Foul whisperings are abroad. [ William Shakespeare ]
Saint abroad, and a devil at home. [ Bunyan ]
An Argus at home, and a mole abroad. [ Proverb ]
A smile abroad is oft a scowl at home. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
What children hear at home soon flies abroad. [ Proverb ]
When the searching eye of heaven is hid
Behind the globe, and lights the lower world,
Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen,
In murthers and in outrage boldly here. [ William Shakespeare ]
He's a fool that is wiser abroad than at home. [ 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 ]
Better walk leisurely than lie abroad all night. [ Proverb ]
So work the honey-bees;
Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home.
To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum.
Delivering over to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. [ William Shakespeare ]
Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that doth not plough at home won't plough abroad. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
A gentleman ought to travel abroad but dwell at home. [ Proverb ]
When sharpers prey upon one another, there is no game abroad. [ Proverb ]
No man doth safely appear abroad but he who can abide at home. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Hence the unhappy news is spread abroad through the whole city. [ Virgil ]
Blaze not abroad to others what any one confides to you in secret. [ Claudius ]
When the good man is abroad, the good woman's table is soon spread. [ Proverb ]
An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [ Cicero ]
He that goes continually abroad a borrowing, shews he has little at home of his own. [ Proverb ]
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous. [ Froude ]
Out of the same garden-mould grows the weed as the flower, and the weed flaunts itself abroad. [ Bodenstedt ]
The angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. [ John Bright ]
That state of life is alone suitable to a man in which and for which he was born, and he who is not led abroad by great objects is far happier at home. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
He said - and his observation was just - that a man on whom heaven hath bestowed a beautiful wife should be as cautious of the men he brings home to his house as careful of observing the female friends with whom his spouse converses abroad. [ Cervantes ]
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 ]
These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [ Cicero ]
Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light - instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremeties of the earth. [ Lamartine ]
The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day. [ Chapin ]
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad. [ Carlyle ]
No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men in one mould. Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can do. Our common nature is to be unfolded in unbounded diversities. It is rich enough for infinite manifestations. It is to wear innumerable forms of beauty and glory. Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. [ Channing ]