Virtue lies in the mean. [ Proverb ]

Honor lies in honest toil. [ Grover Cleveland ]

Felicity lies much in fancy. [ Proverb ]

Here lies the body of Ann Mann,
Who lived an old woman,
And died an old Mann. [ Epitaph ]

In spending lies the advantage. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Here lies the body of John Mound
Lost at sea and never found. [ Epitaph ]

Earth's highest station ends in -
Here he lies. [ Young ]

Lies can destroy, but not create. [ Tupper ]

Life lies not in living by liking. [ Proverb ]

Behind every mountain lies a vale. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Most virtue lies between two vices. [ Horace ]

Lies exist only to be extinguished. [ Carlyle ]

Jesting lies bring serious sorrows. [ Proverb ]

Much corn lies in the chaff unseen. [ Proverb ]

My wife lies here.
All my tears cannot bring her back;
Therefore, I weep. [ Miscellaneous epitaph ]

In the motive lies the good or ill. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Do the duty which lies nearest thee. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Life lies most open in a closed eye. [ Quarles ]

Heaven lies about us in our infancy. [ Wordsworth ]

Here lies one Wood enclosed in wood,
One Wood within another.
The outer wood is very good.
We cannot praise the other. [ Epitaph ]

And the Raven, never flitting.
Still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas
Just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming
Of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamplight over him streaming
Throws his shadow on the floor.
And my soul from out that shadow,
That lies floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted - nevermore. [ Poe ]

In one soft look what language lies! [ Dibdin ]

Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed,
On the bare earth exposed be lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ John Dryden ]

Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen.
Fallen from his high estate.
And welt'ring in his blood;
Deserted at his utmost need.
But those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ Dryden ]

All our dignity lies in our thoughts. [ Pascal ]

Here lies the body of Johnny Haskell,
A lying, thieving, cheating rascal;
He always lied, and now he lies,
He has no soul and cannot rise. [ Epitaph ]

He that makes his bed ill lies there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Misunderstanding brings lies to town. [ Proverb ]

Happiness lies first of all in health. [ G. W. Curtis ]

His glory now lies buried in the dust. [ Quarles ]

Do well the duty that lies before you. [ Pittachus ]

Here lies the body of Jonathan Ground,
Who was lost at sea and never found. [ Epitaph ]

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. [ Lowell ]

It lifts the boughs, whose shadows deep,
Are life's oblivion, the soul's sleep,
And kisses the closed eyes
Of him who slumbering lies. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

To know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom. [ Milton ]

O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies
In the small orb of one particular tear! [ William Shakespeare ]

Lofty thought lies oft in childish play. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind. [ Lucrece ]

A deep meaning often lies in old Customs. [ Schiller ]

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords. [ William Shakespeare ]

Many words and many lies look much alike. [ Proverb ]

Here lies the body of Jonathan Near
Whose mouth it stretched from ear to ear.
Tread softly, stranger, o'er this wonder,
For if he yawns, you're gone, by thunder! [ Epitaph ]

Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. [ William Shakespeare ]

How much of love lies buried dusty graves! [ F. A. Durivage ]

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that had no cross deserves no crown. [ Quarles ]

Who reasons wisely, is not therefore wise,
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. [ Pope ]

Here lies my wife, poor Molly, let her lie,
She finds repose at last, and so do I. [ Epitaph ]

Reason lies between the spur and the bridle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me;
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garment with his form. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that lies long abed, his estate feels it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. [ Wm. Pitt ]

Here lies the body of Sarah Sexton,
Who as a wife did never vex one.
We can't say that for her at the next stone. [ Epitaph ]

Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies:
Learn this, ye men of wealth - a heavy purse
In a fool's pocket is a heavy curse. [ Cumberland ]

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And Cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness.
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come
From God, who is our home.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
* * * * * *
At length the man perceives it die away.
And fade into the light of common day. [ Wordsworth ]

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. [ Proverb ]

Search not to find what lies too deeply hid;
Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid. [ Denham ]

The sea! the sea!- the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Without a mark, without a bound,
It runneth the earth's wide regions round;
It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;
Or like a cradled creature lies. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies. [ Alexander Pope ]

He that lies with the dogs riseth with fleas. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Sc. 3 ]

Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. [ Byron ]

Pride scorns the vulgar yet lies at its mercy. [ Proverb ]

Act well your part; there all the honour lies. [ Pope ]

He that lies upon the ground can fall no lower. [ Proverb ]

As fast lock'd up in sleep, as guiltless labor,
When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones. [ William Shakespeare ]

He lies there who never feared the face of man. [ The Earl of Morton at John Knox's grave ]

