Neighbor.
1. A bad neighbor is as great an evil as a good
one is a blessing. Hesiod.
2. A bad year passes, a bad neighbor remains
always. M, Greek.
3. A good neighbor is a precious thing. Ger.
4. A good neighbor is a good morrow.
5. A good neighbor is better than a brother afar
off. Dan.
6. A good neighbor is better than a jewel in a
chest. Ger.
7. A good neighbor is the safest guide. Ger.

g2 Neighbor.
8. A great man and a great river are often ill
neighbors.
9. A man may take a neebor's part
Yet no hae cash to spare him. Bums,
10. A near neighbor is better than a distant
cousin.
11. An unpeaceable man hath no neighbor.
12. Better a near neighbor than a distant cousin.
Itai.
13. Better is a neighbor that is near than a
brother that is far off. Bible,
14. Better is my neighbor's hen than mine. Par,
15. Better learn by your neighbor's skaith than
by your own.
16. Between neighbors' gardens a hedge is not
amiss. Sp.
17. Does your neighbor bore you lend him a
sequin. Ital,
18. Every man's neighbor is his looking-glass.
19. He who has a good neighbor has a good
morning. ItcU,^ Ger.^ Dan,
20. He who has a bad neighbor is fain to praise
himself. Dan.
21. Here's talk of the Turk and the Pope, but its
my next neighbor that does me the harm.
22. If a man would know what he is let him
anger his neighbor. Ger,
23. It is not as thy mother says but as thy neigh-
bors say.
24. Keep well with your neighbors whether right
or wrong. Ger.

25. My neighbor's goat gives more milk than
mine. Sp,y For,
26. My neighbor's hen lays more eggs than mine.
Sp.
27. One cannot keep peace longer than his
neighbor will let him. Ger.
28. Neighbor once over the hedge, neighbor over
it again. Ger,
29. Neighbor's right, God's right. Turk.
30. No neighbor is the best. Ger.
31. No one is rich enough to do without a neigh-
bor. Dan.
32. The bad neighbor gives a needle without
thread. Sp.^ For.
33. The neighbor's cow gives the most milk. Ger.
34. The neighbor's hen lays the largest eggs. Ger.
35. The neighbor's misfortunes to us are only
dreams. Ger.
36. The neighbor's wife is always the handsomest.
Ger.
37. There are three bad neighbors : great rivers,
great lords, and great roads. Dan.
38. What is it to me how my neighbor lives. Ger.
39. What my neighbor eats does my stomach no
good. 'Sp.
40. When thou seest thy neighbor's house in
flames go warm by it. Sp.
41. When your neighbor's house is on fire look to
your own. M, Greek.
42. You may love your neighbor and yet not hold
his stirrups.

43. You must not throw stones into your neigh-
bor's garden. JFr.

Need.
1. Long is the arm of the needy. Gaelic.
2. Need makes the naked man run.
3. Need makes the naked queen spin.

Nbedle. — Neglect.— Neighbor. gf
4. Need makes the old wife trot.
Fr.^ Sp,^ Dutch^ Dan,
5. Need makes virtue.
6. Need teaches things unlawful. Seneca,
7. Need will have its course.
8. One often has need of a lesser than himself.
Fr.
9. There is no need to bind up one's head before
it is broken. ItaU
10. There is no need to blow what does not burn
you. Dan.

Necessity.
I
1. A man driven by distress does as much as
thirty. Sp.
2. He knows not his own strength who hath not
met necessity. Benjonson.
3. Make a virtue of necessity.
Rabelais^ Chaucer^ Shaks,^ Dryden,
4. Necessity and opportunity may make a cow-
ard valiant.
5. Necessity becomes will. Ital,
6. Necessity breaks iron.
7. Necessity dispenses with decorum.
8. Necessity has sharp teeth.
9. Necessity has a greater power than duty.
Seneca,
10. Necessity hath no law.
11. Necessity the mother of invention.
12. Necessity, thou mother of the world. Shelley,
13. Necessity is a bitter herb. Ger,
14. Necessity is a disagreeable guest. Ger,

8o Need.
15. Necessity is a good teacher. Ger.
16. Necessity is a hard master. Ger.
17. Necessity is a harsh nurse. Ger*
18. Necessity is a powerful weapon. Seneca.
19. Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
Uvy.
20. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Fr,^ Ger.^ Dutch.
21. Necessity makes war to be just. Bias.
22. Necessity never made a good bargain^
Franklin.
23. Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found.
Ger.
- 04. Necessity sharpens industry.
25. Necessity teaches all things. Ger.
26. Necessity teaches the lame to dance. Ger.
27. Necessity, the t}Tant*s plea. Milton.
28. Necessity unites hearts. Ger.
29. The art of our necessity is great that makes
vile things precious. Shaks.
30. The inventions of necessity are older than
those of pleasure. Cicero.
31. The necessities of things are sterner stuff than
the hopes of man. Bea.
32. There is no virtue like necessity. Shaks.
33. Where necessity pinches, boldness is pru-
dence.

Nature.

Nature.
1. By nature all men are alike, but by education
widely different. Chinese.
2. Drive away nature and back it comes at a
gallop.
3. He that follows nature is never out of his
way.
4. If we shut nature out at the door, she will
come in at the window. Sir Roger L Estrange.
5. Know Nature's children all divide her care ;
The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
Pope.
6. Nature and love cannot be hid. Ger.
7. Nature draws more than seven oxen. Ger.
8. Nature equips all people with what is most
expedient for them. Fielding.
9. Nature furnishes genuine gold but art makes
false. Ger.

