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

Meine Zeit in Unruhe, meine Hoffnung in Gott!—The time I live in is a time of turmoil; my hope is in God. Frederick William III. of Prussia.

Meiner Idee nach ist Energie die erste und einzige Tugend des Menschen—In my regard energy is the first and only virtue of man. W. v. Humboldt.

Meines Lebens Wunsch ist stiller Friede—The wish of my life is a tranquil peace. Seume.

Mel in ore, verba lactis, / Fel in corde, fraus in 35 factis—Honey in his mouth, words of milk; gall in his heart, deceit in his deeds.

Melancholy advanceth men's conceits more than any humour whatever. Burton.

Melancholy attends on the best joys of a merely ideal life. Margaret Fuller.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. Victor Hugo.

Melancholy spreads itself betwixt heaven and earth, like envy between man and man, and is an everlasting mist. Byron.

[Greek: Meletê to pan]—Practice is everything. Periander. 40

Melior est conditio possidentis—The condition of the party in possession, or the defendant, is the better of the two. L.