MACHINES : One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. But no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

MADMAN : There's a pinch of the madman in every great man. (Unknown Source: )

MADNESS : A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. (Nikos Kazantzakis: Greek writer and nine-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1883-1957)

MADNESS : Sanity is very rare; every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

MAGIC : Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Arthur C. Clarke: U.S. science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008)

MAIL : Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures—in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

MAINTENANCE : The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

MAJORITY : In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. (Unknown Source: )

MAJORITY : It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

MAJORITY : Morality is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. (Alfred N. Whitehead: English mathematician and philosopher whose studies have found application to a wide variety of disciplines, 1861-1947)

MAJORITY : One man with courage makes a majority . (Andrew Jackson: U.S. lawyer, soldier, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States, 1767-1845)

MAJORITY : The deadliest contagion is majority opinion. (Henry S. Haskins: U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)

MAJORITY : The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

MAJORITY : The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

MAJORITY : Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

MALES : I love the male body; it’s better designed than the male mind. (Andrea Newman: English author and teacher, Born 1938)

MALES : There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

Malice : Malice hurts itself most. (Unknown Source: )

MANAGEMENT : A company is judged by the president it keeps. (Unknown Source: )

MANAGEMENT : Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. (J. C. Pollard: U.S. actor, Born 1939)

MANAGEMENT : Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. (John D. Rockefeller Sr.: U.S. business magnate and philanthropist who is widely considered the wealthiest U.S. American of all time, and the richest person in modern history, 1839-1937)

MANAGEMENT : Hire character. Train skill. (Peter Schultz: U.S. chemist, professor, and the founding director of the California Institute for Biomedical Research, Born 1956)

MANAGEMENT : Hire character. Train skill. (Peter Schultz: U.S. chemist, professor, and the founding director of the California Institute for Biomedical Research, Born 1956)

MANAGEMENT : If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. (Soichire Honda: Japanese engineer and industrialist who In 1948 established the Honda Motor Co., 1906-1991)

MANAGEMENT : It’s easy to make things hard, but hard to make things easy. (Jos D. BLOK: Dutch founder and CEO of Buurtzorg, a home-based health care community organization, Born 1960)

MANAGEMENT : Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

MANAGEMENT : Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits. (Casey Stengel: U.S. Major League Baseball player and manager of the New York Yankees who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1890-1975)

MANAGEMENT : One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

MANAGEMENT : Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

MANAGEMENT : Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

MANAGEMENT : The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. (Anna Jameson: Anglo-Irish writer and art historian, 1794-1860)

MANAGEMENT : To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential. (Unknown Source: )

MANAGEMENT : Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. [Known as Parkinson’s Law] (Cyril N. Parkinson: British naval historian and author of some 60 books, 1909-1963)

MANHOOD : I do not torture animals, and I do not support the torture of animals, such as that which goes on at rodeos: cowardly men in big hats abusing simple beasts in a fruitless search for manhood. (George Carlin: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, and author, 1937-2008)

MANHOOD : Macho does not prove mucho. (Zsa Zsa Gabor: Hungarian-American actress and socialite, 1917-2016)

MANNERS : It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples . . . and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650)

MANNERS : Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

MANNERS : Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. (Abel Stevens: U.S. clergyman, editor, and author of religious history, 1815-1897)

MANNERS : What once were vices are now manners. (Unknown Source: )

MANUFACTURING : Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. (Philip D. Armour: U.S. meatpacking industrialist who founded the Chicago-based firm of Armour & Company, 1832-1901)

MAPS : Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars on poverty are fought to map change. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

MARKETER : In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. (William Osier: Canadian physician, one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and known ast he 'Father of Modern Medicine,' 1849-1919)

MARKETING : Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

MARKETING : People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. (Rob Siltanen: U.S. leading creative marketer responsible for some of the most effective and iconic advertising campaigns)

MARRIAGE : A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. (Danish Proverb: )

MARRIAGE : A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. (Robert Quillen: U.S. journalist and cartoonist, 1887-1948)

MARRIAGE : A husband always prefers his wife's mother-in-law to his own. (Unknown Source: )

MARRIAGE : A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. (Anne T. Fleming: U.S. journalist, novelist, and television commentator, Born 1950)

MARRIAGE : A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. (Madeleine L'Engle: U.S. writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, 1918-2007)

MARRIAGE : A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983)

MARRIAGE : A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own. (Unknown Source: )

MARRIAGE : A wise woman will always let her husband have her way. (Richard B. Sheridan: Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, 1751-1816)

MARRIAGE : Constant togetherness is fine—but only for Siamese twins. (Victoria Billings: U.S. journalist, Born 1945))

MARRIAGE : Every woman should marry—and no man. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

MARRIAGE : Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married—the other half because they're not. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

MARRIAGE : He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

MARRIAGE : I didn’t marry you with the thought of spending lunch times together—just breakfast and dinners. (Marlys Davis: U.S. social ecologist and court reporter, Born 1960)

MARRIAGE : I have three ex-wives. I can't remember any of their names, so I just call 'em Plaintiff. (Lewis Grizzard: U.S. writer and humorist, 1946-1994)

MARRIAGE : If men and women really suit each other . . . they should live next door—and just visit now and then. (Katharine Hepburn: U.S. Academy award-winning actress, 1907-2003)

MARRIAGE : If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it. (Ezra Bowen: U.S. politician)

MARRIAGE : If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. (Anton Chekhov: Russian short-story writer and dramatist, 1860-1904)

MARRIAGE : In addition to marriage vows, vows before becoming parents should be established between partners. (Donald DeGrasse: U.S. mechanical engineer, 1963-2019)

MARRIAGE : In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf. (Ruth B. Ginsburg: U.S. lawyer, jurist, and the second female Associate Justice to be confirmed to the U.S Supreme Court, Born 1933)

MARRIAGE : It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

MARRIAGE : It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

MARRIAGE : It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. (Arab Proverb: )

MARRIAGE : Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

MARRIAGE : Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

MARRIAGE : Let the wife make the husband glad to come homes, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. (Martin Luther: German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)

MARRIAGE : Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Stand together, yet not too near together. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

MARRIAGE : Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. (Sam Levenson: U.S. humorist, television host, and journalist, 1911-1980)

MARRIAGE : Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener. (Paula Deen: U.S. chef, TV personality, and cookbook author, Born 1947)

MARRIAGE : Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone—but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. (Bette Davis: U.S. actress of film, television, and theater, 1908-1989)

MARRIAGE : Love is often a fruit of marriage. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673)

MARRIAGE : Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

MARRIAGE : Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

MARRIAGE : Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. (Stephen Leacock: Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist, 1869-1944)

MARRIAGE : Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

MARRIAGE : Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached. (Jacob M. Braude: U.S. Circuit Court Judge in Illinois, 1896-1970)

MARRIAGE : Marriage is like life: it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

MARRIAGE : Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)

MARRIAGE : Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

MARRIAGE : Never scold a husband, otherwise he will only go where he is not scolded. (Lady Randolph Churchill: American-born British socialite and mother of Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1854-1921))

MARRIAGE : No woman ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes. (Unknown Source: )

