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3284 quotesWhen we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
Belief
Peter Mcwilliams
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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Leaders and Leadership
Golda Meir
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Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
Giving
Bernard Meltzer
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Literature
Herman Melville
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Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
Writers and Writing
Herman Melville
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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Diligence
Menander of Athens
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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
Change
Menander of Athens
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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
Courage
Menander of Athens
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Reputation
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)
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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.
Truth
Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Cynics and Cynicism
H. L. Mencken
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Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
Democracy
H. L. Mencken
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Problems
H. L. Mencken
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
Action
H. L. Mencken
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
Evolution
H. L. Mencken
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Wisdom
H. L. Mencken
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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
Democracy
H. L. Mencken
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
Abuse
H. L. Mencken
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
Power
H. L. Mencken
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Theology
H. L. Mencken
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
Freedom
H. L. Mencken
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What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Memory
Alfred Mercier
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
Certainty
George Meredith
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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.
Character
Merikare
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Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.
Grace
Mark L. Mika
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun