Time flees away
Without delay. [ Proverb ]

Echoes we: listen!
We cannot stay,
As dewdrops glisten,
Then fade away. [ Shelley ]

All these things pass away. [ Motto ]

Look at your own corn in May,
And you'll come weeping away. [ Proverb ]

He that loves glass without G,
Take away L and that is he. [ Proverb ]

He that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day. [ Goldsmith ]

He who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.
But he who is in battle slain,
Can never rise to fight again. [ Goldsmith ]

Gather roses while they bloom,
Tomorrow is yet far away.
Moments lost have no room,
In tomorrow or today. [ Gleim ]

Money calls, but does not stay:
It is round and rolls away. [ Proverb ]

Days of absence, sad and dreary;
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away. [ Rousseau ]

Deaf men go away with the blame. [ Proverb ]

Away, ye imitators, servile herd! [ Horace ]

Soon for me the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee. [ Doane ]

Dark eyes - eternal soul of pride!
Deep life in all that's true!
Away, away to other skies!
Away over seas and sands!
Such eyes as those were never made
To shine in other lands. [ Leland ]

Yet all I've learnt from hours rife
With painful brooding here,
Is, that amid this mortal strife.
The lapse of every year
But takes away a hope from life.
And adds to death a fear. [ Hoffman ]

The wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind. [ Wordsworth ]

Up, then, with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away -
This is no time for thee to sleep -
Up, watch, and work, and pray! [ Horatius Bonar ]

Into contradicting
Be thou never led away;
When with the ignorant they strive,
The wise to folly fall away. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He liveth long who liveth well.
All else is life but flung away;
He liveth longest who can tell
Of true things truly done each day. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Weight and measure take away strife. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The cost takes away from the relish. [ French Proverb ]

An empty purse frights away friends. [ Proverb ]

He who sings frightens away his ills. [ Cervantes ]

You cannot escape away from yourself. [ Proverb ]

Better go away longing than loathing. [ Proverb ]

I could lie down like a tired child,
And weep away the life of care
Which I have borne, and yet must bear. [ Shelley ]

The ruins of himself! now worn away
With age, yet still majestic in decay. [ Homer ]

Three may keep counsel if two be away. [ Proverb ]

Two may keep counsel, putting one away. [ Proverb ]

Three can keep a secret if two be away. [ Proverb ]

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away. [ Byron ]

How calm - how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms have gone,
When warring winds have died away
And clouds, beneath the dancing ray
Melt off and leave the land and sea,
Sleeping in bright tranquillity. [ Moore ]

All bow to virtue - and then walk away. [ De Finod ]

Neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder
Shall wholly do away, I ween,
The marks of that which once hath been. [ Coleridge ]

I'm called away by particular business.
But I leave my character behind me. [ Sheridan ]

Take away fuel, and you take away fire. [ Proverb ]

The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. [ Rich. II ]

Swift kindnesses are best: a long delay
In kindness takes the kindness all away. [ Anon ]

How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night.
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away, over lawns and lakes,
Goes answering light. [ Moore ]

Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken feels her present God again
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away. [ John Keble ]

'Tis heaven alone that is given away,
'Tis only God may be had for the asking. [ Lowell ]

When the cat is away, the mice may play. [ Proverb ]

From a closed door the devil turns away. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

Harmless all malice, if our God be nigh;
Fruitless all pains, if he his help deny.
Patient I pass these gloomy hours away,
And wait the morning of eternal day! [ Lady Jane Dudley ]

And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away. [ Longfellow ]

The dead are got quite away from fortune. [ Proverb ]

Words and feathers the wind carries away. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The greatest can but blaze and pass away. [ Pope ]

Full guts neither run away nor fight well. [ Proverb ]

Oh, how this spring of life resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day.
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And, by and by, a cloud takes all away! [ William Shakespeare ]

Death comes to all.
His cold and sapless hand
Waves over the world, and beckons us away.
Who shall resist the summons? [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees!
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play! [ Whittier ]

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds;
How soft the music of those village bells.
Falling at intervals upon the ear,
In cadence sweet, now dying all away. [ Cowper ]

When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark
Drift on and on through the enchanted dark
To purple daybreak - little thought we pay
To that sweet bitter world we know by day. [ T. B. Aldrich ]

Three can hold their peace if two be away. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Alas! the fleeting years are passing away. [ Horace ]

The darkest day
Lives till tomorrow will have passed away. [ Cowper ]

What a day may bring, a day may take away. [ Proverb ]

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till tomorrow, will have pass'd away. [ Cowper ]

Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
The heart ungalled play;
For some must watch, while some must sleep;
Thus runs the world away. [ William Shakespeare ]

I am the very slave of circumstance
And impulse - borne away with every breath. [ Byron ]

For the fashion of this world passeth away. [ Bible ]

So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves tonight.
They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;
I will go down to the chapel and pray. [ Longfellow ]

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. [ Ovid ]

Time steals away without any inconvenience. [ Montaigne ]

Two may keep counsel when the third's away. [ William Shakespeare ]

The king's cheese goes half away in parings. [ Proverb ]

Burn not your house to fright away the mice. [ Proverb ]

To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. [ Bryant ]

This life is but the passage of a day,
This life is but a pang and all is over;
But in the life to come which fades not away
Every love shall abide and every lover. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

You bring a bit of wire and take away a bar. [ Proverb ]

He deserves not good that can away with bad. [ Proverb ]

I will send him away with a flea in his ear. [ Proverb ]

He has left, gone off, escaped, broken away. [ Cic. of Catiline's flight ]

Agues come on horseback and go away on foot. [ Proverb ]

Take time while time is, for time will away. [ Proverb ]

They that drive away time spur a free horse. [ Robert Mason ]

But can the noble mind forever brood,
The willing victim of a weary mood,
On heartless cares that squander life away,
And cloud young Genius brightening into day? [ Campbell ]

Root away
The noisome weeds, which without profit suck
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. [ Rich. II ]

Weight, measure, and tale, take away strife. [ Proverb ]

Virtue withers away if it has no opposition. [ Seneca ]

The stars shall fade away, the Sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. [ Joseph Addison ]

When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day,
Fancy restores what vengeance snatched away. [ Pope ]

Not to understand a treasure's worth,
Till time has stolen away the slightest good,
Is cause of half the poverty we feel,
And makes the world the wilderness it is. [ Cowper ]

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And Cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness.
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come
From God, who is our home.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
* * * * * *
At length the man perceives it die away.
And fade into the light of common day. [ Wordsworth ]

If she do frown, it is not in hate of you,
But rather to beget more love in you:
If she do chide, it is not to have you gone;
For why, the fools are mad if left alone.
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For - get you gone - she doth not mean - away. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage. [ Seneca ]

Down to the dust! and as thou rottest away,
Even worms shall perish on thy poisonous clay. [ Byron ]

Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully or standing still.
One leg, as if suspicious of his brother.
Desirous seems to run away from t' other. [ Churchill ]

Where we least think there goes the hare away. [ Proverb ]

To fall away from a horse load to a cart load. [ Proverb ]

Take away my good name, and take away my life. [ Proverb ]

Let not your tongue run away with your brains. [ Proverb ]

He need not go away from home for instruction. [ Terence ]

The rose is fragrant, but it fades in time:
The violet sweet, but quickly past the prime:
White lilies hang their heads, and soon decay,
And white snow in minutes melts away. [ Dryden ]

All idle talk (so much the wind carries away). [ French Proverb ]

Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress;
And, as the evening twilight fades away.
The stars are seen by night, invisible by day. [ Longfellow ]

Fortune cannot take away what she did not give. [ Seneca ]

The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame.
Die fast away; only themselves die faster.
The far-famed sculptor, and the laurelled bard,
Those bold insurancers of deathless fame,
Supply their little feeble aids in vain. [ Blair ]

No class escapes them - from the poor man's pay
The nostrum takes no trifling part away;
Time, too, with cash is wasted; 'tis the fate
Of real helpers, to be called too late;
This find the sick, when time and patience gone
Death with a tenfold terror hurries on. [ Crabbe ]

Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor;
And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away. [ Cowper ]

Take heed of still waters; the quick pass away. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May;
Yet grass is green when flowers do fade away. [ R. Southwell ]

The poor too often turn away unheard,
From hearts that shut against them with a sound
That will be heard in heaven. [ Longfellow ]

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade
Of that which once was great is passed away. [ Wordsworth ]

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away. [ Young ]

There is nothing can equal the tender hours
When life is first in bloom,
When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
Finds everywhere perfume;
When the present is all and it questions not
If those flowers shall pass away,
But pleased with its own delightful lot,
Dreams never of decay. [ Bohn ]

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin. [ Cervantes ]

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race, the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those have passed away. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]

Although it rain, cast not away thy watering-pot. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?
The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky,
Thou still canst find the color of thy wing.
The hue of May.
Warbler, why speed thy southern flight? ah, why,
Thou too, whose song first told us of the Spring?
Whither away? [ E. C. Stedman ]

Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches. [ Proverb ]

He steals a hog, and gives away the feet in alms. [ Proverb ]

Years following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away. [ Pope ]

The morn is up again, the dewy morn,
With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom,
Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn,
And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, -
And glowing into day. [ Byron ]

Valour would fight, but discretion would run away. [ Proverb ]

Cutoff the head and tail, and throw the rest away. [ Proverb ]

What one day gives us, another takes away from us. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The raven said to the rook, stand away black coat. [ Proverb ]

The civilities of the great are never thrown away. [ Johnson ]

Her tongue steals away all the time from her hands. [ Proverb ]

The fool runs away while his house is burning down. [ Proverb ]

By noting of the lady I have marked
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames.
In angel whiteness bear away those blushes. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. [ Rochefoucauld ]

He swallows the egg and gives away the shell in alms. [ German Proverb ]

They dispute about an egg, and let the hens fly away. [ German Proverb ]

They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]

Long talking begets short hearing, for people go away. [ Jean Paul ]

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away. [ J. K. Jerome ]

If you do not open the door to the devil, he goes away. [ Proverb ]

The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent. [ Racine ]

The vigour of manhood passes away like a spring flower.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. [ Proverb ]

You are a man among the geese, when the gander is away. [ Proverb ]

Mischief comes by the pound, and goes away by the ounce. [ Proverb ]

To steal the pig, and give away the feet for God's sake. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away. [ French Proverb ]

Two dogs fight for a bone, and a third runs away with it. [ Proverb ]

So much is mine as I enjoy, and give away for God's sake. [ Proverb ]

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has. [ Schiller ]

Music washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life. [ Berthold Auerbach ]

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind? [ Wordsworth ]

Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop. [ P. N. Destouches ]

Grieve not that I die young.
Is it not well to pass away ere life has lost its brightness? [ Lady Flora Hastings ]

There is not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. [ Byron ]

Oh, let us fill our hearts up with the glory of the day
And banish every doubt and care and sorrow far away!
For the world is full of roses and the roses full of dew,
And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips for me and you.
[ James Whitcomb Riley ]

Age bears away with it all things, even the powers of the mind. [ Virgil ]

When God will punish, he will first take away the understanding. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. [ William Shakespeare ]

He is laughed at who is forever harping away on the same string. [ Horace ]

Passing away is written on the world, and all the world contains). [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Money is too inconsiderable to love, yet too useful to throw away. [ Proverb ]

When dark December glooms the day, and takes our autumn joys away. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

All the wit in the world is thrown away upon the man who has none. [ Bruyère ]

Take away the sword; States can be saved without it; bring the pen. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Some have been thought brave, because they were afraid to run away. [ Proverb ]

Half the ease of life oozes away through the leaks of unpunctuality. [ Anon ]

He's so much a thief, that he will steal away even the commandments. [ Proverb ]

The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away. [ Willmott ]

Who draws his sword against his prince, must throw away his scabbard. [ Proverb ]

O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away? [ Longfellow ]

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. [ Pope ]

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. [ Amiel ]

Mental stains cannot be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [ Cicero ]

Before the revelations of the soul, Time, Space, and Nature shrink away. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

They are as good cats that chase away the mice as those that catch them. [ German Proverb ]

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? [ Seneca ]

Take away desire from the heart, and you take away the air from the earth. [ Bulwer Lytton ]

God pardons like a mother who kisses away the repentant tears of her child. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! [ William Shakespeare ]

Great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart. [ Mrs. Carlyle ]

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement. [ Beecher ]

Away! we know that tears are vain, that death never heeds nor hears distress. [ Byron ]

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. [ Bible ]

We are pouring our words into a perforated cask (i.e. are throwing them away). [ Plaut ]

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect. [ Cicero ]

Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. [ Mere ]

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. [ Arthur Helps ]

That is but a slippery happiness that fortune can give and fortune can take away. [ Proverb ]

Triumph not, O Time! strong towers decay, but a great name shall never pass away. [ Park Benjamin ]

When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away. [ Sarah Helen Whitman ]

Make the most of time, it glides away so fast; but order teaches you to gain time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us. [ Humboldt ]

If you have but an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! and the little less, and what worlds away! [ Browning ]

As the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. [ Danish Webster ]

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Year chases year, decay pursues decay; still drops some joy from withering life away. [ Dr. Johnson ]

He that gives himself leave to play with his neighbour's fame, may soon play it away. [ Proverb ]

Sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, and the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. [ Campbell ]

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away. [ Saadi ]

There are three things that women throw away: their time, their money, and their health. [ Mme. Geoffrin ]