MARRIAGE : One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

MARRIAGE : Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. (Simone Signoret: French cinema actress who won a U.S. Academy Award, 1921-1985)

MARRIAGE : She: "Before we got married, you told me you were well-off." He: "I was and didn't know it." (Unknown Source: )

MARRIAGE : Single bliss is better than marital blisters. (Unknown Source: )

MARRIAGE : Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them: children, duties, visits, bores, relations, the things that protect married people from each other. (Edith Wharton: Novelist, short story writer, and designer, whose work portrayed the lives and morals of the Gilded Age, 1862-1937)

MARRIAGE : Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. (Barnett R. Brickner: U.S. Rabbi and founder of the Natl. Jewish Education Association, 1892-1958)

MARRIAGE : The most difficult years of marriage are those following the wedding. (Unknown Source: )

MARRIAGE : The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. (Henry Youngman: English-American comedian and musician, 1906-1988)

MARRIAGE : The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. (Peter DeVries: U.S. editor and novelist known for his satiric wit, 1910-1993)

MARRIAGE : The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward. (Polish Proverb: )

MARRIAGE : There goes more to marriage than four bare legs in a bed. (Italian Proverb: )

MARRIAGE : There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it. (Edgar W. Howe: U.S. novelist and newspaper and magazine editor 1853-1937)

MARRIAGE : There’s a lid for every pot. (Unknown Source: )

MARRIAGE : They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

MARRIAGE : To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)

MARRIAGE : What do you call a woman who knows where her husband is at all times? A widow. (Unknown Source: )

MARRIAGE : When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason. (Molly McGee: U.S. National Football League running-back, 1952-1994)

MARRIAGE : Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

MARRIAGE : You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being. (Richard J. Needham: Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996)

MARRIAGE : You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without. (Unknown Source: )

MARRIAGE : You don't really know the person you marred until you divorce. (Zsa Zsa Gabor: Hungarian-American actress and socialite, 1917-2016)

MARTYRDOM : Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

MARXISM : From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. (Karl Marx: German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary whose name is associated with the social theory - 'Marxism,' 1818-1883)

MASKS : Give a man a mask and he will show his true face. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

MASTERPIECE : When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. (John Ruskin: English art critic, as well as art patron, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. 1819-1900)

MASTERY : All things are difficult before they are easy. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

MASTERY : If you want to master something, teach it! (Richard Feynman: U.S. theoretical physicist, 1918-1988)

MASTERY : Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment? (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

MASTERY : Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

MASTERY : The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried. (Stephen McCrainie: U.S. writer and illustrator of an all-ages graphic novel series, Born 1987)

MASTURBATION : A woman is, occasionally, quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure. (Karl Kraus: Austrian writer, journalist, and three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1874-1936)

MASTURBATION : Masturbation is the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century, it was a disease. in the twentieth, it's a cure. (Thomas Szasz: Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, 1920-2012)

MATERIALISM : Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to restore his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die and then dies having never really lived. (Dalai Lama: 14th Chinese spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Born 1935)

MATERIALISM : You can't take it with you. (Frank Capra: Italian-born U.S. film director, producer, and writer who received an Academy Award for Best Director, 1897-1991)

MATHEMATICIANS : I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. (Unknown Source: )

MATHEMATICS : As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

MATHEMATICS : Why are numbers beautiful? If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is. (Paul Erdos: Hungarian mathematician who was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century, 1913-1996)

MATURATION : A child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. (Ellen Key: Swedish feminist writer and an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, 1849-192)

MATURATION : An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

MATURATION : Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. (Unknown Source: )

MATURATION : Growing old may be mandatory, but growing up is optional. (Unknown Source: )

MATURATION : I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more— the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924)

MATURATION : If only I may grow firmer, simpler—quieter, warmer. (Dag Hammarskjold: Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, 1905-1961)

MATURATION : It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

MATURATION : Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. (Robert N. Bellah: U.S. sociologist and the Elliott Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, 1927-2013)

MATURATION : Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of. (John Wolfenden: British educationalist who supported the decriminalization of homosexuality, 1906-1985)

MATURATION : Tall oaks from little acorns grow. (Unknown Source: )

MATURATION : The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. (Alden Nowlan: Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright, 1933-1983)

MATURATION : The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)

MATURATION : The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line. (Joanna Field: British author and psychoanalyst, 1900-1998)

MATURATION : The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

MATURATION : The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Johann (Jean) P. Richter: German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. 1763-1825)

MATURATION : The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. (Unknown Source: )

MATURATION : The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools. (Marguerite Yourcenar: French novelist, 1903-1987)

MATURATION : There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man. (Louis L'Amour: U.S. author of novels and short stories, many of which were made into films, 1908-1988)

MATURATION : To live is to change, and to be growing is to have changed often. (John H. Newman: Anglican priest, poet, theologian, and later a Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890)

MATURATION : When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant . . . . But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

MATURATION : Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are? (Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the 'Peter Principle- managers rise to the level of their incompetence,' 1919-1990)

MATURATION : You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Unknown Source: )

MATURING : The older you are, the more like yourself you become. (David Salvay: U.S. ophthalmologist, Born 1978)

MATURING : To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. (Henri Bergson: French-Jewish philosopher who was known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality, 1859-1941)

MATURITY : Adulthood is overrated; maturity is underrated. (Michael L. Diamond: U.S. songwriter and rapper, Born 1965)

MATURITY : Don’t try to “age with grace”; age with mischief, audacity, and a good story to tell. (Unknown Source: )

MATURITY : Good character is not formed in a week or a month . . . . Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. (Heraclitus: Pre-Socratic Ionian Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, in modern day Turkey and then part of the Persian Empire, 535—475 B.C.E.)

MATURITY : Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself. (Kejetan von Schlaggenberg: Austrian writer)

MATURITY : Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. (Joshua L. Liebman: U.S. Reform rabbi and best-selling author, best known for the book 'Peace of Mind', 1907-1948)

MATURITY : Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. (John Finley: Canadian singer and songwriter, Born 1945)

MATURITY : The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other. (Francis W. Weller: U.S. author of children's books)

MATURITY : There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman. (Margaret Mead: U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)

MATURITY : There is no such thing as a “self-made” man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone . . . has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts. (George M. Adams: U.S. newspaper columnist and founder of the 'George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service,' 1878-1962)

MEANINGFULNESS : Every man dies. Not every man really lives. (William R. Wallace: U.S. poet, 1819-1881)

MEANINGFULNESS : Happiness is not the end of life; character is. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

MEANINGFULNESS : Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. (Franklin P. Jones: U.S. columnist, 1908-1980)

MEANINGFULNESS : Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide. Those who look outwards dream but those who look inwards awake. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

MEASUREMENT : Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything than can be counted counts. (Unknown Source: )

MEDIA : Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

MEDIA : Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. (Anton Chekhov: Russian short-story writer and dramatist, 1860-1904)

MEDIA : He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy. (John C. Reith: Scottish broadcasting executive who served as the United Kingdom’s first Director-General of the public service British Broadcasting Company, 1889-1971)

MEDIA : I always turn to the sports page first which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but people's failures. (Earl Warren: U.S. politician and jurist, who served as the Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States, 1891-1974)

