Always at work. [ Voltaire ]
Avarice is always poor. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Destiny is always dark. [ George Herbert ]
Widows are always rich. [ Proverb ]
Children and chicken
Must be always picking. [ Proverb ]
Beauty is always queen. [ Joseph II ]
Guilt is always jealous. [ Proverb ]
No merchant gets always. [ Proverb ]
Error is always in haste. [ Proverb ]
Error is always talkative. [ Goldsmith ]
Praise is always pleasant. [ Proverb ]
Haste is always ungraceful. [ Lady Blessington ]
The unknown is always great. [ Proverb ]
Vice lives always displeased. [ Proverb ]
The sure way to wickedness
Is always through wickedness. [ Seneca ]
Once a knave, always a knave. [ Proverb ]
Argument is not always truth. [ Kossuth ]
Paul's will not always stand. [ Proverb ]
Great men are not always wise. [ Bible ]
In love, anger is always false. [ Publius Syrus ]
Round numbers are always false. [ Johnson ]
Good-humor is always a success. [ Lavater ]
The wind blows not always west. [ Proverb ]
A man's destiny is always dark. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Nature always speaks of spirit. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The beautiful is always severe. [ Segur ]
Neatness is always commendable. [ A. O. Hall ]
Idleness always envies industry. [ Proverb ]
None but a fool is always right. [ Hare ]
Truth hath always a sure bottom. [ Proverb ]
There is always safety in valor. [ Emerson ]
An honest man is always a child. [ Martial ]
Wisdom goes not always by years. [ Proverb ]
To weep is not always to suffer. [ Mme. de Genlis ]
Innocence is always unsuspicious. [ Haliburton ]
A beggar's purse is always empty. [ Proverb ]
They always talk who never think. [ Prior ]
The wicked are always ungrateful. [ Cervantes ]
Rashness is not always fortunate. [ Livy ]
A liar is always lavish of oaths. [ Corn ]
He always wins who sides with God. [ Faber ]
They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think. [ Prior ]
Promised relief is always welcome. [ Proverb ]
Hell and Chancery are always open. [ Proverb ]
Stolen kisses are always sweetest. [ Leigh Hunt ]
A very proud man is always wilful. [ Proverb ]
The thiefs wife laughs not always. [ Proverb ]
Fear always springs from ignorance. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The anger of kings is always heavy. [ Seneca ]
Something of calumny always sticks. [ C. Boileau ]
Wants keep pace with wealth always. [ J. G. Holland ]
No man can always stand his ground. [ Proverb ]
We always find what we do not seek. [ Proverb ]
Welcome, dear Goldenrod, once more.
Thou mimic, flowering elm!
I always think that summer's store
Hangs from thy laden stem. [ Horace H. Scudder ]
The short folly is always the best. [ French ]
Fame and censure with a tether
By fate are always linked together. [ Swift ]
Diffidence is not always innocence. [ Mme. Necker ]
The soul's emphasis is always right. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A bad penny always comes back again. [ German Proverb ]
Yonder cloud,
That rises upward always higher,
And onward drags a laboring breast,
And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire. [ Tennyson ]
Silence does not always mean wisdom. [ Coleridge ]
Nature is always wise in every part. [ Lord Thurlow ]
No man is always wise except a fool. [ Proverb ]
Our youth we can have but today;
We may always find time to grow old. [ Bishop Berkeley ]
An alewive's sow is always well fed. [ Proverb ]
One is always a woman's first lover. [ Laclos ]
The devil is not always at one door. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Always you are to be rich next year. [ Proverb ]
The fool is always beginning to live. [ Proverb ]
The multitude is always in the wrong. [ Wentworth Dillon ]
Ancient custom is always held as law. [ Law ]
Fraud and deceit are always in haste. [ Proverb ]
Here lies the body of Johnny Haskell,
A lying, thieving, cheating rascal;
He always lied, and now he lies,
He has no soul and cannot rise. [ Epitaph ]
Error is always more busy than truth. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Better a tooth out than always aching. [ Proverb ]
Our fellow's share is always the best. [ Proverb ]
The wronged side is always the safest. [ Sibbes ]
There is always life for a living one. [ Proverb ]
Misfortunes should always be expected. [ Johnson ]
A flattered woman is always indulgent. [ Chenier ]
The fortune of war is always doubtful. [ Seneca ]
Folly always deserves its misfortunes. [ A. Preault ]
Nature and wisdom always say the same. [ Juvenal ]
Benevolent people are always cheerful. [ Father Taylor ]
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong. [ Dryden ]
Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! [ Statius ]
We always come back to our first loves. [ Etienne ]
The present fashion is always handsome. [ Proverb ]
Love has no age: it is always in birth. [ Pascal ]
First thoughts are not always the best. [ Alfieri ]
Who has daughters is always a shepherd. [ Proverb ]
The amen! of nature is always a flower. [ Holmes ]
The egotism of woman is always for two. [ Mme. de Stael ]
Be always as merry as ever you can,
For no man delights in a sorrowful man. [ Proverb ]
The unfortunate are always egotistical. [ Beaconsfield ]
There is no mischief in the world done,
But a woman is always one. [ Proverb ]
Things are always best at their source. [ Pascal ]
No man can stand always upon his guard. [ Proverb ]
How wise must one be to be always kind. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
The still humours are always the worst. [ Proverb ]
Justice always whirls in equal measure. [ William Shakespeare ]
A spirit pure as hers,
Is always pure, even while it errs:
As sunshine, broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still. [ Moore ]
The word is always bolder than the deed. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
What is lawful is not always honourable. [ Law ]
The smallest errors are always the best. [ Moliere ]
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. [ William Shakespeare ]
Take things always by the smooth handle.
Rogues are always found out in some way.
