False fancy brings real misery. [ Schiller ]
Nothing rarer than real goodness. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,A Psalm Of Life ]
It needs brains to be a real fool. [ George MacDonald ]
No real happiness is found
In trailing purple over the ground. [ Parnell ]
Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
Nothing so gentle as real strength. [ St. Francis de Sales ]
Praises from an enemy imply real merit. [ Proverb ]
The dream of happiness is real happiness. [ Fontanes ]
A work of real merit finds favour at last. [ A. B. Alcott ]
Women, like princes, find few real friends. [ Lord Lyttleton ]
But dreams full oft are found of real events
The form and shadows. [ Joanna Baillie ]
Without real masters you cannot have servants. [ Carlyle ]
No class escapes them - from the poor man's pay
The nostrum takes no trifling part away;
Time, too, with cash is wasted; 'tis the fate
Of real helpers, to be called too late;
This find the sick, when time and patience gone
Death with a tenfold terror hurries on. [ Crabbe ]
Great riches are of no real and substantial use. [ Proverb ]
The real beggar is indeed the true and only king. [ Lessing ]
Contempt is usually worse borne than real injuries. [ Proverb ]
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself. [ Mencius ]
Money makes not so many true friends as real enemies. [ Proverb ]
Our pleasures are mostly imagined, but our griefs real. [ Proverb ]
Silence, - the applause of real and durable impressions. [ Lamartine ]
How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones! [ Lavater ]
Real motives, however seemingly apparent, are still hidden. [ Alfred Mercier ]
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
The real science and the real study for man, is man himself. [ Charron ]
We should be above jealousy when there is real cause for it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good. [ Mrs. Stowe ]
The real men of genius were resolute workers, not idle dreamers. [ G. H. Lewes ]
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. [ Whipple ]
Distance produces in idea the same effect as in real perspective. [ Scott ]
A real grief I never can find till thou provest perjured or unkind. [ Prior ]
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. [ Froude ]
Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. [ Alfred de Musset ]
Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolonging of a real sentiment. [ Hazlitt ]
Every real need is appeased and every vice stimulated by satisfaction. [ Amiel ]
The real object of the drama is the exhibition of the human character. [ Macaulay ]
Real worth requires no interpreter; Its everyday deeds form its blazonry. [ Chamfort ]
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into. [ Plutarch ]
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit! [ Hosea Ballou ]
Prospective happiness! it is perhaps the only real happiness in the world. [ A. de Musset ]
The real heroes of this war are the great, brave, patient, nameless people. [ Whitelaw Reid ]
Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them. [ Swift ]
A mathematician is a practical man, estimating things by their real utility. [ W. H. Prescott ]
Let us not make imaginary evils when we have so many real ones to encounter. [ Goldsmith ]
A mother who doesn't part with a daughter every season has no real affection. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
What we need most is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. [ F. H. Hedge ]
Death possesses a good deal of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town. [ Hawthorne ]
Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness. [ Scott ]
I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. [ Emerson ]
Love-verses, writ without any real passion, are the most nauseous of all conceits. [ Shenstone ]
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. [ Ward Beecher ]
The real Nimrod of this era, who alone does any good to the era, is the rat-catcher. [ Carlyle ]
I have often maintained that fiction may be much more instructive than real history. [ John Foster ]
Real goodness does not attach itself merely to this life; it points to another world. [ Daniel Webster ]
A happy recollection is perhaps in this world more real than the happiness it recalls. [ French ]
Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character. [ Lavater ]
A real friend is somewhat like a ghost or apparition; much talked of, but rarely seen. [ C. Buck ]
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
We are valued either too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery. [ Schiller ]
Necessity is the only real sovereign in the world, the only despot for whom there is no law. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
It is easy in adversity to despise death; real fortitude has he who can dare to be wretched. [ Seneca ]
To fight with its neighbours never was, and is now less than ever, the real trade of England. [ Carlyle ]
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. [ Alexander Smith ]
Thought in the mind may come forth gold or dross; when coined in words, we know its real worth. [ Young ]
Neither exalt your pleasures, nor aggravate your vexations, beyond their real and natural state. [ Johnson ]
Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit. [ Bacon ]
A stray volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. [ Edward Everett Hale ]
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched. [ Martial ]
The less one sees and knows men, the higher one esteems them; for experience teaches their real value. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [ Cicero ]
It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it. [ Bruyere ]
Every real master of speaking or writing uses his personality as he would any other serviceable material. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
To judge of the real importance of an individual, one should think of the effect his death would produce. [ Levis ]
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell that would tell anything. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. Sin is the only real color-element left in modern life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Women should be doubly careful of their conduct, since appearances often injure them as much as real faults. [ Abbe Girard ]
Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections are only to be fixed by those that are real. [ De Moy ]
Real friendship is a slow grower; and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit. [ Chesterfield ]
Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections are not to be fixed but by those which are real. [ De Moy ]
Nothing is rarer than real goodness; those even who think they possess it are generally only good-natured and weak. [ La Roche ]
If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. [ Burke ]
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to its real value, but to the value our fancies set upon it. [ Addison ]
Avoid greatness; in a cottage there may be found more real happiness than kings or their favorites enjoy in palaces. [ Horace ]
Real glory springs from the quiet conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave. [ Thomson ]
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. [ Washington Irving ]
That two men may be real friends, they must have opposite opinions, similar principles, and different loves and hatreds. [ Chateaubriand ]
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real, too. [ Greville ]
Truth is the only real lasting foundation for friendship, in all but truth there is a principle of decay and dissimulation. [ Miss Helen Edgeworth ]
No girl who is well bred, kind, and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners or of heart. [ John Ruskin ]
Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and holy than any other. [ Hallam ]
The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins esteem and often confers more reputation than real merit. [ La Bruyere ]
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. [ Pascal ]
There never was a talent, even for real literature, but was primarily a talent for something infinitely better of the silent kind. [ Carlyle ]
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. [ Chesterfield ]
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. [ O. W. Holmes ]