MEDIA : If it bleeds, it leads [in coverage]. (Unknown Source: )

MEDIA : News is the first rough draft of history. (Benjamin Bradlee: U.S. newspaperman and long-term executive editor of 'The Washington Post,' 1921-2014)

MEDIA : Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual. (John Reeves: U.S. college and professional football player, 1950-2017)

MEDIA : Of all times, in time of war the press should be free. (William Borah: U.S. senator whose 33 years in the Senate led him to be known as the 'Lion of Idaho,’ 1865-1940)

MEDIA : The medium is the message. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

MEDIA : The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. (Carlos Fuentes: Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat, 1928-2012)

MEDIA : To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. (Claude A. Helvetius: French philosopher, freemason, and writer, 1715-1771)

MEDIA : Too often, news organizations perpetuate biases—simply by driving in a rainstorm with broken wipers. (Tony Cox: U.S. radio and television journalist, Born 1958)

MEDIA : Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures—in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. (Antoine de Saint-Expery: French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator, 1900-1944)

MEDIA : Trying to kill slander keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

MEDIA : We're entering an era in which our enemies can make anyone say anything at any point in time. (Barack Obama: U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

MEDIA : You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. (Jessica Mitford: English author, journalist, and civil rights activist, 1917-1996)

MEDICINE : A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. (Unknown Source: )

MEDICINE : As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be . . . well paid. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)

MEDICINE : I don't like the fact that doctors are referred to as practicing. (Janet Schwartz: U.S. family physician)

MEDICINE : I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. (John Donne: English poet, cleric in the Church of England, and member of the English Parliament, 1572-1631)

MEDICINE : It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. (William Osier: Canadian physician, one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and known ast he 'Father of Modern Medicine,' 1849-1919)

MEDICINE : It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying. (Thomas Horder: English physician recognized as a leading clinician and diagnostician of his day, 1871-1955)

MEDICINE : Prolong human life only when you can shorten its miseries. (Stanislaw Lee: Polish poet and aphorist, 1909-1966)

MEDICINE : The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. (Unknown Source: )

MEDICINE : The miserable have no medicine but hope. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

MEDICINE : The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. (Florence Nightingale: English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing, 1820-1910)

MEDICINE : There are some remedies worse than the disease. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

MEDITATION : Meditate to mitigate. (Unknown Source: )

MEDITATION : The quieter you become, the more you can hear. (Ram Dass: U.S. Eastern spiritual teacher, psychologist, and author, 1931-2019)

MELANCHOLY : Melancholy men are of all others the most witty. (Aristotle Onassis: Greek shipping magnate and husband of Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 1906-1975)

MELTING POT : America has been called a melting pot, but it seems better to call it a mosaic, for in it each nation, people, or race which has come to its shores has been privileged to keep its individuality, contributing at the same time its share to the unified pattern of a new nation. (King Baudouin: King of the Belgians for 42 years, 1930-1993)

MEMOIRS : Memoirs are the backstairs of history. (George Meredith: English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was a seven-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1828-1909)

MEMOIRS : When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do—well, that's memoirs. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

MEMORIAL : With our loved one’s passing, heaven gained another angel. (Unknown Source: )

MEMORIES : Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? (Caroline Myss: U.S. author about mysticism and wellness, Born 1952)

MEMORIES : Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. (Saul Bellow: Canadian-American writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts, 1915-2005)

MEMORIES : Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

MEMORIES : One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. (Sigmund Freud: Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939)

MEMORIES : There is nothing . . . more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881)

MEMORIES : There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

MEMORIES : There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. (Carson McCullers: U.S. novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet, 1917-1967)

MEMORY : A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

MEMORY : A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. (Clifton Fadiman: U.S. editor, critic, radio and television personality, 1904-1999)

MEMORY : A liar should have a good memory. (Marcus F. Quintilian: Roman rhetorician from Hispania, 35-100 AD)

MEMORY : And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. (Thomas a. Kempis: German-Dutch clergyman and author of devotional books, 1380-1471)

MEMORY : For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!" (John G. Whittier: U.S. poet, Quaker, and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States, 1807-1892)

MEMORY : Half the fun of nearly everything . . . is thinking about it beforehand, or afterward. (Howard R. Garis: U.S .author, best known for his books featuring the character of Uncle Wiggily Longears, 1873-1962)

MEMORY : History is often overly informed by memory rather than by assessing the facts, telling the story, and rendering a judgment. (Shelby Foote: U.S. historian and novelist who wrote a three-volume history of the American Civil War, 1916-2005)

MEMORY : Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. (James Thurber: U.S. cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, and playwright, 1894-1961)

MEMORY : I never forgive, but I always forget. (James Balfour: Scottish landowner and politician, 1775-1845)

MEMORY : I use memories but I do not allow memories to use me. (Vasukupta: Indian sage who authored the "Shiva Sutras," a text of the Kashmir Shaivism tradition, 860-925)

MEMORY : In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold. (John Leonard: U.S. literary, television, film, and cultural critic, 1939-2008)

MEMORY : In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. (Paul Harvey: U.S. conservative radio broadcaster of news and comment for 56 years, reaching as many as 24 million people a week, 1918-2009)

MEMORY : It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments. (: )

MEMORY : It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit. (Joy Harjo: U.S. poet, musician, author, and the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate, Born 1951)

MEMORY : It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. (Lewis Carroll: English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," 1832-1898)

MEMORY : It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. (Barbara Kingsolver: U.S. novelist, essayist, and poet, Born 1955)

MEMORY : Let us not burden our remembrances / With a heaviness that’s gone. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

MEMORY : Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away—those precious memories. (Unknown Source: )

MEMORY : Looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way. (Edna Ferber: U.S. novelist, short story writer, playwright, and Pulitzer Prize recipient, 1885-1968)

MEMORY : Memories are . . . disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection. (Oliver Sacks: British-U.S. neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer, 1933-2015)

MEMORY : Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. (Corrie Ten Boom: Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust and was sent to a Nazi concentration camp, but later was a Christian writer and public speaker,1892-1983)

MEMORY : Memory The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught. (Rachel Field: U.S. award-winning novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer, 1894-1942)

MEMORY : Memory is history recorded in our brain; memory is a painter; it paints pictures of the past and of the day. (Grandma Moses: U.S. folk artist who at the age of 78 began painting in earnest, (1860-1961))

MEMORY : Memory is the scribe of the soul. (Unknown Source: )

MEMORY : Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. (Unknown Source: )

MEMORY : No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

MEMORY : Nostalgia is a seductive liar. (George W. Ball: U.S. diplomat and banker who also served in the management of the U.S. State Department, 1909-1994)

MEMORY : Not the power to remember, but its very opposite: the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence. (Sholem Asch: Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language, 1880-1957)

MEMORY : Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened but of what people believe happened. (Gerald W. Johnson: U.S. historian, journalist, novelist, editor, 1880-1980)

MEMORY : Nothing is more beautiful than the visiting of memories, EXCEPT, of course, the making of them. (Unknown Source: )

MEMORY : Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

MEMORY : Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours. (Bill Vaughan: U.S. columnist and author, 1915-1977)