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. [ La Harpe ]
Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere;
'Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere;
'Tis never to be bought, but always free. [ Pope ]
The head is always the dupe of the heart. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The heart has always the pardoning power. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Keep thy mind always at its own disposal. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Money in purse will be always in fashion. [ Proverb ]
Always be in haste, but never in a hurry. [ J. Wesley ]
He that always complains is never pitied. [ Proverb ]
'T is not for mortals always to be blest. [ Armstrong ]
Tomorrow you will live, you always cry;
In what far country does this morrow lie? [ Cowley ]
The stream is always purer at its source. [ Pascal ]
Antiquity is not always a mark of verity. [ Proverb ]
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. [ William Shakespeare ]
The wind keeps not always in one quarter. [ Proverb ]
Love is a game at which one always cheats. [ Balzac ]
Not always actions show the man; we find
Who does a kindness is not therefore kind. [ Pope ]
Truly great men are always simple-hearted. [ Klinger ]
Excess always carries its own retribution. [ Ouida ]
The curtain of the future is always drawn. [ John Bigelow ]
He who desires naught will always be free. [ Lefebvre-Laboulaye ]
They that are booted are not always ready. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Books cannot always please, however good.
Minds are not ever craving for their food. [ Crabbe ]
Women have always some mental reservation. [ Destouches ]
Better hazard once than be always in fear; [ Proverb ]
The fisher droppeth his net in the stream,
And a hundred streams are the same as one;
And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream;
And what is it all, when all is done?
The net of the fisher the burden breaks
And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes. [ Alice Cary ]
I always get the better when I argue alone. [ Goldsmith ]
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last. [ Abraham Cowley ]
Too much is always bad; old proverbs call
Even too much honey nothing else than gall. [ Anon ]
I was always a lover of soft-winged things. [ Victor Hugo ]
Humbleness is always grace, always dignity. [ Lowell ]
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united. [ Victor Hugo ]
He who has but one eye is always wiping it. [ Proverb ]
A learned man has always riches in himself. [ Phaedr ]
Always something new, seldom anything good. [ German Proverb ]
The devil is always buying our souls of us. [ Proverb ]
Loud clamour is always more or less insane. [ Carlyle ]
None is a fool always; every one sometimes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Drink and drought come not always together. [ Proverb ]
The smith hath always a spark in his throat. [ Proverb ]
Venus always saves the lover whom she leads. [ Delatouche ]
Our worries always come from our weaknesses. [ Joubert ]
Calumniate boldly, always some of it sticks. [ Bacon ]
Heaven is not always angry when He strikes,
But most chastises those whom most He likes. [ Pomfret ]
A woman is always changeable and capricious. [ Virgil ]
Words learned by rote, a parrot may rehearse;
But talking is not always to converse. [ William Cowper ]
Famished people must be slowly nursed,
And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. [ Byron ]
False praise is always confined to the great. [ Lord Kames ]
He that always fears dangers always feels it. [ Proverb ]
Genius is always ascetic, and piety and love. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Of two evils the less is always to be chosen. [ Thomas A Kempis ]
The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet. [ Vespasian ]
The beast that goes always never wants blows. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
That is always best which gives me to myself. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Wisdom don't always speak in Greek and Latin. [ Proverb ]
Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression. [ Owen Feltham ]
For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear. [ Samuel Lover ]
Right is with the strongest in love as in war,
And the woman we love will always be right. [ A. de Musset ]
Let those love now who never loved before,
Let those that always loved now love the more. [ Parnell ]
At every trifle scorn to take offence;
That always shows great pride or little sense. [ Pope ]
Certain names always awake certain prejudices. [ Joseph Roux ]
He that is always shooting must sometimes hit. [ Proverb ]
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. [ Rivarol ]
The greatest packs are not always the richest. [ Proverb ]
Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors. [ Massinger ]
Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful. [ Propertius ]
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. [ Byron ]
What is another's always chirps for its master. [ Spanish Proverb ]
A brute always imposes silence on the delicate. [ A. de Gasparin ]
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses. [ Kant ]
Wealth and content do not always live together. [ Proverb ]
Great men will always pay deference to greater. [ Landor ]
Music is always very good diversion for a king. [ Frederick the Great ]
You have always a ready mouth for a ripe cherry. [ Proverb ]
He must be a good shot who always hits the mark. [ Dutch Proverb ]
The heart is in motion always, the brain seldom. [ G. D. Prentice ]
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
But always think the last opinion right. [ Pope ]
Genius is always consistent when most audacious. [ Stedman ]
We must always have old memories and young hopes. [ Arsene Houssaye ]
Genius is always more suggestive than expressive. [ Abel Stevens ]
Those that are always angry, are little regarded. [ Proverb ]
A ship, a mill, and a woman are always repairing. [ Proverb ]
It is the property of fools to be always judging. [ Proverb ]
Love has no age, as it is always renewing itself. [ Pascal ]
Ancient custom is always held or regarded as law. [ Law Maxim ]
Love, unrest, and sorrow always journey together. [ Proverb ]
A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter. [ Proverb ]
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. [ Boileau ]
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
A fire, if neglected, always gathers in strength. [ Horace ]
The mind of man is always longing to do something. [ Cicero ]
A jealous man always finds more than he looks for. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]
Avarice is always poor, but poor by ber own fault. [ Johnson ]
Feeble souls always set to work at the wrong time. [ Cardinal de Reiz ]
It is always term time in the court of conscience. [ Proverb ]
The reasoning of the strongest is always the best. [ La Fontaine ]
Who always buys and sells feels not what he spends. [ Proverb ]
Poetry is always a personal interpretation of life. [ H. W. Mabie ]
A man's task is always light if his heart is light. [ Lew Wallace ]
The bad man always suspects some knavish intention. [ Spanish Proverb ]
A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant. [ Montaigne ]
One always wishes to be happy before becoming wise. [ Mme. Necker ]
It is always nice to be expected and not to arrive. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
A broad hat does not always cover a venerable head. [ Proverb ]
Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel. [ Proverb ]
The human heart will always be the abyss of reason.
