To beat about the bush. [ French ]
About the noon of night. [ Ben Jonson ]
The highway is never about. [ Proverb ]
Contend not about a goat's beard. [ Proverb ]
Heaven lies about us in our infancy. [ Wordsworth ]
Flies are busiest about lean horses. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Look above you, and then look about you. [ Proverb ]
When great spirits clash, sparks fly about. [ French Proverb ]
Little folks like to talk about great folks. [ Proverb ]
About goat's wool, (i.e. a worthless matter).
Humanity is about the same all the world over. [ Donn Piatt ]
About Jesus we must believe no one but himself. [ Amiel ]
Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true. [ Yogi Berra ]
The furthest way about, is the nearest way home. [ Proverb ]
Experience is a question of instinct about life. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Beads about the neck, and the devil in the heart. [ Proverb ]
It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan. [ James A. Garfield ]
Children like olive plants round about thy table. [ Psalm cxxviii. 3 ]
You contend about a goat's beard or lock of wool. [ Proverb ]
We talk little if we do not talk about ourselves. [ Hazlitt ]
There is a different fame goes about of every man. [ Proverb ]
I'll make the fur fly about the ears of the old cur. [ Butler ]
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. [ Emerson ]
They dispute about an egg, and let the hens fly away. [ German Proverb ]
Our common conversation is but a babble about nothing. [ Proverb ]
Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [ Seneca ]
You have good manners, but never carry them about you . [ Proverb ]
She did not mince matters (make a small mouth about it). [ French Proverb ]
The more you are talked about, the less powerful you are. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Do not believe any man more than yourself about yourself. [ Proverb ]
One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Out of breath for nothing, making much ado about nothing. [ Phaed ]
It looks as well as a diamond necklace about a sow's neck. [ Proverb ]
He that leaves the highway to cut short, commonly goes about. [ Proverb ]
A man may be an artist though he have not his tools about him. [ Proverb ]
What reason and endeavour cannot bring about, often time will. [ Proverb ]
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him. [ Bible ]
He never wrought a good day's work that went grumbling about it. [ Proverb ]
It is foolish to distress ourselves about what cannot be avoided. [ Syr ]
There is something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God. [ Epictetus ]
It is easier to bear with what is amiss, than go about to reform it. [ Proverb ]
Society has gone to the dogs: a lot of nobodies talking about nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
No grand doer in this world can be a copious speaker about his doings. [ Carlyle ]
All thinkers have about the same principles, and form but one republic. [ Voltaire ]
If you sail with a bad wind, you need to understand tacking about well. [ Proverb ]
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Look about, my son, and see how little wisdom it takes to govern the world. [ Oxenstiern ]
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. [ George Eliot ]
His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. [ Milton ]
The most essential fact about a man is the constitution of his consciousness. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. [ Hare ]
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about. [ Quesnel ]
One must be serious about something if one wants to have any amusement in life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Laugh at all twaddle about fate. A man's fate is what he makes it, nothing else. [ Anon ]