• M-O-T-H-E-RM is for the million things she gave me,O means only that she's growing old,T is for the tears she shed to save me,H is for her heart of purest goldE is for her eyes, with love-light shining,R means right, and right she'll always be,Put them all together, they spell MOTHER,A word that means the world to me. by Howard Johnson
  • Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. by Alan Turing
  • Madonna is just a hooker that doesn't get paid. by Eric Pio
  • Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen. by Foka Gomez
  • Magneto You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different. by X2 X-Men United
  • Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. by Theodore Parker
  • Mahatma is one whose soul doesn't rest in peace while there are tears even in a single eye. by B. J. Gupta
  • Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. by John Wesley
  • Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak. by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
  • Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. by Albert Einstein
  • Make friends not enemies, and you will always have eyes in the back of your head. by Eric Pio
  • Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. by Saint Francis de Sales
  • Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. by Chinese Proverb
  • Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. by Thomas Tusser
  • Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's only for wallowing in. by Katherine Mansfield
  • Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. by Henry Fielding
  • Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. by Horace
  • Make no judgements where you have no compassion. by Anne McCaffrey
  • Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work. by Daniel H. Burnham
  • Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood. by D. B. Hudson
  • Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors. by Jewish Proverb
  • Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. by Dorothy Sarnoff
  • Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway. by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. by Epictetus
  • Make the iron hot by striking it. by Oliver Cromwell
  • Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. by Thomas Huxley
  • Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. by Robert Bresson
  • Make voyages - Attempt them - there's nothing else... by Tennessee Williams
  • Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. by Bias
  • Make your bargain before beginning to plow. by Arab Proverb
  • Make your life a mission - not an intermission. by Arnold Glasgow
  • Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. by Robin Norwood
  • Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you. by Saint Francis de Sales
  • Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. by Bernard Mannes Baruch
  • Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. by Philip
  • Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. by Andrew A. Rooney
  • Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. by Andy Rooney
  • Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. by P. J. O'Rourke
  • Making the decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. by Elizabeth Stone
  • Making the simple complicated is commonplace making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. by Charles Mingu
  • Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. by Margaret Fuller
  • Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all. by Scott Bairstow
  • Malice drinks one half of its own poison. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. by Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin
  • Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. by G. C. Lichtenberg
  • Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  • Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. by George Bernard Shaw
  • Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. by Claude Bernard
  • Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue. by Don Marquis
  • Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. by Andr Gide
  • Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. by Chief Seattle
  • Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
  • Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
  • Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason. by Douglas Noel Adams
  • Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  • Man has his will - but woman has her way. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Man has responsibility, not power. by Tuscarora Proverb
  • Man has responsiblity, not power. Tuscarora by American Indian Proverb
  • Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot. by Leone Levi
  • Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. by Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
  • Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave. by The Talmud
  • Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. by Lily Tomlin
  • Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed. by Tom Clancy
  • Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. by Bertrand Russell
  • Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. by William Hazlitt
  • Man is a social animal. Without society he is nothing but animal. Yet many consider themselves 'self made'. by B. J. Gupta
  • Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. by Golo Mann
  • Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires. by Alexander Graham Bell
  • Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. by Paul Tillich
  • Man is by nature a political animal. by Aristotle
  • Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. by Charles Robert Darwin
  • Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. by Joseph Addison
  • Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. by Blaise Pascal
  • Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye. by Thomas Jefferson
  • Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. by Voltaire
  • Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason. by Israel Lipkin
  • Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate. by John Fletcher
  • Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms. by Rabindranath Tagore
  • Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. by Bhagavad Gita
  • Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
  • Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. by Heraclitus
  • Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own. by H.L. Mencken
  • Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. by Johann von Goethe
  • Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. by Jacopo Sannazaro
  • Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  • Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. by Paul Eldridge
  • Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. by Anatole France
  • Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. by Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
  • Man is the artificer of his own happiness. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Man is the measure of all things. by Protagoras
  • Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. by Mark Twain
  • Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. by Samuel Butler
  • Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. by Samuel Butler
  • Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. by William Hazlitt
  • Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied. by Henry George
  • Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. by Albert Camus
  • Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. by Eric Hoffer
  • Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. by Epictetus
  • Man is what he believes. by George Herbert Allen
  • Man is what he believes. by Anton Chekhov
  • Man is what he eats. by Ludwig Feuerbach
  • Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding. by Jacob Brownowski
  • Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health. by Carl Gustav Jung
  • Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. by Bertrand Russell
  • Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. by Bern Williams
  • Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain. by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
  • Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. by Aristotle
  • Man plans and God laughs. by Hebrew Proverb
  • Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. by Francis Bacon
  • Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. by Antoine Rivarol
  • Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. by Zen Proverb
  • Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny. by Johann von Goethe
  • Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man talking confidently about God is like a toy talking confidently about man. by B. J. Gupta
  • Man was predestined to have free will. by Hal Lee Luyah
  • Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it. by Chinese Proverb
  • Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied. by Mark Twain
  • Man without religion is the creature of circumstances. by Augustus Hare
  • Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. by Euripides
  • Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. by Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue. by Hesiod
  • Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. by Paul Valery
  • Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. by Erich Fromm
  • Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. by Erich Fromm
  • Man's main task is to give birth to himself. by Erich Fromm
  • Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down. by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
  • Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. by Sri da Avabhas
  • Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe. by Euripides
  • Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. by Francis Bacon
  • Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. by John Steinbeck
  • Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. by John Ernst Steinbeck
  • Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. by Plato
  • Management An activity or art where those who have not yet succeeded and those who have proved unsuccessful are led by those who have not yet failed. by Paulson Frenckner
  • Management is nothing more than motivating other people. by Lee Iacocca
  • Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. by Peter Drucker
  • Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. by Lao Tzu
  • Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. by Plato
  • Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. by Samuel Johnson
  • Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. by John F. Kennedy
  • Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. by Milan Kundera
  • Manners maketh man. by William of Wykeham
  • Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity. by Joey Adams
  • Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. by Orison Swett Marden
  • Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. by J. B. Priestley
  • Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. by James Gilmore Backus
  • Many a man that couldn't direct you to the drug store on the corner when he was 3 will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind. by Finley Peter Dunne
  • Many a man thinks he has an open mind, when it's merely vacant. by Unknown
  • Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half-especially if he has a teenage daughter. by Guy Albert Lombardo
  • Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. by Elbert Hubbard
  • Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. by Robertson Davies
  • Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. by Mark Twain
  • Many admire, few know. by Hippocrates
  • Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. by Anon.
  • Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. by Unknown
  • Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. by Charles Caleb Colton
  • Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. by Horace
  • Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works. by Robert Hewison
  • Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment. by Benjamin Franklin
  • Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  • Many count their chickens before they are hatched and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. by Titus Livius
  • Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. by Max Ehrmann
  • Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. by Edward De Bono
  • Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family. by J. S. Bryan
  • Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five. by Benjamin Franklin
  • Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. by J. D. Salinger
  • Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. by Greek Proverb
  • Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. by Thomas Alva Edison
  • Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. by George Lucas
  • Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. by William Ralph Inge
  • Many people chase after success. Others pursue money. But I think the happiest people on earth Are the one's who have found significance. The real question of life must be What has significance for you by Unknown
  • Many people do not realize that the snowshoe can be used for a great many things besides walking on snow. For instance, it can be used to carry pancakes from the stove to the breakfast table. Also, it can be used to carry uneaten pancakes from the table to the garbage. Finally, it can be used as a kind of stainer, where you force pancakes through the strings to see if a piece of gold got in a pancake somehow. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing. by Meg Chittenden
  • Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. by Frank Moore Colby
  • Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that has roots and is very quiet. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. by Louis Kronenberger
  • Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take. by Peter McWilliams
  • Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they do so. by Bertrand Russell
  • Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. by Hellen Keller
  • Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. by Lord Macaulay
  • Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. by Charles Williams
  • Many receive advice, few profit by it. by Publilius Syrus
  • Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. by Francis Bacon
  • Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Many things are lost for want of asking. by English Proverb
  • Many things have fallen only to rise higher. by Seneca
  • Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. by Thomas Fuller
  • Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe. by Herbert Clark Hoover
  • Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. by Mark Jenkins
  • Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible between two human beings. by Vicki Baum
  • Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. by Mae West
  • Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  • Marriage is like a dollar bill. You cannot spend half of it when you tear it in two. The value of one half depends upon the other. by Joe Moore
  • Marriage is like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it. by Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
  • Marriage is like vitamins we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements. by Kathy Mohnke
  • Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. by Hoshang N. Akhtar
  • Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place. by Calvin Trillin
  • Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. by B. A. Billingsly
  • Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. by Louis K. Anspacher
  • Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. by Voltaire
  • Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. I am the sky, says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you. by Andrew Schneider
  • Marriage is the wastepaper basket of the emotions. by Leon Botstein
  • Marriage love, honor, and negotiate. by Joe Moore
  • Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict. by Paxton Blair
  • Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity. by Honore' de Balzac
  • Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. by Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. by Joe Murray
  • Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single. by Jimmy Townsend
  • Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral. by Andrew Schneider
  • Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future. by Andrew Schneider
  • Marriage. Why do we do it Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness Partly. Is it teamwork Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid. by Jed Seidel
  • Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. by John Lyly
  • Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech. by Chinese Proverb
  • Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can. by Benjamin Franklin
  • Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. by Josh Billings
  • Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe. by Dan Quayle
  • Marta likes to talk about sensuality, but I don't think she would know sensuality if it bit her on the ass. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Marta said I don't seem to like to read fiction very much. 'I guess you're not an afictionado',' she said. Poor Marta. For all her reading, she doesn't even know the right word. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Marta says the interesting thing about fly-fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Marta. Grow up. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Marty McFly Jesus, George, it's a wonder I was ever born. by Back to the Future
  • Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too' by This Is Spinal Tap
  • Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. by This Is Spinal Tap
  • Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. by George Bernard Shaw
  • Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. by Denise Levertov
  • Mary I want a guy who can play 36 holes of golf, and still have enough energy to take Warren and me to a baseball game, and eat sausages, and beer, not lite beer, but beer. That's my ad, print it up. by There's Something About Mary
  • Materialists and madmen never have doubts. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically. by Calvin Trillin
  • Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. by Johann von Goethe
  • Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. by Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. by Bertrand Russell
  • Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. by Bertrand Russell
  • Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. by Bertrand Russell
  • Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. by George Santayana
  • Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. by John MacNaughton
  • Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. by Jules Feiffer
  • Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. by Ann Landers
  • Maurice Oh yeah, I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. Then I moved up to washing lettuces. Now, I'm working the fat fryer. Pretty soon I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in. by Coming to America
  • May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. by Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
  • May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us by Wystan Hugh Auden
  • May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness, and tied with love. by L. O. Baird
  • May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say. by Anonymous
  • May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. by George
  • May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown. by Homer
  • May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you. by Blessing Irish
  • May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you. by Blessing Irish
  • May you always live in interesting times. by Chinese Curse
  • May you be in heaven a half-hour before the devil knows your dead. by Unknown
  • May you live all the days of your life. by Jonathan Swift
  • May you live every day of your life. by Jonathan Swift
  • May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. by Immanuel Kant
  • May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is. by Hadewijch of Antwerp
  • May your walls know joy May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. by Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
  • Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. by Margaret Cho
  • Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words---'mank' and 'ind'. What do these words mean It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.' by Danielle Donoho
  • Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. by Bill Vaughan
  • Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress. by Michelle Burford
  • Maybe this world is another planet's hell. by Aldous Huxley
  • Maybe you are the cool generation ... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration. by Kingman Brewster, Jr.
  • Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss by Nikos Kazantzakis
  • McCabe's Law Nobody has to do anything. by Charles McCabe
  • McCovey swings and misses, and its fouled back by Jerry Coleman
  • Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.) by Muhammad Ali
  • Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof. by Richard Sibbes
  • Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. by Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. by Conan Doyle
  • Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. by Charles Gates Dawes
  • Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought. by H Hahn Blavatsky
  • Meditation is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats not at all not for him who is over much addicted to sleep, nor for him who is always awake. by Bhagavad Gita
  • Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. by Owen Felltham
  • Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. by Jeremy Taylor
  • Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. by Gloria Gaither
  • Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human. by Elie Wiesel
  • Memory feeds imagination. by Amy Tan
  • Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. by Pierce Harris
  • Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past. by Real Live Preacher
  • Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. by Alexander Smith
  • Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true. by George Dennison Prentice
  • Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. by Maurice Baring
  • Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. by Aristotle
  • Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. by Oscar Wilde
  • Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope. by John Johnson
  • Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. by William Congreve
  • Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. by Bertrand Russell
  • Men are born to succeed, not to fail. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. by Charles Caleb Colton
  • Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. by John Dryden
  • Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love. by Andrew Schneider
  • Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church they suspect and dislike the clergy they are impatient of theological systems but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection. by Herbert Hensley Henson
  • Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. by Voltaire
  • Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. by Samuel Johnson
  • Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. by William Penn
  • Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks. by Laura Swenson
  • Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. by Chuck Norris
  • Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. by Pope John XXIII
  • Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. by Thomas Babington
  • Men are not against you they are merely for themselves. by Gene Fowler
  • Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. by Martin Luther
  • Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind. by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. by Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. by Titus Livius
  • Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves. by Thomas Szasz
  • Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. by Titus Livius
  • Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. by Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists. by H.L. Mencken
  • Men are what their mothers made them. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience. by Samuel Johnson
  • Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. by James Boswell
  • Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy. by B. J. Gupta
  • Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions. by Walter Lippmann
  • Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. by Cicero
  • Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. by Thomas Carlyle
  • Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. by Seneca
  • Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose. by Denis Johnston
  • Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. by Ezra Loomis Pound
  • Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
  • Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. by Maya Angelou
  • Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. by Bertrand Russell
  • Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. by Margaret Fuller
  • Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. by Alexander Hamilton
  • Men have become the tools of their tools. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. by William Shakespeare
  • Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. by Henry Steele
  • Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. by Hubert Humphrey
  • Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty. by Francis Bacon
  • Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble. by Phaedrus
  • Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. by Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. by Charlotte Bronte
  • Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them. by Solon
  • Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
  • Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal. by Eric Lustbader
  • Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity. by William Adams
  • Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. by Mencius
  • Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. by Alexander Pope
  • Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. by Blaise Pascal
  • Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. by William Hazlitt
  • Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it. by Sophocles
  • Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them. by Sophocles
  • Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing. by Aesop
  • Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. by Alexander Hamilton
  • Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself. by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
  • Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses. by Dorothy Parker
  • Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. by Anon.
  • Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • Men trust their ears less than their eyes. by Herodotus
  • Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. by Bertrand Russell
  • Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. by Benjamin Haydon
  • Men who never get carried away should be. by Malcolm Forbes
  • Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it. by Charles Caleb Colton
  • Men willingly believe what they wish. by Gaius Julius Caesar
  • Men willingly believe what they wish. by Julius Caesar
  • Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart. by Confucius
  • Men, in general, are but great children. by Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
  • Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less. by Susan B. Anthony
  • Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. by W. S. Gilbert
  • Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Merrill Morgan, this crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze Greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again. by Signs
  • Merrill One time, I was at this party... and I was sitting on the couch with Amanda McKinney. She was just sitting there, looking beautiful. So, I lean in to kiss her, and I realize I have gum in my mouth. So, I turn to spit it out and put it in a paper cup. I turn back, and Amanda McKinney throws up all over herself. I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered. by Signs
  • Michael Bolton Yeah, well at least your name isn't Michael Bolton. Samir You know there's nothing wrong with that name. Michael Bolton There was nothing wrong with it... until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys. by Office Space