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. [ John Wesley ]
Great geniuses have always the shortest biographies. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Honest thinkers are always stealing from each other. [ O. W. Holmes ]
The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good! [ Whittier ]
Limiting of one's life always conduces to happiness. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Honor and profit do not always lie in the same sack. [ George Herbert ]
His tongue goes always of errands, but never speeds. [ Proverb ]
A thinking man is always striking out something new. [ Proverb ]
A lover is loved most, a wife best, a mother always.
The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural. [ Burke ]
One always has time enough if one will apply it well. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
History, however written, is always a pleasure to us. [ Pliny ]
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. [ Ward Beecher ]
We never live: we are always in expectation of living. [ Voltaire ]
He that always makes God's will his, is never crossed. [ Proverb ]
Almost always the most indigent are the most generous. [ Stanislaus ]
Cruelty is a tyrant that is always attended with fear. [ Proverb ]
Fortune is weary to carry one and the same man always. [ Proverb ]
Exercise the muscles well, but spare the nerves always. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. [ Coleridge ]
Fools are always resolute to make good their own folly. [ Proverb ]
Warm fortunes are always sure of getting good husbands. [ Goldsmith ]
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. [ Aristotle ]
Delay has always been injurious to those who are ready. [ Lucan ]
Some men are like cats, they always fall on their feet. [ Anthony Collins ]
Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last. [ Lavater ]
Women are never disarmed by compliments, men always are. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
One always knocks himself on the spot where the sore is. [ French Proverb ]
The family of the public-spirited men is always extinct. [ Proverb ]
Sins and debts are always more than we think them to be. [ Proverb ]
He lives the life of a hare, (i.e. always full of fear). [ Proverb ]
There is not always good cheer where the chimney smokes. [ Proverb ]
Being a man, know and remember always that thou art one. [ Philemon Comicus ]
God is always at leisure to do good to those that ask it. [ Proverb ]
The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth. [ Calderon ]
Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more. [ L'Estrange ]
Great minds and great fortunes do not always go together. [ Proverb ]
Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction. [ Rufus Choate ]
Friendship always benefits, while love sometimes injures. [ Seneca ]
One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The breast-plate of innocence is not always scandal proof. [ Proverb ]
There are always more tricks in a town than are talked of. [ Cervantes ]
What old men can do always falls short of what they desire. [ A. Ricard ]
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force. [ Alcott ]
It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
By the same means we do not always arrive at the same ends. [ St. Real ]
No man at the head of affairs always wishes to be explicit. [ Macaulay ]
Impatience does not diminish, but always augments the evil. [ Proverb ]
Earnest activity always reconciles us with life in the end. [ Jean Paul ]
We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]
The poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always. [ Jesus ]
Nobody does all the mischief, and nobody is always to blame. [ W. L. Parsons ]
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [ Vauvenargues ]
Singularity always seems to have a spice of arrogancy in it. [ Proverb ]
We have not always enough reason to employ all our strength. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. [ Yogi Berra ]
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
There are persons always standing ready to believe a scandal. [ Ovid ]
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. [ Emerson ]
Providence is always on the side of the strongest battalions. [ Napoleon I ]
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. [ Haliburton ]
Three addresses always inspire confidence - even in tradesmen. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. [ Schiller ]
Human judgment is finite, and it ought always to be charitable. [ W. Winter ]
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. [ Tac ]
Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never. [ Pascal ]
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past. [ Madame Swetchine ]
We have not always sufficient strength to employ all our reason. [ Mme. de Grignan ]
Brain is always to be bought, but passion never comes to market. [ Lowell ]
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [ Juvenal ]
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. [ Manilius ]
A husband is always a sensible man: he never thinks of marrying. [ A. Dumas pere ]
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. [ Plato ]
Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal. [ St Evremond ]
A fool always finds some one more foolish than he to admire him. [ Boileau ]
The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. [ Napoleon I ]
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward. [ Haliburton ]
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be. [ Joseph Joubert ]
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one. [ A. Karr ]
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability. [ Montesquieu ]
Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The fatality of good resolutions is that they are always too late. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Manners, morals, customs change: the passions are always the same. [ Mme. de Flahaut ]
Justice is the bread of nations: they are always famishing for it. [ Chateaubriand ]
My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them. [ Carlyle ]
You are always singing the same tune, (i.e. harping on one theme). [ Ter ]
A man always ready to give his advice, and that the most judicious.
At first babes feed on the mother's bosom, but always on her heart. [ H. W. Beecher ]
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure. [ Fielding ]
Everything great is not always good, but all good things are great. [ Demosthenes ]
Where there is room in the heart, there is always room in the house. [ Moore ]
A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Between the mouth and the kiss, there is always time for repentance. [ A. Ricard ]
Love is blind: that is why he always proceeds by the sense of touch.
Nature always leaps to the surface, and manages to show what she is. [ Boileau ]
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. [ E. Gibbon ]
Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running. [ Yogi Berra ]
We always find wit and merit in those who look at us with admiration.
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. [ Theophile Gautier ]
Things are not always what they seem; first appearances deceive many. [ Phaedrus ]
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Description is always a bore, both to the describer and the describee. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Though vices repel, they do not always separate us from those we love. [ Mme. de Rieux ]
Lovers are never tired of each other; they always speak of themselves. [ La Roche ]
The disclosure of a secret is always the fault of him who confided it. [ French ]
Power is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight. [ Lew Wallace ]
We finish by excusing our faults, but we always blush at our blunders.
