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Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas

No. I can survive well enough on my own-if given the proper reading material.
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass readers tend to be passionate, talented, clever, and welcoming - in fact, I'm consistently moved by just how welcoming TOG readers are to new fans.
Sarah J. Maas

To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. To the stars who listen-and the dreams that are answered.
A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas

You could rattle the stars, she whispered. You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That's what scares you most.
Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas

Women are naturally good motivators, good at juggling different projects and issues at the same time, and more cooperative rather than aggressive and confrontational.
Bridget A. Macaskill

We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all who came before us and with just as much apparent reason.
Thomas Macaulay

Being British is a faith. I will never lose it.
Ian MacGregor

I don't know any executive who ever thought about stress, although a lot of other people do. No one ever dies of hard work. But a lot of people die once they retire from an active job.
Ian MacGregor

I don't like unnecessary class distinctions. The Americans waste no time on them. They don't care who your father was. If you make it to the top and it comes out that your father made moonshine in Tennessee they admire you even more. Now, I like that system.
Ian MacGregor

I never thought the day would come when I wished I had some of my scruffy, sometimes ill-disciplined, sometimes loud-mouthed American police by my side in this country, and some of the curious ways of the law to back them up.
Ian MacGregor

Management is a calling and people ought to be dedicated to it. British managers have far too much security. A poor manager should be dumped. What's at stake is the happiness of society, not the comfort of managers.
Ian MacGregor

Tony Machetti - See  John Eldon Smith

It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.
Niccolò Machiavelli

It is better to be impetuous than circumspect. Experience shows that (fortune) is more often subdued by men who do this than by those who act coldly.
Niccolò Machiavelli

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolò Machiavelli

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
Niccolò Machiavelli

For a woman to attain a high level in a male-dominated profession, she has to work twice as hard and/or be twice as smart.
Elizabeth Mackay

If you follow your passion, the money will follow. But if you chase the almighty dollar, you can easily lose that and end up with nothing.
Elizabeth Mackay

I don't believe in principles. Principles are only excuses for what we want to think or what we want to do.
Compton Mackenzie

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast.
Compton Mackenzie

I hate wearin' sunglasses, to be honest with you. You don't need sunglasses in Ireland.
Tristan MacManus

I grew up with a lot of brothers and sisters. I did all I could do to really stand out and that nurtured a lot of confidence and drive and ambition.
Madonna

The living are just the dead on holiday.
Maurice Maeterlinck

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Anthony J. Mahavorick - See  Anthony Robbins

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
John Major

Age is other things too. It is wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. It is experience and knowledge. And it is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
Miriam Makeba

Mister Malaprop - See  Samuel Goldwyn

The world exists to end in a book.
Stéphane Mallarmé

It is not impossibilities which fill us with deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
Robert Mallet

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux

I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
Nelson Mandela

Do all things with love.
Augustine Mandino

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men - the balance wheel of the social machinery ... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
Horace Mann

Freedom is a more complex and delicate thing than force. It is not as simple to live under as force is.
Thomas Mann

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
Marya Mannes

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Marya Mannes

My dear Melinee, my beloved little orphan, In a few hours I will no longer be of this world. We are going to be executed today at 3:00. This is happening to me like an accident in my life; I don't believe it, but I nevertheless know that I will never see you again.
Missak Manouchian

Onika Tanya Maraj - See  Nicki Minaj

Money can't buy life.
Bob Marley

Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Christopher Marlowe

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Christopher Marlowe

Where both deliberate, the love is slight;
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe

Publius Vergilius Maro - See  Virgil

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
Don Marquis

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. If you are not honest at all everybody hates you, and if you are absolutely honest you get martyred.
Don Marquis

I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food, they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.
Don Marquis

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Don Marquis

It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
Don Marquis

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis

My heart hath followed all my days
Something I cannot name.

The Name
Don Marquis

Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents, which started to happen to somebody else.
Don Marquis

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis

Prohibition makes you want to cry in your beer, and denies you the beer to cry into.
Don Marquis

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis

Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Don Marquis

Successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
Don Marquis

As to those who can find it in them to employ the doubtlessly useful word brunch, do they, I wonder, ever up-grade it to bruncheon? This is the kind of question I ponder on while waiting for the kettle to boil. The active mind is never at rest.
Arthur Marshall

It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
George Marshall

I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
Groucho Marx

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Groucho Marx

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Karl Marx

In the dark womb where I began
My mother's life made me a man.
Through all the months of human birth
Her beauty fed my common earth.
I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir,
But through the death of some of her.

