Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers 25 nous—Lynx-eyed to our neighbours, and mole-eyed to ourselves. La Fontaine.

Lyrical poetry is much the same in every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. Heine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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