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

Malheureux celui qui est en avance de son siècle—Unhappy is the man who is in advance of his time. Fr. Pr.

Mali principii malus finis—Bad beginnings have 20 bad endings (lit. a bad end of a bad beginning). Ter.

Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient. Government of the Tongue.

Malice sucks up the greatest part of our own venom, and poisons herself. Montaigne.

Malim indisertam prudentiam, quam stultitiam loquacem—I prefer sense that is faulty in expression to loquacious folly. Cic.

Malim inquietam libertatem quam quietum servitium—I would prefer turbulent liberty to quiet slavery.

Malis avibus—With a bad omen (lit. with bad 25 birds). Cic.

Malo benefacere tantumdem est periculum / Quantum bono malefacere—To do good to the bad is a danger just as great as to do bad to the good. Plaut.

Malo cum Platone errare, quam cum aliis recte sentire—I had rather be wrong with Plato than think right with others. Cic.

Malo mihi male quam molliter esse—I prefer being ill to being idle. Sen.