MEMORY : One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

MEMORY : Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. (Cyril Connolly: English literary critic, writer, and editor, 1903-1974)

MEMORY : Own what you can always carry with you; know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your bag. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and who was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, 1918-2008)

MEMORY : People forget years and remember moments. (Ann Beattie: U.S. novelist and short-story writer, Born 1947)

MEMORY : People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. (Haruki Murakami: Japanese writer whose novels, essays, and short stories have been translated into 50 languages, Born 1949)

MEMORY : Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

MEMORY : Stop breathing life into the past. It died for a reason. (Unknown Source: )

MEMORY : That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

MEMORY : The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

MEMORY : The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

MEMORY : The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. (Madeleine L'Engle: U.S. writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, 1918-2007)

MEMORY : The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. (Unknown Source: )

MEMORY : The most dangerous political force In America today is a long memory; memory will not die in the Special Collections room of a good library. (J. Q. Brisben: U.S. teacher and political activist, 1934-2012)

MEMORY : The older I get, the better I was. (Van D. Parks: U.S. musician, songwriter, arranger, Born 1943)

MEMORY : The palest ink is better than the best memory. (Unknown Source: )

MEMORY : The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who was among the most popular writers of his era, 1874-1965)

MEMORY : The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. (Eckhart Tolle: German-born resident of Canada, an influential spiritual writer, Born 1948)

MEMORY : The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. (Max Beerbohm: English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist, 1872-1956)

MEMORY : The past is never dead—it is not even past. (William Faulkner: U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962)

MEMORY : The past is never where you think you left it. (Katherine A. Porter: U.S. journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet, and political activist, 1890-1980)

MEMORY : The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. (Mian Kundera: Czech-born French writer, Born 1829)

MEMORY : The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Johann (Jean) P. Richter: German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. 1763-1825)

MEMORY : There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. (Gilbert Parker: Canadian novelist and British politician, 1862-1932)

MEMORY : Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

MEMORY : To be able to look back upon one’s life in satisfaction, is to live twice. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

MEMORY : To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

MEMORY : To improve your memory, lend people money. (Unknown Source: )

MEMORY : To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. (Thomas Campbell: Scottish poet, co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, and an initiator of what became the University College London, 1777-1844)

MEMORY : To want to forget something is to think of it. (Unknown Source: )

MEMORY : Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924)

MEMORY : We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward; they're called dreams. (Jeremy Irons: English actor and activist, Born 1948)

MEMORY : We do not remember days, we remember moments. (Cesare Pavese: Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator, 1908-1950)

MEMORY : We must feel the past under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it. (Jose Ortega y Gasset: Spanish philosopher and essayist, 1883-1955)

MEMORY : We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. (William Wordsworth: English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)

MEMORY : We've been warned against letting the golden hours slip by, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. (James M. Barrie: Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of "Peter Pan," 1860-1937)

MEMORY : Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret? (L. E. Landon: English poet and novelist, 1802-1838)

MEMORY : What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. (Unknown Source: )

MEMORY : When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back. (Omar Khayyam: Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, 1048-1131)

MEMORY : When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

MEMORY : Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. (George Orwell: English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic, known for his outspoken support of democratic socialism, 1903-1950)

MEN : Men are not against women; they are merely for themselves. (Gene Fowler: U.S. journalist and author, 1890-1960)

MENACE : The only menace is inertia. (Saint John Perse: French poet, writer, and diplomat who was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1887-1975)

MENTORING : Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. (Neil d. Tyson: U.S. astrophysicist and author, Born 1958)

MENTORING : Every student needs someone who says, simply, 'You mean something, You count.' (Tony Kushner: U.S. playwright, screenwriter, and recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Born 1956)

MENTORING : I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them. (Harold Geneen: U.S. businessman most famous for serving as president of the ITT Corporation, 1910-1997)

MENTORING : If we treat people as they are, we make then worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

MENTORING : The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. (Steven Spielberg: U.S. filmmaker who has been considered one of the most popular directors and producers in film history, Born 1946)

MENTORING : The road from apprentice to mentor runs through the mountains. (Unknown Source: )

MENTORING : When you counsel someone, you should . . . be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

MENTORING : You cannot teach a man anything: you can only help him find it within himself. (GALILEI GALILEO: Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who has been called the ‘father of observational astronomy,’ and the ‘father of modern physics,’ 1564-1642)

MENTORING : You don't have to fix anyone. Just be available to do your part. (Rhea Zakich: U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)

MENTORS : Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)

MENTORS : The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

MENTORS : True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. (Nikos Kazantzakis: Greek writer and nine-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1883-1957)

MERCY : I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

MERCY : When you experience mercy . . . you begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us. (Bryan Stevenson: U.S. lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law, Born 1959)

MERRIMENT : A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. (Unknown Source: )

MERRIMENT : Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter / Sermons and soda-water the day after. (Lord Byron: English poet and politician who has been recognized as one of the greatest English poets whose work remains widely read and influential, 1788-1824)

MERRIMENT : Who loves not women, wine and song, Remains a fool his whole life long. (Martin Luther: German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)

Metaphors : Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. (Olson S. Card: U.S. writer known best for his science fiction works)

METHODOLOGY : All fish are not caught with flies. (John Lyly: English playwright, poet, dramatist, and courtier, 1554-1606)

MICROBES : Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word (Louis Pasteur: French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, 1822-1895)

MICROSCOPE : The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope [alluding to the research done to get rid of the mosquito]. (Ronald Ross: British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his work on the transmission of malaria via the mosquito, 1857-1932)

MILESTONES : Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. (Rose Kennedy: U.S. philanthropist, socialite, centenarian, and the mother of nine children, including President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy, 1890-1995)

MILITARISM : The evils of free-market capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

MILITARY : A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social upliftis is approaching spiritual doom. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

MILITARY : An army marches on its stomach. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

MILITARY : Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

MILITARY : If even one percent of our defense budget were given to diplomacy, it would quadruple the amount we are currently spending on diplomacy. (Joseph Nye: U.S. political scientist and author of "Soft Power," Born 1937)

MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX : Beware of the military-industrial complex; It may destroy within what it's protecting from without. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

MIND : A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but a wonderful thing to invest in. (Arthur Fletcher: U.S. government official, widely referred to as the 'Father of Affirmative Action,' 1924-2005)

MIND : A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open. (Frank Zappa: U.S. musician, singer, composer, songwriter, bandleader, and satirist of U.S. culture, 1940-1993)

MIND : A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

MIND : All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

MIND : Books, minds, and umbrellas only work if they’re open. (Unknown Source: )

MIND : Fear is only deep as the mind allows. (Japanese Proverb: )

MIND : I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300. (Alan Watts: British philosopher who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. 1915-1973)

MIND : The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind. (Unknown Source: )

MIND : The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

MIND : The mind is not a vessel that needs filling but wood that needs igniting. (Plutarch: Greek historian, biographer. moralist, and essayist, best known for his in-depth biographies of famous Romans and Greeks detailed in his writings of "Parallel Lives," c. 45—120 C.E.)