John Masefield

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Allan Massie

Master Meng - See  Mencius

In England, Justice is open to all, like the Ritz hotel.
James Mathew

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter ... a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse

Big things and little things are my job. Middle level management can be delegated.
Konosuke Matsushita

The tail tracks the head. If the head moves fast the tail will keep up the same pace. If the head is sluggish, the tail will drop.
Konosuke Matsushita

I always wait for the Times each morning. I look at the obituary column and if I'm not in it, I go to work.
A. E. Matthews

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.
Jim Mattis

Matty - See  A. E. Matthews

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
Gene Mauch

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
W. Somerset Maugham

I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
W. Somerset Maugham

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham

People ask you for criticism but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

People often feed the hungry so that nothing may disturb their own enjoyment of a good meal.
W. Somerset Maugham

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
W. Somerset Maugham

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.
W. Somerset Maugham

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham

Business is a combination of war and sport.
André Maurois

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
André Maurois

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
André Maurois

The only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.
André Maurois

Max - See  H. S. M. Burns

I forgive everybody. I pray that everybody may also forgive me, and my blood which is about to be shed will bring peace to Mexico. Long live Mexico! Long Live Independence!
Maximilian

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell

Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best.
John C. Maxwell

Man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell

People never care how much you know until they know how much you care.
John C. Maxwell

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. Maxwell

I would have been a success in anything. But I have chosen an activity that was socially useful and that aspect gives me extra satisfaction.
Robert Maxwell

Ordinary people may not understand the meaning of democracy but they've a passionate regard for fair play.
Robert Maxwell

The time has now definitely come when every intelligent individual must learn to think globally, beyond the horizon of a narrow nationalist point of view.
Robert Maxwell

Nothing matters. Nothing matters.
Louis B. Mayer

Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.
Martin Mayer

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.
Melissa Mayer

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.
Melissa Mayer

I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Maybe 100.
Discussing how many years U.S. troops could remain in Iraq on January 3, 2008.
John McCain

The fundamentals of America's economy are strong.
Bloomberg TV on April 17, 2008.
John McCain

Everyone in Texas is illiterate.
Colman McCarthy

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Colman McCarthy

I don't celebrate the 4th of July because there never should have been a war with Britain.
Colman McCarthy

I dress like a Republican so I can talk like an Anarchist.
Colman McCarthy

I'd prefer that my students don't ask questions. Instead, be braver and bolder: question the answers. What answers? Those from anyone who says the answer is violence. Of all the lies, that's the grossest.
Colman McCarthy

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.
Colman McCarthy

It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?
Colman McCarthy

Let us commence, if we may.
Colman McCarthy

Over the years, I've had suggestions from other teachers to offer what they call balance in my courses, that I should give students the other side. I'm never sure exactly what that means. After assigning students to read Gandhi I should have them also read Carl von Clausewitz? After Martin Luther King's essay against the Vietnam War, Colin Powell's memoir favoring the Persian Gulf War? After Justice William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall's views opposing the death penalty, George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein's favoring it? After a woman's account of her using a nonviolent defense against a rapist, the thwarted rapist's side?
Colman McCarthy

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.
Colman McCarthy

The most important act of peacemaking? Your next one. Few of us will ever be called on to do great things, but all of us can do small things in a great way.
Colman McCarthy

To oppose ROTC, as I have since my college days in the 1960s, when my school enticed too many of my classmates into joining, is not to be anti-soldier. I admire those who join armies, whether America's or the Taliban's: for their discipline, for their loyalty to their buddies and to their principles, for their sacrifices to be away from home. In recent years, I've had several Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans in my college classes. If only the peace movement were as populated by people of such resolve and daring.
Colman McCarthy

Too many schools process students as if they are slabs of cheese going to Velveeta High on the way to Cheddar U and Mozzarella Grad School.
Colman McCarthy

Unless we teach our children peace, someone will teach them violence.
Colman McCarthy

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.
Colman McCarthy

What makes us happy is service to others. If schools don't expose students to the joys of community service, we graduate people who are idea rich but experience poor. In these addled times of leave no child untested, we think it's enough to pound ideas into the kids' heads. You can make all A's in school and go out and flunk life.
Colman McCarthy