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10. Nature has given us two ears, two eyes and
but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and
see more than we speak, Socrates.
11. Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue
cannot reach it. Quintus Curtius Rufus,
12. Nature is beyond all teaching.
13. Nature is content with little. Latin.
14,^ Nature is frugal and her wants are few. Young.
15. Nature is~a frugal mother and never gives
whhout measure. Emerion.
16. Nature is stronger than education.
17. Nature must obey necessity.
18. Nature never did betray the heart that loved
her.
19. Nature never says one thing and science an-
other. Juvenal.
10. Nature on all like powers has not bestowed.
Horate.
2\. Nature requires little — fancy much, Ger.
21. Nature passes nurture.
33. Nature takes as much pains in the forming of
a beggar as an emperor,
24. Nature teaches us to love our friends but re-
ligion our enemies.
35. Nature, the vicar of Almightie God. Chaucer.
36. Oue touch of nature makes the whole world
kin. Shaks.
17. The nature of things will not be altered by
our fancies of them.
z8. The secret powers of nature are generally dis-
covered unsolicited, Hans Andersen.

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Good-nature. — Ill-nature.— Nay.— Near.

29. Though you cast out nature with a fork it will
still return.
30. Though you expel nature with a club, she will
always return. Latin,
31. What belongs to nature lasts to the grave.
liaL
Good-nature.
1. Good-nature and good sense are usually com-
panions. Pope,
2. Good-nature is a great misfortune if it want
prudence.
3. Good-nature is the most god-like commenda-
tion of a good man. Dryden,
4. Good-nature is the proper soil upon which
virtue grows.
5. Good-nature without prudence is foolishness,
6. The better natured, the sooner undone.
Ill-oatiire.
I. Ill-natures never want a tutor.

Name.
1. A famous name will never die. Hans Andersen,
2. A good name is rather to be chosen than
great riches. Bible.
3. A good name is better than precious oint-
ment Bible,
4. A man dies, his name remains. Turk.
' 5. A man may be deprived of life, but a good
name cannot be taken from him.
6. A nick-name is the heaviest stone the devil
can throw at a man.
7. A nickj2gme lasts forever.
8. An ill wound may be cured, not an ill name.
9. He that has an ill name is half hanged.
10. If you don't praise don't spoil my good name.
Ashantees {Africa).
11. Ill wounds may be cured but not ill names.
12. One may remove an evil thing too late to cure
an evil name.
13. The shadow of a mighty name. Lucan.
14. To get a name can happen to but few.

Nail.
1. Do not drive a second nail until the first be
clinched.
2. Do not hang all on one nail. Ger,
3. Drive the nail that will go.
4. He hath hit the nail on the head.
5. He who heedeth not the lost shoe-nail will
soon lose his horse. Ger.
6. Hit the nail on the head.
7. In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.

Mutability of Fortune.
1. A hundred years a banner, a hundred years a
barrow. (A very old French proverb signifying the
changeful fortunes of great feudal families^ Bohn.
2. A nobody to-day, a prince to-morrow. Latin.
3. Change of fortune is the lot of life.
4. Change yourself and fortune will change with
you. For.
5. Every ten years one man has need of another.
6. He fell to-day, I may fall to-morrow. Latin.
7. In a hundred years' time princes are peasants,
And in a hundred and ten, peasants are
princes.
8. Once he was a hammer, now he is an anvil.
9. That which is his lot to-day, may be yours to-
morrow. Latin,
10. To-day a knight, to-morrow a beggar. Ger,

Mushroom.
I. In a night's time springs up a roushrooro.
Music.
1. Discords are the sweetes t airs. Hudibras.
2. It is the tone that makes the music.
3. Music has charros alone for peaceful roinds.
Fope.
4. Music hath charms to soothe the savage
breast,
5. Such as the music is, such are the people of
the commonwealth. Turk.
6. Where there's music there can be no harm.
Don Quixote,
Musician.
I. When a musician has forgot his note,
He makes as though a crumb stuck in his
throat.

Murder.
1. For murder though it have no tongue will
speak with most miraculous organ. Chaucer.
2. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke,
Passion and treason are the hands of sin.
Shaks.
3. Murder will out ; that we see day by day;
Chaucer,
4. One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

Multitude.

Multitude.
1. The multitude always delight in State tero-
pests, hoping for plunder. Turkish Spy.
2. The roultitude are not roore desirous of gain
than of honor. Aristotle.
3. The multitude is always in the wrong.
Roscommon.
4. The multitude of offenders is their protection.

Muddy.

1. Muddy springs will have muddy streams.

2. Muddy water won't do for a mirror. ItaJ,

Mule.

1. A gilt bridle for an old mule. Fr.

2. He who wants a mule without fault must
walk on foot. Sp.

3. He who would have a mule without fault
must keep none.

4. Like the pope's mule that kept its kick for
seven years.

5. Mule don't kick accordin' to no rule.

American Negro.

6. Mules make a great fuss about their ances-
tors having been asses. Ger,

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Multitude. — Murder. — Mushroom. — Music.

7. The mule long keeps a kick in reserve for its
roaster. Fr.

8. Woe to the roule that sees not his roaster.

Much.

1. Much never cost little. Sp,, For.

2. Much on earth but little in heaven.

' - 3.- Much smoke but little roast. Ital,

4. Much straw and little corn. Par.

5. Much worship, much cost. Fr.

6. Much worth never cost little. Sp.

7. Much would have more and lost all.

8. Much would have more, but often meets
with less.

9. Never too much of a good thing.

10. Never too much of anything. Greek.

11. One may surfeit with too much as well as
starve with too little.

12. Too little and too much spoil everything.

13. Too much asseveration is a good ground of
suspicion.

14. Too much bed makes a dull head.

15. Too much breaks the bag.

16. Too much consulting confounds.

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17. Too much cordial will destroy.

