Douglas Macarthur
You are remembered for the rules you break.
There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Flavio Macau
The main characteristic of climate change is not that things are getting hotter, but it's getting more unruly.
Ramsay MacDonald
We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.
Antonio Machado
While we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.
Traveller, there is no path, the path is made by walking.
Niccolo Machiavelli
It is better to be feared than to be loved.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Most people can be fobbed off with a fake rather than the real thing.
Mankind, we can say in general, is shifty, hypocritical, and greedy to profit.
Benefits ought to be given by and by because they will be more appreciated that way.
Ambition is such a powerful force that we are never satisfied however great our achievement.
There is nothing more difficult to undertake, more perilous to see through, or more uncertain in its result than to head the introduction of a new order of things.
Harvey Mackay
A dream is just a dream. But a goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline,
Shirley Maclain
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
Doug MacLeod
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
Mauricio Macri
Tragedy plus time equals comedy.
Emmanuel Macron
The world is made up of herbivores and carnivores. … And the meat eaters are circling.
I stand for universalism. I don't agree with a fight that reduces everyone to their identity or their peculiarity.
Salvador de Madariaga
You can anaesthetise your conscience, but you can't kill it.
Mad Men (TV Show)
Philanthropy is the gateway to power.
Madonna
Losing my virginity was a career move.
Anna Magnani
Great passions don't exist. They are silly fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for shorter or longer.
Emily Maguire
Introversion is a personality trait describing those people who are energised by solitude and drained by socialising.
Kishore Mahbubani
The 21st century will mark the end of the era of Western domination.
For societies to progress they need 'the invisible hand' of the free market and the 'visible hand' of good governance.
Nagib Mahfus
We can see from his answers if a man is clever. But we see from his questions if he is wise.
Norman Mailer
Repetition kills the soul.
Women should be kept in cages.
I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
Boredom slays more of existence than war.
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
Like most patriots she felt strongly and thought weakly. ('The Deer Park')
The essence of good comedy was always displaced drama. (The Deer Park’)
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
To be a good lover one should be incapable of falling in love. (‘The Deer Park’)
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.
Marriage is a workable institution – especially for dreadful people. ('The Castle in the Forest')
Pious people can derange those in their family who are less pious. ('The Castle in the Forest')
The great thing is when something good hasn’t time to be spoiled. (‘The Deer Park’)
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
You dropped to the bottom only to gain momentum for the leap to the top. (“The Deer Park’)
Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
De Maistre
Every country has the government it deserves.
F. W. Maitland
We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.
Lee Majors
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Stephane Mallarmé
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
David Malouf
A writer's job is to make insiders of us all.
André Malraux
Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
David Mamet ("State and Main")
It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction.
Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember
Nelson Mandela
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Never forget, a saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.
I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past, by building a future based on equality and social justice.
Henning Mankell
Sacred cows must graze in peace. (‘The Man Who Smiled’)
A human being is always at the centre of the world, no matter where he finds himself.
('Chronicler of the Wind')
Keep your friends at arm’s length. But you can let your enemies get as close to you as they can. (‘The Man Who Smiled’).
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
Golo Mann
Man is always more than he is aware of; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Klaus Mann
Work is the eternal burden without which all other burdens would be unbearable.
Michael Mann
Memories have half-lives.
Anomalies. Those are that stick in memory.
Commerce and wealth are hedges against catastrophe. (all 3 ‘Heat 2’)
Thomas Mann
Life is an infectious disease of matter. (‘The Magic Mountain’)
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than for others.
The word is the enemy of the mysterious and a cruel disclosure of the common.
Sicco Mansholt
Teaching, public health, tourism, the places where people live, open spaces, the quality of our air, are all as important to our well-being as economic growth.
