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

Mir wird bei meinem kritischen Bestreben / Doch oft um Kopf und Busen bang—Often during my critical studies I fear as if I would lose both head and heart. Wagner in Goethe's "Faust."

Mira quædam in cognoscendo suavitas et delectatio—There is a certain wonderful sweetness and delight in gaining knowledge.

Mirabile dictu!—Wonderful to be told!

Mirabile visu!—Wonderful to behold! 10

Miracles are ceased, and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected. Hen. V., i. 1.

Miracles do not serve to convert, but condemn. Pascal.

Miramur ex intervallo fallentia—We admire at a distance things which deceive us. Pr.

Miremur te non tua—Let me have something to admire in yourself, not in what belongs to you. Juv.

Mirth is God's medicine. Ward Beecher. 15

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Addison.