MIND : The mind, once enlightened, cannot again be dark. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

MIND : There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

MIND : Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. (Napoleon Hill: U.S. self-help author whose books focused on principles to achieve success, 1883-1970)

MINDSET : Your world is as big as you make it. (Georgia D. Johnson: U.S. poet and journalist who was one of the earliest female African-American playwrights and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance, 1880-1966)

MIRACLES : A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. (Frederick Buechner: U.S. writer, novelist, poet, essayist, pastor, and theologian, Born 1926)

MIRACLES : It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

MIRACLES : Out of difficulties grow miracles. (Jean d. Bruyere: French philosopher and moralist, 1645-1696)

MIRRORS : A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

MIRRORS : How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten. (Daphne du Maurier: English novelist and playwright, 1907-1989)

MIRRORS : Mirrors are not what they used to be. (Merete Norballe: Danish-French educational administrator, psychologist, and commentator, Born 1934)

MIRRORS : Mirrors—those revealers of the truth—are hated; but that does not prevent them from being of use. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

MIRRORS : The best mirror is an old friend. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

MISANTHROPY : Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. (Giacomo Leopardi: Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist, 1798-1837)

MISANTHROPY : Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

MISANTHROPY : The man who feels that he must be hopeful and cheerful to get along ignores the careers of some pretty successful misanthropes. (Henry S. Haskins: U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)

MISBEHAVIOR : Boys will be boys. (English proverb: )

MISBEHAVIOR : When the cat's away the mice will play. (English proverb: )

MISERS : Misers aren't fun to live without they make wonderful ancestors. (David Brenner: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, and author, 1936-2014)

MISERY : A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. (Joseph Addison: English essayist, poet, playwright, politician, and co-founder of 'The Spectator' magazine, 1672-1719)

MISERY : Misery is poverty felt morally. (Eugene Buret: French sociologist, journalist, and economist, 1810-1842)

MISERY : There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. (Alexandre Dumas: French novelist and playwright who is one of the most widely read French authors, 1802-18870)

MISFORTUNE : Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

MISFORTUNE : Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. (Washington Irving: U.S. short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat, 1783-1859)

MISFORTUNE : Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them. (Unknown Source: )

MISFORTUNES : Blessings never come in pairs; misfortunes never come alone. (Chinese Proverb: )

MISFORTUNES : The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

MISFORTUNES : Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

MISINFORMATION : If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

MISINTERPRETATION : No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. (Christian Boyee: U.S. writer, 1820-1904)

MISPERCEPTION : By understanding our perception gaps, working to overcome our mistrust of the other side, and resisting the forces that seek to divide us, we can advance towards a future that we all want. (The Hidden Tribes (non-profit group): )

MISPERCEPTION : The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. (Georges Bidault: French politician, 1899-1983)

MISPERCEPTION : There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935))

MISPERCEPTION : They who dance are thought to be insane by those who hear not the music. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

MISREPRESENTATION : No good deed goes unpunished. (U.S. Proverb: )

MISSIONARIES : When the white missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land. (Desmond Tutu: South African Anglican Archbishop known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist and the first black African to hold the position, Born 1931)

MISSTEPS : A stumble may prevent a fall. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

MISTAKES : A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying . . . that he is wiser today than yesterday (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

MISTAKES : A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

MISTAKES : A mistake is not a failure, but rather is evidence that someone tried to do something. (Unknown Source: )

MISTAKES : A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant. (Unknown Source: )

MISTAKES : An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. (Orlando A. Battista: Canadian-American chemist and author, 1917-1995)

MISTAKES : Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

MISTAKES : Don't be afraid to admit you were wrong. It's like saying you're wiser today than you were yesterday. (Unknown Source: )

MISTAKES : Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped. (African Proverb: )

MISTAKES : Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

MISTAKES : Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. (Dorothy Galyean: US. author, 1959-2019)

MISTAKES : From their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future (Plutarch: Greek historian, biographer. moralist, and essayist, best known for his in-depth biographies of famous Romans and Greeks detailed in his writings of "Parallel Lives," c. 45—120 C.E.)

MISTAKES : He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes. (Spanish Proverb: )

MISTAKES : He who does nothing makes no mistakes. (Italian Proverb: )

MISTAKES : He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on the sea. (Unknown Source: )

MISTAKES : If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. (Unknown Source: )

MISTAKES : If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer: German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, 1906-1945)

MISTAKES : If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions (Catherine Cook: U.S. co-founder of 'My Yearbook' at age 15, Born 2001)

MISTAKES : If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough. (Vince Lombardi: U.S. football player, championship coach, and executive in the National Football League, 1913-1970)

MISTAKES : In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. (Robert T. Kiyosaki: Japanese-U.S. entrepreneur and author, Born 1947)

MISTAKES : I’ve learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my mistakes. (Unknown Source: )

MISTAKES : Let us not be needlessly bitter; certain failures are sometimes fruitful. (Emil M. Cioran: Romanian philosopher and essayist who published works in both Romanian and French, 1911-1995)

MISTAKES : Life is a series of relapses and recoveries. (George Ade: U.S. writer, 1866-1944)

MISTAKES : Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance. (William E. Channing: U.S. Unitarian preacher and one of Unitarian's foremost theologians, 1780-1842)

MISTAKES : Mistakes are often the best teachers. (James A. Froude: English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor, 1818-1894)

MISTAKES : Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. (Sophia Loren: Italian actress and Hollywood screen legend, Born 1934)

MISTAKES : Mistakes are the portals for discovery. (James Joyce: Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic, 1882-1941)

MISTAKES : Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. (Unknown Source: )

MISTAKES : No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. (Frederick W. Robertson: English theologian, 1816-1853)

MISTAKES : No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. (Turkish Proverb: )

MISTAKES : Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

MISTAKES : Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes. (French Proverb: )

MISTAKES : Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them. (James E. Sweeney: U.S. Licensed psychologist, 1942-2023)

MISTAKES : Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. (Emily Kimbrough: U.S. author and broadcaster, 1899-1989)

MISTAKES : Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future. (Dale Turner: U.S. singer-songwriter and rock musician, noted for his sophisticated song-craft)

MISTAKES : Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

MISTAKES : Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. . . . You have to fail in order to practice being brave. (Mary Tyler Moore: U.S. actress, producer, author, and activist, 1936-2017)

MISTAKES : The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer. (German Proverb: )

MISTAKES : The folly of one man is the fortune of another. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

MISTAKES : The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one. (John C. Maxwell: U.S. author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership, Born 1947)

MISTAKES : The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

MISTAKES : The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. (Edward J. Phelps: U.S. lawyer, diplomat, and founder of the American Bar Association, 1822-1900)

MISTAKES : The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake; you can’t learn anything from being perfect. (Unknown Source: )

MISTAKES : There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. (Robin Sharma: Canadian attorney and writer of publication on stress management and spirituality, Born 1964)

MISTAKES : There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. (Leonard Cohen: Canadian musician, poet, and novelist, 1934-2016)

MISTAKES : What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road? (Unknown Source: )

MISTRUST : By understanding our perception gaps, working to overcome our mistrust of the other side, and resisting the forces that seek to divide us, we can advance towards a future that we all want. (The Hidden Tribes (non-profit group): )

