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It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our
offense consists in doubting it.
 M Hawkeye
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity
is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.
 Mabbitt
Ronald
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have
nothing whatever to do with it.
 Mabley
Moms
Sho' they got to have it against the law. Shoot, ever'body git high,
they wouldn't be nobody git up and feed the chickens. Hee-hee.
 MacDonald
Dwight
The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.
 MacDonald
Ross
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or
whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
 Macaulay
Thomas
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
 Macdonald
Ronald
Leave no stone unturned.
 Machiavelli
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
 Machiavelli
Niccolo
Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long.
 Machineri R. Bradbury
Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
 Madariaga
Salvador De
To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D.
 Madison
James
Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing.
 Madonna
To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish.
 Mahabharata
The
Whom the mad would destroy, first they make Gods.
 Mahabharata.
The
Don't get mad, get even.
 Maharbal
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
 Maher
Bill
Thou hast seen nothing yet.
 Mailer
Norman
After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from
Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought,
and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon
to be created."
"This is true," He replied.
 Maistre
Joseph De
Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of
those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the
will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of
government, therefore, Making
I'm going to raise an issue and stick it in your ear.
 Malraux
Andre
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who,
content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
 Mamet
David
Fortune's Guide to Freshman Notetaking:
WHEN THE PROFESSOR SAYS: YOU WRITE:
Probably the greatest quality of the poetry John Milton  Man
Little Big
We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it.
 Manners
Miss
The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums.
It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish.
You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.
 Manson
Charles
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know that he is.
 Manson
Charles
I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I
don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected
with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger,
the food cheaper, and old men Manua Princess Irulan
If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
 Manville
Tommy
To add insult to injury.
 Manville
Tommy
Nice guys finish last.
 Manville
Tommy
My father, a good man, told me, "Never lose your ignorance; you cannot
replace it."
 Marcus Tullius Cicero
The first requisite for immortality is death.
 Margaret Mitchell
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do
the work.
 Mari Clive James on
If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three
years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law
school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.
 Mark Twain
Certain passages in several laws have always defied interpretation and the
most inexplicable must be a matter of opinion. A judge of the Court of
Session of Scotland has sent the editors of this book his candidate which
reads, "In the Nuts (unground Mark Twain
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
 Mark Twain
If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there
better be no trade. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.
 Mark Twain
There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.
 Mark Twain
Fortune and love befriend the bold.
 Mark Twain
Let's remind ourselves that last year's fresh idea is today's cliche.
 Mark Twain
After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from
Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought,
and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon
to be created."
"This is true," He replied.
 Mark Twain
You are never given a wish without also being given the
power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
 Mark Twain
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
 Mark Twain
Charity begins at home.
 Marlon Brando
"MOKE DAT YIGARETTE"
 Marlowe
Christopher
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do,
that makes life blessed.
 Marlowe
Christopher
A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.
 Marlowe
Christopher
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
 Marlowe
Christopher
How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?
 Marquis
Don
A little bit of rape is good for a man's soul.
 Marquis
Don
What makes you think graduate school is supposed to be satisfying?
 Marquis
Don
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
 Marquis
Don
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
 Marr
Bill
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
 Marshall Brickman
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
 Marshall Thurgood
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary
to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know.
Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition
to crave knowledge.
 Martin
Steve
XI:
If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would
get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty
times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all
the managers would fly off.
XII:
I Martin
Thomas L.
God instructs the heart, not by ideas, but by pains and contradictions.
 Martin
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My
opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller
that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
 Martin
The optimum committee has no members.
 Martin
In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth to her
husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never
be free of subjugation.
 Martin Steve
When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is
metaphysics.
 Martin Steve
Confucius say too much.
 Martin Susanna
Dignity is like a flag. It flaps in a storm.
 Martin' Kin Hubbard
Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
 Marx
Groucho
It is not enough that I should succeed. Others must fail.
 Marx
Groucho
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
 Maslow
Your wig steers the gig.
 Masterson
Bat
Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about
can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.
 Mathis
Andrew W.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally
of dealings with men.
 Mau W. Somerset
The meek shall inherit the earth, but *not* its mineral rights.
 Maugh W. Somerset
Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing.
 Maugham
Somerset
Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations.
He then said: If a man does not see or hear the waters of the
Jordan, then he should not taste the pomegranate or ply his wares in an
open market.
If a man would not labour in the salt and rock quarri Maugham
Somerset
Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is liked getting kicked
out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
 Maugham
W. Somerset
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
 Maugham
W. Somerset
per year.
