Things well fitted abide. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A scabbed horse cannot abide the comb. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
This life is but the passage of a day,
This life is but a pang and all is over;
But in the life to come which fades not away
Every love shall abide and every lover. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]
What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good one. [ Proverb ]
If you can abide a curst wife, you need not fear any company. [ Proverb ]
No man doth safely appear abroad but he who can abide at home. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
He that can abide a curst wife need not fear what company he lives in. [ Proverb ]
The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied. [ Bible ]
What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind find tide. [ Shakespeare ]
Care seeks out wrinkled brows and hollow eyes, and builds himself caves to abide in them. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. [ Thoreau ]
Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred. [ Edward Everett ]
She was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at the age when, if ever angels be for God's good purpose enthroned in mortal form, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers. [ Dickens ]