MISTRUST : I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. (Susan B. Anthony: U.S. Quaker social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)

MISUNDERSTANDINGS : Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. (Unknown Source: )

MISUNDERSTANDINGS : Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. (Unknown Source: )

MOBS : It has been said . . . that the mob has many heads, but no brains. (Antoine de Rivarol: Royalist French writer and translator, 1753-1801)

MOBS : The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

MODELS : Our greatest strength is the power of our example, not just the example of our power. (Joseph Biden: U.S. Democratic 47th president of the U.S., as well as U.S. vice-president and senator, Born 1942)

MODERATION : A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. (: )

MODERATION : Better is the enemy of good. (Voltaire: )

MODERATION : Dine on little, and sup on less. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

MODERATION : Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. (William A. McDonough: U.S. architect and the dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, Born 1951)

MODERATION : Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess. (Unknown Source: )

MODERATION : Everything in moderation, including moderation. (Corita Kent: U.S. Roman Catholic religious sister, artist, and educator, 1918-1986)

MODERATION : I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)

MODERATION : If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. (Unknown Source: )

MODERATION : In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. (Unknown Source: )

MODERATION : Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. (Julia Child: U.S. chef, author and television personality who is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the U.S. public, 1912-2004)

MODERATION : Observe due measure; moderation is best in all things. (Hesiod: Greek poet, along with Homer, whose writings serve as a major source on Greek mythology, ca. 750—650 B.C.E.)

MODERATION : There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. (John Ciardi: U.S. poet, translator, and etymologist, 1916-1986)

MODERNITY : The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. (Antoine Gramsci: Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer, and politician, 1891-1936)

MODERNITY : The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism. (Jules B. d'Aurevilly: French novelist and short story writer, 1808-1889)

MODESTY : A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him. (Edgar W. Howe: U.S. novelist and newspaper and magazine editor 1853-1937)

MODESTY : Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. (Lord Stanhope: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

MODESTY : Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

MODESTY : Concealed talent brings no reputation. (Epicurus: Greek philosopher, sage, and prolific writer who founded a highly influential school of philosophy now called 'Epicureanism,' 341—270 B.C.E.)

MODESTY : Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

MODESTY : Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows. (Helen Nielsen: U.S. author of mysteries and television scripts for dramas, 1918-2002)

MODESTY : It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

MODESTY : It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. (Judith Martin: U.S. journalist, author, and etiquette authority, Born 1938)

MODESTY : Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

MODESTY : Modesty is the conscience of the body. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)

MODESTY : Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

MODESTY : Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. (Unknown Source: )

MODESTY : The strongest person in any room is the one who speaks the least. (Unknown Source: )

MODESTY : The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

MODESTY : The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. (Nicolas Boileau: French poet and critic, 1636-1711)

MODESTY : There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. (Evelyn B. Hall: English writer best known for her biography of the author, Voltaire, 1868-1956)

MODESTY : With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)

MODIFICATIONS : We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

MOMENTS : If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. (Maria Edgeworth: Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature, as well as a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe, 1768-1849)

MOMENTS : Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. (Rose Kennedy: U.S. philanthropist, socialite, centenarian, and the mother of nine children, including President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy, 1890-1995)

MOMENTS : Most butterflies live only 8–10 days but they count not months but moments, And have time enough. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

MOMENTS : People forget years and remember moments. (Ann Beattie: U.S. novelist and short-story writer, Born 1947)

MOMENTS : The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who was among the most popular writers of his era, 1874-1965)

MOMENTS : We do not remember days, we remember moments. (Cesare Pavese: Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator, 1908-1950)

MONARCHIES : When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. (Turkish Proverb: )

MONARCHY : The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

MONEY : A fool and his money are soon parted. (English proverb: )

MONEY : Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul (John Wycliffe: English scholastic philosopher and theology professor at the University of Oxford, Died 1384)

MONEY : Follow the money. (Jeppe G. Gram: Danish screenwriter and co-creator of a Danish television financial crime thriller , Born 1976)

MONEY : I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. (Judy Garland: U.S. actress and singer with a powerful contalto voice, 1922-1969)

MONEY : If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

MONEY : If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians. (Warren Buffett: U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930)

MONEY : If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it. (Ezra Bowen: U.S. politician)

MONEY : In investing, what is comfortable is rarely what is profitable. (Robert Arnott: U.S. entrepreneur, investor, editor, and writer, Born 1954)

MONEY : Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

MONEY : Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology. (Seth Klarman: U.S. billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and author, Born 1957)

MONEY : It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in a while and be sure we have the things money can't buy. (George H. Lorimer: U.S. journalist, author, and publisher, who is best known as the editor for 37 years of 'The Saturday Evening Post,' 1867-1937)

MONEY : It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

MONEY : Laws go where dollars please. (Unknown Source: )

MONEY : Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. (Henry Fielding: English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)

MONEY : Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

MONEY : Money and trade are as much contraband of war as powder. (William T. Sherman: U.S. Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare, 1820-1891)

MONEY : Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with. (Unknown Source: )

MONEY : Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. (Christopher Marlowe: English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era, 1564-1593)

MONEY : Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in a female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. (Marya Marines: U.S. Marine Corps data base)

MONEY : Money is not an aphrodisiac; the desire it may kindle in a female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. (Unknown Source: )

MONEY : Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

MONEY : Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. (Henry Fielding: English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)

MONEY : Money is the mother's milk of politics. (Jesse Unruh: U.S. Democratic politician, 1922-1987)

MONEY : Money won’t create success; the freedom to make it will. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

MONEY : Morally tainted money is worth less than the value. (Unknown Source: )

MONEY : No man's credit is as good as his money. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)

MONEY : Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we can't eat money. (Unknown Source: )

MONEY : Poverty is one thing money can't buy. (Lynwood L. Giacomini: U.S. publishing representative and a bibliophile, 1913-1991)

MONEY : Sex is like money; only too much is enough. (John Updike: U.S. novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, literary critic, and one of only three writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, 1932-2009)

MONEY : Show me the money! (Cameron Crowe: U.S. director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, author, and actor, Born 1957)

MONEY : Some people make money the old-fashioned way. They inherit it. (Unknown Source: )

MONEY : Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

MONEY : There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. (Logan P. Smith: U.S.- born British essayist and critic who was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, 1865-1946)

MONEY : Time is money. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton: English writer and politician who coined the phrases 'the great unwashed,' 'the pursuit of the almighty dollar,' and 'the pen is mightier than the sword,' 1803-1873)

MONEY : We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it? (Ivy B. Priest: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Treasurer and California State Treasurer, 1905-1975)

MONEY : When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem. (Richard J. Needham: Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996)

MONEY : When somebody says "It's not about the money," it's about the money. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956)

MONEY : Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? (Unknown Source: )

MONEY : Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

MONEY : Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

MONEY : You can't take it with you. (Frank Capra: Italian-born U.S. film director, producer, and writer who received an Academy Award for Best Director, 1897-1991)

MONEY (U.S.A.) : America is a country where half the money is spent buying food, and the other half is spent trying to lose weight. (Unknown Source: )