  • Michael I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. by Godfather, The
  • Mick As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll. by This Is Spinal Tap
  • Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. by John Howard Payne
  • Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife. by Richard Willard Armour
  • Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. by Ogden Nash
  • Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. by E. Joseph Crossman
  • Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance. by Dax Ward
  • Mike & Trent Vegas baby Vegas by Swingers
  • Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight. by Jerry Coleman
  • Mike Look, we're gonna spend half the night driving around the Hills looking for this one party and you're going to say it sucks and we're all gonna leave and then we're gonna go look for this other party. But all the parties and all the bars, they all suck. I spend half the night talking to some girl who's looking around the room to see if there's somebody else who's more important she should be talking to. And it's like I'm supposed to be all happy 'cause she's wearing a backpack, you know by Swingers
  • Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. by Julius Henry Marx
  • Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. by Groucho Marx
  • Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. by Julius Henry Marx
  • Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. by Groucho Marx
  • Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. by General George Catlett Marshall
  • Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. by Susan Ertz
  • Millions must plough and forge and dig in order that a few thousand may write and paint and study. by Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke
  • Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. by Ansel Adams
  • Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. by John Milton
  • Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables 'Do not try.' by Dan Parker
  • Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. by Bernard Mannes Baruch
  • Milton And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire. by Office Space
  • Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed. by John Christian Bovee
  • Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. by Lord Thomas Dewar
  • Minds are like parachutes they work best when open. by Lord Thomas Dewar
  • Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. by Lester R Bittel
  • Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. by Frank Moore Colby
  • Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. by Charles Dickens
  • Mine honour is my life both grow in one take honour from me and my life is done. by William Shakespeare
  • Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. by Horace
  • Minor surgery is surgery someone else is having. by J. Carl Cook
  • Miracles happen to those who believe in them. by Bernard Berenson
  • Miracles You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world... by Hugh Elliott
  • Mire Hacia Las Estrellas. Look At The Stars. by Raul E. Sanchez
  • Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. by Jean Cocteau
  • Misanthropes need people without a steady supply, the misanthrope cannot fully apply his art. by Polly Whitney
  • Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish. by Homer
  • Misery is when grown-ups don't realize how miserable kids can feel. by Suzanne Heller
  • Misery is when you make your bed and then your mother tells you it's the day she's changing the sheets. by Suzanne Heller
  • Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. by Addison Mizner
  • Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. by Russell Baker
  • Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. by Russell Wayne Baker
  • Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. by Aristotle
  • Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this. by Simone Weil
  • Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. by James Russell Lowell
  • Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. by H.L. Mencken
  • Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. by Hesketh Pearson
  • Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. by Hesketh Pearson
  • Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. by John Piper
  • Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. by Jeremy Taylor
  • Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. by Nikki Giovanni
  • Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. by Al Franken
  • Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. by Denis Watley
  • Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. by Sophia Loren
  • Mistakes are the portals of discovery. by James Joyce
  • Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us. by Henry C. Blinn
  • Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on by Peter McWilliams
  • Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything. by Johann K. Lavater
  • Mitch True love is hard to find, sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend... by Old School
  • Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment. by Horace
  • Moderation in all things. by Terence
  • Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline. by Lewis Mumford
  • Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. by Vaclav Havel
  • Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it. by Erich Fromm
  • Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by. by Andr Maurois
  • Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. by Madam Guizot
  • Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Modesty is the citadel of beauty. by Demades
  • Money alone sets all the world in motion. by Publilius Syrus
  • Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there. by Will Smith
  • Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. by Spike Milligan
  • Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. by Hobart Brown
  • Money doesn't make you happy. I now have 50 million but I was just as happy when I had 48 million. by Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Money doesn't talk, it swears. by Paul Aubuchon
  • Money doesn't talk, it swears. by Bob Dylan
  • Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want. by George Bernard Shaw
  • Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. by Groucho Marx
  • Money is a good servant, but a poor master. by Dominique Bouhours
  • Money is a poor man's credit card. by Herbert Marshall McLuhan
  • Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety. by Joe Moore
  • Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. by Woody Allen
  • Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. by Gottfried Reinhardt
  • Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. by Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Money is in some respects life's fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. by P Barnum
  • Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. by J. Paul Getty
  • Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings. by Carl Sandburg
  • Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. by Ayn Rand
  • Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it. by Roger Starr
  • Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen 'Hey, you' by Wilson Mizner
  • Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it. by Rebecca Johnson
  • Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. by Louisa May Alcott
  • Money is the root of all evil, but the foliage is fascinating. by Val Peters
  • Money is the sinew of love as well as war. by Thomas Fuller
  • Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn. by T. Boone Pickens, Jr.
  • Money mad. My wife says I spend money like a drunken sailor. Wonder what she'd say if I spent it like a sober congressman by R. W. Plagge
  • Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. by Igor Stravinski
  • Money often costs too much. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye. by Anon.