Hilary Mantel
No truth is a single truth. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
Fortune favours the young. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
Poor men do not rise without leaders. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
Beneath every history, another history. ('Wolf Hall')
Women are the beginning of all mistakes. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
When you are at war a promise will not do. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
... my sins are my strength ... I hug them closely... (‘Wolf Hall’)
Peace, to them, is just the interval between wars. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
You should fear weak men more than strong men. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
It is not written that great men shall be happy men. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
Princes hate those to whom they have incurred debts. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
We yearn for our origins; we yearn for an innocent terrain. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
All the rivers run into the sea, but the seas are not yet full. (‘Wolf Hall’)
Don't ask questions unless you know what to do with the answers. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters. (‘Bring Up The Bodies’)
Right is what you can get away with, and wrong is what they whip you for. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
An empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts. ('Wolf Hall')
I think it was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world. (‘The Light & the Mirror’
If God had meant us to wear coloured cloths He would have made coloured sheep. (‘The Light & the Mirror’)
Intrigue fees on itself; conspiracies have neither mother nor father, and yet they thrive. (‘Bring Up The Bodies’)
They tell us that rules of power and the rules of war are the same, the art is to deceive... (‘Bring Yp The Bodies’)
If the universe is a great mind, it may sometimes have its absences. ('Beyond Black').
Mao Zedong
Women hold up half the sky.
Beat the dog while it is in the water.
Power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
All under heaven is in chaos; the situation is excellent.
Who rests on his laurels carries them on the wrong spot.
The guerilla must move among the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Whoever suppresses student movements is going to have a bad ending.
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must annihilate the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Silvio Maracci
It is now cheaper to save the climate than to destroy it.
Marcel Marceau
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Ferdinand Marcos
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Imelda Marcos
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there. It's so petty.
Ludwig Marcuse
To think demands an effort, but to believe is pure comfort.
Orrison Swett Marden
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nothing resembles hell as much as a happy marriage.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Don Marquis
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
David Marr (Australian Journalist)
At the heart of democracy is a contest of conversations.
The tone of a democracy is set by the dialogue between a nation and its leaders.
We are what we are born to be, free only to shape the lives fate has given us. What we inherit can never entirely be denied. ("Patrick White - A Life")
John Marsden (author and educator)
The whole point of school is that it should be a safe place where you can make mistakes.
Herbert Marshall
There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
Marcus Valerius Martial
Hide a flaw, and the world will guess the worst.
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents.
To be able to look back on your life with satisfaction is like living twice.
You give me nothing while you live, but you promise to give at your death. You are no fool - you must know what I wish for.
Groucho Marx
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
What have future generations ever done for us?
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT
ME AS A MEMBER.
Karl Marx
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Medicine heals not only diseases, but also doubts.
Nothing can have value unless it is an object of utility.
In every epoch, the ideas of the ruling class become the ruling ideas.
The wealthy man is the man who is much, not the one who has much.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
All revolutions have shown that you can change many things except human nature.
Philosophy relates to the study of the actual world as masturbation does to sexual love.
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. But teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Thomas Masaryk
Love of one's neighbour, of the nation, and of humanity imposes upon everyone the obligation to defend oneself and to resist evil constantly, at all times and in all things.
Abraham Maslow
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Jackie Mason
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Dexter Masters
All prayers come to this: 'Dear Lord, please make two and two not equal four'. ('The Accident')
Shunmyo Masuno (Zen priest, landscape architect)
There is beauty in the incomplete.
When a venomous snake drinks water, it becomes poison. When a cow drinks water, it becomes milk.
Matisse
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
If you want to be an artist, first you must cut out your tongue.
James Mattis
You don't always control your circumstances, but you can control your responses.
Somerset Maugham
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
Nobody is any better than he ought to be.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
Love creates illusions, and marriage destroys them. (‘The Explorer')
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.
It is an illusion that youth is happy; an illusion of those who have lost it.
There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.
I believe that the only solution of the marriage question is legalised polyandry. ('Mrs Craddock')
One needs more brains to do nothing with elegance than to be a cabinet minister. (‘The Explorer')
Happiness was a spirit that descended unawares, and seldom when it was sought. ('Mrs. Craddock')
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
Happily men don't realise how stupid they are, or half the world would commit suicide. ('Mrs. Craddock')
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
I found that money was like a sixth sense without which you could not make the most of the other five.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
There is really nothing to be said about it (beauty). It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it, and that is all.