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. [ Richard Baxter ]

Whose wit in the combat, gentle as bright, never carried a heart-stain away on its blade. [ Moore ]

They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation. [ Gray ]

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. [ Melanchthon ]

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. [ Bruyere ]

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God. [ Lew Wallace ]

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! [ Barry Cornwall ]

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. [ Joseph Roux ]

I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula and Superman away. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

It is wiser to run away when there is no remedy, than to stay and die in the field foolishly. [ Proverb ]

The cripple, tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away. [ Shakespeare ]

Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. [ Plato ]

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity. [ Massillon ]

The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. [ Pope ]

We gladden our eyes with the beauty of flowers; yet in one short morning they die and pass away. [ Saigiyo ]

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. [ Bruyere ]

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. [ F. Quarles ]

For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. [ Sophocles ]

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Plagiarists are purloiners who filch the fruit that others have gathered, and then throw away the basket. [ Chatfield ]

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench. [ Joubert ]

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house. [ Babcock ]

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards? [ Juvenal ]

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause. [ Lord Karnes ]

The thirst for fame is greater than that for virtue; for, if you take away its reward, who would embrace virtue? [ Juvenal, Roman Poet ]

Labor not to be rich; * * * for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. [ Bible ]

Time glides away, and we grow older through the noiseless years; the days flee away, and are restrained by no rein. [ Ovid ]

Truth is simple and gives little trouble, but falsehood gives occasion for the frittering away of time and strength. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. [ George Eliot ]

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. [ Pliny ]

Inexorable necessity has power over man; it has no dread of the immortals, who have houses in Olympus away from sad grief. [ Stoboeus ]

Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. [ Johnson ]

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. [ Joubert ]

The drop hollows the stone, the ring is worn by use, and the crooked ploughshare is frayed away by the pressure of the earth. [ Ovid ]

Before the immense possibilities of man, all mere experience, all past biography, however spotless and sainted, shrinks away. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! the evening beam that smiles the clouds away and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray! [ Byron ]

He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity: for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. [ Henry Taylor ]

One writer excels at a plan or a title-page; another works away at the body of the book; and a third is a dab hand at an index. [ Goldsmith ]

If you could throw as an alms to those who would use it well the time that you fritter away, how many beggars would become rich! [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

Whatever the world may say, there are some mortal sorrows; and our lives ebb away less through our blood than through our tears. [ P. Juillerat ]

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world; and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room. [ George Eliot ]

We disregard the things which lie under our eyes; indifferent to what is close at hand, we inquire after things that are far away. [ Pliny ]

I am above being injured by fortune; though she snatch away much, more will remain to me. The blessings I now enjoy transcend fear. [ Ov ]

Balm that tames all anguish, saint that evil thoughts and aims takest away, and into souls dost creep, like to a breeze from heaven. [ Wordsworth ]

Carried away by the irresistible influence which is always exercised over men's minds by a bold resolution in critical circumstances. [ Guizot ]

The greater portion of our lives is thrown away in fiction; it is only in maturer years that we awake to the stern realities of life. [ James Ellis ]

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 ]

Two pots stood by a river, one of brass, the other of clay; the water carried them away; the earthen vessel kept aloof from the other. [ L'Estrange ]

If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Soul rolls away the mist from his eyes, and the very spot selected as the receptacle of his tears, becomes the place of his highest rapture. [ J. T. Headley ]

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation. [ Dr. Johnson ]

I struggle against an opposing current; the torrent which sweeps away others does not overpower me, and I make head against the on-rushing stream. [ Ovid ]

The casting away things profitable for the maintenance of man's life is an unthankful abuse of the fruits of God's good providence towards mankind. [ Hooker ]

This span of life was lent for lofty duties, not for selfishness; not to be wiled away for aimless dreams, but to improve ourselves, and serve mankind. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]

To wither away, be disleaved, be trodden to dust even by the rude feet of Fate, that, friend, is the lot on earth of everything that is beautiful and sweet. [ Heine ]

A good name is like precious ointment; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers. [ Bacon ]

Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly. Youth, while we have it, we must wear daily; and it will fast wear away. [ John Foster ]

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality. [ Emerson ]

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

When Fame stands by us all alone, she is an angel clad in light and strength; but when Love touches her she drops her sword, and fades away, ghostlike and ashamed. [ Ouida ]

The stranger who turneth away from a house with disappointed hopes leaveth there his own offences, and departeth, taking with him all the good actions of the owner. [ Hitopadesa ]

