Sometimes words
Hurt more than swords. [ Proverb ]

Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue. [ Rivarol ]

I never saw an eye so bright,
And yet so soft as hers;
It sometimes swam in liquid light.
And sometimes swam in tears;
It seemed a beauty set apart
For softness and for signs. [ Mrs. Welby ]

Sometimes the best gain is to lose. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Solitude is sometimes best society. [ Milton ]

Sometimes a fool speaks reasonably.

Even fools sometimes speak shrewdly. [ Proverb ]

It is wisdom sometimes to seem a fool. [ Proverb ]

Temporizing is sometimes great wisdom. [ Proverb ]

I have a dog of Blenheim birth.
With fine long ears and full of mirth;
And sometimes, running over the plain,
He tumbles on his nose:
But quickly jumping up again
Like lightning on he goes! [ Ruskin ]

Modesty is sometimes an exalted pride. [ George Sand ]

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad. [ Mrs. Browning ]

It is ever so! affection feeds
Sometimes on flowers, how oft on weeds! [ J. F. Wiffen ]

A fop sometimes gives important advice. [ Boileau ]

Despair makes victims sometimes victors. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes. [ Proverb ]

Fool's bolts may sometimes hit the mark. [ Proverb ]

The laws sometimes sleep, but never die. [ Law Maxim ]

Tears are sometimes as weighty as words. [ Ovid ]

Sometimes tears have the weight of words. [ Ovid ]

A fool's bolt may sometimes hit the mark. [ Proverb ]

Feebleness is sometimes the best security. [ Proverb ]

Fools may sometimes give wise men counsel. [ Proverb ]

Marriage is sometimes only a long quarrel.

Great wits and valours, like great states,
Do sometimes sink with their own weights. [ Butler ]

None is a fool always; every one sometimes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. [ Pope ]

Truth will sometimes break out unlooked for. [ Proverb ]

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye. [ Shakespeare ]

The cloak sometimes falls off a cunning man. [ Italian Proverb ]

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves.
When we will tempt the frailty of our powers.
Presuming on their changeful potency. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. [ Smollett ]

Waiting answers sometimes as well as working. [ Mrs. Gatty ]

He that is always shooting must sometimes hit. [ Proverb ]

I love sometimes to doubt, as well as to know. [ Dante ]

Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alight sometimes, still goeth on. [ George Herbert ]

Sometimes it costs a great deal to do mischief. [ Proverb ]

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps for gladness. [ Beaconsfield ]

You must be content sometimes with rough roads. [ Proverb ]

Innocence itself hath sometimes need of a mask. [ Proverb ]

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. [ Fuller ]

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting where,
And when, and how thy business may be done,
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on. [ George Herbert ]

That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Truth may sometimes come out of the devil's mouth. [ Proverb ]

Laughter is sometimes the knell of a dead illusion. [ De Finod ]

Discreet wives have sometimes neither eyes nor ears. [ Proverb ]

What seems only ludicrous is sometimes very serious. [ Rabelais ]

Nature is sometimes subdued, but seldom extinguished. [ Bacon ]

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for pebbles. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Masters should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf. [ Proverb ]

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

None is so wise but the fool sometimes overtakes him. [ Proverb ]

Women sometimes deceive the lover - never the friend. [ L. S. Mercier ]

Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. [ Feltham ]

You have a little wit, and it does you good sometimes. [ Proverb ]

A true friend dares sometimes venture to be offensive. [ Proverb ]

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. [ E. B. Browning ]

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

The truth works sometimes from without as from within. [ Dr. W. Smith ]

Truth, when not sought after, sometimes comes to light. [ Menander ]

It is pleasant to play the fool (i.e. relax) sometimes. [ Horace ]

Delays increase desires, and sometimes extinguish them. [ Proverb ]

Vice is its own punishment, and sometimes its own cure. [ Proverb ]

Friendship always benefits, while love sometimes injures. [ Seneca ]

A new friend is sometimes only a troublesome acquaintance. [ James Ellis ]

Top and bottom teeth sometimes come into awkward collision. [ Ch. Proverb ]

The strictest laws sometimes become the severest injustice. [ Terence ]

Diamonds are not only dug for, but sometimes worn by slaves! [ Richter ]

A fool may sometimes have talent, but he never has judgment. [ La Roche ]

It may be necessary sometimes to hold a candle to the devil. [ Proverb ]

A blunt edge will do it, where sometimes a sharp ax will not. [ Proverb ]

Wit sometimes helps us to play the fool with more confidence. [ Proverb ]

That falls out sometimes in a day which never fell out before. [ Proverb ]

Twenty years in the life of a man is sometimes a severe lesson. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Gall in mirth is an ill mixture, and sometimes truth is bitter. [ Proverb ]

Sometimes from her eyes I did receive fair speechless messages. [ William Shakespeare ]

Even covetous men have sometimes their intervals of generosity. [ Proverb ]

