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Maclaine, Shirley

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

Macnaughton, John

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

Maher, Bill

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

Mahoney, David J.

Success is not so much achievement as achieving. Refuse to join the cautious crowd that plays not to lose; play to win.

Makeba, Miriam

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die: hope, determination, and song.

Malcolm X

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Malina, Judith

Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.

Maltz, Maxwell

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Mandino, Og

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

Mansfield, Katherine

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mann, Horace

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Mannes, Mayra

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Mannes, Marya

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

Mansfield, Katherine

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship, was that one had to explain nothing.

Marchal, Terry

Those who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do.

Marin County newspaper's TV listing for The Wizard of Oz

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.

Markham, Beryl

Success breeds confidence.

Marshall, Peter

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Marter, Barry

I went on a diet&emdash;had to go on two diets at the same time 'cause one diet wasn't giving me enough food.

Martin, Judith

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Martin, Judith

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities with your help.

Marx, Groucho

I had a lovely evening. Unfortunately, this wasn't it.

Marx, Karl

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Marx, Karl

The philosphers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

Mason, Jackie

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

Matthews, Dave

I will wait for you. I will wait for no one but you.

Matthews, Dave

I'd like to show you what's inside. I shouldn't care if you do or don't like it.

Matthews, Dave

Turns out not where (you are) but who you're with that really matters.

Matthews, Dave

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.

Matthews, Dave

Whatever tears at us; whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around.

Maugham, M. Somerset

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

Maxwell, Elsa

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Mays, Benjamin

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

McAdoo, William Gibbs

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

McCarthy, Mary

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour, in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

McCluggage, Denise

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

McCormick, Anne O'Hare

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

McFadden, Cyra

One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.

McGovern, John

I love boxing. Where else do two grown men prance around in satin underwear, fighting over a belt? The one who wins gets a purse. They do it in gloves. It's the accessory connection I love.

McGannon, Donald H.

Leadership is action, not position.

McGraw, Tim

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.

Mead, Margaret

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Mead, Margaret

Never doubt that a small group of committed, thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Meir, Golda

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.

Meir, Golda

Moses dragged us for forty years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil.

Meir, Golda

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Mencken, Henry Louis

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Mencken, Henry Louis

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Mendela, Nelson

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Mendoza, John

Fear is being stuck in heavy traffic when you just had two cups of coffee and a bran muffin.

Metcalf, Ellen

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Mill, John Stuart

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

Miller, Alice Duer

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&emdash;that's the time to hold your tongue.

Miller, Dennis

I don't need to be born again. I got it right the first time.

Miller, Erynn

It takes a lot of understanding, time, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. As I approach a time of life of complete uncertainly, my friends are my most precious asset.

Miller, Olin

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do.

Miller, Steve

Feed the babies, who don't have enough to eat. / Shoe the children, with no shoes on their feet. / House the people living in the streets. / Now there's a solution.

Mills, Stephanie

Instead of wallowing in my misery, I just made some changes.

Milne, Alan Alexander (A. A.)

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Minnelli, Liza

Reality is something you rise above.

Miss Piggy

Never eat more than you can lift.

Mitchell, Maria

We cannot take anything for granted, beyond the first mathematical formula. Question everything else.

Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin

To live without loving is not really to live.

Monroe, Marilyn

Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision?

Monroe, Marilyn

I have never understood this sex symbol business, but if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it be sex than some of the other things they've got symbols for.

Montagu, Mary Wortley

Generalizations are generally wrong.

Montgomery, Lynda

Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, "Oh my God&emdash;I could be eating a slow learner!"

Moore, Dudley

The best car safety device is a rearview mirror with a cop in it.

Moore, Marianne

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Moore, Mary Tyler

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Moore, Thomas

Music, oh how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell! Why should feeling ever speak, When thou canst breathe her soul so well?

Moreau, Jeanne

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects to from age.

Morgan, Marabel

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

Morison, Samuel Eliot

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

Morley, Christopher

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Morley, Christopher

There is only one success&emdash;to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?

Morrison, Toni

I never wanted to grow up to be a writer, I just wanted to grow up to be an adult.

Morrison, Toni

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle, I just wish (God) didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Teresa

We can do no great things&emdash;only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Mueller, Suzanne

Nothing is really lost. It's just where it doesn't belong.

Mull, Martin

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Murdoch, Iris

We can only learn to love by loving.

Murdock, Mike

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.

MxPx

Am I running out of time or am I at the starting line?

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