 Maugham
W.S.
A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the
seed from which other committees will bloom.
 Maugham W. Somerset
Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no
wiser. But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.
 Max Beerbohm
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist knows it.
 Mayfield
E.J.
Porsche: there simply is no substitute.
 Mayonnaise
Hellman's
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
 Mayor Kevin White
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work,
work till we die.
 McAfee
Ron
I owe the public nothing.
 McCabe
Charles
God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as
we speak.
 McCall
Cash
I have a simple philosophy:
Fill what's empty.
Empty what's full.
Scratch where it itches.
 McCarthy
Charlie
Genius is pain.
 McCarthy
Charlie
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
 McCarthy
Eugene
Competitive fury is not always anger. It is the true missionary's courage
and zeal in facing the possibility that one's best may not be enough.
 McCarthy
Eugene
If there were a school for, say, sheet metal workers, that after three
years left its graduates as unprepared for their careers as does law
school, it would be closed down in a minute, and no doubt by lawyers.
 McCorkle
Julia Norton
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.
 McDaniel
Hattie
Being a miner, as soon as you're too old and tired and sick and stupid to
do your job properly, you have to go, where the very opposite applies with
the judges.
 McEvoy
J. P.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads
lead down.
 McGee
Travis
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to
examine the laws of heat.
 McGovern
George
Here's to women. Would that we could fall into her arms without falling
into her hands.
 McGuire
Al
If you're like most homeowners, you're afraid that many repairs
around your home are too difficult to tackle. So, when your furnace
explodes, you call in a so-called professional to fix it. The
"professional" arrives in a truck with lettering on t McIntire Carl
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
 McLeod
Thom
Well, the handwriting is on the floor.
 McLuhan.
Marshall
There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital
and labour. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting
each other's throat.
 McShane
Michael
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some
kind of loophole.
 Mead
Margaret
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
 Medawar
Sir Peter
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
 Meese Ed
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car
payments.
 Meir
Golda
I understand why you're confused. You're thinking too much.
 Melvin Belli
Learning without thought is labor lost;
thought without learning is perilous.
 Menander
Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one.
Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
 Menander
Things are not always what they seem.
 Menander
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our
thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another
in the waking state?
 Mencken
H. L.
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that
reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away
someone else's cash.
 Mencken
H. L.
When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.
 Mencken
H. L.
He knows not how to know who knows not also how to unknow.
 Mencken
H. L.
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some
kind of loophole.
 Mencken
H. L.
A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should
be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.
 Mencken
H. L.
The man who has never been flogged has never been taught.
 Mencken
H. L.
We have lingered long enough on the shores of the Cosmic Ocean.
 Mencken
H. L.
To teach is to learn twice.
 Mencken
H.L.
Another day, another dollar.
 Mencken
H.L.
The fact that it works is immaterial.
 Mencken
H.L.
Walking on water wasn't built in a day.
 Mencken
H.L.
A woman employs sincerity only when every other form of deception has failed.
 Mencken
H.L.
Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
 Mencken
H.L.
Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through
satisfaction.
 Mencken
H.L.
The Worst Car Hire Service
When David Schwartz left university in 1972, he set up Rent-a-wreck
as a joke. Being a natural prankster, he acquired a fleet of beat-up
shabby, wreckages waiting for the scrap heap in California.
He put on a cap and lo Mencken
H.L.
In the long run we are all dead.
 Mencken H.L.
The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men
should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal
weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine
we own.
 Mencken H.L.
Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue
ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature.
This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.
 Mencken H.L.
I don't have any use for bodyguards, but I do have a specific use for two
highly trained certified public accountants.
 Mencken H.L.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
 Mencken H.L.
Please try to limit the amount of "this room doesn't have any bazingas"
until you are told that those rooms are "punched out." Once punched out,
we have a right to complain about atrocities, missing bazingas, and such.
 Mencken H.L.
Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson
Bay, left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate.
Using a bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and
great effort pushing boulders into a single Mencken H.L.
A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone,
all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
 Mencken H.L.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
 Mencken H.L.
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
 Mencken H.L.
As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.
 Mengot
Roy
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
 Meredith
George
Housework can kill you if done right.
 Meredith
Owen
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
 Metrop Fran Lebowitz
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
 Mex Jack Handley
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
 Mex Jack Handley The New
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
 Mex Jack Handley The New
Practice yourself what you preach.