He will always be a slave, who does not know how to live upon a little. [ Horace ]
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only. [ Alcott ]
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. [ Jesus of children ]
All truths are not to be uttered; still it is always good to hear them. [ Mme. du Deffand ]
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. [ De Sales ]
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
One should always be in love: that is the reason one should never marry. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
It is a good friend that is always giving, though it be never so little. [ Proverb ]
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner it is bestowed. [ Dr. Johnson ]
He that thinks his business below him, will always be above his business. [ Proverb ]
May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune. [ Shenstone ]
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little circumstances. [ Gibbon ]
Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. [ Holmes ]
Friendship is a traffic wherein selflove always proposes to be the gainer. [ Rochefoucauld ]
A fool may have his coat embroidered, but it will always be a fool's coat. [ Rivarol ]
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Once true, still more twice true, in the life of the spirit is always true. [ Ed ]
Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming. [ Cicero ]
What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. [ Emerson ]
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. [ Plato ]
Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Alas! how can we always resist? The devil tempts us, and the flesh is weak. [ Voltaire ]
A woman with whom one discusses love is always in expectation of something. [ Poincelot ]
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. [ George Eliot ]
Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation. [ Johnson ]
With women, the desire to bedeck themselves is always the desire to please. [ Marmontel ]
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. [ Laurence Sterne ]
I have always found that the road to a woman's heart lies through her child. [ Judge Haliburton ]
If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp. [ Latin Proverb ]
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. [ Colton ]
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it. [ J. F. Boyes ]
He is a truly good man who desires always to bear the inspection of good men. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
If the poor man cannot always get meat, the rich man cannot always digest it. [ Henry Giles ]
To him nothing is possible, who is always dreaming of his past possibilities. [ T. Carlyle ]
Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. [ Yogi Berra ]
Never be afraid of what is good; the good is always the road to what is true. [ Hamerton ]
Frankness consists in always telling the truth, but not always all the truth.
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. [ Joubert ]
The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient. [ Martin Van Buren ]
Physical beauty in man has become as rare as his moral beauty has always been. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say one should always be quite candid. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. [ Jeffrey ]
Advice is seldom welcome; those who want it the most always like it the least. [ Chesterfield ]
When a man says he has exhausted life one always knows life has exhausted him. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
If there is a virtue in the world which we should always aim, it cheerfulness. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
He will always lack what is best who does not give credit to what others know. [ Rückert ]
Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. [ C. Nodier ]
A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another. [ Samuel Johnson ]
I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. [ Hazlitt ]
They that are more frequent to dispute be not always the best able to determine. [ Hooker ]
We must consider humanity as a man who continually grows old, and always learns. [ L. Figuier ]
Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel; savages are always cruel. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making. [ Addison ]
It is always imprudent to marry a woman for love in whose bosom you inspire none. [ Mme. d'Arconville ]
True gladness doth not always speak; joy bred and born but in the tongue is weak. [ Ben Jonson ]
Genius is always impatient of its harness; its wild blood makes it hard to train. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
You will always find those who think they know your duty better than you know it. [ Emerson ]
Those presents are always the most acceptable which owe their value to the giver. [ Ovid ]
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it. [ Bovee ]
It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [ Kousseau ]
First resolutions are not always the wisest, but they are usually the most honest. [ Lessing ]
Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered. [ Cicero ]
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. [ Ward Beecher ]
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. [ Colton ]
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad. [ Yriarte ]
Natural objects always did and do weaken, deaden, and obliterate imagination in me. [ Wm. Blake ]
When a good man has talent, he always works morally for the salvation of the world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always from the noblest motive. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children. [ Hamerton ]
We should always forgive, - the penitent for their sake, the impenitent for our own. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
We always live prospectively, never retrospectively, and there is no abiding moment. [ Jacobi ]
Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic. [ Noah Webster ]
Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be said. [ Saint-Prosper ]
I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me. [ Nelson ]
The friendship of a man is often a support; that of a woman is always a consolation. [ Rochepedre ]
Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man. [ William Penn ]
Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. [ Victor Hugo ]
The pretension of youth always gives to a woman a few more years than she really has. [ Jouy ]
Certain importunities always please women - even when the importuner does not please.
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. [ Montesquieu ]
Wounds of the heart! your traces are bitter, slow to heal, and always ready to reopen. [ A. de Musset ]
It is better to pay and have but little left, than to have much and be always in debt. [ Proverb ]
The lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere. [ Ward Beecher ]
Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal. [ Charron ]
The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth. [ Arsene Houssaye ]
Women have always been picturesque protests against the mere existence of common sense. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it. [ Arsene Houssaye ]
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. [ Emerson ]
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. [ E. Kant ]
The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful. [ Parke Godwin ]
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. [ Thoreau ]
I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint, and the cowardly, feeble resolve. [ Burns ]
When a head and a book come into collision, and one sounds empty, is it always the book? [ Lichtenberg ]
Among all animals, from man to the dog, the heart of a mother is always a sublime thing. [ A. Dumas pere ]
It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb. [ Colton ]
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit. [ Johnson ]
A bluestocking despises her duties as a woman, and always begins by making herself a man. [ Rousseau ]
One can always recognize women who trust their husbands, they look so thoroughly unhappy. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
However rich or elevated, a nameless something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune. [ Horace ]
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. [ Daniel Webster ]
People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
There is always some levity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise and also to stray. [ Joubert ]
Love is like the rose: so sweet, that one always tries to gather it in spite of the thorns.
His worth shines forth the brightest who in hope always confides; the abject soul despairs. [ Euripides ]
Laws should be clear, uniform, precise: to interpret them is nearly always to corrupt them. [ Voltaire ]
I am always ill at ease when tumults arise among the mob - people who have nothing to lose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Nature cannot but always act rightly, quite unconcerned as to what may be the consequences. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Hatred is nearly always honest - rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
The burst of new light, by its suddenness, always appears inimical to the unprepared heart. [ Jean Paul ]
It is not always like to like in love. Titania loved the weaver Bottom, with the ass's head. [ Anthony Trollope ]
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
He who imitates what is evil always exceeds; he who imitates what is good always falls short. [ Guicciardini ]
Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. [ La Fontaine ]
I will love you always!
This is the eternal lie that lovers tell with the greatest sincerity.
