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

Manners make laws, manners likewise repeal them. Johnson.

Manners make the man. M.

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. Chesterfield.

Männliche, tüchtige Geister werden durch Erkennen eines Irrthums erhöht und gestärkt—Sturdy manly souls are exalted and strengthened in the presence of (lit. by the knowledge of) an error. Goethe.

[Greek: Mantis d' aristos hostis eikazei kalôs]—He is the best diviner who conjectures well. Eurip.

Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc / Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces—Mantua bore me, Calabria carried me off, Naples holds me now. I sang of pastures, fields and heroes. Virgil's epitaph.

Mantua, væ! miseræ nimium vicina Cremonæ—Mantua, 5 alas! too near the unhappy Cremona. Quoted by Dean Swift on seeing a lady sweep a violin off a table with her dress.

Manu forti—With a strong hand. M.

Manu scriptum—Written by the hand.

Manufacture is intelligible but trivial; creation is great and cannot be understood. Carlyle.