With open arms. [ French ]
An open secret. [ Calderon ]
Truth loves open dealing. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
All doors open to courtesy. [ Proverb ]
My sentence is for open war. [ Milton ]
Good clothes open all doors. [ Proverb ]
With open heart; with candour [ French ]
An open knave is a great fool. [ Proverb ]
An open door may tempt a saint. [ Proverb ]
Dead men open living men's eyes. [ Spanish Proverb ]
A race-horse is an open sepulchre. [ Proverb ]
Hell and Chancery are always open. [ Proverb ]
A silver key can open an iron lock. [ Proverb ]
Paradise is open to all kind hearts. [ Beranger ]
Life lies most open in a closed eye. [ Quarles ]
Thy plain and open nature sees mankind
But in appearance, not what they are. [ Froude ]
Keep thy mouth shut, but thy eyes open.
To open your windows be ever your care. [ Proverb ]
An open confession is good for the soul. [ Proverb ]
Oh, if there is one thing above the rest
Written in Wisdom - if there is a word
That I would trace as with a pen of fire
Upon the unsullied temper of a child —
If there is anything that keeps the mind
Open to angel visits, and repels
The ministry of ill - It is Love. [ N. P. Willis ]
Dissimulation is alien to the open soul. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Where one door is shut, another is open. [ Proverb ]
Open not your door when the devil knocks. [ Proverb ]
To-morrow a new scene of things may open. [ Proverb ]
Keep your mouth closed and your eyes open. [ Proverb ]
A flatterer's throat is an open sepulchre. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them.
Not you, correct him. [ William Shakespeare ]
The year doth nothing else but open and shut. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
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 ]
See what money can do: that can change
Men's manners; alter their conditions!
How tempestuous the slaves are without it!
O thou powerful metal! what authority
Is in thee! thou art the key to all mens
Mouths: with thee, a man may lock up the jaws
Of an informer; and without thee, he
Cannot open the lips of a lawyer. [ Richard Brome ]
He that brings a present finds the door open. [ Proverb ]
The soul shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward
To the world's open view. [ John Dryden ]
Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining.
Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day,
Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining,
Buds that open only to decay. [ Longfellow ]
Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remained
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way.
And giv'st access, though secret she retire. [ Milton ]
Let thy alms go before, and keep heaven's gate
Open for thee, or both may come too late. [ George Herbert ]
Love's of a strangely open simple kind,
And thinks none sees it 'cause itself is blind. [ Cowley ]
Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths. [ H. W. Shaw ]
My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls,
A noise of falling weights that never fell.
Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand.
Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door.
And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;
And one betwixt the dark and light had seen
Her, bending by the cradle of her babe. [ Tennyson ]
Send not for an hatchet to break open an egg with. [ Proverb ]
The common ingredients of health and long life are:
Great temperance, open air,
Easy labor, little care. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Love must be taken by stratagem, not by open force. [ Goldsmith ]
At last the golden oriental gate
Of greatest heaven began to open fair;
And Phoebus, fresh as bridegroom to his mate,
Came dancing forth shaking his dewy hair,
And hurled his glistering beams through gloomy air. [ Spenser ]
It is easy to open a shop, but hard to keep it open. [ Chinese Proverb ]
Where a chest lies open a reputed honest man may sin. [ Proverb ]
City gates stand open to the bad as well as the good. [ Proverb ]
Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones. [ Cicero ]
When the maid leaves open the door, blame not the cat. [ Proverb ]
Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do. [ Mrs. Browning ]
For they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open. [ William Shakespeare ]
If you do not open the door to the devil, he goes away. [ Proverb ]
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. [ Proverb ]
Secret mines may take the town, when open battery cannot. [ Proverb ]
He that is open to flattery is fenced against admonition. [ Proverb ]
In all thy quarrels, leave open the door of reconciliation. [ Old Persian Saying ]
The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market. [ Colton ]
Go forth under the open sky, and listen to nature's teaching. [ Bryant ]
He is so wary that he sleeps like a hare, with his eyes open. [ Proverb ]
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foul. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open. [ Shakespeare ]
He who is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion. [ Richard Whately ]
A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. [ Proverb ]
Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? [ Milton ]
To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes. [ Burke ]
Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand open as day for melting charity! [ William Shakespeare ]
When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
Mine eyes he closed, but open left the cell of Fancy, my immortal sight. [ Milton ]
Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment. [ Mme. Roland ]
To punish and not prevent, is to labour at the pump, and leave open the leak. [ Proverb ]
Those who want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. [ Bacon ]
It is a sin against hospitality to open your doors, and shut up your countenance. [ Proverb ]
Enmities unavowed and concealed are more to be feared than when open and declared. [ Cicero ]
Keep the bowels open, the head cool, and the feet warm, and a fig for the doctors. [ Proverb ]
The smaller the calibre of mind, the greater the bore of a perpetually open mouth. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter. [ Saadi ]
The kingdom of poetry is the kingdom of truth; open the sanctuary and there is light. [ A. v. Chamisso ]
These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable. [ William Shakespeare ]
Two ways are open for thee out of life; one conducts to the ideal, the other to death. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall. [ Goethe ]
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God! My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. [ William Shakespeare ]
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of reproof if the archer can but take a proper aim. [ Goldsmith ]
There is an English song beginning, Love knocks at the door.
