"You are remembered for the rules you break."
– Douglas MacArthur
"Whatever you do, put romance and enthusiasm into the life of our children."
– Margaret Ramsey MacDonald
"The biggest liar in the world is They Say."
– Douglas Malloch
"A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill."
– Lord Mancroft
"Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is
good only for wallowing."
– Katherine Mansfield
"It's like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!"
– Merrill Markoe
"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."
– Peter Marshall
"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something."
– Jackie Mason
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can
change the world — it's the only thing that ever has."
– Margaret Mead
"In violence, we forget who we are."
– Mary McCarthy
"If fate means you to lose, give it a good fight anyhow."
– William McFee
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with
the same person."
– Mignon McLaughlin
"It is important to our friends that we are unreservedly frank with
them, and important to our friendship that we are not."
– Mignon McLaughlin
"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while
you'll see why."
– Mignon McLaughlin
"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment
to the next."
– Mingnon McLaughlin
"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older."
– Larry McMurtry
"Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind."
– Alice Meynell
"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
– Michelangelo
"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence
of a witness."
– Margaret Millar
"Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor."
– John Milton
"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what
we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is."
– Margaret Mitchell
"A good listener is not only popular
everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
– Wilson Mizner
"Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."
– Thomas L. Monson
"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself."
– Axel Munthe