Fools are without number. [ Erasmus ]
Teach me my days to number, and apply
My trembling heart to wisdom. [ Young ]
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber.
Holy angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head. [ Watts ]
Greatest happiness of the greatest number. [ Hutcheson ]
Judge not by the number, but by the weight. [ Cicero ]
A small number of choice books are sufficient. [ Voltaire ]
The wolf is not scared by the number of the sheep. [ Proverb ]
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 ]
Keep good company, and you shall be of the number. [ George Herbert ]
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Majority is applied to number, and superiority to power. [ Johnson ]
The number of the malefactors, authorizes not the crime. [ Proverb ]
He is the happiest who renders the greatest number happy. [ Desmakis ]
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks. [ Seneca ]
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of steps. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. [ Bible ]
We say a thing is without rhyme or reason when it has neither number nor sense. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils, even if equal in number. [ Pliny ]
The sands are number'd, that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end. [ William Shakespeare ]
Lovers have in their language an infinite number of words, in which each syllable is a caress. [ Rochepedre ]
A small number of men and women think for the million; through them the million speak and act. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Whatever the number of a man's friends there will be times in his life when he has one too few. [ Bulwer ]
While you are prosperous, you can number many friends; but when the storm comes, you are left alone. [ Ovid ]
The last act of life is sometimes like the last number in a sum, ten times greater than all the rest. [ Collier ]
Greece, so much praised for her wisdom, never produced but seven wise men: judge of the number of fools! [ Grecourt ]
A woman who writes, commits two sins: she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. [ Alphonse Karr ]
He is the greatest artist who has embodied in the sum of his works the greatest number of the greatest ideas. [ John Ruskin ]
In all companies there are more fools than wise men; and the greater number always get the better of the wiser. [ Rabelais ]
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part; the rest are confounded with the multitude. [ Voltaire ]
The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them. [ Baron de Grimm ]
The best government is not that which renders men the happiest, but that which renders the greatest number happy. [ Charles P. Duclos ]
As wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. [ Bacon ]
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. [ Sterne ]
The greater number of nations, as of men, are only impressible in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow old. [ Rousseau ]
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of every thing. [ Sydney Smith ]
I do not number my borrowings; I weigh them, and had I designed to raise their value by their number, I had made them twice as many. [ Montaigne ]
People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to our Laplanders, who measure a man's worth by the number of his reindeer. [ Fredrika Bremer ]
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure. [ Emerson ]
Party or Person? Party, a collective noun, meaning a number of persons is often incorrectly used for person; as, He was a very agreeable party.
[ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Is death more cruel from a private dagger than in the field from murdering swords of thousands? Or does the number slain make slaughter glorious? [ Gibber ]
The more enlarged is our own mind, the greater number we discover of men of originality. Your commonplace people see no difference between one man and another. [ Pascal ]
Our happiness as human beings, generally speaking, will be found to be very much in proportion to the number of things we love, and the number of things that love us. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Few of us appreciate the number of our everyday blessings; we think they are trifles, and yet trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle,
as Michael Angelo said. [ Sir John Lubbock ]
That, of course, they are many in number, or that, after all, they are, other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. [ Burke ]
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion. [ Joubert ]
The amount of honey which we accumulate from the years as they pass, depends not so much upon the number of flower-gardens through which we rove, as upon our powers of extraction. [ Henry Wood ]
This century boasts of progress! Have they invented a new mortal sin? Unfortunately there are but seven, as before - the number of the daily falls of a saint, which is very little. [ T. Gautier ]
He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men, - of men ia distant countries and in past times. [ Emerson ]
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand one cannon ball than a volley of bullets. [ Colton ]
Avarice often produces opposite effects; there is an infinite number of people who sacrifice all their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others despise great future advantages to obtain present interests of a trifling nature. [ Kochefoucauld ]
Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them; almost all women; a vast number of clever, hard-headed men. Judges, bishops, chancellors, mathematicians, are notorious novel readers, as well as young boys and girls, and their kind, tender mothers. [ Thackeray ]
Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speak themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we threaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we mark number and time. [ Quintilian ]
Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. On the due digestion of facts depends the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigour and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable in the commerce of life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. [ Burke ]
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]
The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]