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
He's been so awfully good and kind to me, I can look on with fortitude while he plays football with the Ten Commandments. (‘The Explorer')
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
Guy de Maupassant
With women there is neither caste nor rank: it's beauty, grace, and charm that act instead of family and birth. ('The Necklace')
François Mauriac
Human love is often just the encounter of two weaknesses.
Daphne Du Maurier
In the mountains we come closest to whatever Being it is that rules our destiny. (‘Monte Verità')
Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
André Maurois
Lost Illusion is the hidden title of every novel.
Who runs after his own youth will never catch it.
All aphorisms about women are by necessity nasty.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, shudders with cold.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Style is the hallmark of a personality stamped upon the material at hand.
Don't judge too quickly; your enemy might be somebody else's faithful friend.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to acquire.
The difficulty in a discussion is not to defend your point of view, but to actually know it.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.
There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Once illusions are lost, they never return.
Peter McArthur
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
John McCain
Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.
Mary McCarthy
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.
Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
Stanley McChristal
Disinformation has the potential and the power of weapons of mass destruction.
Frank McCourt
If you have anything to say, shut up. (‘Angelas's Ashes')
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. (‘Angela's Ashes')
Carson McCullers
Family...the we of me.
John McDonald
The most blatantly pornographic imagery is magically transformed into art when shown in a museum.
Ian McEwan
What is faith but ungrounded certainty, without evidence.
Faith is at best morally neutral and at worst a vile mental distortion.
Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and it is the beginning of morality.
Cathy McGowan (Member of Australian Parliament)
Don't get mad, get elected!
Independents DO get things done.
Parnell Palme McGuiness
Every crisis has its cliché.
History only remembers deeds and their impacts.
You don't get into politics without a streak of mongrel.
Outrage is the retreat of people who are unable to articulate a reasoned position.
Constitutions are not about decreeing what governments can do, they are about limiting their power.
Differences of opinion aren’t the end of democracy; they are its foundation. There is incredible strength in a system that can criticise itself.
Eddie McGuire
I'd rather hit the wall than die wondering where it is.
Mark McKenna
The din of ceaseless news obliterates the past. The only memory is of constant change.
Martin McKenzie-Murray
Democracy is not bequeathed to us whole and immortal by some divine power; it is an organism maintained by its own participant's faith. Once that goes, all bets are off.
William H. McRaven
If you can't do the little things right you will never do the big things right.
Margaret Mead
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Golda Meir
The most important thing in life is to keep the courage for great dreams.
Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
Robert Menasse
Those who carry weight cannot caress.
History is nothing more than an oscillation between pathos and banality.
Deep down you could only call one an idealist if they didn't actually benefit from being one.
The problem with foreign language … was that you only ever said what you knew, not what you wanted to say.
All our efforts are the lessons of our historical experience: nationalism leads to racism and war, and with direct logic to Auschwitz. (all from ‘The Capital’)
H.L.Mencken
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
When people say this is not about money, it is about money.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia.
Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't they'd be married, too.
Herman Melville
Life is like a voyage that is homeward bound.
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning. (‘Bartleby')
H.L.Mencken
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
When people say this is not about money, it's about money.
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
D.Mendelejev
To learn successfully you must believe in your teacher.
Elmer Mendoza
Every human chews his pencils.
May your tongue turn to pork rinds.
Only unsolvable problems are worth the effort.
For meal to be really good it has to do a bit of harm.
When love is at stake civilisation returns to the stone age.
There are women for whom everything will never be enough.
Man is the only animal that will trip over the same stone twice.
Mondays are like that, a toboggan into the void, a fruit without any juice. (all: 'Silver Bullets')
Robert Menzies
Democracy doesn't work if you're thinking entirely about self-interest.
