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

Make doors fast upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the keyhole. As You Like It, iv. 1.

Make every bargain clear and plain, / That none may afterwards complain. Pr.

Make good cheese, if you make little. Pr.

Make haste slowly. Pr. 25

Make hay while the sun shines. Pr.

Make it an invariable and obligatory law to yourself never to mention your own mental diseases. When you talk of them, it is plain that you want either praise or pity; for praise there is no room, and pity will do you no good. Johnson.

Make knowledge circle with the winds; / But let her herald, Reverence, fly / Before her to whatever sky / Bear seed of men and growth of minds. Tennyson.

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm. Colton.

Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy sad 30 soul.... He goes always heavy-loaded, and thou must bear half. Fenélon.

Make not another's shoes by your own foot. Pr.