 Meyrowitz
N.
Several years ago, some smart businessmen had an idea: Why not build a big
store where a do-it-yourselfer could get everything he needed at reasonable
prices? Then they decided, nah, the hell with that, let's build a home
center. And before long ho Michael Levin
It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward
the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the
case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by
crying babies smoking inexpensiv Michael Levin
"I only touch base with reality on an as-needed basis!"
 Michael Winner British
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
 Michelangelo
L'hazard ne favorise que l'esprit prepare.
 Michener
James A.
Well begun is half done.
 Midler
Bette
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
 Mike Harding
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening
with an insurance salesman?
 Mike Harding
Think lucky. If you fall in a pond, check your pockets for fish.
 Mill
John Stuart
It's always darkest just before the lights go out.
 Mill Dennis
There must be more to life than having everything.
 Miller
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
 Miller
Arthur
It was a female that drove me to drink and I didn't even have the kindness
to thank her.
 Miller
Arthur R.
There is no sin but ignorance.
 Miller
Dennis
Bullwinkle: You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit.
General: What does that make YOU?
Bullwinkle: What else? An executive.
 Miller
Dennis
Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a
rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.
 Miller Dennis
Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future.
 Miller Dennis
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
 Miller.
Olin
The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
 Millman
Dave
"We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call
free enterprise," said Cash McCall, "but when one of our citizens
show enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do
our best to make him feel that he ought t Milne
What fools these mortals be.
 Milton
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a
fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
 Milton
John
Knowledge is power.
 Milton
John
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
 Milton John
What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a
free meandering brook.
 Mitchell Gener
A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.
 Miyamot
I will make you shorter by the head.
 Mizner
Wilson
If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it
is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty.
 Mizner
Wilson
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
 Mizner
Wilson
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
 Mizner
Wilson
The road to Hades is easy to travel.
 Moffitt
James
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags.
 Moliere
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
 Montagu
Lady M.W.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
 Montague
Charles Edward
Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs.
 Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
 Montaigne
Michel de
XLI:
The more one produces, the less one gets.
XLII:
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
XLIII:
Hardware works best when it matters the least.
XLIV:
Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a we Montaigne
Michel de
Diary of a Young Girl LITE(tm)
 Montesquieu
The coast was clear.
 Montesquieu
Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students
who now smoke pot will someday become congressmen and legalize
it in order to protect themselves.
 Montesquieu
I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I
don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected
with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger,
the food cheaper, and old men Moore
Steven
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has
already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished,
and put inside boxes.
 Moose
Bullwinkle
Whenever anyone says, "theoretically," they really mean, "not really."
 Moravia
Alberto
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.)
 More
Sir Thomas
A word to the wise is enough.
 Morgan
J.P.
What we need in this country, instead of Daylight Savings Time, which nobody
really understands anyway, is a new concept called Weekday Morning Time,
whereby at 7 a.m. every weekday we go into a space-launch-style "hold" for
two to three hours, durin Morgan J.P.
Well, we'll really have a party, but we've gotta post a guard outside.
 Morgan J.P.
There are no answers, only cross-references.
 Morley
Christopher
One good turn asketh another.
 Morley
Christopher
Chapter 1
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot
of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
 Morley
Christopher
If a guru falls in the forest with no one to hear him, was he really a
guru at all?
 Morley
Christopher
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
 Morley
John Viscount
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes
we cannot bear to look out of, we blind them as quickly as possible.
 Morris William
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
 Morrisey
Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.
 Moses
Robert
Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think
about sex at all... they become lawyers.
 Moses
Robert
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
 Moss
Stirling
Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters,
con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this
country was built.
 Mostel
Zero
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it
were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
 Mother
Karl Marx's
There seems no plan because it is all plan.
 Muad'dib
The term "fire" brings up visions of violence and mayhem and the ugly scene
of shooting employees who make mistakes. We will now refer to this process
as "deleting" an employee (much as a file is deleted from a disk). The
employee is simply there o Muad'dib
It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the
devil when he is the only explanation of it.
 Muggeridge
Malcolm
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
 Mull
Martin
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
 Munr H.H.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned
into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
 Munro
H.H.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while
you're being miserable.
 Murray
Bill
Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little
too early for anything you want to do.
 Muscha
Jerry
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
 Muskie
Senator Edmund
With all the talent around, it's sort of amazing that a woman could be
up here with us.
 Musselman
Bill
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live
as they live elsewhere.
 Musset
Alfred De
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