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

Male cuncta ministrat / Impetus—Violence (of passion) conducts everything badly. Stat.

Male imperando summum imperium amittitur—By 10 misgovernment the supreme rule is lost. Pub. Syr.

Male parta male dilabuntur—Things ill gotten go ill. Pr.

Male partum male disperit—Property ill got is ill spent; lightly come, lightly go. Plaut.

Male secum agit æger, medicum qui hæredem facit—A sick man acts foolishly for himself who makes his doctor his heir.

Male verum examinat omnis / Corruptus judex—Badly is the truth weighed by a corrupt judge. Hor.

Male vivunt qui se semper victuros putant—They 15 live ill who think they will live for ever. Pub. Syr.

Malebranche saw all things in God, and M. Necker saw all things in Necker. Mirabeau.

Maledicus a malefico non distat nisi occasione—An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer in nothing but want of opportunity. Quinct.

Malesuada fames—Hunger that tempts to evil. Virg.