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

Monuments, like men, submit to fate. Pope.

Monuments themselves memorials need. Crabbe.

Mony an honest man needs that hasna the 5 face to seek it. Sc. Pr.

Mony ane speirs the gate (inquires the way) they ken fu' weel. Sc. Pr.

Mony kinsfolk, but few freends. Sc. Pr.

Moonlight is sculpture. Hawthorne.

Moping melancholy. Milton.

Mora omnis odio est, sed facit sapientiam—All 10 delay is hateful, but it produces wisdom. Pub. Syr.

Moral culture must begin with a change (Umwandlung) in the way of thinking, and with the founding of a character. Kant.

Moral education begins in making the creature to be educated clean and obedient; and it is summed up when the creature has been made to do its work with delight, and thoroughly. Ruskin.