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

Majore tumultu / Planguntur nummi quam funera, nemo dolorem / Fingit in hoc casu / ... Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris—Money is bewailed with a greater tumult than death. No one feigns grief in this case.... The loss of money is deplored with true tears. Juv.

Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ—And the shadows lengthen as they fall from the lofty mountains. Virg.

Majori cedo—I retire before my superior.

Majority is applied to number, and superiority 15 to power. Johnson.

Majus et minus non variant speciem—Greater and less don't change the nature of a thing.

Make a crutch of your cross. Pr.

Make a virtue of necessity. Burton.

Make all sure, and keep all pure. Pr.

Make clean thy conscience; hide thee there. 20 Quarles.

Make clean work, and leave no tags. Allow no delays when you are at a thing; do it and be done with it. Prof. Blackie.