If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven. [ Tillotson ]
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth - that is the secret of the fine arts. [ Joubert ]
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. [ Lord Brougham ]
The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. [ Balzac ]
You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure. [ Addison ]
Sea Islanders; but a real human heart, with Divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Of what is man certain? What lasts? What passes? What is chimerical? What is real? . . . Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt. [ Victor Hugo ]
Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions. [ Aeschines ]
Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement. [ Mrs. E. Carter ]
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust. [ Lowell ]
The world will be to each one of us very much what we make it. The cheerful are its real possessors, for the world belongs to those who enjoy it. [ Samuel Smiles ]
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one, and place his virtues in a fairer light. [ Lillo ]
Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day. [ Fenelon ]
If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life. [ Bishop Butler ]
Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches, recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase. [ Burton ]
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior. [ Plutarch ]
Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking, if you wish to know his real sentiments; for he can command his words more easily than his countenance. [ Chesterfield ]
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst ; the last is a real tragedy! [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
A jest that makes a virtuous woman only smile, often frightens away a prude; but, when real danger forces the former to flee, the latter does not hesitate to advance. [ Latena ]
I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others. [ Bruyere ]
Books, to judicious compilers, are useful, - to particular arts and professions absolutely necessary, - to men of real science they are tools; but more are tools to them. [ Johnson ]
The truly great are to be found everywhere; nor is it easy to say in what condition they spring up most plentifully. Real greatness has nothing to do with a man's sphere. [ William Ellery Channing ]
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit. [ Macaulay ]
A man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach, either of real good breeding or good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute points of fashionable etiquette. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more than all, it must be prayed for. [ Thomas Arnold ]
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction. [ Dryden ]
Men with gray eyes are generally keen, energetic, and at first cold; but you may depend upon their sympathy with real sorrow. Search the ranks of our benevolent men and you will agree with me. [ Dr. Leask ]
The prayers of a mother do not die when she dies, and the real heart and its sinless sympathies are never buried in the tomb; her love is purer and warmer now, for it comes from the sainted spirit shore. [ A. W. Mangum ]
The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction. [ John Ruskin ]
Men are tatooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea islanders; but a real human heart, with divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. [ Bulwer ]
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences. [ Fenelon ]
It is in the relaxation of security, it is in the expansion of prosperity, it is in the hour of dilation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure that the real character of men is discerned. [ Burke ]
Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection. [ Mark Twain, The Babies ]
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase; as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. [ Burton ]
What real good does an addition to a fortune, already sufficient, procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement. [ Goldsmith ]
To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big thing
. This is truth, to me. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The power of painter or poet to describe rightly what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal, but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith. [ Ruskin ]
Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or all forehead, or something horrid. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do: therefore never go abroad in search of your wants. If they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
The absent one is an ideal person; those who are present seem to one another to be quite commonplace. It is a silly thing that the ideal is, as it were, ousted by the real; that may be the reason why to the moderns their ideal only manifests itself in longing. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Society is a necessary thing. No man has any real success in this world unless he has women to back him, and women rule society. If you have not got women on your side you are quite over. You might as well be a barrister, or a stock-broker, or a journalist at once. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Friendship is like a debt of honor; the moment it is talked of it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation. From hence we find that those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavors. [ Goldsmith ]
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it many points in common therewith ... I call it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning again may be either true or false, either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or Insanity. [ Carlyle ]
Imaginary evils soon become real ones, by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall, or the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied. [ Swift ]
Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pinetrees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy. [ J. F. Boyes ]
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us. [ Pilpay ]
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity: not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity, wherein dwelleth the Divine. [ Carlyle ]
It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. [ Adam Clarke ]
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative In your reading; to read faithfully and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in, - a real, not an imaginary - and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in. [ Carlyle ]
Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of aesthetic beauty concur in maintaining that the real truthfulness of all works of imagination - sculpture, painting, written fiction - is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent the positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. The casual deliration of a few becomes, by this mysterious reverberation, the frenzy of many; men lose the use, not only of their understandings, but of their bodily senses; while the most obdurate unbelieving hearts melt like the rest in the furnace where all are cast as victims and as fuel. [ Carlyle ]
We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man. [ Emerson ]
It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]
If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron!
and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.
Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Why has the beneficent Creator scattered over the face of the earth such a profusion of beautiful flowers? Why is it that every landscape has its appropriate flowers, every nation its national flowers, every rural home its home flowers? Why do flowers enter and shed their perfume over every scene of life, from the cradle to the grave? Why are flowers made to utter all voices of joy and sorrow in all varying scenes? It is that flowers have in themselves a real and natural significance; they have a positive relation to man; they correspond to actual emotions; they have their mission - a mission of love and mercy; they have their language, and from the remotest ages this language has found its interpreters. [ Henrietta Dumont ]
Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]