He knocks less often than he finds it open. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for the present, as blind as he who cannot. [ South ]
The question is not at what door of fortune's palace shall we enter in, but what doors does she open to us? [ Burns ]
O, polished perturbation! golden care that keepest the ports of slumber open wide to many a watchful night! [ William Shakespeare ]
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. [ Willis ]
For cowards the road of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. [ Bovee ]
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. [ Zimmermann ]
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream. [ Landor ]
Open, candid, and generous, his heart was the constant companion of his hand, and his tongue the artless index of his mind. [ George Canning ]
A great soul is proof against injustice, pain, and mockery; and it would be invulnerable if it were not open to compassion.
Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
These evils I deserve, yet despair not of His final pardon whose ear is ever open and his eye gracious to readmit the supplicant. [ Milton ]
Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheathed their light, and, canopied in darkness, sweetly lay, till they might open to adorn the day. [ William Shakespeare ]
Though thou art disappointed in a hope, never let hope fail thee; though one door is shut, there are thousands still open for thee. [ Rückert ]
Take a walk to refresh yourself with the open air, which inspired fresh doth exceedingly recreate the lungs, heart and vital spirits. [ Harvey ]
Sects of men are apt to be shut up in sectarian ideas of their own, and to be less open to new general ideas than the main body of men. [ Matthew Arnold ]
Avoid an inquisitive person, for he is sure to be a gossip; ears always open to hear will not keep faithfully what is intrusted to them. [ Horace ]
The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us. [ Chapin ]
Marriage is a romance until the book is open. True, the preface is sometimes amusing, but it never lasts long, and it is always deceptive. [ Poincelot ]
Paradise is open to all kind hearts. God welcomes whoever has dried tears, either under the crown of the martyrs, or under wreaths of flowers. [ Beranger ]
Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness. [ Blair ]
Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality. [ Joubert ]
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Go on, spare no invectives, but open the spout of your eloquence, and see with what a calm, connubial resignation I will both hear and bow to the chastisement. [ Colley Cibber ]
We may have the confidence of another without possessing his heart. If his heart be ours, there is no need of revelation or of confidence, - all is open to us. [ Du Coeur ]
Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many. [ Lowell ]
See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven. [ Richter ]
Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him. [ Richter ]
Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Man loves before he sees; his heart is open before his eyes; love must irradiate his world for him before he well knows he is in it, what it is made of, and what to make of it. [ Ed ]
There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow. [ Seneca ]
Oh, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues, would be seen reposing there! [ Richter ]
No barriers, no masses of matter, however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind; the remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb, the very heaven itself is laid open. [ Manilius ]
If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between them and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both. [ Addison ]
Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven. [ Fredrika Bremer ]
Rarity gives a charm: thus early fruits are most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a higher price; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress; a door ever open attracts no young suitor. [ Martial ]
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book, and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other. [ Madame Necker ]
Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them. [ Phillips Brooks ]
Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me. [ Napoleon ]
However powerful one may be, whether one laughs or weeps, none can make thee speak, none can open thy hand before the time, O mute phantom, our shadow! specter always masked, ever at our side, called Tomorrow. [ Victor Hugo ]
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another; if thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter; if thou receive them, they flee forward and wound the receiver. [ Quarles ]
When the passengers gallop by as if fear made them speedy, the cur follows them with an open mouth; let them walk by in confident neglect, and the dog will not stir at all; it is a weakness that every creature takes advantage of. [ J. Beaumont ]
Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view. [ Goldsmith ]
A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. [ Richter ]
How oft my guardian angel gently cried, Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How he persists to knock and wait for thee!
And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow, Tomorrow we will open,
I replied. And when the morrow came I answered still, Tomorrow.
[ Tome Burguillos ]
There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them. [ Aughey ]
We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament. [ Beecher ]
Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. [ W. P. Scargill ]
I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fisherman caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy - something like that. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation, sober counsels and ingenuous actions, open deportment and sweet carriage, sincere principles and unprejudicate understanding, love of God and selfdenial, peace and confidence, holy prayers and spiritual comfort, and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised. [ Maltbie Babcock ]
When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together;
and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]