  • Money There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money. by Sophocles
  • Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. by Donald Trump
  • Money will come when you are doing the right thing. by Mike Phillips
  • Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. by Bill Vaughan
  • Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort. by Lord Mancroft
  • Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did. by James Arthur Baldwin
  • Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness. by Mike Gill
  • Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man. by George Washington
  • Monotony is the awful reward of the careful. by A. G. Buckham
  • Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1. by Jerry Coleman
  • Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. by H. G. Wells
  • Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. by Rita Mae Brown
  • Moral victories don't count. by Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
  • Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace. by Oscar Wilde
  • Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin. by Horace Bushnell
  • More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. by Albert Einstein
  • More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge. by Daniel J. Boorstin
  • More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. by James Waddell Alexander, II
  • More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. by Eric Butterworth
  • More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. by Amy Grant
  • More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test. by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
  • More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. by Doug Larson
  • More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. by Rudyard Kipling
  • More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work. by Robert Frost
  • More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. by William Ashley
  • More men have become great through practice than by nature. by Democritus
  • More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. by Woody Allen
  • More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. by Uta Hagan
  • More than kisses, letters mingle souls. by John Donne
  • Morpheus If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain by Matrix, The
  • Morpheus There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path. by Matrix, The
  • Morpheus Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. by Matrix, The
  • Morpheus You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind. by Matrix, The
  • Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. by C. S. Lewis
  • Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world. by John Owen
  • Mosaic is the 1990's equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida - painful for everyone but the host. by Steve G. Steinberg
  • Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. by Peter Borden
  • Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' It must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment. by William John Bennett
  • Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage. by Samuel S. Janus
  • Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. by Margaret Millar
  • Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. by M Scott Peck
  • Most everything in my brain, someone else helped put there. by Unknown
  • Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. by Abraham Lincoln
  • Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. by Charles A. Cerami
  • Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world. by Philip Howard
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. by Aldous Huxley
  • Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money. by Simone Weil
  • Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. by Dave Barry
  • Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm. by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
  • Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. by Diogenes the Cynic
  • Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. by Kierkegaard
  • Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. by Oscar Wilde
  • Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. by Evan Esar
  • Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. by Orison Swett Marden
  • Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. by James Harvey Robinson
  • Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit-Fascist pig this and that-but push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies. by John Gargin
  • Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. by Elizabeth Goudge
  • Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. by Robert Frost
  • Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. by Dale Carnegie
  • Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision. by Harold Taylor
  • Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. by Harry S Truman
  • Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. by Frank Crane
  • Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all. by Woody Allen
  • Most of the time it was probably real bad being stuck down in a dungeon. But some days, when there was a bad storm outside, you'd look out your little window and think, Boy, I'm glad I'm not out in THAT.'' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. by T. S. Eliot
  • Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all. by Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
  • Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before. by Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
  • Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. by William Adams
  • Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. by Mignon McLaughlin
  • Most of us have been taught about the need to appropriate by faith what is already ours through grace. We all desire to have more joy in our Christian life. The keys to experiencing joy are available to all of us. We need to understand the gospel of the grace of God as revealed to the Apostle Paul. Then as we put Paul's instructions into practice, we will come to know God experientially. This will cause us to know Him better which will cause us to want to obey more, and on and on it goes. Then as we learn and obey God and become focused on spiritual things instead of earthly things, we will become thankful for everything that God has provided for us in Christ. Knowledge, obedience, and thankfulness will then lead to abundant joy in our everyday life In the words of the old hymn Trust and obey, For there's no other way, To be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey. by David Havard
  • Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are. by Mickey Manfield
  • Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here What was it about Was it her smile Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night. by Sybil Adelman
  • Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. by Mark Twain
  • Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. by V Naipaul
  • Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. by Oscar Wilde
  • Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • Most people are searching for happines. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves.That's a fundemental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think. by Wayne W Dyer
  • Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net. by Glen Raphael
  • Most people die at the last minute others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. by Louis Celine
  • Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. by H. Ross Perot
  • Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. by Albert Einstein
  • Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public. by Edgar Watson Howe
  • Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. by Zelda
  • Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. by Adrian Mitchell
  • Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. by William James
  • Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. by Unknown
  • Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. by Anwar el Sadat
  • Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. by Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. by Stephen Butler Leacock
  • Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit. by Dr. Robert Schuller
  • Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. by Robert Orben
  • Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. by Robert Anthony
  • Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. by Seneca
  • Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. by Scott Adams
  • Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. by Bruce Marton
  • Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers. by Ronald Reagan
  • Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. by Walter Stegner
  • Most turkeys taste better the day after my mother's tasted better the day before. by Rita Rudner
  • Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Motherhood All love begins and ends there. by Robert Browning
  • Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children. by Judith Pugh
  • Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. by Aristotle
  • Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward. by Thomas Leonard
  • Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. by Lee Iacocca
  • Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's. by Peter J. Davies
  • Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. by Jim Ryun
  • Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • Mrs. Madeline Drake This is all my fault. Pyro Actually they discovered that it's the male who carries the mutant gene and passes it on so, it's his fault. by X2 X-Men United
  • MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's. by Doug Ferrari
  • Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense. by Richard Dawkins
  • Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. by Edward H. Harriman
  • Much learning does not teach understanding. by Heraclitus
  • Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man. by Charles Caleb Colton
  • Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. by Thomas Sowell
  • Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them. by Thomas Sowell
  • Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. by Sophocles
  • Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. by Saskya Pandita
  • Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. by Bertrand Russell
  • Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. by David P Gardner
  • Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. by Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
  • Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them as they go, they take many away.) by Horace
  • Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. by W. H. Auden
  • Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year. by Dan Quayle
  • Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. by Leonard Bernstein
  • Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent. by Victor Hugo
  • Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. by William Congreve
  • Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast. by William Congreve
  • Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. by Martin Luther
  • Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some... by Jacqui Webb
  • Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. by George Santayana
  • Music is essentially useless, as life is. by George Santayana
  • Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life. by Stephen
  • Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. by Walter Savage Landor
  • Music is Love in search of a word. by Sidney Lanier
  • Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. by Pablo Casals
  • Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world. by Giuseppe Mazzini
  • Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. by John Erskine
  • Music is the shorthand of emotion. by Leo Tolstoy
  • Music is the soul of language. by Max Heindel
  • Music is the vernacular of the human soul. by Geoffrey Latham
  • Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. by Robert Fripp
  • Music is well said to be the speech of angels. by Thomas Carlyle
  • Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. by Charlie Parker
  • Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy. by Jean Baptiste Montegut
  • Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. by Oscar Wilde
  • Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. by Berthold Auerbach
  • Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. by G. K. Chesterton
  • Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. by Tori Amos
  • Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death by Plato
  • Mustard's no good without roast beef. by Chico Marx
  • Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise. by William Blake
  • My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher. by Socrates
  • My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy. by Thornton
  • My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people. by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. by Ernest Hemingway
  • My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything. (running for mayor of Bucharest, Romania) by Ilie Nastase
  • My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*. by Theodore Hesburgh
  • My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights. by Ronald Reagan
  • My belief is that to have no wants is divine. by Socrates
  • My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. by Henry Ford
  • My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys. by Chao Li-hua
  • My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race. by William H. Borah
  • My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made. by Robert Browning
  • My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light. by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children. by Bill Cosby
  • My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals) by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. by Jesse Louis Jackson
  • My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober. by G. K. Chesterton
  • My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. by Charles De Gaulle
  • My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple. by John Lennon
  • My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
  • My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared. by P. J. Plauger
  • My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. by Ronnie Shakes
  • My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes. by Douglas Noel Adams
  • My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. by Orson Welles
  • My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost 7.00 in dog money. by Joe Weinstein
  • My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. by Anna M. Uhlich
  • My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger. by Aldous Huxley
  • My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices) by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' by Jim Fox
  • My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. by Lee Iacocca
  • My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life. by Elbert Hubbard
  • My father didn't tell me how to live he lived, and let me watch him do it. by Clarence Buddinton Kelland
  • My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. by Peter De Vries
  • My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient Vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right' by Dexter Scott King
  • My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it. by Abraham Lincoln
  • My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it. by William Adams
  • My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.' by Cary Grant
  • My favorite animal is steak. by Fran Lebowitz
  • My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. by Penn Jillette
  • My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. by Diane Arbus
  • My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. (Comment while testing a microphone before a broadcast 11 Aug 84) by Ronald Reagan
