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

[Greek: Mête dikên dikasês, prin amphoin mythou akousês]—Don't pronounce sentence till you have heard the story of both parties. Pr.

Method is the very hinge of business. Hannah 40 More.

Method will teach you to win time. Goethe.

Methods are the masters of masters. Talleyrand.

Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more! Macb., ii. 2.

Métier d'auteur, métier d'oseur—The profession of author is a daring profession. Fr.

Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum 45 est—It is meet that every man should measure himself by his own rule and standard. Hor.

Mettre les pieds dans le plat—To put one's foot in it. Fr. Pr.

Metuenda corolla draconis—The dragon's crest is to be feared.

Meum et tuum—Mine and thine.