If three know it, all know it. [ Italian Proverb ]

Better do it than wish it done. [ Proverb ]

Every one speaks of it, few know it. [ Mme. Roland ]

If it were a bear it would bite you. [ Proverb ]

Do it well, so you do not do it twice. [ Proverb ]

If her husband like it, I like it also. [ Proverb ]

It is hard to ask; it is sweet to give. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

Every one speaks of it, - who has known it? [ Mme. Necker ]

If it is not true, it is cleverly invented. [ Italian Proverb ]

It is easy to condemn; it is better to pity. [ Abbott ]

It is a good knife, it was made at Dull-edge. [ Proverb ]

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. [ Richter ]

The law, - it has honored us, may we honor it. [ Daniel Webster ]

Either don't attempt it, or go through with it. [ Ovid ]

In every ear it spread, on every tongue it grew. [ Pope ]

It is not he who searches for praise who finds it. [ Rivarol ]

Friendship, the older it grows, the stronger it is. [ Proverb ]

It is well to think well: it is divine to act well. [ Horace Mann ]

If it will not be spun, bring it not to the distaff. [ Proverb ]

I will not want when I have it, and have it not too. [ Proverb ]

I knew exactly where it was, I just couldn't find it. [ Yogi Berra ]

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. [ Owen Meredith ]

This sorrow's heavenly; It strikes where it doth love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. [ Franklin ]

It is a strange wood that has never a dead bough in it. [ Proverb ]

In one day it opens its blossoms, in one day it decays. [ Auson. of the rose ]

It is not love that ruins us; it is the way we make it. [ Bussy-Rabutin ]

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it preserves it. [ Confucius ]

Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks. [ Duchess d'Abrantes ]

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours. [ George Macdonald ]

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. [ William Shakespeare ]

No law reaches it, but all rightminded people observe it. [ Chamfort ]

Everybody gives advice: some listen to it; none apply it. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. [ Emerson ]

If you seek trouble, it is a pity but you should find it. [ Proverb ]

Beauty is like an almanac; if it lasts a year, it is well. [ Rev. T. Adam ]

Trust not the world, for it never payeth that it promiseth. [ St. Augustine ]

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and it defends. [ South ]

A fool may make money, but it takes a wise man to spend it. [ Proverb ]

Accent is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth. [ Rousseau ]

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? [ Thackeray ]

It is difficult to speak to the belly because it has no ears. [ Plutarch ]

Heaven - it is God's throne. The earth - it is His footstool. [ Bible ]

If love gives wit to fools, it undoubtedly takes it from wits. [ A. Karr ]

Though it is pleasant weaving nets, it is wiser to make cages. [ Moore ]

It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. [ Seneca ]

I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer. [ Grant ]

Thy soul's flight, If it find heaven, must find it out tonight. [ William Shakespeare ]

Flattery is like base coin; it impoverishes him who receives it. [ Madame Voillez ]

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least. [ Johnson ]

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Reason bears disgrace, courage combats it, patience surmounts it. [ Mme. de Sevigne ]

Accent is the soul of language: it gives to it feeling and truth. [ Rousseau ]

He is the world's master who despises it, its slave who prizes it. [ Italian Proverb ]

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

If the bed could tell all it knows, it would put many to the blush. [ Proverb ]

Flattery is like false money: it impoverishes those who receive it. [ Mme. Voillez ]

It is only necessary to give to each thing the time which it claims. [ Angelo Pandolfini ]

Chastity is like an icicle; if it once melts, that's the last of it. [ Proverb ]

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. [ Lord Halifax ]

Honesty is like an icicle; if it once melts, that is the last of it. [ Amer. Proverb ]

I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it. [ Yogi Berra, when asked what he would do if he found a million dollars ]

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He that finds a thing, steals it, if he endeavours not to restore it. [ Proverb ]

A cat may look at a king, but can it see a king when it looks at him? [ John Ruskin ]

In the night is counsel; take a night to think over it; sleep upon it.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it? [ Shenstone ]

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous. [ Chamfort ]

It is a good friend that is always giving, though it be never so little. [ Proverb ]

It is a hard thing to have a great estate, and not fall in love with it. [ Proverb ]

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

It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God Himself, were it possible. [ Bancroft ]

Duty only frowns when you flee from it; follow it, and it smiles upon you. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us. [ Dr. Johnson ]

How much easier do we find it to commend a good action than to imitate it. [ Anon ]

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and He addeth no sorrow with it. [ Proverbs x. 22 ]

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who has intrusted it. [ Bruyere ]

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. [ John Ruskin ]

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it. [ Madame Swetchine ]

No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign it where it is not. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Jealousy - it is a green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on. [ William Shakespeare ]

Evil is so common in the world that it is easy to believe it natural to man. [ F. Soulie ]

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. [ Madame Necker ]

It is wit to pick a lock and steal a horse, but it is wisdom to let it alone. [ Proverb ]

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same. [ Barton Holyday ]

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it. [ J. F. Boyes ]

Advice is seldom welcome; those who want it the most always like it the least. [ Chesterfield ]

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; it is cruel because it is wrong. [ Whately ]

You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips must touch the toe. [ Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, The Sour-Toe Cocktail ]

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it. [ Hillard ]

Reason! I have lost it; and, were it to be returned to me, I would fly from it! [ A. de Musset ]

Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, the further we make it go. [ H. W. Shaw ]

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [ Tacitus ]

Genius does not need a special language; it newly uses whatever tongue it finds. [ Stedman ]

He on whom Heaven bestows a sceptre knows not the weight of it till he bears it. [ Corneille ]

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [ Horace ]

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. [ Bible ]