18. Too much disputing puts the truth to flight.

ItaL

19. Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

20. Too much is stark naught. Welsh.

21. Too much lenity makes robbers bold. Shaks,

22. Too much of a good thing is worse than none
at all.

23. Too much of a thing nauseates. Latin,

24. Too much of one thing is good for nothing.

25. Too much spoileth, too little is nothing.

26. Too much water drowned the miller.

27. Too much wax burns the church.

28. Who does too much often does little. ItaL

Mouth.

1. A foul mouth must be provided with a strong
back. Dan.

2. A man must keep his mouth open a long
time before a roast pigeon will fly into it. Dan.

3. A mouth fu' o' meat may be a town fu' o'
shame.

1 should not

i mouth
Dan.

MouTO. 6g

4. A shut mouth keeps me out of strife. For.

5. A wise head has a close mouth to it.

6. All is not gospel that comes out of the mouth.

7. Beware of errors of the mouth. Hindoo.

8. He has a mouth for every matter.

9. He has neither a mouth nor a spear, can
neither talk nor act. Fr.

10. He must have plenty of meal who would
stop every man's mouth.

IT. He that hath a mouth of his owi
say to another, "blow,"

12. He who would close another 1
must first tie up his own.

13. I have a mouth which I feed, it must speak
what I please.

14. Mouth and heart are wide apart.

15. Mouth civility is no great pains but may turn
to good account.

16. Mouth of honey, heart of gal!. Por.

17. Mouth shut and eyes open, Ital.

18. Once in people's mouths 'tis hard to get out
of them. Ger.

19. Open thy mouth that I may know thee.

20. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh.

31. Put a seal upon your mouth, and guard your
heart with the same vigilance as the ramparts of a
city. Chinese.

21. The mouth and the purse shut. Sp.
23. The mouth is not sweetened by saying

Mouse.
1. A mouse in time may shear a cable asunder.
2. A mouse must not think to cast a shadow
like an elephant.
3. A mouse will put the finishing stroke to a
castle wall.
4. By diligence and patience the mouse ate into
the cable. Franklin,
5. If you are a mouse don't follow frogs. Ital.
6. It's a bold mouse that makes her nest in the
cat's ear. Dan.
7. It is a mean mouse that has but ae hole.
8. It is a poor mouse that sits on the meal sack
and does not gnaw.
9. It were better to hear the lark sing than the
mouse cheep.
10. Mice care not to play with kittens.
11. No larder but hath its mice. 
12. She is a sairy mouse that has but ae hole.
13. That mouse will have a tail ; i>., the iking
will have a long train of consequences. Dutch.
14. The mountain is in labor and brings forth a
mouse. ItaL^ Latin.
15. The mouse does not leave the cat's house
with a belly full. Ital., Sp.
16. The mouse is knowing but the cat more
knowing. Dcm.
17. The mouse may find a hole in a room ever so
full of cats. Dan.
18. The mouse that has but one hole is soon
caught. Fr,^ Sp.^ Dutch.
19. The mouse that trusts to one poor hole,
Can never be a mouse of any soul. Pope.
20. Tis not the mouse but the hole that does
the injury. Crer.
21. Weel kens the mouse when the cat's out o'
the house.
22. When a mouse has fallen into the meal sack
he thinks he's the miller himself. Dutch.
23. Who shall hang the bell about the cat's neck ?
{The mice having in council decided thcU this was
necessary to their safety were confronted with this ques-
tion,)

mourns

1. He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
Young.
2. He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to
mend. Henry Taylor.
3. It is better to go to the house of mourning
than to the house of feasting. Bible.
4. They truly mourn that mourn without a
witness. Baron.
5. What man so blest but mourns ? Homer.

Mountain.
1. Behind every mountain lies a vale. Dutch.
2. Believe if thou wilt that mountains change
their places, but believe not that men change their
dispositions. Mahomet.
3. If the mountain will not go to Mahomet, Ma-
homet must go to the mountain.
4. If you don't scale the mountain you can't
view the plain. Chinese.
5. Mountains do not come near to mountains,
but men to men. Turk.
6. Mountains never unite.
7. The most difficult mountain to cross is the
threshold. Dan.
8. Two men may meet, but never two mountains.

Mother-in-law.

1. A mother-in-law is like the dry rot : far easier
to get into a house than to get it out again. Punch,

2. If my mother-in-law dies, I will fetch some-
body to flay her. For.

3. Mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, — storm and
hail. Ital,

4. My mother-in-law is dead, my hearth is en-
larged. M, Greek.

5. Of all the old women that ever I saw.
Surest bad luck to my mother-in-law.

6. The best mother-in-law is she on whom your
geese feed (on the grass that grows on her grave).

7. The cask full, the mother-in-law drunk. Sp.

8. The gude man's mither is always in the gude
wife's gait (way).

9. The husband's mother is the wife's devil. Ger.

10. The mother-in-law does not remember she
was once daughter-in-law. Sp,^ Par.

11. The mother-in-law must be entreated and the
pot must be let stand. Sp.

12. There is no good mother-in-law, but she that
wears a green gown {the turf of the church-yard),

Monkey.

1. A monkey remains a monkey though dressed
in silk. sp.

2. Every monkey will have his gambols.

3. The old monkey gets the apple. Fr.

4. "What pretty things men will make for
money," quoth the old woman when she saw the
monkey.

Monk.

1. A runaway monk never speaks well of his
convent. Ital.

2. Offend one monk and the lappets of all cowls
will flutter as far as Rome. Ger.

3. The abbey does not fail for the want of one
monk. Fr.

4. The monk responds as the abbot chants.

Fr., Ital.

5. Tis not the habit that makes the monk.

6. What a monk thinks he dares. Fr.

Mistress.— Mob. — Mocking.— Moderation.

