The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (295 page)

Mant, Richard
1776–1848

1
Bright the vision that delighted
Once the sight of Judah's seer;
Sweet the countless tongues united
To entrance the prophet's ear.

"Bright the vision that delighted" (1837 hymn)

 
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Mao Zedong
1893–1976

1
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

lecture, 1938

2
Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".

speech, 6 November 1938

3
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't…All reactionaries are paper tigers.

interview, 1946

4
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.

speech in Peking, 27 February 1957

 
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Maradona, Diego
1960–

1
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by head of Maradona.
on his controversial goal against England in the 1986 World Cup

in
Guardian
1 July 1986

 
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Marcy, William Learned
1786–1857

1
The politicians of New York…see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

speech to the Senate, 25 January 1832

 
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Margulis, Lynn
1938–

1
Gaia is a tough bitch. People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it, that's ridiculous…There's no doubt that Gaia can compensate for our output of greenhouse gases, but the environment that's left will not be happy for any people.

in
New York Times Biographical Service
January 1996

 
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Marie-Antoinette
1755–93

1
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.Let them eat cake.
on being told that her people had no bread

attributed, but much older; in his
Confessions
(1740) Rousseau refers to a similar remark being a well-known saying; another version is "
Que ne mangent-ils de la croûte de pâté?
[Why don't they eat pastry?]", attributed to Marie-Thérèse (1638–83), wife of Louis XIV

 
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