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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
John Madden
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
Bill Maher
Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
Bill Maher
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
Naguib Mahfouz
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
Do all things with love.
Og Mandino
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
Steve Martin
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Groucho Marx
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. Groucho Marx
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho Marx
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre Maurois
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
Mercedes McCambridge
He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.
Gary McCord
He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
Gary McCord
I'll let the racket do the talking.
John McEnroe
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Al McGuire
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott McNealy
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Golda Meir
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler
Everybody's a filmmaker today.
John Milius
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Duer Miller
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Alice Duer Miller
When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Alice Duer Miller
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
Alice Duer Miller
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller
Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller
I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.
Dennis Miller
Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller
I rant, therefore I am.
Dennis Miller
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
Spike Milligan
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore
We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
Alanis Morissette
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley
Film spectators are quiet vampires.
Jim Morrison
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
I like marriage. The idea.
Toni Morrison
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Lewis Mumford
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Rupert Murdoch
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
Mike Myers