You can earn all A's in school and then go out and fail at life.
Colman McCarthy

I can tell more about how someone is likely to react in a business situation from one round of golf than I can from a hundred hours of meetings.
Mark McCormack

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organization ... managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with the ideas.
Mark McCormack

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.
Mark McCormack

Make a suggestion or assumption and let them tell you you're wrong. People also have a need to feel smarter than you are.
Mark McCormack

Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and only the pig enjoys himself.
Mark McCormack

Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four, and Five as pure fantasy ... Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.
Mark McCormack

We seriously undervalue the passion ... a person brings to an enterprise. You can rent a brain, but you can't rent a heart.
Mark McCormack

I will never lie to you. You have my word on that.
At her first press briefing, May 1, 2020.
Kayleigh McEnany

The science should not stand in the way of this.
Referring to school reopenings in a news briefing, July 16, 2020.
Kayleigh McEnany

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern

The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.
Jay McInerney

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Mignon McLaughlin

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity with an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
Marshall McLuhan

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message.
Marshall McLuhan

Wayne James McMeekan - See  David Wayne

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott McNealy

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Margaret Mead

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
Margaret Mead

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Golda Meir

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir

Lazar Meir - See  Louis B. Mayer

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute - he simply speaks and does what is right.
Mencius

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make a better soup.
H. L. Mencken

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
H. L. Mencken

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
H. L. Mencken

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
H. L. Mencken

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamppost.
H. L. Mencken

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza - See  César Vallejo

Master Meng - See  Mencius

Meng Tzu - See  Mencius

Meng Zi - See  Mencius

The violin, through the serene clarity of its song, helps to keep our bearings in the storm, as a light in the night, a compass in the tempest, it shows us a way to a haven of sincerity and respect.
Yehudi Menuhin

Whenever I see a newspaper, I think of the poor trees. As trees they provide beauty, shade and shelter. But, as paper, all they provide is rubbish.
Yehudi Menuhin

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Owen Meredith

I'm in the hands of Jesus.
Tammy Faye Messner

Golda Meyerson - See  Golda Meir

There's a feast undated, yet
Both our true lives hold it fast,
Even the day when first we met.
What a great day came and passed,
Unknown then but known at last.

Alice Meynell

Do you believe in miracles?
When the United States defeated the Soviets in hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Al Michaels

If you mind tells your body you can't do it, you will quit. If your body is giving up, but you think you can carry on, you will naturally keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Ant Middleton

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler

Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.
George Mikes

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
John Stuart Mill

To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
John Stuart Mill

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill

A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller

A salesman has got to dream, boy, it comes with the territory.
Arthur Miller

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry Miller

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

John Milton

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition though in hell:
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.

Paradise Lost
John Milton

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

John Milton

I'm not that old.
Nicki Minaj

A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.
Henry Mintzberg

I'm hungrier than all of them. They didn't put in the effort that I did to get the title. So I don't care what it takes - I'm not giving up that title. I worked too hard to get it, and I'm not going to lose it.
Stipe Miocic

Advice almost never functions as a social lubricant; eight or nine times out of ten it makes people lose face, crushes their will, and creates a grudge.
Yokio Mishima

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell

When I am sad and weary
When I think all hope has gone
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on.

Adrian Mitchell

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Margaret Mitchell

Nancy Mitford - See  Nancy Freeman-Mitford

Don't talk about yourself, it will be done when you leave.
Addison Mizner

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
Wilson Mizner

I drink a glass of water and half a lemon as soon as I wake up. I heard that it's supposed to balance your body's pH. Not sure if that's true, but to be honest, it really helps with bloating.
Sonoya Mizuno

Age will bring all things, and everyone knows, Madame, that twenty is no age to be a prude.
Molière

Allow me, then, Mademoiselle, to place today on the altar of your charms, the offering of my heart, which aspires to and strives after no other glory than for the rest of its life to be, Mademoiselle your very humble, very obedient and very faithful servant and husband.
Molière

It is public scandal that gives offence, and it is no sin to sin in secret.
Molière

Nearly all men die of their medicines, and not of their illnesses.
Molière

I treat everything as a learning experience; then you become detached from the result and more interested in the experience itself.
Lorraine Moller

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
Walter Mondale

Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.
Marilyn Monroe

I want to die young at a ripe old age.
Ashley Montagu

It's all been very interesting.
Mary Wortley Montagu

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
Michel de Montaigne

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.
Michel de Montaigne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Michel de Montaigne

Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.
Michel de Montaigne

The thing I fear most is fear.
Michel de Montaigne

An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations.
Montesquieu

Man should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
Montesquieu

Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini  - See Paul VI

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody

I just got to a point where I was lying to myself constantly, so I had to face up to that. It was a lot of... I don't want to use the words self sacrifice, but that's what it felt like. It was giving up who I thought I was and starting over from scratch and realizing the man that I am was good enough.
Ivan Moody

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.
Alan Moore

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
George Moore

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Moore

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.