Angela Merkel
Controversial disputes are a part of democratic culture.
Let us answer the terrorists by living our values with courage.
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
Multiculturalism leads to parallel societies and therefore remains a 'life lie'.
Germany has become a country that many people abroad associate with hope.
I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.
The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.
When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'
This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.
Rory Metcalf
History may not repeat itself, but it rings with echo and premonition.
Metropolis (the film)
The mediator between head and hand must be the heart.
Donald Meyer
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
Michelangelo
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
James Michner
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Bette Midler
When it's 3 o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Ed Miliband
To explain is not to excuse. But to refuse to explain is to condemn to repeat.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
Arthur Miller
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
George Miller
Any great art form at its peak is always deeply resonant with the times.
Henry Miller
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.
Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
It's not the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonise with this order.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.
Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap...
John Stuart Mill
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
A party of order and stability, and a party of progress and reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state
of political life.
A.A.Milne
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
John Milton
Our country is where ever we are well off.
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, or hell of heav'n. (‘Paradise Lost')
He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
Anchee Min
The courage to keep dreams alive despite all is what matters.
Only after experiencing death can one understand the pleasure of living. (both "The Last Empress")
Tim Minchin
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
Liza Minelli
Reality is something you rise above.
Yukio Mishima
Those who could not afford to engage lawyers were not qualified to break the law. (‘The Temple of Dawn').
Not to ask for anything means that one has lost one's freedom to choose or reject.
Passions do have a form, and through their forms become biological cultures in which human lives
can be fully displayed. (both: 'Thirst for Love')
Mission Australia
Anywhere is better than a violent home.
Mistinguette
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation. That's the basic spelling every woman ought to know.
George Mitchell (US senator)
Conflicts are created, conducted and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings.
Werner Mitsch
Once people were afraid of the future; now the future has to be afraid of people.
Francois Mitterand
Capitalism lives only by devouring itself.
The laws of gravity do not apply to rising sap.
No people needs anyone to become what it is.
Fanaticism is one of the attributes of stupidity.
Real literature is born from the exact correspondence of word and thing.
I am wary of intuition, the wisdom of globe-trotters: true knowledge is sedentary.
The fabric of man's history is woven of his immemorial hatred of his own species.
When I am no longer able to recognise the working of nature, I am on the verge of forgetting what makes men tick.
Like the sound that vibrates infinitely in time and space, so the suffering of a single human being encircles the Earth.
It will be impossible to maintain the rate of economic growth without profoundly modifying the structures of our society.
I prefer the writer who is able to say exactly what he has seen and felt to the one who lectures and stresses his personal impressions.
Wilson Mizner
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
Alan Moir
One thing you learn from history is you never learn from history.
Jim Molan
Wars are not won by protecting yourself.
Molière
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Books and marriage go ill together.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Consistency is only good for ridicule.
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
To live without loving is not really to live.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truth.
Long is the road from conception to completion.
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
No folly is greater than the one to change the world.
Without knowledge, life is only the shadow of death.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
The more we love a person the less we ought to flatter him.
Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should have ups and downs.
There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
He probably killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory in overcoming it.
It is the public scandal that offends - to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Always I write a good first line, but then have trouble writing the others.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
We are not only responsible for what we do, but also for what we don't do.
Men are all alike in their promises; it's only in their actions that they differ.
One ought to examine oneself for a very long time before condemning others.
Never mind how many strengths we may have - the world always picks on our weaknesses.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them - only by excusing nothing we show honest love.
Helmuth von Moltke (Prussian Field Marshal)
No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
Jason Momoa
For me, the ocean is an ancient teacher, a guide and a muse. It is also existential. Without a healthy ocean , life on our planet
as we know it would not exist.
Walter Mondale
Political image is like mixing cement. When it's whet you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there is almost nothing you can do to reshape it.
Claude Monet
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
James Monroe
National Honor is national property of the highest value.
Marilyn Monroe
I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
Hollywood is a place where they pay you thousand dollars for a kiss, and 50 cents for your soul.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Philosophy is doubt.