MONOTONY : Any idiot can face a crisis; it's day to day living that wears you out. (Anton Chekhov: Russian short-story writer and dramatist, 1860-1904)

MONOTONY : Monotony is the awful reward of the careful. (Alfred G. Buckham: British photographer who specialized in aerial photography, 1879-1956)

MONOTONY : The problem with life is that it's so daily. (Rich Mullins: U.S. Christian music singer and songwriter best known for his worship songs, 1955-1997)

MONSTERS : Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. (Stephen King: U.S. author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, horror, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels, Born, 1947)

MONTHS : Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November / All the rest have thirty-one excepting February alone / Which hath but twenty-eight, is fine / Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. (Unknown Source: )

MOODS : She's not moody. She's just known for her versatility of emotions. (Unknown Source: )

MOODS : Sometimes . . . when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place. (J. Lynn: U.S. author of of contemporary romance and fantasy, Born1980)

MOODS : Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. (Thomas Mann: German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1875-1955)

MOODS : What is up if you know nothing of down? (Hugh Laurie: English actor, musician, comedian, Born 1981)

MOON LANDING : That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. (Neil Armstrong: U.S. astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon, 1930-2012)

MORALE : Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. (Dwight D. Eisenhower: U.S. politician and five-star Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

MORALITY : A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)

MORALITY : Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. (Felix Adler: German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, influential lecturer on euthanasia, religious leader, and social reformer, 1851-1933)

MORALITY : All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

MORALITY : Be not simply good; be good for something. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

MORALITY : Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them in the name of morality. (William S. Coffin: U.S. Christian clergyman, long-time peace activist, and CIA officer, 1924-2006)

MORALITY : He who steals an egg would steal a cow. (French Proverb: )

MORALITY : In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

MORALITY : It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

MORALITY : Law's history is the history of the moral development of the race. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

MORALITY : Many people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. (Logan P. Smith: U.S.- born British essayist and critic who was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, 1865-1946)

MORALITY : Morality is contraband in war. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

MORALITY : Morality is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. (Alfred N. Whitehead: English mathematician and philosopher whose studies have found application to a wide variety of disciplines, 1861-1947)

MORALITY : Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

MORALITY : No good deed goes unpunished. (U.S. Proverb: )

MORALITY : One must want to experience the great problems with one’s body and one’s soul. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

MORALITY : One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. (Arthur C. Clarke: U.S. science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008)

MORALITY : Our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

MORALITY : Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage. (Wendell Phillips: U.S. attorney, abolitionist, and advocate for Native Americans, 1811-1884)

MORALITY : The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

MORALITY : The books that the world calls immoral books are books that show the world its own shame. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

MORALITY : The day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race. (Jill Tweedie: British feminist, writer, and broadcaster 1936-1993)

MORALITY : The moral progress of a nation can be judged by the way it treats its animals. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

MORALITY : The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. (Anthony Ashley-Cooper: British philanthropist and social reformer, 1801-1885)

MORALITY : The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes. (Mary Renault: English writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece, 1905-1983)

MORALITY : The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned. (Hartley Shawcross: British barrister, politician, and lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal, 1902-2003)

MORALITY : The time is always right to do what is right. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

MORALITY : The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. (Unknown Source: )

MORALITY : War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

MORALITY : What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. (Ernest Hemingway: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1899-1961)

MORALITY : When hope is taken away from the people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

MORALITY : Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956)

MORALITY : Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to b faithless and cannot. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

MORALITY (U.S.A.) : To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)

MORNINGS : Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it. (Richard Whately: English rhetorician, logician, economist, academic, and theologian, 1787-1863)

MORNINGS : We are new every day. (Irene C. Castillego: British-Spanish writer and Jungian analyst, 1885-1967)

MORTALITY : Woman is at once apple and serpent. (Heinrich Heine: German poet, writer and literary critic whose radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities, 1797-1856)

MOSAIC : America has been called a melting pot, but it seems better to call it a mosaic, for in it each nation, people, or race which has come to its shores has been privileged to keep its individuality, contributing at the same time its share to the unified pattern of a new nation. (King Baudouin: King of the Belgians for 42 years, 1930-1993)

MOSQUITOES : The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope [alluding to the research done to get rid of the mosquito]. (Ronald Ross: British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his work on the transmission of malaria via the mosquito, 1857-1932)

MOTHERHOOD : A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done. (Unknown Source: )

MOTHERHOOD : A mother discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. (Gabriel G. Marquez: Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1927-2014)

MOTHERHOOD : A mother is only as happy as her least happy child. (Unknown Source: )

MOTHERHOOD : An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish Proverb: )

MOTHERHOOD : God couldn’t be everywhere, so He made mothers. (Jewish proverb: )

MOTHERHOOD : Men are what their mothers made them. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

MOTHERHOOD : Mother! That was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. (T. D. TALMAGE: U.S. preacher and clergyman who held pastorates in the Reformed Church in America and Presbyterian Church, 1832-1902)

MOTHERHOOD : My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch. (Jack Nicholson: U.S. actor and filmmaker whose career spanned more than 50 years,Born 1937)

MOTHERHOOD : No matter how old a mother is, she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. (Florida Scott-Maxwell: U.S. playwright, author and psychologist, 1883-1979)

MOTHERHOOD : The heart of a mother is a deep abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. (Honore de Balzac: French novelist and playwright, 1799-1850)

MOTHERHOOD : The term working mother is ridiculously redundant. (Donna Reed: U.S. film and television actress,1921-1986)

MOTHERHOOD : There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. (Jill Churchill: U.S. award-winning author, 1943-2023)

MOTHERHOOD : You educate a man, you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. (Brigham Young: U.S. religious leader of the Mormon Church and politician, who founded of Salt Lake City and served as the first governor of the Utah Territory, 1801-1877)

MOTHERS : All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar. (Cathy Guisewite: U.S. cartoonist, Born 1950)

MOTHERS : Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but in their hearts forever. (Unknown Source: )

MOTHERS-IN-LAW : Few mistakes can be made by a mother-in-law who is willing to baby-sit. (Unknown Source: )

MOTIVATION : A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

MOTIVATION : Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. (Erwin Rommel: German general and military theorist who served as field marshal in the armed forces of Nazi Germany during World War II, 1891-1944)

MOTIVATION : Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

MOTIVATION : Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. (B. C. Forbes: Scottish-born American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine, 1880-1954)

MOTIVATION : Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

MOTIVATION : Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile. (Unknown Source: )

MOTIVATION : Find what you love and let it kill you. (Charles Bukowski: German–American poet, novelist, and short story writer, 1920-1994)

MOTIVATION : I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses. (Soichire Honda: Japanese engineer and industrialist who In 1948 established the Honda Motor Co., 1906-1991)

MOTIVATION : If one lights a fire for others, it will also brighten one’s own way. (Buddhist Proverb: )

MOTIVATION : If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. (Unknown Source: )

MOTIVATION : If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. (Unknown Source: )

MOTIVATION : In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. (Jane Smiley: U.S. novelist and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Born 1949)

MOTIVATION : It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. (Henry W. Beecher: U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