Wicked men, like mad-men, have sometimes their lucid intervals. [ Proverb ]

Sometimes it is better to give your apple, than eat it yourself. [ Proverb ]

Obstacles usually stimulate passion, but sometimes they kill it. [ George Sand ]

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it. [ Howell ]

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward. [ Haliburton ]

Sometimes the common people judge aright; at other times they err. [ Horace ]

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond - sometimes better. [ Dickens ]

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The yoke of love is sometimes heavier than that of all the virtues. [ Montaigne ]

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. [ Karl Von Knebel ]

It is more wisdom sometimes to dissemble wrongs, than to revenge them. [ Proverb ]

Good conscience is sometimes sold for money, but never bought with it. [ Aughey ]

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues. [ Longfellow ]

Inconstancy is sometimes due to levity of mind, but oftener to satiety. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Error, though blind herself, yet sometimes brings forth seeing children. [ Proverb ]

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. [ Colton ]

Love, that sometimes corrupts pure bodies, often purifies corrupt hearts. [ Latena ]

In love, the only way to resist temptation is to sometimes succumb to it. [ Mme. de Choiseul ]

Wise men sometimes avoid the world, that they may not be surfeited with it. [ La Bruyere ]

We must sometimes cease to adhere to our own opinion for the sake of peace. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Sometimes death is a punishment; often a gift; it has been a favor to many. [ Seneca ]

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon decency. [ Balzac ]

Sometimes we must have love, either as a desirable good or an inevitable evil. [ Bussy-Rabutin ]

Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making. [ Addison ]

In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet, - deceit sugar-coated. [ Latimer ]

Sometimes you are like the dog and cat, and sometimes like the monkey and his clog. [ Proverb ]

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults. [ Haliburton ]

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. [ Milton ]

Words do sometimes fly from the tongue that the heart did neither hatch nor harbour. [ Feltham ]

The matrimonial knot is sometimes tied so tightly that it wounds those whom it unites. [ De Varennes ]

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents. [ Danton ]

O sweet past! sometimes remembrance raises thy long veil, then we weep in recognizing thee! [ Mme. Louise Labe ]

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Nature will sometimes lie buried a great while, and yet revive upon occasion of a temptation. [ Proverb ]

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. [ Swift ]

The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may the better return to thought, and to itself. [ Phaedrus ]

How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest. [ Junius ]

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. [ Alan Turing ]

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. [ Byron ]

We sometimes think we hate flattery, when we only hate the manner in which we have been flattered. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Women should be careful of their conduct, for appearances sometimes injure them as much as faults. [ Abbi Girard ]

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. [ Johnson ]

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. [ Emerson ]

The last act of life is sometimes like the last number in a sum, ten times greater than all the rest. [ Collier ]

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

We have sometimes loved so much that there is nothing left in our hearts that enables us to love again. [ Rochebrune ]

People who love each other most before marriage, are sometimes those who love each other least after it. [ A. Dupuy ]

Quills are things that are sometimes taken from the pinions of one goose to spread the opinions of another. [ Chatfield ]

Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. [ W. B. Clulow ]

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous, but I believe never the sweet. [ J. C. Hare ]

The history of the thoughts of men, curious on account of their infinite variety, is also sometimes instructive. [ Fontanelle ]

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. [ Disraeli ]

I change my place, but not my company. While here I have sometimes walked with God, and now I go to rest with Him. [ Dr. Preston ]

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

There are few faces that can afford to smile. A smile is sometimes bewitching; in general vapid; often a contortion. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. [ Charles Dickens ]

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places. [ Shenstone ]

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream - it may be so the moment after death. [ Hawthorne ]

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape. [ Paxton Hood ]

The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete. [ Beaconsfield ]

Cupid's bow is, the Asiatics tell us, strung with bees, which are apt to sting sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. [ Miss Edgeworth ]

There are heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit, sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room. [ Fuller ]

A man of genius may sometimes suffer a miserable sterility; but at other times he will feel himself the magician of thought. [ John Foster ]

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. [ Matthew Henry ]

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity. [ Thomas Carlyle ]

God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. [ T. L. Cuyller ]

Necessity is a strong rider with sharp spurs, who maketh the sorry jade do that which the strongest horse sometimes will not do. [ Calanus ]

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense. [ Beaconsfield ]

The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

I wish it were never one's duty to quarrel with anybody; I do so hate it: but not to do it sometimes is to smile in the devils face. [ George MacDonald ]

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer. [ Professor Vinet ]

Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

I have thought that in all women's deepest loves, be they ever so full of reverence, there enters sometimes much of the motherly element. [ Miss Muloch ]

Eloquence may be found in conversation and all kinds of writings; it is rarely where we seek it, and sometimes where it is least expected. [ La Bruyere ]

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 ]

New or Novel? New and novel are sometimes used indiscriminately. New is opposed to old, novel to known; as, a new house, a novel invention. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best, may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all, will never hit it. [ Owen Feltham ]

