Good counsel never comes amiss. [ Proverb ]
Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man. [ Proverb ]
He that thinks amiss concludes worse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone. [ Cervantes ]
The few that pray at all pray oft amiss. [ Cowper ]
All foreign wisdom doth amount to this,
To take all that is given, whether wealth,
Or love, or language; nothing comes amiss;
A good digestion turneth all to health. [ Herbert ]
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. [ Pope ]
Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare, The Taming Of The Shrew ]
When a man is not liked, whatever he does is amiss. [ Proverb ]
Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is easier to bear with what is amiss, than go about to reform it. [ Proverb ]
'T is the good reader that makes the good book: a good head cannot read amiss. [ Emerson ]
They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm: they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination. [ La Bruyere ]
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. [ Cervantes ]
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences, or asides, hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]
If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. [ Sir John Herschel ]