Who after his transgression doth repent
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. [ Herrick ]
Better be disagreeable in a sort than altogether insipid. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity. [ Bible ]
Great genial power consists in being altogether receptive. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is altogether vain to learn wisdom, and yet live foolishly. [ Proverb ]
And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity. [ Antoninus ]
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. [ Lavater ]
Talk that does not end in action is better suppressed altogether. [ Carlyle ]
The horse that draws after him his halter is not altogether escaped. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Joy, being altogether wanting. It doth remember me the more of sorrow. [ William Shakespeare ]
Altogether the style of a writer is a faithful representative of his ideas. [ Goethe ]
Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, but not altogether without it. [ Scott ]
Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind. [ Alfred de Musset ]
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. [ Carlyle ]
Nothing can be so injurious to progress as to be altogether blamed or altogether praised. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. [ Carlyle ]
The future of girls depends altogether upon the knowledge, courage, and prudence of good mothers. [ Dr. Porter ]
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world. [ South ]
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous. He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [ Seneca ]
In analyzing the character of heroes. It is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of fortune from their own. [ Hallam ]
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity. [ Bible ]
Being happy - being appreciative, being grateful - is not altogether a matter of temperament. Nor is it dependent upon outward circumstances. Not at all. [ Ossian Lang ]
Wanting to have a friend is altogether different from wanting to be a friend. The former is a mere natural human craving, the latter is the life of Christ in the soul. [ J. R. Miller ]
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. [ Carlyle ]
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. [ Coleridge ]
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far-reaching, while the former is altogether wanting. [ Joubert ]
Gold is called the bait of sin, the snare of souls, and the hook of death; which being aptly applied may be compared to a fire, whereof a little is good to warm one, but too much will burn him altogether. [ Sir R. Filmer ]
Not only so, but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. [ Whewell ]
It is so possible to be glad in the gladness of other people ; and, too, it is possible so to extend one's own life into higher regions that his happiness shall not be altogether dependent upon other people. [ Lilian Whiting ]
Diligence is the mistress of learning, without which nothing can either be spoken or done in this life with commendation, and without which it is altogether impossible to prove learned, much less excellent in any science. [ Madeleine Guerchois ]
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 ]
As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish them to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture. [ Plutarch ]
There are certain times in our life when we find ourselves in circumstances, that not only press upon us, but seem to weigh us down altogether. They give us, however, not only the opportunity, but they impose on us the duty of elevating ourselves, and thereby fulfilling the purpose of the Divine Being in our creation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. [ Terence ]