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Douglas MacArthur (11)
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
249 other quotes about aging
Norman MacCaig (6)
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
420 wisdom & wit about nature
George MacDonald (12)
Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
249 wisdom & wit about aging
Ernst Mach (2)
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
136 more quotes about dreams
Niccolo Machiavelli (23)
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
198 more views about business
Harold MacMillan (6)
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
174 other quotes regarding experience
Agnes Macphail (2)
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
233 thoughts about being alone
James Madison (27)
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
233 views about being alone
Maurice Maeterlinck (10)
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
233 more quotes regarding being alone
Gustav Mahler (4)
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
166 quotes relating to the future
Ella Maillart (6)
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
136 more quotes about dreams
Maimonides (3)
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
19 thoughts about diets
Malcolm X (21)
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
210 quotes about education
Andre Malraux (3)
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
425 wisdom & wit about art
Thomas Malthus (4)
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
25 quotes about environmental
Maxwell Maltz (4)
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
233 thoughts about being alone
Og Mandino (10)
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
44 more quotes about attitudes
Horace Mann (11)
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
233 quotes about being alone
Thomas Mann (11)
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
218 quotes regarding beauty
Katherine Mansfield (3)
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
44 other quotes relating to attitudes
Robert Mapplethorpe (10)
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
425 quotes relating to art
Gabriel Marcel (2)
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
151 more wisdom & wit about music
Jacques Maritain (4)
A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
161 thoughts about courage
Don Marquis (18)
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
249 views relating to aging
George C. Marshall (4)
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
364 views about best
Alfred Marshall (2)
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
32 quotes about finance
Thurgood Marshall (2)
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
184 thoughts about government
William Moulton Marston (3)
Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
292 quotes relating to power
Jose Marti (7)
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
323 thoughts about death
Dean Martin (3)
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.
364 other sayings about best
Mary Martin (2)
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
41 more views about communication
Walter Martin (2)
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
156 quotes regarding strength
James Martineau (2)
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
231 more wisdom & wit about poetry
Karl Marx (21)
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
249 quotes relating to aging
John Masefield (2)
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
218 more views regarding beauty
Abraham Maslow (7)
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
175 more views relating to change
Henri Matisse (7)
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
425 other views relating to art
W. Somerset Maugham (29)
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
249 views regarding aging
Andre Maurois (14)
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
249 other thoughts about aging
Rollo May (6)
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
41 thoughts about communication
Jonathan Mayhew (2)
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
184 more quotes about government
Mary McCarthy (4)
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
43 other quotes about equality
Linda McCartney (2)
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
180 other quotes about marriage
Phyllis McGinley (6)
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
262 thoughts regarding knowledge
David O. McKay (3)
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
199 thoughts about freedom
William McKinley (2)
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
251 sayings relating to history
John McKinley (2)
Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.
42 quotes about technology
Norman McLaren (2)
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
425 quotes about art
Mignon McLaughlin (21)
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
249 sayings about aging
Marshall McLuhan (19)
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
249 more views about aging
Peter McWilliams (4)
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
58 wisdom & wit relating to anger
Margaret Mead (18)
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
175 wisdom & wit regarding change
Golda Meir (14)
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
233 views regarding being alone
Harry Melling (2)
I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.
15 more views about amazing
Bernard Meltzer (6)
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
175 more quotes about change
Herman Melville (13)
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
249 quotes about aging
Karl A. Menninger (3)
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
216 more quotes about hope
Freddie Mercury (6)
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
425 other quotes about art
George Meredith (4)
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
218 thoughts regarding beauty
Ethel Merman (9)
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
175 thoughts regarding change
Thomas Merton (12)
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
233 other thoughts about being alone
Alice Meynell (3)
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.
175 thoughts relating to change
Michelangelo (16)
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
233 sayings regarding being alone
James A. Michener (4)
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
161 sayings regarding courage
John Stuart Mill (11)
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
174 more wisdom & wit relating to experience
Henry Miller (23)
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
233 other views relating to being alone
Merton Miller (5)
Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
32 other thoughts regarding finance
C. Wright Mills (2)
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
251 quotes about history
A. A. Milne (5)
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
364 other quotes about best
John Milton (5)
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
218 views regarding beauty
Ho Chi Minh (3)
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
504 other quotes about men
Maria Mitchell (8)
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
233 sayings relating to being alone
Margaret Mitchell (4)
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
198 quotes about business
Addison Mizner (3)
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
41 other views relating to the law
Moliere (15)
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
364 other wisdom & wit about best
Claude Monet (5)
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
425 quotes about art
Marilyn Monroe (53)
A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
233 sayings regarding being alone
Ashley Montagu (6)
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
233 thoughts about being alone
Eugenio Montale (6)
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
231 views about poetry
Maria Montessori (5)
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
218 quotes about beauty
James Montgomery (2)
Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
364 wisdom & wit about best
Lucy Maud Montgomery (2)
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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Dwight L. Moody (8)
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
323 thoughts about death
Thomas Moore (7)
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
249 other thoughts relating to aging
George Edward Moore (3)
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
425 wisdom & wit about art
Henry Moore (2)
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
425 quotes about art
Thomas More (5)
'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
233 quotes about being alone
Julia Morgan (2)
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
62 thoughts relating to architecture
J. P. Morgan (2)
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
428 more wisdom & wit about being good
Charles Morgan (2)
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
402 views relating to God
Christopher Morley (15)
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
58 views about anger
William Morris (6)
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
425 quotes about art
Jim Morrison (14)
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
425 other wisdom & wit regarding art
Grandma Moses (2)
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
428 more quotes about being good
Robert Motherwell (2)
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
425 quotes about art
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2)
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
364 quotes regarding best
Malcolm Muggeridge (8)
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
249 quotes regarding aging
John Muir (13)
Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
233 quotes regarding being alone
Max Muller (3)
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
175 more sayings relating to change
Lewis Mumford (8)
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
32 other quotes regarding cars
Ethel Watts Mumford (3)
God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.
402 other quotes regarding God
Edvard Munch (7)
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
425 quotes about art
Timothy Murphy (2)
The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.
33 views about medical
George Murray (4)
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
231 more quotes about poetry
Edward R. Murrow (3)
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
199 thoughts about freedom