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. [ Dr. Johnson ]
There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth. [ Boufflers ]
Old men are always jealous: they are like the greedy child who wants the cake it can not eat. [ A. Ricard ]
Contempt is like the hot iron that brands criminals: its imprint is. almost always indelible. [ Alibert ]
There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
We must not suppose ourselves always to have conquered a temptation when we have fled from it. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [ Ovid ]
Men do not always love those they esteem; women, on the contrary, esteem only those they love. [ S. Dubay ]
To swear to love always is to affirm that two beings essentially changeable will never change.
Men always say more evil of women than there really is; and there is always more than is known. [ Mezerai ]
The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touched by the thorns. [ Moore ]
Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. [ Plato ]
Limitations refine as the soul purifies, but the ring of necessity is always perched at the top. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The frequent recourse to finesse is always the effect of incapacity and the mark of a small mind. [ French ]
That is true love which is always the same, whether you give everything or deny everything to it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The Roman mob follows the lead of fortune, as it always does, and hates those that are condemned. [ Juv ]
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. [ Charles Lamb ]
Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the minds eye to read its oracles. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
That is a treacherous friend against whom you must always be on your guard. Such a friend is wine. [ Bovee ]
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Whatever disgrace we have merited, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Truth, such as is necessary to the regulation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought. [ Johnson ]
True merit, wherever found, is ever modest, just as the well-filled heads of grain are always bent. [ Charles Dickens ]
The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing. [ Dr. Johnson ]
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. [ Ninon de Lenelos ]
A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment. [ Pliny ]
My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee. [ Christian Scriver ]
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
The mind conscious of Innocence despises false reports: but we are always ready to believe a scandal. [ Ovid ]
A kindness is always delightful to a grateful man; to an ungrateful, only at the time of its receipt. [ Seneca ]
The only way to atone for being occasionally over-dressed is by being always absolutely overeducated. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
A woman's head is always influenced by her heart; but a man's heart is always influenced by his head. [ Lady Blessington ]
The reason why lovers never weary of each other's company is because they speak always of themselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Harsh cousels have little or no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. [ Helvetius ]
There are three things that I have always loved and have never understood: Painting, Music, and Woman. [ Fontanelle ]
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our character. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; the reality always remains far apart from the ideal. [ Joseph Roux ]
The mistakes of woman result almost always from her faith in the good, and her confidence in the truth. [ Balzac ]
The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together. [ Calderon ]
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. [ Cervantes ]
Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirsty for more, opens wide her jaws for gold. [ Claudianus ]
I do not know that she was virtuous; but she was always ugly, and with a woman, that is half the battle. [ Heinrich Heine ]
In love quarrels, the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. [ Hazlitt ]
At a ball, men are the timid sex, and also the feebler sex; for they are always the first to be fatigued. [ A. Karr ]
I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty. [ W. G. Clark ]
Good poetry is always personification, and heightens every species of force by giving it a human volition. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Copiousness of words is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings. [ Montagu ]
Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy sad soul.... He goes always heavy-loaded, and thou must bear half. [ Fenélon ]
Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart. [ Leigh Hunt ]
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty, but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. [ Joseph Addison ]
He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be. [ Bailey ]
No evil is felt till it comes, and when it comes no counsel helps. Wisdom is always too early and too late. [ Rückert ]
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. [ Bovee ]
Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings. [ Kant ]
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends. [ Carlyle ]
Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house. [ Babcock ]
Human reason has so little confidence in itself that it always looks for a precedent to justify its decrees. [ De Finod ]
Stupid people and uneducated people do not care for nice discriminations. They always have decided opinions. [ William Black ]
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will render it easy and agreeable. [ Pythagoras ]
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise. [ Carlyle ]
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked. [ Goethe ]
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data. [ Beaconsfield ]
In all companies there are more fools than wise men; and the greater number always get the better of the wiser. [ Rabelais ]
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. [ T. Parker ]
The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them. [ Baron de Grimm ]
There is no friendship between those associated in power; he who rules will always be impatient of an associate. [ Lucan ]
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. [ Landor ]
A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man, himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others. [ Herder ]
Chance is always powerful; let your hook always be cast. In a pool where you least expect it there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
He who is always inquiring what people will say, will never give them opportunity to say anything great about him. [ Blanco White ]
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; (but) a creed is always sensitive. [ Froude ]
There are profound sorrows which remain stored in our souls, and which we always find there when we are melancholy. [ Mme. de Salm ]
In science, read by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
There are men who pride themselves on their insensibility to love: it is like boasting of having been always stupid. [ S. de Castres ]
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure. [ Dryden ]
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. [ St. Jerome ]
In the man whose childhood has known caresses there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. [ George Eliot ]
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]
What a fool is he who says to a woman. Will you? Dost not know, simpleton, that they always pretend not to be willing? [ Alfred Bougeart ]
Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest light of truth. [ Holmes ]
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought Beauty too rich to go forth upon the earth without a meet alloy. [ George MacDonald ]
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value; for it is the representative of eternity. [ Goethe ]
The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. [ Lavater ]
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship, which always is imperfect where either of these two is wanting. [ Budgell ]
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Fortitude has its extremes as well as the rest of the virtues, and ought, like them, to be always attended by prudence. [ Voet ]
Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
Man ought always to have something which he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will appear to him tiresome and void. [ Seume ]
I have always tried to write Saxon rather than Latin, in short words rather than long, and specially in short sentences. [ Edward Everett Hale, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
It is an awfully dangerous thing to come across a woman who thoroughly understands one. They always end by marrying one. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
The charm of the past is that it is past, but women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. [ Washington Irving ]
Those who always speak well of women do not know them enough; those who always speak ill of them do not know them at all. [ Pigault-Lebrun ]
National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent in the lowest degree of culture. [ Goethe ]
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, - of dwarfs giants, suspicions truths. [ Cervantes ]
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves. Fear, desire, and hope are still pushing us on towards the future. [ Montaigne ]
Reason developed and cultivated will always be the most powerful curb to the passions: this is the compass of all mankind. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
It is a common vanity of the aged to believe that they have always been more exemplary than those who have come after them. [ A. de Musset ]
The last day must always be awaited by man, and no man should be pronounced happy before his death and his final obsequies. [ Ovid ]
Always! that is a dreadful word. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. [ Simms ]