MOTIVATION : Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. (Franklin P. Jones: U.S. columnist, 1908-1980)

MOTIVATION : Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. (Robert H. Jackson: U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954)

MOTIVATION : Motivation triggers luck. (Mike Wallace: U.S. journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality, 1918-2012)

MOTIVATION : Necessity is the mother of invention. (English proverb: )

MOTIVATION : One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and long life. (Aleksandr Bogomoletz: Ukrainian pathophysiologist, 1881-1946)

MOTIVATION : One starts an action simply because one must do something. (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

MOTIVATION : Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen. (Todd Garland: U.S. founder and CEO of BuySellAds)

MOTIVATION : People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. (Zip Ziglar: U.S. author, salesman, and motivational speaker, 1926-2012)

MOTIVATION : Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. (Caroline Schoeder: U.S. writer of aphorisms, Born 1971)

MOTIVATION : The first step is the hardest. (Unknown Source: )

MOTIVATION : The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. (John Lubbock: English banker, scientist, polymath, 1834-1913)

MOTIVATION : The moment somebody says to me, "This is very risky," is the moment it becomes attractive to me. (Kate Capshaw: U.S. retired actress, Born 1953)

MOTIVATION : The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

MOTIVATION : There are two levers for moving men—interest and fear. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

MOTIVATION : There is no failure except in no longer trying. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

MOTIVATION : To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

MOTIVATION : Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

MOTIVATION : What you praise you increase. (Catherine Ponder: U.S. minister and founder of Unity Church Worldwide, Born 1927)

MOTIVATION : When we are listened to . . . ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. (Brenda Ueland: U.S. journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing, 1891-1985)

MOTIVATION : Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” (Lou Holtz: former U.S. football player, coach, and analyst, Born 1937)

MOUNTAINS : It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. (Edmund Hillary: New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer, Tenzing Norgay, became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, 1919-2008)

MULTI-LINGUALISM : No one is the worse for knowing two languages. (Oliver Mowat: Canadian lawyer, politician, and one of the Fathers of Confederation, 1820-1903)

MULTI-LINGUALITY : Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. (H. Jackson Brown: U.S. author who was best known for his inspirational book, 'Life's Little Instruction Book', which was a New York Times Best Seller, 1940-2021)

MULTI-TASKING : One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other. (Unknown Source: )

MULTI-TASKING : We live in a world of continuous partial attention. (Thomas L. Friedman: U.S. author, foreign affairs columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Born 1953)

MUSIC : A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. (Benny Green: U.S. hard-bop jazz pianist, Born 1963)

MUSIC : A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. (Anne M. Lindbergh: U.S. writer and aviator, 1906-2001)

MUSIC : A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. (Colin Wilson: English writer, philosopher and novelist, 1931-2013)

MUSIC : After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Unknown Source: )

MUSIC : Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time. (Jean-Michel Basquiat: U.S. artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement, 1960-1988)

MUSIC : Chamber music—a conversation among friends. (Catherine D. Bowen: U.S. writer and recipient of the National Book Award, 1897-1973)

MUSIC : Classical music isn't the kind that we keep thinking will turn into a tune. (Frank McKinney: U..S. Olympic swimmer and prominent executive in the American banking industry, 1938-1992)

MUSIC : How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. (Gioacchino Rossini: Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, 1792-1868)

MUSIC : I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. (Igor Stravinsky: Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor who is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century, 1882-1971)

MUSIC : If music be the language of love, play on. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

MUSIC : Jazz arises from a spirit of love; it comes from the mind and heart and goes through the fingertips. (Mary Lou Williams: U.S. versatile pianist who worked with jazz greats of all fields, stretching from stride to boogie-woogie to bop, 1910-1981)

MUSIC : Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains. (Paul Whiteman: U.S. bandleader, composer, and orchestral director, often referred to as the 'King of Jazz,' 1890-1967)

MUSIC : Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. (Ornette Coleman: U.S. jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, composer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1930-2015)

MUSIC : Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. (John P. Sousa: U..S. music conductor, composer of military marches and known best for the 'Stars and Stripes Forever,' 1854-1932)

MUSIC : Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. (Pablo Casals: Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973)

MUSIC : Music has charms to soothe a savage beast / To soften rocks / or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve: English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729)

MUSIC : Music is a more precise language than words. (Felix Mendelssohn: German composer, pianist, organist, and conductor, 1809-1847)

MUSIC : Music is almost a miracle, for it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter. (Heinrich Heine: German poet, writer and literary critic whose radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities, 1797-1856)

MUSIC : Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul. (Martin Luther: German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)

MUSIC : Music is the art of thinking with sounds. (Jules Combarieu: French musicologist and music critic, 1859-1916)

MUSIC : Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean thing. (John Erskine: U.S. educator, author, and musician, 1879-1951)

MUSIC : Music is the universal language of mankind. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

MUSIC : Music touches places beyond our touching. (Keith Bosley: British poet and translator, 1937-2018)

MUSIC : Silence is very important. The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves. (Wolfgang A. Mozart: Austrian composer and musician, 1756-1791)

MUSIC : The devil does not stay where music is. (Martin Luther: German professor of theology, composer, priest, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation, 1483-1546)

MUSIC : The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. (Pablo Casals: Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973)

MUSIC : The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes—ah, that is where the art resides! (Arthur Schnabel: Austrian-American classical pianist, composer, and pedagogue who was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, 1882-1951)

MUSIC : Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. (Gioacchino Rossini: Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, 1792-1868)

MUSIC : Were I able to make the ballads of a nation, I need not write its laws. Songs . . . of a period reflect what happened more accurately and honestly. (Andrew Fletcher: Scottish Lord of Saltoun, writer, judge, and politician who was an opponent of England’s incorporation of Scotland, 1655-1716)

MUSIC : Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)

MUSIC : Without music, life would be a mistake. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

MUTUALITY : Birds of a feather flock together. (English proverb: )

MUTUALITY : Birds of a feather will gather together. (Robert Burton: English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic,"The Anatomy of Melancholy," 1577-1640)

MUTUALITY : Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)

MUTUALITY : Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. (Lin Yutang: Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher, and inventor, 1895-1976)

MUTUALITY : My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours. . . . . We say, "A person is a person through other persons —UBUNTU" (Desmond Tutu: South African Anglican Archbishop known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist and the first black African to hold the position, Born 1931)

MUTUALITY : Pick a piece of the problem that you can help solve while trying to see how your piece fits into the broader social change puzzle. (Unknown Source: )

MUTUALITY : When we show respect for other living things, they show respect for us. (Unknown Source: )

MUTUALITY : You are my other me, we are mirrors of each other. If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and respect you, I love and respect myself. (Unknown Source: )

MYSTERY : Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. (David Wolpe: U.S. Jewish rabbi, named the most influential rabbi in the U.S. by 'Newsweek' magazine and identified as one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the 'Jerusalem Post,' Born 1958)

MYSTERY : Russia is "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.'' (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

MYSTERY : The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

MYTHS : What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. (Walter Lippmann: U.S. reporter, political commentator, writer who coined the word 'Stereotype,' and received two Pulitzer Prizes, 1889-1974))