Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Coleridge.
Motley's the only wear. As You Like It, ii. 7.
Mots d'usage—Phrases in common use. Fr.
Motu proprio—Of his own accord. 55
Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, who had else / Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Cowper.
Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep company some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men. Hare.
Mourning only lasts till morning with the children of the morning. Saying.
Mourning tendeth to mending. Pr.
Movet cornicula risum / Furtivis nudata coloribus—The 5 crow, stript of its stolen colours, provokes our ridicule. Hor.
Moving accidents by flood and field. Othello, i. 3.