Mistress.
1. He whose mistress squints says she ogles.
Ger.
2. Never seemed a prison fair or a mistress foul.
J^r.f Ger.
Mob.
1. A mob's a monster with many hands and no
brains. Franklin.
2. Against the wild fire of the mob there is no
defence.
3. I count not the votes of the fickle mob.
Horace.
4. The mob has many heads but no brains.
5. Who builds on the mob builds on sand. ItaL
Mocking.
1. Mocking is catching.
2. If you mock the lame you will go so yourself
in time.
3. It is never becoming to mock the miserable.
La Fontaine.
4. It is not good or safe to point the mockery
behind the grand seignior's back. Turk.
5. There are more mockers than well meaners
and more foolish quips than good precepts.
Moderation.
1. Moderation in prosperity argues a great mind.
2. Moderation in success is no less expected
from brave men than gallantry in action.
3. Moderation is best Cleobulus.
Modesty.
I. A modest dog seldom grows fat.

Mole.

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2. A modest man at court is the silliest wight
breathing.
3. As it is the part of justice never to do vio-
lence, so it is the part of modesty never to commit
offence.
4. He that has no modesty has all the town for
his own.
5. Individuals may be modest, but modesty
degrades nations. Gioberti.
6. Loquacity storms the ear but modesty takes
the heart.
7. Modesty becomes a young man. Flautus,
8. Modesty cannot be taught : it may be born.
Syrus,
9. Modesty has more charms than beauty.
10. Modesty is the appendage to sobriety and is
to chastity, to temperance, to humility as the fingers
are to a garment. Bayard Taylor.
11. Modesty ruins all that bring it to court.
12. Of their own nrierits modest men are dumb.
Coleman,
13. She that loseth her modesty and honesty hath
nothing else worth losing.
14. Though modesty be a virtue, bashfulness is a
vice.
15. When modesty has once perished it will never
revive. Seneca.
Mole.
1. A mole can undermine the strongest rampart.
Chinese,
2. A mole wants no Ian thorn.

52 Monarchy. — Money.
3. He holds a looking-glass to a mole.
Monarchy.
I. Absolute monarchy is a fair fields but it has
no outlet. SoioH,
Money.
1. A man who is proud of his money has rarely
anything else to be proud of.
2. A man without money is like a bird without
wings ; if he soars he falls to the ground and dies.
^Roumanian.
3. A man without money is a bow without an
arrow.
4. A man without money is like a ship without
sails. Dutch.
5. A moneyless man goes fast through the mar-
ket.
6. A string of cash can but reach to one's heels ;
/. e.y the sum is not worth contending about. Chinese.
7. A thousand pounds and a bottle of hay,
Are just the same at doomsday.
8. All powerful money gives birth and beauty.
Horace,
9. As water runs toward the shore, so does
money toward the rich man's hand. Dan.
10. Bad money always comes back. Ger,
11. Between smith and smith no money passes.
Sp., For.
12. But few prize honor more than money. Sallust.
13. But help me to money and I'll help myself to
friends.

MoNEV. ei
14, Discover not your silent (hoarded) money to
anybody. Sp.
rj. Do not lend your money to a great man, Fr.
16. Fair money can cover much that's foul.
17. Get money, get money still,
And then let virtue follow if she will. Pope.
18. Give me money, not advice. Par.
19. God makes and apparel shapes, but it is
money that finishes the man.
20. God send me some money, for they are little
thought of that want it. Scotch.
21. Godsend you more wit and me more money.
32. Good manners and plenty of money will make
my son a gentleman. Por.
23, Hate, religion, ambition, all have their hypoc-
risies, but money applies the thumb-screw to them
all. Dr. Crowley.
24. He that has no money in his purse should
have fair words on his lips. Dctn.
35. He that hath it and will not keep it.
He that wants it and will not seek it.
He that drinks and still is dry,
Shall want money as well as I.
16. He that hath no money in his pot, let him
have it in his mouth.
37. He that hoardeth up money laketh pains
for other men.
iS. He that is known to have no money has
neither friends nor credit.
79. He that is without money might as well be
buried in a rice tub with his mouth sewed up. Chinese.

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Money.

30. He that shows his money shows his judgment.
31. He that wants money is accounted among
those who want wit.
32. He who has both money and bread
May choose with whom his daughter to wed.
Sp.
33. He who throws away money with his hands,
will seek it with his feet. Ital.
34. If a man's money be white no matter if his
face be black. Turk.
35. If money be not thy servant it will be thy
master.
36. If thou knowest how to use money, it will be-
come thy handmaid ; if not it will become thy mas-
ter. Diodorus.
37. If thou wouldst keep money, save money.
38. If thou wouldst reap money, save money.
39. If you had as little money as manners you'd
be the poorest of all your kin.
40. If you have money you are wise, if not you
are a fool. Turk.
41. If you have no money turn placeman, as the
court fool said to the prince. Gcr.
42. If you make money your god, 'twill plague
you like a devil. Fielding.
43. If you have money take a seat.
If you have none take to your feet. Ger.
44. It is a rare miracle for money to lack a mas-
ter. BicLs.
45. It is not the praise of the man but of the
money-chest to keep money from diminution.
Remark of Themistodes censuring Aristides.

Money.

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46. Mention money and the world is silent. Ger,
47. Money amassed either serves or rules us.
Horfue.
48. Money answereth all things. Bible,
49. Money as well as need makes the old wife
trot.
50. Money begets money. Sp.
51. Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.
52. Money burns many. Fr,
53. Money can neither open up new avenues to
pleasure, nor block up the passages of anguish.
Rambler,
54. Money clothes the naced, feeds the hungry,
and buys a crutch for the cripple.
55. Money does all. Fr,
56. Money does not get hanged. Ger,
57. Money in purse will be always in fashion.
58. Money in purse dispels melancholy. Ger,
59. Money in whatever hands will confer power.
Dr, Johnson,
60. Money is a good servant but a bad master.
Fr,
61. Money is a good soldier and will on. Shaks.
62. Money is a source of trouble and woe.
Cingalese,
63. Money is a sword that can cut even the Gor-
dian knot.
64. Money is an universal language speaking any
tongue.
65. Money is an epitome of human power. If a I,

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Money.