Thomas Moore

Baltasar Gracián y Morales - See  Baltasar Gracián

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
Evo Morales

Shoot straight you bastards and don't make a mess of it!
Breaker Morant

Trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles spring.

Hannah More

I die the King's good servant, but God's first.
Thomas More

I do not care very much what men say of me, provided that God approves of me.
Thomas More

If the parties will at my hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
Thomas More

In no victory do they glory so much as in that which is gained by dexterity and good conduct without bloodshed.
Thomas More

Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
Fabrizio Moreira

If you want to become physically stronger, you'll need healthy habits - like going to the gym. You'll also have to give up unhealthy habits - like eating junk food. Building mental strength requires healthy habits - like practicing gratitude - while also giving up unhealthy behavior, like giving up after the first failure.
Amy Morin

When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for a job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
Akio Morita

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
John Morley

Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
Robert Morley

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
Jim Morrison

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the windows of the soul. When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Jim Morrison

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison

Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Jim Morrison

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison

Film spectators are quiet vampires.
Jim Morrison

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
Jim Morrison

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Jim Morrison

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
Jim Morrison

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
Jim Morrison

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Jim Morrison

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Jim Morrison

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Jim Morrison

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
Jim Morrison

Love cannot save you from your own fate.
Jim Morrison

Music inflames temperament.
Jim Morrison

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Jim Morrison

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
Jim Morrison

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim Morrison

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Jim Morrison

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim Morrison

The time to hesitate is through.
Jim Morrison

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
Jim Morrison

This is the strangest life I've ever known.
Jim Morrison

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Jim Morrison

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim Morrison

Where's your will to be weird?
Jim Morrison

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
Jim Morrison

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
Dwight Morrow

A man with a bristling grey beard [a yachtsman], said: I made up my mind, when I bought my first boat, never to learn to swim ... When you're in a spot of trouble, if you can swim you try to strike out for the shore. You invariably drown. As I can't swim, I cling to the wreckage and they send a helicopter out for me. That's my tip, if you ever find yourself in trouble, cling to the wreckage!
John Mortimer

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
John Mortimer

Restaurants have this in common with ladies: the best are often not the most enjoyable, nor the grandest the most friendly, and the pleasures of the evening are frequently spoiled by the writing of an exorbitant cheque.
John Mortimer

Mother of Father's Day - See  Sonora Smart Dodd

Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda Mottola - See Thalía

If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
Remarks made at the Department of Justice, May 29, 2019.
Robert Mueller

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Eligius Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen  - See Friedrich Halm

Hector Hugh Munro - See  Saki

Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.
Clint Murchison

I don't give a damn what the media critics say. It's what your readers say. If you haven't got any readers, you're only talking to yourself.
Rupert Murdoch

I spent the better part of the past three months enduring criticism that is normally leveled at some kind of genocidal tyrant.
Regarding his acquisition of the Wall Street Journal.
Rupert Murdoch

I try to keep in touch with the details - you can't keep in touch with them all, but you've got to have a feel for what's going on.
Rupert Murdoch

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.
Rupert Murdoch

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Rupert Murdoch

We're not going global because we want to or because of any megalomania, but because it's really necessary.
Rupert Murdoch

Today is a good day to die. I forgive all of you. I hope God does too.
Mario Benjamin Murphy

Human resources are the greatest assets of any company. You can raise tariffs or prevent MNCs from entering, but one can't stop the employees from leaving if they are dissatisfied.
Narayana Murthy

I do not really understand the stock market.
Narayana Murthy

It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land. One has to only think global. Otherwise success will disappear like the dew in the morning sun.
Narayana Murthy

Organizations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.
Narayana Murthy

You do not have to be the son of a rich man to be an entrepreneur. Today kids are far more willing to take risks because they've seen high rewards.
Narayana Murthy

Shoot me in the chest!
Benito Mussolini

Golda Myerson - See  Golda Meir

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