  • My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. by Ronald Reagan
  • My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now. by Ronald Reagan
  • My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president) by Gerald R. Ford
  • My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic. by Walt Whitman
  • My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks. by Y. Yakigawa
  • My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit. by Igor Stravinsky
  • My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water. by Eric Pio
  • My friend is one... who take me for what I am. by Henry David Thoreau
  • My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are. by B. A. Billingsly
  • My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation. by Kahlil Gibran
  • My friends are my estate. by Emily Dickinson
  • My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
  • My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life. by Miles Davis
  • My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. by Peggy Noonan
  • My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe. by Stephen William Hawking
  • My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition. by Indira Nehru Gandhi
  • My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come. by George Herbert Walker Bush
  • My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. by Henny Youngman
  • My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. by Ellen DeGeneres
  • My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. by Richard Adams
  • My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. by Martin Luther
  • My home is not a place, it is people. by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. by Ovid
  • My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. by Rita Rudner
  • My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things. by Mary Manin Boggs
  • My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. by Charles Franklin Kettering
  • My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come. by William H. McNeill
  • My Karma ran over your dogma. by Unknown
  • My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself. by Maya Angelou
  • My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right by Charles Monroe Schultz
  • My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right by Charles M. Schulz
  • My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary. by Albert Einstein
  • My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often--in fact, mostly--at the expense of everything else in my life. by Stan Getz
  • My life is one long curve, full of turning points. by Pierre Elliott Trudeau
  • My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential. by Real Live Preacher
  • My life needs a rewinderase button. - Calvin by Bill Watterson
  • My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. by Vladimir Nabokov
  • My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
  • My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit. by Robin Green
  • My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. by William Shakespeare
  • My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. by George Bernard Shaw
  • My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me. by Jennifer Tyler
  • My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss. by Sir Edward Dyer
  • My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women,--or stop loving you, no matter what you do. by Catullus
  • My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping. by Rita Rudner
  • My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.' by Helen Hayes
  • My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud. by William Blake
  • My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. by Mark Twain
  • My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. by Kareem Abdul-Jabar
  • My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. by Julius Henry Marx
  • My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. by Groucho Marx
  • My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. by Dame Edna Everage
  • My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking. by Jenna Elfman
  • My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. by Hank Aaron
  • My music is best understood by children and animals. by Igor Stravinsky
  • My new millionaire idea is one regular shoe and one 'swollen' shoe, for when you get bit by a rattlesnake. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • My object all sublime I shall achieve in time... by W. S. Gilbert
  • My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. by Thomas Arnold
  • My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible. by Josephine demott Robinson
  • My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. by Woody Allen
  • My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others. by Granni Nazzano
  • My opponent called me a cream puff. ... Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me. by Claiborne Pell
  • My own mind is my own church. by Carl Lotus Becker
  • My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose. by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
  • My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it. by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred. by Albert Einstein
  • My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years. by Cathy Ladman
  • My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose. by Bette Davis
  • My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. by Gene Oliver
  • My performances have finally caught up with my ego. by Ato Boldon
  • My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. by Edith Sitwell
  • My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. by Jean Rostand
  • My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. by Oprah Winfrey
  • My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. by Johann von Goethe
  • My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. by Errol Flynn
  • My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. by Al Capone
  • My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. by Albert Einstein
  • My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. by Albert Einstein
  • My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. by J. Brotherton
  • My salad days, When I was green in judgment. by William Shakespeare
  • My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father. by Clifton Paul Fadiman
  • My son, give me thine heart... by Proverbs 2326a Bible
  • My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. by Alan Alexander Milne
  • My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. by Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth. by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise. by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day. by Johnny Carson
  • My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford) by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. by Christopher Morley
  • My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. by Thomas Jefferson
  • My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. by Steven Wright
  • My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. by Walter Landor
  • My time has been passed viciously and agreeably at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow by George Gordon Byron
  • My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. by Euripides
  • My toughest fight was with my first wife. by Muhammad Ali
  • My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. by George Gordon Byron
  • My view is that one should not break up a winning combination. by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. by George Bernard Shaw
  • My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. by Sir Walter Besant
  • My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat. by Henny Youngman
  • My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself... by Trieu Thi Trinh
  • My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go. by William Shakespeare
  • My work is a game, a very serious game. by M. C. Escher
  • Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went. by Omar Khayym