66. Money is both blood and life to men. Latin.
67. Money is first to be sought, virtue afterwards.
Latin,
68. Money is like manure : of very little use unless
it be spread. Bacon.
69. Money is lost only for the want of money.
70. Money is money's brother. Ital.
71. Money is more eloquent than a dozen mem-
bers of parliament. Dan.
72. Money is needed both by monk and dervish.
Turk.
73. Money is not gained by losing time. Par.
74. Money is power. Dutch.
75. Money is round and rolls. Fr.^ Ital.
76. Money is that art that hath turned up trumps.
77. Money is the best bait to fish for man with.
78. Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root
of it. Fielding.
79. Money is the god of the world.
80. Money is the measure of all things. For.
81. Money is the one thing needful.
82. Money is the only monarch.
83. Money is the only power that all mankind bow
down before. Butler.
84. Money is the root of all evil. New Testament,
85. Money is the sinew of love as well as of war.
86. Money is the sinew of war. Dutch.
87. Money is the sinew of business. Plutarch.
88. Money is the soul of business. Ger.

Money.

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89. Money is the very blood and life of mortals.
Greek.
90. Money is welcome though it come in a dirty
clout.
91. Money is wise : it knows it's own way.
92. Money lent, an enemy made. Par.
93. Money like manure does no good till it is
spread.
94. Money makes a man free ilka where.
95. Money makes dogs dance. Fr,
^796. Mon ey makes marria ge.
97. iCtoney makes not so many true friends as real
enemies.
98. Money makes the gentleman, the want of it
the blackguard.
99. Money makes the mare to go.
100. Money rules the world. Dutch,
1 01. Money saved is money got {or as good as
money gained), Dan.
102. Money soothes more than the words of a cav-
alier. Sp.^ For,
103. Money is the life-blood of the nation.
104. Money taken, freedom forsaken. Ger,
105. Money, the pick-lock that never fails.
Mizssinger.
106. Money thou need'st:
Twill keep thee honest ; want made thee a
knave. Benjonson,
107. Money turns bad into good. Sp.
108. Money we want and cannot borrow.
Yet drink we must to slacken sorrow.

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Money.

109. Money which is gained by fraud, by fraud
must be lost. Turk,
no. Money will do more than my lord's letter.
111. Money will make money.
112. Money will make the pot boil though the
devil pour water on the fire.
113. Money wins the battle, not the long arm. Por.
114. Much money, many friends. Ger,
115. My money is little, my heart without strife.
Turk.
116. My money, your money, let us go to the tav-
ern. I\?r.
117. One handful of money is stronger than two
handfuls of truth. Dan.
118. One never gets more than the money's worth
of anything. Ir,
119. Nothing stings us so bitterly as loss of money.
Zwy.
120. Procure empire by money, not money by em-
pire. Philipy father of Alexander the Great.
121. Property purchased with borrowed money,
and money obtained by treachery shall soon pass
away. Cingalese.
122. Public money is like holy water: everyone
helps himself to it. Ital.
123. Put not your trust in money but your money
in trust.
124. Rather a man without money, than money
without a man. Themistocles.
125. Ready money can put anything in stock.
Chinese.

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126. Ready money brings a remedy. Fr,
127. Ready money is ready medicine.
128. Ready money will away.
129. Samson was a strong man, yet could not pay
money before he had it.
130. Tell money after your own father.
131. The abundance of money ruins youth.
132. The art is not in making money but in keep-
ing it.
133. The chief end of man is not to get money.
134. The money paid, the work delayed.
Don Quixote.
135. The money paid, the workman's arm is broken.
Fr.
136. The money you refuse will never do you good.
137. The sign invites you but your money must
get you out.
138. The skilfulest without money is scorned.
139. The smell of money is good, come whence it
may. Juvenal.
140. The thirst for money brings all the sins into
the world. Ger.
141. The use of money is all the advantage there
is in having money. Franklin.
142. The want of money is the root of much evil.
London Truth.
143. There is abundance of money spent to be
laughed at.
144. There is more money got by ill means than by
good acts.

6o Money.
145. There is no lustre in money unless it derives
its lustre from moderate enjoyment. Horace.
146. Those who believe money can do everything
are frequently prepared to do everything for money.
147. Those who make money make little exertion,
those who make much exertion make no money.
Chinese.
148. Though you have money do not spend it in
the twelfth night. Chinese.
149. Tis money that begets money.
150. To disregard money on suitable occasions is
often a great profit. Terence.
151. Touch not another man's money, for the most
honest never added to it. Fr.
152. Trust not your money to one whose eyes are
bent on the ground.
153. Want of love or want of money lies at the
bottom of all our griefs. Bea.
154. When honor grew mercenary, money grew
honorable.
155. When I had money in my purse, I had food
in my mouth, Dan,
156. When land and money's spent,
Then money is most excellent.
157. When money speaks, truth keeps silent.
Russian.
158. Where there is money there is no courage.
Ger.
159. Where there's money there's the devil,
But where there's none a greater evil. Ger,
160. Where there's muck, there's money.

Monk. — Monkey. 6 1
i6i. With Latin, a horse, and money, thou wilt
pass through the world. Sp.
162. With money you would not know yourself,
without money nobody would know you. Sp,
163. With us wretched mortals money is life.
Hesiod,
164. Without money all is in vain. Latin.
165. Without money, without fear. Ger.
166. Would you know the value of money go bor-
row some.
167. You will see more ruined than saved by
money ill gotten. Sophocles,

Misfortunes.