For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. [ Cervantes ]
There is no tomorrow; though before our face the shadow named so stretches, we always fail to overtake it, hasten as we may. [ Margaret J. Preston ]
Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and holy than any other. [ Hallam ]
There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric; and pure invention is but the talent of a deceiver. [ Byron ]
Nature always wears the colours of the spirit. To a man labouring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. [ Macaulay ]
In comparing men and books, one must always remember this important distinction, that one can put the books down at any time. [ N. P. Willis ]
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye, that we may always advance towards it. though we know it can never be reached. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. [ B. R. Haydon ]
No good work whatever can be perfect; and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. [ John Ruskin ]
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. [ Matthew Henry ]
Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. [ George Washington ]
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never learn anything. [ I. Disraeli ]
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. [ Georges Sand ]
It has always struck me that there is a far greater distinction between man and man than between many men and most other animals. [ Basil Hall ]
There are men who dwell on the defects of their enemies. I always have regard to the merits of mine, and derive profit therefrom. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better - especially richer or more fashionable - than he is. [ Thackeray ]
A gentleman is always a gentleman; but the butterflies of society differ as much in their moods as does that insect in its colors. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning. [ Goethe ]
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. [ Chesterfield ]
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without. [ Phillips Brooks ]
Does an error do harm you ask? Not always! but going wrong always does. How far we shall certainly find out at the end of the road. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. [ Lavater ]
That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know. [ John Ruskin ]
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Carried away by the irresistible influence which is always exercised over men's minds by a bold resolution in critical circumstances. [ Guizot ]
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression: we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past. [ Johnson ]
Failures always overtake those who have the power to do, without the will to act, and who need that essential quality in life, energy. [ James Ellis ]
It is strange that thought should depend upon the stomach, and still that men with the best stomachs are not always the best thinkers. [ Voltaire ]
In strictness of language there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom; wisdom always supposing action and action directed by it. [ Paley ]
Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race. [ Zimmermann ]
However bright the comedy before, the last act is always stained with blood. The earth is laid upon our head, and there it lies forever. [ Pascal ]
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call of novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. [ Samuel Johnson ]
A worthless man will always remain worthless, and a little mind will not, by daily intercourse with great minds, become an inch greater. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Avoid an inquisitive person, for he is sure to be a gossip; ears always open to hear will not keep faithfully what is intrusted to them. [ Horace ]
Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful. [ Cicero ]
The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us. [ Chapin ]
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud an heroic deed. [ T. W. Higginson ]
In describing things, I always try to see the whole scene before beginning to write it, and specially to realise the colour of everything. [ Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, English novelist and early feminist, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Always driven toward new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age, cast anchor for even a day! [ Lamartine ]
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short. [ Guicciardini ]
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 ]
We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. [ Henry Home ]
If a woman says to you, I will never see you again!
hope; but, if she says, Notwithstanding, I shall always see you with pleasure
- travel.
Our understandings are always liable to error. Nature and certainty is very hard to come at; and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense. [ Marcus Antoninus ]
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again. [ Joseph Roux ]
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. [ Sterne ]
What the heart or the imagination dictates always flows readily; but where there is no subject to warm or interest these, constraint appears. [ Blair ]
There is a better thing than the great man who is always speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks when he has a great word to say. [ William Winter ]
Truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic. [ Chapin ]
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels. [ Addison ]
To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned. [ Johnson ]
A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light.
[ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb. [ Johnson ]
One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own. [ Thackeray ]
Things will always right themselves in time, if only those who know what they want to do, and can do, persevere unremittingly in work and action. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market. [ Alexander Smith ]
The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing. [ Beecher ]
Men will always act according to their passions. Therefore the best government is that which inspires the nobler passions and destroys the meaner. [ Jacobi ]
The diamond has been always esteemed the rarest stone, and the most precious of all; among the ancients it was called the stone of reconciliation. [ Lewis Vertoman ]
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 ]
Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking: they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. [ Dr. Watts ]
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Imagination is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is only the instrument which it sounds, or the tablet on which it writes. [ John Ruskin ]
Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart. [ Southern ]
The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect. [ Thoreau ]
Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
We always make our friend appear awkward and ridiculous by giving him a laced suit of tawdry qualifications, which nature never intended him to wear. [ Junius ]
The world never forgives our talents, our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]
The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. [ Montaigne ]
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable. [ Blackie ]
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
[ George Washington ]
Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go. [ Mme. du Chatelet ]
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. [ Lamb ]
Great attention to what is said and sweetness of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment. [ Hitopadesa ]
Error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase. [ Colton ]
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents - flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. [ Emerson ]
We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality. [ Joubert ]
Die when I may, I want it said of me, by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow. [ Lincoln ]
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. [ Coleridge ]
Two things should always be aimed at in our apparel - neatness and decency; but we should avoid an effeminate spruceness, as much as a fantastic disorder. [ J. Beaumont ]
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue. [ Horace ]
God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same. [ Joubert ]
Men of humour are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. [ Coleridge ]
Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. [ Kett ]
It is as absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music. [ Balzac ]
It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
In getting of your riches, and in using of them, you should always have three things in your heart, that is to say, our Lord God, Conscience, and good Name. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there the whole aspect of things changes. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. [ Johnson ]
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 ]
How sweet it would be to live in society if the countenance always reflected the disposition, if decency were virtue, and if our maxims were our rules of action. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
It is always considered as a piece of impertinence in England, if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinion at all upon important subjects. [ Sydney Smith ]
Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances. [ W. Winter ]
You know that in everything women write there are always a thousand faults of grammar, but, with your permission, a harmony which is rare in the writings of men. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric. [ Bovee ]
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full. [ Beecher ]
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. [ Fuller ]
A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches. [ Landor ]
There is no possible success without some opposition as a fulcrum; force is always aggressive, and crowds something or other, if it does not hit and trample upon it. [ O. W. Holmes ]