Habit is second nature.
I have no other business but myself.
Marriage and love are not the same.
I am seeking the truth, not laying it down.
I want death to find me planting my cabbage.
There is no pleasure to me without communication.
An unattended lady should not boast of her chastity.
Since we cannot attain it, lets rail against it as revenge.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we know least.
I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.
Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.
Believing in another person's virtue is good evidence of your own.
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened.
To honour God the way we made him is far from honouring Him Who made us.
He who presents his argument with noise and persistence shows that his reason is weak.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Children's games are not merely games. They ought to be regarded as their most serious activities.
Let death take me as I am planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and even less because my garden is still not finished.
(Marriage) may be compared to a cage: the birds outside it are desperate to get in, and those inside despair to get out.
No man is so profoundly honest or upright in living, that ten times in his life he might not be hanged according to the law.
If you make your educational laws strict your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to build prisons for ages.
If one simply wished to be happy, that could be easily achieved; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Juan Montalvo
Old age is an island surrounded by death. (‘On Beauty')
Yves Montand
Pacifists are like sheep who believe that the wolf is a vegetarian.
Charles-Louis de Montesquieu
Rarely does man arrive at reason through reason.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
If one simply wished to be happy, this would be easy. But we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we imagine others to be happier than they are
Maria Montessori
The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
I am so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
Mary Tyler Moore
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Michael Moore
We're are never going to have real change if the public don't rise up out of their theatre seats and do something.
Roger Moore
My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of ‘raise the left eyebrow' and ‘raise the right eyebrow'.
Travis Moore
Talismans have no potency unless we invest them with it.
Frank Moorhouse
Treaties are the walls of the city.
Peace is a period of cheating between wars.
When the trust of the handshake has gone so has civilisation.
If you behave as if something will succeed, it helps it succeed.
The person who doesn't make mistakes doesn't make anything.
...reason is the weaker of the faculties. There was a problem in the design of the human species.
Christian Morgenstern
Life is the Nothing searching for Something.
All seagulls look as if their name was Emma.
The past and the future are only forms of the present.
A really original thought is as rare as gold in the gutter.
Who wants to remain true to himself can't always remain true to others.
From time to time one ought to step back from one's self - like a painter does from his painting.
Hans J. Morgenthau
Strange how a mediocre man, even if he has a good point, won't make any impression with it.
John Morley Viscount Morley of Blackburn
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
William Morris
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
Scott Morrison
My beliefs know that there is never a shortage of miracles.
Lance Morrow
Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Grandma Moses
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
MOZART
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
Hosni Mubarak
Peace is made by the strong and is achieved by those who possess the courage to make difficult decisions.
Muhammad
He who knows his own self knows God.
John Muir
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, one finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Edvard Munch
My will exceeds my talent.
Axel Munthe
Knowledge we can learn from others; wisdom we have to teach ourselves.
Iris Murdoch
Beauty is the magnetism which draws us out of the cave.
How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived. (‘A Word Child')
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the great divisions of the human race. (‘Nuns and Soldiers')
James Murdoch
The only reliable, durable and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit.
Rupert Murdoch
Monopoly is a terrible thing, 'till you have it.
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Bill Murray
It's hard to be in an argument with a smart person; but it's damn near impossible to be in an argument with a
stupid person.Tom Murray (Hastings Center for bioethics)
Sympathy and subtlety are seasonings rarely applied to political red meat.
Robert B. Murrett
You don't shoot the arrow. You shoot the archer.
Ed Murrow
We should never confuse dissent with disloyalty.
Everyone - from the Archbishop of Canterbury to Mick Jagger - is entitled to put forward his own moral code.
Robert Musil
If God could become man - can He also become cat?
Perfect order would be the ruin of all progress and enjoyment.
Our times are times of fulfillment; and fulfillment is always disappointment.
Khim Myint
A thing is resilient when we acknowledge its cracks. ('Fragile Creatures')