1. A man's part is to bear misfortunes lightly.

Antiphanes.

2. A misfortune and a friar are seldom alone.

3. Another's misfortune does not cure my pain.

Par.

4. Another's misfortune is only a dream. Fr.

5. Blessed is the misfortune that comes alone.

Ital.

6. Do not yield to misfortunes. Latin.

7. He who is born to misfortune stumbles as he

goes,
And though he fall on his back will fracture
his nose. Ger.

8. He who is the cause of his own misfortune
may bewail it himself. ItcU.

9. I never knew any man in my life who could
not bear another's misfortune perfectly like a Chris-
tian. Pope,

10. It is a great art to laugh at your own misfor-
tunes. Dan.

^*^ftT. It is better to forget one's misfortunes than
to talk about them. Fr.

12. It is good to see in the misfortunes of others
what we should avoid. Syrus.

13. Misfortune does not always come to injure.

Ital

14. Misfortune is a good teacher. Ger.

15. Misfortune is good for something. Fr.

16. Misfortune is often the daughter of a good
mother.- Ger.

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Misfortunes.

17. Misfortunes are close to one another. Latin,

18. Misfortunes are common to all ; life is like a
wheel, and prosperity unstable. Phocylides.

19. Misfortunes come by forties.

20. Misfortunes come on horseback, and go away
on foot. Fr.

21. Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.

22. Misfortunes come unbidden. Ger.

23. Misfortunes make us wise.

24. Misfortunes make strange bedfellows.

25. Misfortunes come at night, /. e,y when least ex-
pected, Grimm^s Fairy Tales,

26. Misfortunes often sharpen the genius. Ovid,

27. Misfortunes seldom assault a man singly, but
assault him in troops whom fate has marked out for
ruin. Turkish Spy,

28. Misfortunes seldom come alone.

29. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

30. Misfortunes that can't be avoided must be
sweetened.

31. Misfortunes to which we are used affect us
less severely. Juvenal,

32. Misfortunes when asleep are not to be wakened.

33. Misfortune will one day find him whom it
has until then passed by. Syrus.

34. Misfortunes, wood, and hair, grow throughout
the year.

35. Most of our misfortunes are more supportable
than the comments of our friends upon them.

36. One has always strength enough to bear the
misfortunes of one's friends.

One misfortune brings on another. |

One misfortune is the eve of another, |

That is good misfortune which comes alone. H

The misfortunes to which we are accustomed affect us less deeply.

Theie is no greater misfortune than not to be able bear misfortune.

There is nothing we forget sooner than past misfortunes.

To the wicked misfortunes come triple.

46. When misfortune befalls injuries follow.
Whither goest thou, misfortune? to where there  more ?

Who has no misfortune is fortunate enough. |

Mistakes occur in the best regulated families.

Mistakes occur through haste never through | doing a thing leisurely.

To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.

Miser.

1. A miser and a liar bargain quickly. M. Greek,

2. A miser grows rich by seeming poor, an ex-
travagant man grows poor by seeming rich. Shenstone,

3. A miserly father makes a prodigal son.

Miser.

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4. A miser's son is generally a spendthrift. Latin.

5. Addition is the miser's sum of happiness.

Punch.
/ 6. As good beg of a naked man as a miser.

7. He that keeps up his riches and lives poorly
is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

8. He weeps at throwing away the water in
which he was washed. Plautus.

9. His money takes the place of wisdom. Dutch.

10. If the niggard should once taste the sweetness
of giving, he'd give all away.

1 1. Misers put their back and their belly into their
pocket.

12. Misers' money goes twice to market. Sp,^ For.

13. No feast like a miser's. Fr.

14. Poor though in the midst of wealth. Latin,

15. The miser and the pig are of no use till dead.

Fr.

16. The miser doth spoil his coat by scanting a
little cloth. Shaks.

17. The miser acquires yet fears to use his gains.

Horace,

18. The miser grows old, but his miserly spirit
remains young. Ger,

19. The miser is always poor. Ger.

20. Thfe miser is ever in want. Horace.
/ 21. The miser's bag is never full. Dan,

22. The miser's chest is rich, but he is as poor as
a wolf. Ger.

23. The miser's friendship continues as long as he
gains by it. Ger.

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Misery.

24. The only good a miser does is to prove the
little happiness there is to be found in wealth.

25. The riches of the miser fall into the hands
of the spendthrift. M. Greek.

26. The wolf is sometimes satisfied, the miser
never, Ger.

27. Tis strange the miser should his cares employ
To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy. Pope.

28. To beg of the miser is to dig a trench in the
sea. Turk.

29. What he has is no more use to the miser than

what he has not Syrus,

Misery.

1. He bears misery best who hides it most.

2. He is miserable indeed who must lock up his
miseries.

3. He is miserable once who feels it, but twice
who fears it before it comes.

4. Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-
fellows. Shaks,

5. Misery doth brave minds abate. Spenser.

6. Misery is always unjust.

7. Misery must be the mother,
When one beggar begets another.

8. Sacred even to gods, is misery. Homer.

9. The miseries of the virtuous are the scandal
of the good. Syrus.

10. This iron world brings down the stoutest heart

to lowest state,
For misery doth bravest minds abate. Spenser,

11. When misery is highest, help is nighest

Mischief.

X. He prepares evil for himself who plots mis-
chief for others. Latin.

2. He that hinders not a mischief when it is in
his power, is guilty of it

3. He that is disposed for mischief will never
want occasion.

4. He'll find money for mischief when he can
find none for corn.

5. If we would avoid a mischief we must not be
very kind and familiar with an evil man.

6. Little mischief — too much.

7. Many a one is good because he can dp no
mischief. Fr.

8. Mischief comes soon enough.

9. Mischiefs come by the pound and go away by
the ounce.

10. That mischief comes justly that is of your own
seeking.

11. Welcome mischief if thou comest alone.

Minister.

