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

Money refused loses its brightness. Pr.

Money spent on the brain is never spent in 50 vain. Pr.

Moniti, meliora sequamur—Admonished, let us follow better counsels. Virg.

Monkeys, as soon as they have brought forth their young, keep their eyes fastened on them, and never weary of admiring their beauty; so amorous is Nature of whatever she produces. Dryden.

Monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare: semita certe / Tranquillæ per virtutem patet unica vitæ—I show you what you can do for yourself; the only path to a tranquil life lies through virtue. Juv.

Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum—A monster horrible, misshapen, huge, and bereft of his one eye. Virgil, of Polyphemus.

Monstrum nulla virtute redemptum / A vitiis—A 55 monster whose vices are not redeemed by a single virtue. Juv.

Mont de piété—Pawnshop; originally store of money to lend without interest to poor people. Fr.

Montes auri pollicens—Promising mountains of gold. Ter.

Montesquieu, with his cause-and-effect philosophy, is but a clever infant spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic Book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity, in Heaven. Carlyle.