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

Munificence is not quantity, but quality. 35 Pascal.

Munit hæc, et altera vincit—This defends, and the other conquers. M.

Munus Apolline dignum—A present worthy of Apollo. Hor.

Munus ornare verbis—To enhance the value of a present by words. Ter.

Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak / With most miraculous organ. Ham., ii. 2.

Murder will out. Chaucer. 40

Muras æneus conscientia sana—A sound conscience is a wall of brass. M.

Mus in pice—A mouse in pitch; "a fly wading through tar."

Mus non uni fidit antro—The mouse does not trust to one hole only. Plaut.

Music fills up the present moment more decisively than anything else, whether it awakens thought or summons to action. Goethe.