I. A good minister of state fears neither cal-
umny nor death. Chinese,

Minute.

I. There is a critical minute lor all things.

Horace.
Miracle.

1. He that can see his own eyes without a glass
can perform miracles. \IAterally : Shall he able to
move the bull ' j horns (the earih>resting on the horns
of a bull), Arabian,

2. Let the miracle be wrought though it be by
the devil. Sp.

3. Little saints also perform miracles. Dan,

4. The sheik's miracles are those of his own
telling. Dirk.

Mire.
I. There never was a good town but had a mire
at one end of it.

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Mirth.

2. When a man has fallen into the mire the more
he flounders the more he fouls himself. Ital.

Mirth.

1. A merry companion is music in a journey.

2. A merry companion on the road is as good as
a nag.

3. A merry fellow was never yet a sensible man.

Chesterfield,

4. A merry heart doth good like a medicine.

BibU.

5. A merry heart goes all the day.

Your sad tires in a mile — a. Shaks,

6. A merry host makes merry guests. Dutch.

7. A merry life forgets father and mother. . Fr.

8. A merry old fool and a gay apish matron are
domestic monsters.

9. A pennyworth of mirth is worth a pound of
sorrow.

10. Against ill chances men are ever merry.

Shaks,

11. Always merry is seldom rich. Ger.

12. As long lives the merry man,

As the wretch for a* the craft he can.

13. As long lives the merry heart as the sad.

14. As merry as a cricket.

15. Be always as merry as ever you can,
For no one delights in a sorrowful man.

16. Be merry and wise.

17. Be merry but sin not.

18. Be merry if you are wise. Martial.

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19. Be merry shrovetide, for to-morrow thou wilt
be ashes. Sfi.

20. Can a jackanapes be merry with a clog at his
heels ?

21. Gall in mirth is an ill mixture and sometimes
truth is bitter.

22. He that is of a merry heart hath a continual
feast. ' BibU.

23. In the time of mirth take heed.

24. It is good to be merry at meat.

25. Let us be merry and wise. Turkish Spy.

26. Merriment is the poison of friendship. Tamil.

27. Merry meet — ^merry part.

28. Mirth and mischief are two things.

29. Mirth and motion prolong life.

30. Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

31. Mirth is the medicine of life; it cures its ills
and calms its strife.

32. No mirth good but with God.

33. One ounce^ of mirth is worth more than a
thousand weight of melancholy.

34. Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

Shaks.

35. The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow.

Dutch.

36. There is not a string attuned to mirth,

But has its chord in melancholy. Hood,

37. Tis merry in hall when beards wag all. Shahs.

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Medium. — Meekness. — Memory.

Mediitm.
I. There is a mediam in all things. Horace,

Meekness.

I. The meekness of Moses is better than the

strength of Sampson.

Memory.

1. A man often admits that his memory is at
fault but never his judgment.

2. A strong memory is usually accompanied
with an infirm judgment. Montaigne.

3. All complain of want of memory but none of
want of judgment.

4. Bad memory has its root in bad attention.

5. Many complain of their memory, none of
their judgment.

6. Memory is the first of faculties that age in-
vades.

7. Memory is the purveyor of reason. Rambler.

8. Memory is the tax gatherer of the past. Punch.

9. Memory is the treasurer of the mind.

10. Memory is the treasurer and guardian of all
things. Cicero.

11. Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adver-
sity and controls youth and delights old age.

Lactantius.

12. Memory, the warder of the brain. Shaks.

13. Much memory and little judgment. Fr.

14. Though lost to sight, to memory dear.

Mend.

I. If every one would mend one all would be
amended,
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Mkrchant.— Mercy.

2. It is never too late to mend.

Merchant.

1. A merchant has never enough till he has got
a little more. Spectator.

2. A merchant's happiness hangs upon chance,
winds and waves.

3. He is no merchant who always gains. Dutch.

4. He that buys and sells is called a merchant.

5. He that could know what would be dear.
Need be a merchant but one year.

6. If a man knew when things would be dear
He need be a merchant but one year.

7. Like the merchant that dammed up and
drained a river to recover a grain of pepper. Tamil.

8. Merchant to-day, beggar to-morrow.

9. Quick returns make rich merchants.

10. The merchant that loseth cannot laugh. Fr.

11. The merchant that gains not, loseth.

12. To be a merchant the art consists more in
getting paid than in making sales. Sp.

Mercy.

1. A merciful man is merciful to his beast.

2. It is safer to err on the side of mercy. Coke.

3. Mercy and truth preserve the king and his
throne is upheld by mercy. Bible.

4. Mercy but murders, pardoning those who kill.

ShcLks.

5. Mercy often inflicts death. Seneca.

6. Mercy sways the brave. Honur.

Mkrit. — Messengers. — Meteor.

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7. Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

Cowper.

8. Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the
people. Arabian Nights,

9. Misplaced lenity b an offence against society.

Seneca,

10. Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

Shaks,

11. Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. Shaks,

12. The quality of mercy is not strain'd:
******** i( becomes

The throned monarch better than his crown.

Shaks,
Merit.

1. A man who displays his own merit is a fool,
and a man who does not know it, is a fool.

Chesterfield,

2. Dignities and honors set off merit, as good
dress does good figure.

3. Merit is sure to rise. ^Tans Andersen,

4. True merit is like a river : the deeper it is
the less noise it makes. Halifax.

5. True merit, like the pearl inside the oyster,
is content to remain quiet until it finds an opening.

Punch,

Messengers.

