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 miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the man of ambition about the conquest of a kingdom. Adam Smith.

A miss is as good as a mile. Pr. 45

"Am I to be saved? or am I to be lost?" Certain to be lost, so long as you put that question. Carlyle.

Amittit famam qui se indignis comparat—He loses repute who compares himself with unworthy people. Phædr.

Amittit merito proprium, qui alienum appetit—He who covets what is another's, deservedly loses what is his own. (Moral of the fable of the dog and the shadow.) Phædr.

Am meisten Unkraut trägt der fettste Boden—The fattest soil brings forth the most weeds. Ger. Pr.

A mob is a body voluntarily bereaving itself 50 of reason and traversing its work. Emerson.

A modest confession of ignorance is the ripest and last attainment of philosophy. R. D. Hitchcock.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Holmes.

A monarchy is apt to fall by tyranny; an aristocracy, by ambition; a democracy, by tumults. Quarles.