Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud. Bovee.
Merit lives from man to man. Tennyson. 30
Merry be the first, / And merry be the last, / And merry be the first of August. Pr.
Merry larks are ploughmen's clocks. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.
Merx ultronea putret—Proffered service stinks (i.e. is despised). Pr.
Mésalliance—A marriage with one of inferior rank. Pr.
Messe tenus propria vive—Live within your 35 means (lit. harvest).
[Greek: Metabolê pantôn glyky]—There is always a pleasure in variety. Euripides.
Metaphysicians and philosophers are, on the whole, the greatest troubles the world has got to deal with.... Busy metaphysicians are always entangling good and active people, and weaving cobwebs among the finest wheels of the world's business, and are, as much as possible, by all prudent persons, to be brushed out of their way. Ruskin.
Metaphysics, with which physics cannot dispense, is that wisdom of thought which was before all physics, lives with it, and will endure after it. Goethe.