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Majority
Decision by majorities is as much an expendient as lighting by gas.
GLADSTONE, WILLIAM, EWART
A mojority can do anything.
Joseph G. Cannon
One with the law is majority.
Calvin Coolidge
One and God make a majority.
Frederick Douglass
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious: the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
William Ewart Gladstone
It is my principle that the will of majority should always prevail.
Thomas Jefferson
How a minority,
Reaching majority,
Siezing authority,
Hates a minority!
attributed to leonard harman robbins
The thing we have to fear in this country,
to my way of thinking, is the influence of the
organized minorities, ….
Alfred E. Smith
Malice
Malice is cunning.
Cicero
Malice hath a strong memory.
Thomas Fuller
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
Abraham Lincoln
Man
The absurd man is the one who never changes.
BARTHELEMY, AU GUSTE MARSEILLE
He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.
BEATTIE, JAMES
The style is the man himself.
BUFFON, COMTE DE
How does the poet speak to men, with power, but by being still more a man than they?
CARLYLE, THOMAS
Man is a tool-using animal.
CARLYLE, THOMAS
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
COLBY, FRANK MOORE
All mankind love a lover.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
Man is what he eats.
FEUERBACH, LUDWIG ANDREAS
A man is so in the way in the house.
GASKELL, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN
He was a man who used to notice such things.
HARDY, THOMAS
Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned.
HOMER
The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day.
MILTON, JOHN
A man not old, but melow, like good wine.
PHILIPS, STEPHEN
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in fetters.
ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES
Use every man after his desert, and who should escape whipping?
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Wonders are many, and nothing is more wonderful than man.
SOPHOCLES
Man is the hunter; woman is his game.
ALFRED TENNYSON
Marriage
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
BURTON, ROBERT
Let us be very strange and well-bred; Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while, and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.
CONGREVE, WILLIAM
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
DISRAELI, BENJAMIN
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN
They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.
FULLER, THOMAS
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD
It is safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may inocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave.
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
SWIFT, JONATHAN
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
MIGNON MC LAUGHLIN
I have sometimes thought of marrying, and then I have thought again.
NOEL COWARD
Memory
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM
Memory, the warder of the brain.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Joy’s recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow’s memory is sorrow still.
Lord Byron
Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge.
Cicero
There is no greater sorrow than to recall, in misery, the time when we were happy.
Dante
Memory is the treasure-house of the mind.
Thomas Fuller
We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
Eric Hoffer
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Elbert Hubbard
Women and elephants never forget.
Dorothy Parker
The right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Mercy
Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
William Cowper
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To hide the fault I see:
That mercy I to others show
That mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope
Military
We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction regular part of collegiate education.
Thomas Jefferson
No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.
Theodore Roosevelt
To know when to retreat; and to dare to do it.
Arthur Wllesley
With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer.
Auther Unknown
Real disarmament cannot come unless the nations of the world cease to exploit one another.
MAHATMA GANDHI
Mind
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
AUSTIN, JANE
Compound for sins they are inclined to
By damning those they have no mind to.
BUTLER, SAMUEL
Books cannot always please, however good;
Minds are not ever craving for their food.
COWPER, WILLIAM
For my part I mind my belly very studiously and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
A sound mind in a sound body.
JUVENAL
Coleridge holds that man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple-dumplings. I am not certain but he is right.
LAMB, CHARLES
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
MILTON, JOHN
Beauty stands in the admiration only of weak minds led captive.
MILTON, JOHN
For we are lovers of the beautiful without extravagance, and cultivate our minds without effeminacy.
PERICLES
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
RUSKIN, JOHN
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking; I could wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
SPENSER, EDMUND
A mind conscious of its rectitude.
VIRGIL
And with love, do what you will, there is no risk; there is no conflict. Then love is the essence of virtue. And a mind that is not in a state of love, is not a religious mind at all.
J KRISHNAMURTI
Moderation
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
HALL, JOSEPH
The modern town-dweller has no God and no Devil; he lives without awe, without admiration, without fear.
INGE, WILLIAM RALPH
While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Cicero
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation, has an unstable foundation.
Seneca
Money
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
He that wants money, means and content is without three good friends.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.
Russell H. Conwell
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Bejamin Franklin
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Horace
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
Daniel Webster
Morality
And if I laugh at any mortal thing it is that I may not weep.
BYRON, GEORGE
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
DICKENS, CHARLES
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality: a dislike of men as they are.
Clarence Shepard Day, Jr.
There can by no high civility without a deep morality.
Ralph Walko Emerson
Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
John F. Kennedy
Mortality
Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say;
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
FITZGERALD, EDWARD
I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
FITZGERALD, EDWARD
As the generation of leaves, so also is that of men.
HOMER
Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud!
KNOX, WILLIAM
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be even in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “And this, too, shall pass away.”
Abraham Lincoln
So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;
Ancient and holy things face like a dream
Charles Kingsley
Mother
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
TAYLOR, ANNE
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
THACKERAY
One must propitiate the Divine Mother; the Primal Energy, in order to obtain God’s grace. God himself is Mahamaya, who deludes the world with Her illusion and conjures up the magic of creation, preservation and destruction.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA
That breast of Thine which is inexhaustible, health-giving, by which Thou nursest all that is noble, containing treasure, bearing wealth, bestowed freely lay that bare, divine Mother, for our nurture.
RIG VEDA
Music
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
PATER, WALTER HORATIO
I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
The music is my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
It is not necessary to understand music; it is only necessary that one enjoy it.
Leopold Stokowski