The poor keep a continual fast. [ Proverb ]

A place at court is a continual bribe. [ Proverb ]

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride. [ William Shakespeare ]

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. [ Franklin ]

Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom. [ Proverb ]

Attention is a tacit and continual compliment. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness. [ Montaigne ]

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

O, banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful. [ Richter ]

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate. [ Richter ]

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear. [ La Roche ]

Permanence is what I advocate in all human relations; nomadism, continual change, is prohibitory of any good whatsoever. [ Carlyle ]

Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a woman more contemptible and more dangerous than a courtesan who never lies. [ De Varennes ]

To remain virtuous, a man has only to combat his own desires: a woman must resist her own inclinations, and the continual attack of man. [ Latena ]

The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. [ Montaigne ]

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. [ Swift ]

How little of our knowledge of mankind is derived from intentional accurate observation! Most of it has, unsought, found its way into the mind from the continual presentations of the objects to our unthinking view. It is a knowledge of sensation more than of reflection. [ John Foster ]

Perpetually or Continually? Perpetual means never ceasing, continuing without interruption; continual, of frequent recurrence, etc., with occasional interruptions. Indolent pupils are perpetually failing in the tasks assigned them. Here the proper word is continually. Time is perpetual; frequent disregard of our duties is continual. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation? It is that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me. That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]