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

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

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

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

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

Maids should be seen and not heard. Pr.

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

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

Maintien le droit—Maintain the right. M.

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

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