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

Menus plaisirs—Pocket-money. Fr.

Meo sum pauper in ære—I am poor, but I am 10 not in debt. Hor.

Merces virtutis laus est—Applause is the reward of virtue. Pr.

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Bible.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. Rom. and Jul., iii. 1.

Mercy is above this sceptred sway, / It is enthronéd in the hearts of kings, / It is an attribute to God himself; / And earthly power doth then show likest God's / When mercy seasons justice. Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; / Pardon 15 is still the nurse of second woe. Meas. for Meas., ii. 1.

Mercy, misericordia, does not in the least mean forgiveness of sins, but pity of sorrows. Ruskin.

Mercy to him that shows it is the rule. Cowper.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful. Quarles.