The guardian angel of life sometimes flies so high that man cannot see it; but he always is looking down upon us, and will soon hover nearer to us. [ Richter ]

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues. [ Hazlitt ]

Intellectual fairness is often only another name for indolence and inconclusiveness of mind, just as love of truth is sometimes a fine phrase for temper. [ J. Morley ]

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The reputation of a man is like his shadow: It sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size. [ French Proverb ]

Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, and sometimes to the danger of his choking. [ Fuller ]

If the deepest and best affections which God has given us sometimes brood over the heart like doves of peace, - they sometimes suck out our life-blood like vampires. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. [ Emerson ]

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness. [ Greville ]

Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them. [ Prince de Ligne ]

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary. [ W. B. Clulow ]

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. [ Beaconsfield ]

Resolution will sometimes relax, and diligence will sometimes be interrupted; but let no accidental surprise or deviation, whether short or long, dispose you to despondency. [ Johnson ]

The coquette compromises her reputation, and sometimes saves her virtue: the prude, on the contrary, often sacrifices her honor in secret, and preserves it in public opinion. [ Mme. du Socage ]

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ever lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return. [ Hillard ]

Everywhere the strong have made the laws and oppressed the weak; and, if they have sometimes consulted the interests of society, they have always forgotten those of humanity. [ Turgot ]

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again. [ Thackeray ]

A good deal depends upon luck as well as care, and sometimes a writer must wait, or even leave off and return to work again, before he can hit upon the turn of words required. [ Richard D. Blackmore, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

It is gold which buys admittance; and it is gold which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief: nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what can it not do and undo? [ William Shakespeare ]

Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don't care who hears me, because I am beautiful. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour? [ Dr. Johnson ]

Griefs are like the beings that endure them - the little ones are the most clamorous and noisy; those of older growth and greater magnitude are generally tranquil, and sometimes silent. [ Chatfield ]

Does the man live who has not felt this spur to action, in a more or less generous spirit? Emulation lives so near to envy that it is sometimes difficult to establish the boundary-lines. [ Henry Giles ]

Whenever I am in doubt about a sentence I read it aloud to see how it sounds, and indeed, always read the whole book through aloud, sometimes more than once, before it goes to the press. [ Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, English novelist and early feminist, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

A friend is a rare book, of which but one copy is made. We read a page of it every day, till some woman snatches it from our hands, who sometimes peruses it, but more frequently tears it.

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked. [ Burke ]

Superior powers of mind and profound study are of no use if they do not sometimes lead a person to different conclusions from those which are formed by ordinary powers of mind without study. [ J. S. Mill ]

Nobility of birth does not always ensure a corresponding nobility of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog, rather than a spur. [ Colton ]

The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into the valley of the shadow of death. [ Mountford ]

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. [ R. W. Emerson ]

No man is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes, and no man so wise but he may easily err, if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that was taught only by himself had a fool for a master. [ Ben Jonson ]

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it. [ Montaigne ]

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. [ Colton ]

A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance! [ Lamb ]

Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage. [ Feltham ]

If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Let your sleep be necessary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time, beyond the needs and conveniences of nature; and sometimes be curious to see the preparation which the sun makes when he is coming forth from his chambers of the east. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial, but at least it is not so superficial as thought. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Noted or Notorious? As adjectives, these terms are sometimes misused; as, He is a noted criminal. The better word here would be notorious, the meaning of which is restricted to that which is bad; while noted may be used in either a good or a bad sense. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust. [ Chapin ]

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers, and the sharpest thorns; as the heavens are sometimes overcast — alternately tempestuous and serene — so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasures and with pains. [ Burton ]

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice. [ Ruskin ]

The failure of his mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment brings indolence: indolence, decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy. [ Sir Benjamin Brodie ]

Talk, except as the preparation for work, is worth almost nothing; sometimes it is worth infinitely less than nothing; and becomes, little conscious of playing such a fatal part, the general summary of pretentious nothingnesses, and the chief of all the curses the posterity of Adam are liable to in this sublunary world. [ Carlyle ]

No man ever stood lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure there is greater anxiety to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. I sometimes try my acquaintances by some such test as this - who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee. [ Thoreau ]

Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, Think again, bat man. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men. [ Lamb ]

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 ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. [ Feltham ]

Mutability is the badge of infirmity; it is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike; now he is for marrying, and now a mistress is preferred to a wife; now he is ambitious and aspiring, presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he; this hour he squanders his money away, the next he turns miser; sometimes he is frugal and serious, at other times profuse, airy, and gay. [ Charron ]

After all there is a weariness that cannot be prevented. It will come on. The work brings it on. The cross brings it on. Sometimes the very walk with God brings it on, for the flesh is weak; and at such moments we hear softer and sweeter than it ever floated in the wondrous air of Mendelssohn, O rest in the Lord, for it has the sound of an immortal requiem: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors. [ James Hamilton ]

There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]

I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]