, 1881-1946)
MOTIVATION : If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. (Carolyn Kenmore)
MOTIVATION : The moment somebody says to me, This is very risky, is the moment it becomes attractive to me. (Kate Capshaw, U.S. retired actress, Born 1953)
MOTIVATION : A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)
MOTIVATION : Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. (Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954)
MOTIVATION : In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. (Jane Smiley, U.S. novelist and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Born 1949)
MOTIVATION : The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)
MOTIVATION : Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force. (Angela Merici, Italian religious educator who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. 1474-1540)
MOTIVATION : It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. (Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)
MOTIVATION : Necessity, who is the mother of our invention. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)
MOTIVATION : Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
MOTIVATION : One starts an action simply because one must do something. (T.S. Eliot, U.S.-born British subject , an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1888-1965)
MOTIVATION : Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, 1906-1945)
MOTIVATION : Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer who authored Don Quixote, one of the most translated books in the world, 1547-1616)
MUSIC : Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. (Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973)
MUSIC : A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. (Colin Wilson, English writer, philosopher and novelist, 1931-2013)
MUSIC : Classical music isn’t the kind that we keep thinking will turn into a tune. (Frank McKinney, U..S. Olympic swimmer and prominent executive in the American banking industry, 1938-1992)
MUSIC : Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains. (Paul Whiteman, bandleader, composer, and orchestral director, often referred to as the King of Jazz, 1890-1967)
MUSIC : Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. (Ornette Coleman, U.S. jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, composer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1930-2015)
MUSIC : Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. (John Philip Sousa, U..S. music conductor, composer of military marches and known best for the ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’, 1854-1932)
MUSIC : Music is almost a miracle, for it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter. (Heinrich Heine, German poet, journalist, and literary critic, 1797-1856)
MUSIC : Music is the art of thinking with sounds. (Jules Combarieu, French musicologist and music critic, 1859-1916)
MUSIC : Music touches places beyond our touching. (Keith Bosley, British poet and translator, 1937-2018)
MUSIC : The devil does not stay where music is. (Martin Luther, German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)
MUSIC : Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. (Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, 1792-1868)
MUSIC : After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher, 1894-1963)
MUSIC : Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. (Robert Browning, English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)
MUSIC : How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. (Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, 1792-1868)
MUSIC : Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. (H.L. Mencken, German-American journalist and social critic, 1880-1956)
MUSIC : A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. (Benny Green, hard bop jazz pianist, Born 1963)
MUSIC : I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. (Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor who is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century, 1882-1971)
MUSIC : The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides! (Arthur Schnabel, Austrian-American classical pianist, composer and pedagogue who was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, 1882-1951)
MUSIC : Chamber music - a conversation among friends. (Catherine Drinker Bowen, U.S. writer and recipient of the National Book Award, 1897-1973)
MUSIC : Music is the universal language of mankind. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet and educator, 1807-1882)
MUSIC : Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean thing. (John Erskine, U.S. educator, author, and musician, 1879-1951)
MUSIC : A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh, U.S. writer and aviator, 1906-2001Corporations: The power of all corporations ought to be limited . . . . The growing wealth accumulated by them never fails to be a source of abuses. (James Madison, Father of the U.S. Constitution and the fourth president of the United States, 1751-1836)
MUSIC : A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh, U.S. writer and aviator, 1906-2001)
MYSTERY : The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. (German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the Theory of Relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)