It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations. [ Sprat ]
Youth is like those verdant forests tormented by winds: it agitates on every side the abundant gifts of nature, and some profound murmur always reigns in its foliage. [ M. de Guerin ]
That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do. [ John Ruskin ]
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace: and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest. [ Landor ]
He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the grave shall never prevail against him to do him mischief. [ Jeremv Taylor ]
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are; they have no time, they are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character I would wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and the cowardly feeble resolve. [ Burns ]
Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution. [ Goethe ]
Truth is always consistent with itself and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. [ Tillotson ]
He seldom lives frugally who lives by chance. Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of revelling today on the profits of tomorrow. [ Johnson ]
It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. [ Sterne ]
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapors, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre. [ Washington Irving ]
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. [ Colton ]
Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit rule of life, is never to be a man. [ Chatfield ]
To the diamond is attributed the virtue of the talisman, and it is even said that he who wears the stone is always assured of victory, however numerous his enemies may be. [ Garcias ab Horto ]
The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. [ Chesterfield ]
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. [ Emerson ]
No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him; there is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil. [ Lowell ]
God never pardons: the laws of His universe are irrevocable. God always pardons: sense of condemnation is but another word for penitence, and penitence is already new life. [ William Smith ]
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 ]
People who are jealous, or particularly careful of their own rights and dignity, always find enough of those who do not care for either to keep them continually uncomfortable. [ Barnes ]
Unwillingness to acknowledge whatever is good in religion foreign to our own has always been a very common trait of human nature; but it seems to me neither generous nor just. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]
Women always show more taste in adorning others than themselves; and the reason is that their persons are like their hearts - they read another's better that they can their own. [ Richter ]
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]
The reading of romances will always be the favorite amusement of women: old, they peruse them to recall what they have experienced; young to anticipate what they wish to experience. [ A. Ricard ]
Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always - this is duty. [ Amiel ]
There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. [ Carlyle ]
I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast. [ Goldsmith ]
Genius never grows old - young today, mature yesterday, vigorous tomorrow, always immortal. It is peculiar to no sex or condition, and is the divine gift to woman no less than to man. [ Juan Lewis ]
To divert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy books; they presently fix thee to them, and drive the other out of thy thoughts. They always receive thee with the same kindness. [ Fuller ]
Extreme avarice is nearly always mistaken; there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
It is hard to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or another. [ Tillotson ]
Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. It is thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. [ Thomas Fuller ]
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 ]
He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who so lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die. [ Owen Feltham ]
Women always want one to be good. And if we are good when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad and to leave us quite unattractively good. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Charity commandeth us, where we know no ill, to think well of all; but friendship, that always goes a step higher, gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend. [ R. South ]
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 ]
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death. [ Alexander Smith ]
Every age has its different inclinations, but man is always the same. At ten, he is led by sweetmeats, at twenty by a mistress, at thirty by pleasure, at forty by ambition, at fifty by avarice. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
There are no unions that have not their dark days; but, when we have loved each other, we remember it always, and those sweet remembrances, that the heart accumulates, survive love like twilight.
Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible. [ Colton ]
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man - the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired. [ Fielding ]
The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens. [ Metastasio ]
We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more conformable to our own natures: fools love folly, and wise men wisdom. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
D'Alembert tells us that Voltaire had always lying on his table the Petit Careme
of Massillon and the Tragedies
of Racine; the former to fix his taste in prose composition, and the latter in poetry. [ Dugald Stewart ]
Feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rose-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but throughout the day grey and cold. [ Jean Paul ]
Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me. [ Napoleon ]
The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood. [ Simms ]
I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little - always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature. [ Frederic Saunders ]
The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them; consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost one nothing but pen, ink, and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer. [ Chesterfield ]
However powerful one may be, whether one laughs or weeps, none can make thee speak, none can open thy hand before the time, O mute phantom, our shadow! specter always masked, ever at our side, called Tomorrow. [ Victor Hugo ]
There should be no fear. We are protected, and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be protected by god. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scale the fall of an empire and the dropping of a woman's glove; and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. [ Balzac ]
Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous. [ Johnson ]
There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit, a spirit standing before. [ C. H. Parkhurst ]
The want of a more copious diction, to borrow a figure from Locke, is caused by our supposing that the mind is like Fortunatus's purse, and will always supply our wants, with out our ever putting anything into it. [ Bovee ]
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors. [ Johnson ]
The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction. [ Willmott ]
The passions are the only orators that always persuade; they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable. [ Horne ]
To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. [ Tillotson ]
If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate. [ T. C. Upham ]
Gifts of rings by lovers have always been common; but how pleasant when the husband can look to the past, to the present, to the future, with feelings of love, honor, and duty, and not as is often the case with repentance. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]
What is commonly called friendship is no more than a partnership, a reciprocal regard for one another's interests, and an exchange of good offices; in a word, mere traffic, wherein self-love always proposes to be a gainer. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Utopia! such is the name with which ignorance, folly, and incredulity have always characterized the great conceptions, discoveries, enterprises, and ideas which have illustrated the ages, and marked eras in human progress. [ E. de Girardin ]
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best. [ Plutarch ]
Those people who are always improving never become great Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps. [ Hazlitt ]
Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence. [ Hazlitt ]
So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us. [ Plutarch ]
No improvement that takes place if either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in. reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other. [ Colton ]
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can at any time descend; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible. [ Colton ]
When all that is fond in our nature is most thoroughly awakened, when we feel most deeply and tenderly - even then, love is so conscious of its instability that we are irresistibly prompted to ask; Do you love me? Will you love me always? [ Balzac ]
The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused. [ Lucretius ]
Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the era of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtime of their hopes! [ C. Bingham ]
I have always a sacred veneration for any one I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher; because the richest minerals are ever found under the most ragged and withered surfaces of the earth. [ Swift ]
Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor. [ Macaulay ]
Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses to reflect on itself or its deeds. Many are sincere without being simple; they do not wish to be taken for other than they are, but they are always afraid of being taken for what they are not. [ Fénelon ]
In Athens the ladies were not gaudily but simply arrayed, and we doubt whether any ladies ever excited more admiration. So also the noble old Roman matrons, whose superb forms were gazed on delightedly by men worthy of them, were always very plainly dressed. [ George D. Prentice ]
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired. But let another person try my way, and see where he will come out. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it. [ Froude ]
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where she ends, and we cannot miss of being good naturalists. [ William Penn ]
A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to keep one's spirit always sweet and avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability, - that is an ideal as noble as it is difficult. [ Edward Howard Griggs ]
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the sombre countenance of ordinary nature; they are like music heard out of a workhouse. [ Berz ]
There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom: and it may be said, that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom: so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life, is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain. [ Saville ]
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
The press is not only free; it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people. [ Beaconsfield ]
Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance has been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good. [ J. G. Holland ]
We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners. [ Whipple ]
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. [ James Parton ]
There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove. [ Mackenzie ]
Some are so close and reserved that they will not show their wares but by a dark light, and seem always to keep back somewhat; and when they know within themselves they speak of that which they do not well know, would nevertheless seem to others to know of that which they may not well speak. [ Bacon ]
Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of genius they may contain, however studied they may have been beforehand, will appear to the audience to be the effect of the sudden inspiration of talent. [ Colton ]
Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Remember always in painting, as in eloquence, the greater your strength the quieter will be your manner and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life, the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim. [ Ruskin ]
Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing, - the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations. [ Samuel Smiles ]
His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require. [ Erasmus ]
Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter, easily produce vanity; hence women, wits, players, soldiers, are vain, owing to their presence, figure and dress. On the contrary, other excellences, which lie down like gold and are discovered with difficulty, leave their possessors modest and proud. [ Richter ]
It is necessary to look forward as well as backward, as some think it is always necessary to regulate their conduct by things that have been done of old times, but that past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on an alternative of some past that went before it. [ Madame De Stael ]
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted. [ Addison ]
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late. [ Goethe ]
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other. [ Carlyle ]
What we call genius may, perhaps, in more strict propriety, be described as the spirit of discovery. Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought. It is always in advance of its time. It is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. For this reason it is called a seer, and hence its songs have been prophecies. [ Simms ]
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. [ Rousseau ]
Most people give up before they start because they think it is too hard, there is too much against me here, I can’t do this on my own, I don’t have the resources. I was on the back to work scheme when I applied. I didn’t have resources... It never occurred to me to fail. I always knew it was part of my destiny to do that thing. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show ]
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives the man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. [ Addison ]
They that have read about everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections, - we must I chew them over again. [ Channing ]
Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army. [ Napoleon I ]
Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. What,
said the hero in reply, have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart?
He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own. [ E. L. Magoon ]
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor. [ Goethe ]
Nominate or Name? To nominate is to mention for a specific purpose. To name is to mention for a general purpose. Persons only are nominated; things, as well as persons, are named. To be nominated is a public act; to be named is generally private. To be nominated is always an honor; to be named may, according to circumstances, be either honorable or dishonorable. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. [ Sir Thomas Browns ]
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 ]
The language of the heart - the language which comes from the heart
and goes to the heart
- is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language - difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied. [ Bovee ]
Living authors, therefore, are usually bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen - for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. [ Colton ]
You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured - first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny. [ Heroidotus ]
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]
It is the saying of an old divine, Two things in ray apparel I will chiefly aim at - commodiousness and decency; more than these is not commendable, yet I hate an effeminate spruceness as much as a fantastic disorder. A neglected comeliness is the best ornament.
It is said of the celebrated Mr. Whitfield that he always was very clean and neat, and often said pleasantly that a minister of the gospel ought to be without a spot.
[ J. Beaumont ]
I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. [ Chesterfield ]
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective nature? [ Emerson ]
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously; who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them. [ Washington Irving ]
Posture or Attitude? Each of these words has its appropriate place, and one should not be misapplied for the other. Posture is the mode of placing the body, and may be either natural or assumed. Attitude is always assumed, and is intended to display some grace of the body, or some affection or purpose of the mind. Postures, when natural, accommodate themselves to the convenience of the body; when assumed they may be either serious or ridiculous. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
A town, before it can be plundered and deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. [ Colton ]
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these interTafs. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains. [ Orville Dewey ]
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. [ Leigh Hunt ]
If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]
Whatever we may say against such collections which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem, to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of the mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant quotations." [ Goethe ]
Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
The love of flowers seems a naturally implanted passion, without any alloy or debasing object in its motive; we cherish them in youth, we admire them in declining years; but perhaps it is the early flowers of spring that always bring with them the greatest degree of pleasure; and our affections seem to expand at the sight of the first blossom under the sunny wall, or sheltered bank, however humble its race may be. With summer flowers we seem to live, as with our neighbors, in harmony and good order; but spring flowers are cherished as private friendships. [ G. A. Sola ]
The loss of a mother is always severely felt; even though Her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn! It is like that lonely star before us; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends. [ Lamartine ]
The first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor, in his heart's difficulty, is his mother; she clings to his memory and affection in the midst of all the f orgetf ulness and hardihood induced by a roving life; the last message he leaves is for her; his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lessons of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not in vain. She may drop into the grave, but she has left behind her influences that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its ofiice. [ A. H. Motte ]
True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself, it is not confined to partial views, or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself, its own integrity and worth. Hope awakens courage, while despondency is the last of all evils, it is the abandonment of good, the giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingness. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. [ Von Knebel (German), Translated by Mrs. Austin ]
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. [ John Ruskin ]
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and - not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]