I. Messengers should neither be beheaded nor
hanged.

Meteor.

I. The meteor fallen to the earth is but a stone.

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Method.

1. Method in business is the chief instrument in
getting rich. Spectator.

2. Method will teach you to win time. Goethe.

Mettle.
I. Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse.

Middle.

1. A middle course is the safest.

2. Not too little, not too much ; the middle is
the best limit. Ger.

3. The middle station is the safest. Latin.

Might.

1. Either by might or by slight.

2. If I canna do't by might, I'll do't by slight.

3. What can't be done by might may be done by
slight.

4. Where might is master, justice is servant. Ger.

Might, Right.

1. A handful of might is better than a sackful of
right. Ger,

2. Might is not right. Fr.^ Dutch.

3. Might makes right.

4. Might overcomes right.

Milk.

1 . No weeping for spilt (shed) milk.

2. That which is taken in with the milk only
goes out with the soul. Russian.

3. When there is milk in the can for one, there
is milk in the can for two. Hans Andersen.

Mill.

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MiU.

1. A bad mill has also a bad pivot. M. Greek.

2. A greedy mill grinds all sorts of corn.

3. As good water goes by the mill as drives it.

4. By going gains the mill and not by standing
still. Sp.

5. He who goes to the mill gets befloured. Ital,

6. His mill will go with all winds.

7. I am loth to change my mill.

8. In vain does the mill clack if the miller his
hearing lack.

9. It is the master wheel that makes the mill go
round. Fr.

10. Mills will not grind if you give them no
water.

11. Much water passes by the mill that the mil-
ler perceives not. ItaL

12. Much water runs by the mill while the miller
sleeps. Dan.

13. No mill, no meal.

14. That brings water to the mill.

15. The best of the mill is, the sacks can't speak.

16. The corn passes from hand to hand, but it
comes to the mill at last. African.

17. The corn that is taken to a bad mill will be
badly ground. Dan.

18. The first at the mill grinds first. ItaL

19. The mill does not grind with water that b
past. Fr.^ Ital.^ S^.^ Par.

20. The mill gains by goings and not by itai

still.

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Miller. — Millstonb.

21. The mill must be of two stones {two persons
are required for friendship. Turk.

22. The mill of the gods grinds slowly, but it
grinds fine. Greek.

23. The mill that is always grinding grinds
coarse and fine together. Irish,

24. Though the mills of God grind slowly,

Yet they grind exceeding small.
Though with patience he stands waiting,
With exactness grinds he all. Longfellow.

Miller.

1. An honest miller hath a golden thumb.

2. Every miller draws the water to his own mill.

3. Like a miller, he can set to every wind.

4. Millers and bakers do not steal ; men bring
to them. Ger.

5. Nothing bolder than a miller's shirt, that
every morning collars a thieL Fr.^ Ger.

6. That miller is honest who has hair on his
teeth. Ger.

7. The miller is never so drunk that he forgets
to take his dues. Dan,

8. The miller ne'er got better toll than he took
wi' his own hands.

9. The miller's hen, and the widower's maid,
Of want need never be afraid. Ger,

10. We beat the sack, and mean the miller. Ger,

11. When the millers are makihg an uproar, tie

up your sacks. Ital,

Millstone*

I. I can see as far into a millstone as he that
picks it.

Mind. 93

2. The lower millstone grinds as well as the
upper.

Mind.

1. A depraved mind never comes to good.

2. A mind conscious of guilt is its own accuser.

Latin,

3. A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

Greene.

4. A mind unblemished is the noblest posses-
sion. Latin,

5. A princely mind will undo a private family.

6. A pure mind is the most august possession.

7. A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as
a hollow mountain returns all sounds. Chinese,

8. A well prepared mind hopes in adversity, and
fears in prosperity. Horace,

9. A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

Massinger,

10. A willing mind makes a light foot.

11. Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

Plato,

12. Command you may your mind from play.

13. Do not let the mind dwell upon what you
cannot obtain. Cingalese,

14. Find enjoyment for the body and the mind
will find enjoyment for itself.

15. Great minds and great fortunes don't always
go together.

16. Great minds are easy in prosperity and quiet
in adversity.

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17. His mind splits a hair and puts trousers on a
flea. M, Greek.

18. Light minds are pleased with trifles. Ovid,

19. Little minds appreciate little minds the best.

20. Little minds like weak liquors are soonest
soured.

21. Many men, many minds.

22. Never let the bottom of your purse or mind
be seen. Ital.

23. Out of sight, out of mind.

24. Place may be changed but who can change
his mind. Horace.

25. Show not all the bottom either of your purse
or mind.

26. Sickly body, sickly mind. Ger.

27. Small minds are captivated by trifles. Ovid.

28. So many heads, so many minds. Ital,^ Dan.

29. So many men, so many minds (opinions).

Terence.

30. Sudden movements of the mind often break
out either for great good or great evil. Homer.

31. The defects of the mind, like those of the
face, grow worse as we grow old. Rochefoucauld.

32. The mind is like a bow : the stronger for be-
ing unbent. Ben Jonson.

33. The jaindjs the man.

34. The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that
it may turn the better to thinking. Spectator.

35. The rust of the mind is the blight of genius.

36. The spirit grows with its allotted space ;
The mind is narrow in a narrow sphere.

Mine.— Mine and Thine. — Minister. — Minute.

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37. Tis the mind ennobles, not the blood. Ger,

38. 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich. Shaks.

39. 'Tis the riches of the mind only that makes
a man rich and happy.

Mine.

1. Better mine than ours. Par.

2. What is mine is my own ; my brother John's
is his and mine. Sp.

Mine and Thine.

I. Men would live exceedingly quiet if those two
words, " mine " and " thine " were taken away.