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

Maxima quæque domus servis est plena superbis—Every great house is full of haughty servants. Juv.

Maximas virtutes jacere omnes necesse est, 20 voluptate dominante—Where pleasure prevails, all the greatest virtues must lie dormant. Cic.

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct. Joubert.

Maximum remedium iræ dilatio est!—Deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger. Seneca.

Maximus in minimis—Very great in very little things.

Maximus novator tempus—Time is the greatest innovator. Pr.

"May-be" is very well, but "must" is the 25 master. Pr.

May cauld ne'er catch you but a hap, / Nor hunger but in plenty's lap. Burns.

May never wicked fortune touzle (tease) him! / May never wicked man bamboozle him! / Until a pow as auld's Methusalem / He canty (cheerily) claw. / Then to the blessed New Jerusalem / Fleet wing awa'! Burns.

May the idea of pureness, extending itself even to the very morsel which I take into my mouth, become ever dearer and more luminous within me. Goethe.