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels men rebel;
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against the Eternal cause. [ Pope ]

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize. [ R. M. Milnes ]

Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true. [ Yogi Berra ]

Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray,
Like the divining rods of Magi old,
Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,
But love - strong love, that never can decay! [ Park Benjamin ]

Much corn lies under the straw that is not seen. [ Proverb ]

One may tell lies without the danger of the law. [ Proverb ]

Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffused;
As poison heals, in just proportion used;
In heaps, like ambergrise, a stink it lies,
But well dispersed, is incense to the skies. [ Pope ]

The garden lies,
A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream. [ Tennyson ]

Likely lies in the mire, when unlikely gets over. [ Proverb ]

Here lies Dame Dorothy Peg,
Who never had issue except in her leg,
So great was her art, so deep was her cunning,
That while one leg stood, the other kept running. [ Epitaph ]

If I could write the beauty of your eyes.
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches never touched earthly faces. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that buys and lies, shall feel it in his purse. [ Proverb ]

The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Life outweighs all things, if love lies within it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. [ Pope ]

O very gloomy is the House of Woe,
Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling.
With all the dark solemnities which show
That Death is in the dwelling!
O, very, very dreary is the room
Where Love, domestic Love, no longer nestles.
But smitten by the common stroke of doom.
The corpse lies on the trestles! [ Hood ]

Truth lies deep, and must be fetched up at leisure. [ Proverb ]

All extremes are error.
The reverse of error is not truth, but error still.
Truth lies between these extremes. [ Cecil ]

A soul in a fat body lies soft, and is loth to rise. [ Proverb ]

Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this -
Men prize the thing ungamed more than it is. [ William Shakespeare ]

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. [ Emerson ]

Where a chest lies open a reputed honest man may sin. [ Proverb ]

He sits up by moon-shine and lies a-bed in sun-shine. [ Proverb ]

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. [ Epictetus ]

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. [ George Eliot ]

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

Gold lies deep in the mountain, but dirt on the highway. [ German Proverb ]

A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. [ Tennyson ]

He that lies down with the dogs must rise with the fleas. [ Proverb ]

The stone that lies not in your way, need not offend you. [ Proverb ]

The juicy pear Lies, in a soft profusion, scattered round. [ Thompson ]

He has most share in the wedding that lies with the bride. [ Proverb ]

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb, and flow;
And many a beautiful pearl
Lies hid in its depths below. [ Heine ]

The proper task of literature lies in the domain of belief. [ Carlyle ]

Yet under this rude exterior lies concealed a mighty genius. [ Horace ]

Let a man be never so wise, he may be caught with sober lies. [ Swift ]

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue. [ William Shakespeare ]

Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth! [ Tennyson ]

True valour lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness. [ Cervantes ]

Intellect lies behind genius, which is intellect constructive. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies. [ Lava ter ]

He that falls in the dirt, the longer he lies the dirtier he is. [ Proverb ]

I never desired you to stumble at the stone that lies at my door. [ Proverb ]

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. [ Balzac ]

You are an honest man, and I am your uncle, and that’s two lies. [ Proverb ]

To fall in love is not difficult: the difficulty lies in telling it. [ A. de Musset ]

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradle foot. [ Richter ]

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. [ William Penn ]

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. [ Wendell Phillips ]

The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, lies through their mouths. [ Dr. John Wolcott ]

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. [ Beecher ]

Much lies among us convulsively, nay, desperately, struggling to be born. [ Carlyle ]

Music, which gentler on the spirit lies than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. [ Tennyson ]

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness. [ Cervantes ]

I have always found that the road to a woman's heart lies through her child. [ Judge Haliburton ]

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]

I will give you a crown a-piece for your lies, if you will let me have them all. [ Proverb ]

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. [ G. H. Lewes ]

Satire lies about men of letters during their life, and eulogy after their death. [ Voltaire ]

Great lies are as great as great truths, and prevail constantly and day after day. [ Thackeray ]

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage. [ Lavater ]

Happy is he who soon discovers the chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable. [ William Shakespeare ]

In saying aye or no, the very safety of our country and the sum of our well-being lies. [ L'Estrange ]

In the power of fixing the attention, lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. [ Bishop Hall ]

At the bottom of the faith-sea lies the pearl of knowledge; happy the diver that finds it. [ Bodenstedt ]

Satire lies respecting literary men during their life, and eulogy does so after their death. [ Voltaire ]

Wise, well-calculated breeding of a young soul lies fatally over the horizon in these epochs. [ Carlyle ]

I show you what you can do for yourself; the only path to a tranquil life lies through virtue. [ Juv ]

Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth of which, alas! gives but little hope of release. [ Democritus ]

Many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, in smiles that least befit those who wear them most. [ Byron ]

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of reproof if the archer can but take a proper aim. [ Goldsmith ]

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labor Lost ]

It is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose. [ Emerson ]

Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side. [ Latimer ]

Some books are drenched sands, on which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps, like a wrecked argosy. [ Adam Smith ]

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in a want of a due improvement of them. [ Locke ]

A little plot of ground thick sown is better than a great field which, for the most part of it, lies fallow. [ Bishop Norris ]

Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. [ Goethe ]

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

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

Excitement is not enjoyment; in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow. [ Victor Hugo ]

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. [ Hazlitt ]

But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there. And none so poor to do him reverence. [ William Shakespeare ]

How long a time lies in one little word! Four lagging winters and four wanton springs End in a word: such is the breath of kings. [ William Shakespeare ]

Never be discouraged because good things go on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. [ Charles Dickens ]

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. [ T. Carlyle ]

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

However bright the comedy before, the last act is always stained with blood. The earth is laid upon our head, and there it lies forever. [ Pascal ]

Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in His universe is linked to that which lies nearest the throne. [ E. H. Chapin ]

Beautiful is Peace! A lovely boy lies he reclining by a quiet rill. But war too has its honour, the promoter as it is of the destiny of man. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand; and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies. [ Goethe ]

True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets or danger lies in his way. [ Locke ]

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate. [ G. H. Lewes ]

Sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. [ Bryant ]

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Venerable to me is the hard hand, - crooked, coarse, - wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet. [ Carlyle ]

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. [ Ward Beecher ]

In love, the importance lies in the beginning. The world knows well that whoever takes one step will take more: it is important, then, to take the first step well. [ Fontanelle ]

The eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach; but that little spot of ground which lies betwixt those two great oceans, this we are to cultivate. [ Burnet ]

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches. [ Landor ]

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. [ Carlyle ]

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul; that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love; and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. [ William Ellery Channing ]

The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes. [ De La Bruyere ]

Who can look down upon the grave of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb that he should have warred with the poor handful of dust that lies mouldering before him? [ Washington Irving ]

Half the logic of misgovernment lies in this one sophistical dilemma: if the people are turbulent, they are unfit for liberty; if they are quiet, they do not want liberty. [ Macaulay ]

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

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 ]

Literature is a mere step to knowledge; and the error often lies in our identifying one with the other. Literature may, perhaps, make us vain; true knowledge must make us humble. [ Mrs. John Sanford ]

The passage of Providence lies through many crooked ways; a despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of fortune, but not break them. [ Quarles ]

Religion is again here, for whoever will piously struggle upward, and sacredly, sorrowfully refuse to speak lies, which indeed will mostly mean refuse to speak at all on that topic. [ Carlyle ]

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity. [ Bishop Heber ]

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet. [ Landor ]

Lover, daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother: in those six words lies what the human heart contains of the sweetest, the most ecstatic, the most sacred, the purest, and the most ineffable. [ Massias ]

What people will say - in these words there lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words bear sway everywhere. [ Auerbach ]

Literature, when noble, is not easy; only when ignoble. It too is a quarrel and internecine duel with the whole world of darkness that lies without one and within one; - rather a hard fight at times. [ Carlyle ]

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it. [ Lowell ]

Sow the seeds of life - humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundredfold. [ F. W. Robertson ]

A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves. [ Chapin ]

The secret of happiness lies in the health of the whole mind, and in giving to each faculty due occupation, and in the natural order of their superiorities, the Divine first, the human second, the material last. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Poetry is musical thought, thought of a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of a thing, detected the melody that lies hidden in it, ... the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. [ Carlyle ]

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. The charlatan is verbose and assumptive; the Pharisee is ostentatious, because he is a hypocrite. Pride is the master sin of the Devil; and the Devil is the father of lies. [ Chapin ]

Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the plurality in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands. [ John Ruskin ]

Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. [ Thomas Carlyle ]

I had fifteen years' apprenticeship on the press of New York, writing editorials upon every conceivable subject, often at a few minutes notice, acquiring in this way rapid thought and rapid expression. ... The proof of genius lies in continuity. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

The reasonable worship of a just God who punishes and rewards, would undoubtedly contribute to the happiness of men; but when that salutary knowledge of a just God is disfigured by absurd lies and dangerous superstitions, then the remedy turns to poison. [ Voltaire ]

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor on character. [ Cobden ]

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, - the wise, the good, or the great man, - very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light. [ Joseph Addison ]

Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. [ F. W. Robertson ]

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]