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

Meat is more than its carving, and truth is more than oratory. Pr.

Mecum facile redeo in gratiam—I easily recover 50 my good-will myself. Phædr.

[Greek: mêden agan]—No excess. Anon.

[Greek: Mêdena kakêgoreito mêdeis]—Let nobody speak mischief of anybody. Plato.

Medici, causa morbi inventa, curationem inventam putant—Physicians, when they have found out the cause of a disease, consider they have found out the cure. Cic.

Medicines are not meant to feed on. Pr.

Medio de fonte leporam / Surgit amari aliquid 55 quod in ipsis floribus angat—From the midst of the very fountain of delight something bitter arises to vex us even amid the flowers themselves. Lucret.

Medio tutissimus ibis—You will go most safely in the middle. Ovid.

Médiocre et rampant, et l'on arrive à tout—Be second-rate and fawning, and you may attain to anything. Beaumarchais.

Mediocria firma—The middle station is the most secure. M.