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Keep a low profile, keep your mouth shut, and take everything with a grain of salt.
Angela Myers, one of the first women to attend Virginia Military Institute

Don't marry the one you can live with; marry the one you can't live without!
Kylie Minogue

Marriage is one of the most profound passages of life a person experiences. This is because it includes three significant states, simultaneously incorporating an ending, a merging, and a beginning.
Sydney Barbara Metrick

The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered.
Dr. William J. Mayo (The Mayo Clinic)

I touch the future. I teach.
Christa McAuliffe

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.
Wynton Marsalis

My candle burns at both ends,
It will not last the night,
But ah, my foes, and ah, my friends,
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.
Madonna

We don't love qualities; we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Jacques Maritain, French philosopher

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath is a gift from God.
Mary Manin Morrissey

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
Celeste Mackey

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maughan

If you educate a man, you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family.
Ruby Manikan

I demand more of myself than anyone could ever expect from me.
Lothar Matthews, German soccer star, in response to a reporter's question as to why he was such a great player

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Groucho Marx

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason

Words have power. Words have altered the course of history and changed forever the destiny of individuals who spoke out.
Terrence J. McCann, Executive Director, Toastmasters International

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life... unless I want to buy something.
Jackie Mason

I... inflict myself upon the public.
Robert Morley

It is not how much we do, it is how much love we put into the doing.
Mother Teresa

I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls off a string.
L.M. Montgomery, Canadian novelist, author of Anne of Green Gables

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
Henry Morgan

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
Horace Mann (1796-1854), American educator

Love is like a game of Memory. You've already turned over your card, now you just have to flip through the other million to find one that matches.
Corey Munn

Being a friend is not a part-time job.
Corey Munn

We do not fall in love, we grow in love and love grows in us.
Karl Menninger

Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli

Everyone is entitled to my opinion.
Madonna

This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.
Dan Millman, author/speaker/trainer

I am still learning.
Michelangelo, 1560, at age 85

If you eat only celery and lettuce, you won't get sick... I like celery and lettuce, but I like it with pickles, relish, corned beef, potatoes, peas. And I like Eskimo Pies, and vanilla ice cream with chocolate covering.
Walter Matthau, on why he wasn't in the best health

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
John MacNaughton

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H.L. Mencken

There's a little Imelda in all of us.
Imelda Marcos, at the opening of a shoe museum in Marikina City, Philippines

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side - I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
Bethania McKenstry

Like fire, money itself is neither good nor evil. It is neutral, its character determined by the eye of the perceiver, the hand of the user.
Jerrold Mundis

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Judith Martin (Miss Manners)

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
Groucho Marx

I find television very educating. Every time someone turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx (189-1977)

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
Eugene McCarthy

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H.L. Mencken

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
Robin Morgan

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Harvey Mackay, businessman/author

See the good... BE the good.
Peggy Moretti

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
Mary Manin Morrissey, author

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
Steve Martin

Find something you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life.
Harvey Mackay

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois

I wonder whatever happened to me. I should have been back here a long time ago.
Groucho Marx, "Duck Soup"

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H.L. Mencken

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville (1819-1891), writer

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl Menninger (1893-1990), psychiatrist

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
François Mauriac (1885-1970)

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
Maxwell Maltz, author

Why do people have to be stupid?
Mom :)

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
George C. Marshall, U.S. General

Lost time is never found again.
Thelonius Monk (1920-1982), jazz musician

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.
Martin Mull

A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within the secret of human nature.
Maria Montessori

God help those who do not help themselves.
Wilson Mizner

Those are my principles and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa

Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield, author

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino, inspirational writer

A man always has two reasons for the things he does - a good one and the real one.
J.P. Morgan

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you cannot remain still.
Patricia Russell McCloud, motivational speaker

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
"Bhagavad-Gita" Mahabharata

It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.
Alfred A. Montapert, motivational writer

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
Harriet Martineau, author/philosopher

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller, Asst. Secretary-General of the U.N.

This country's going to hell in a takeout basket.
Dennis Miller, complaining of obese people

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James Michener, author

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino, inspirational writer

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all performers are well-trained.
Edward R. Murrow

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
Orison S. Marden, original editor of Success magazine

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela, former prime minister of South Africa

Ozzy Osbourne is a horrible show. It's about this much better than getting the dog high, to watch this retarded man - and he is retarded, I don't mean that in a facetious way. He can't speak, he can't walk across the room without stepping in dog poop - he is retarded. And what is the message to the MTV kids? The message is, you know what kids, do as many drugs as you want, blow your mind out, do way too much acid, you will land safely in middle age as a lovable vegetable who gets invited to the White House.
Bill Maher

Man must live by faith - faith in himself and faith in others.
Benjamin E. Mays (1894-1984), educator

Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.
Steve Martin

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Molière (1622-1673), French playwright and actor

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
H.L. Mencken

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mensefield (1888-1923), writer

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H.L. Mencken

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch

A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), writer/editor/critic

Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
James Monroe (1758-1831), 5th President of the United States

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve.
In solitude alone can he know true freedom.
Michel de Montaigne

There are three rules for writing the novel.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maughan

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
Martin Mull

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maughan

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H.L. Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy" (1949)

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H.L. Mencken

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It's like getting dressed before you take a bath - there's something not right about that.
Mrs. Meredith, my mentor teacher, explaining to the kids why you don't organize a speech before you get the information

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

Live in your hopes and not in your fears.
Johnny Majors, college football coach

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
Roger Moore

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914), poet and humorist

He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), essayist

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
W. Somerset Maugham

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.
John Miller

I look back on life like a good day's work - it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented; I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered.
Grandma (Anna Mary) Moses (1860-1961), painter

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

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