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

A madness most discreet, / A choking gall and a preserving sweet, i.e., Love is. Rom. and Jul., i. 1.

A mad world, my masters. Middleton. 45

A main armée—By force of arms. Fr.

Ama l'amico tuo con il diffetto suo—Love your friend with all his faults. It. Pr.

A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty. Pr.

A man belongs to his age and race, even when he acts against them. Renan.

A man, be the heavens praised, is sufficient 50 for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Carlyle.

A man can be so changed by love as to be unrecognisable as the same person. Ter.

A man can do no more than he can. Pr.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own; a woman, her own better than another's. La Bruyère.