A jest that makes a virtuous woman only smile, often frightens away a prude; but, when real danger forces the former to flee, the latter does not hesitate to advance. [ Latena ]

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man. [ Theodore Parker ]

A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life. [ Willmott ]

The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes. [ De La Bruyere ]

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom - the very fashion of which passeth away. [ Fenelon ]

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 ]

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. [ Louisa May Alcott ]

Superstition is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars in the sky; but the stars are there, and will re-appear. [ Carlyle ]

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. [ Carlyle ]

It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was running to go fight in another fight, away from the first fight. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

And now he shook away the snow of time from the winter-green of memory, and beheld the fair years of his childhood uncovered, fresh, green, and balmy, standing afar off before him. [ Richter ]

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds. [ Beecher ]

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail. It is even heightened by sufferings. [ William Ellery Channing ]

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 ]

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence and example, that roll away from him, and go beyond his ken in their perilous mission. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [ Bible ]

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever. [ Johnson ]

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. They are apt to become feeble in the utterance; the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. [ George Eliot ]

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet. [ Landor ]

Reflection makes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment. [ Hazlitt ]

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them. [ Phillips Brooks ]

The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches. [ Whately ]

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself [ South ]

I am persuaded that music is designed to prepare for heaven, to educate for the choral enjoyment of Paradise, to form the mind to virtue and devotion, and to charm away evil and sanctify the heart to God. [ Legh Richmond ]

"No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. [ Scott ]

We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin is inscribed, Drink, and away; but how delicious is that hasty draught, and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshment dwells in the memory. [ Tuckerman ]

For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. [ Juvenal ]

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones. [ Swift ]

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away. [ Martin Luther ]

I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, What was that?! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout. [ Landor ]

Very few people know how to enjoy life. Some say to themselves: I do this or that, therefore I am amused: I have paid so many pieces of gold, hence I feel so much pleasure; and they wear away their lives on that grindstone. [ A. de Musset ]

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head. [ Charron ]

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. [ Dickens ]

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away. [ Gotthold ]

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. [ Beecher ]

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds, and bruises the wheat into flour; if you put no wheat in it, it still grinds on; but then it is itself it grinds, and slowly wears away. [ M. Luther ]

When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face, - compare notes and chat the hour away. [ Hazlitt ]

As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies. [ Beecher ]

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away. Enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what tomorrow may produce. [ Horace ]

Error soon passes away, unless upheld by restraint on thought. History tells us (and the lesson is invaluable) that the physical force which has put down free inquiry has been the main bulwark of the superstitions and illusions of past ages. [ Channing ]

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 ]

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune; such is the extensiveness thereof, that it stoopeth so low as brute beasts, yet mounteth as high as angels; horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells, jingle away their weariness. [ T. Fuller ]

This is he that kiss'd away his hand in courtesy; This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice. That when he plays at tables, chides the dice in honorable terms; nay, he can sing a mean most meanly; and in ushering, mend him who can; the ladies call him sweet; The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet. [ William Shakespeare ]

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong. [ Martin Luther ]

From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth. [ Willmott ]

What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation? It is that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will last you until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. [ Trollope ]

For ages the world has been waiting and watching; millions, with broken hearts, have hovered around the yawning abyss; but no echo has come back from the engulfing gloom - silence, oblivion, covers all. If indeed they survive; if they went away whole and victorious, they give us no signals. We wait for years, but no messages come from the far-away shore to which they have gone. [ Bishop R. S. Foster ]

Mutability is the badge of infirmity; it is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike; now he is for marrying, and now a mistress is preferred to a wife; now he is ambitious and aspiring, presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he; this hour he squanders his money away, the next he turns miser; sometimes he is frugal and serious, at other times profuse, airy, and gay. [ Charron ]

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending, - the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, - the wise, the good, or the great man, - very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light. [ Joseph Addison ]

You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home - home to a Father's house - to an eternal home? [ Mark Hopkins ]

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge! [ Beecher ]

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]

It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores: for it is too bad that a poor wretch can be punished for stealing your pocket handkerchief or gloves, and that no punishment can be inflicted on those who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience, as well as the bright thoughts that might have entered into your mind (like the Irishman who lost the fortune before he had got it), but were frightened away by the bore. [ Byron ]

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 ]

When the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place, - when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave, - in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them, - then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God. [ Dickens ]

I put myself, my experiences, my observations, my heart and soul into my work. I press my soul upon the white paper. The writer who does this may have any style, he or she will find the hearts of their readers. Writing a book involves, not a waste, but a great expenditure of vital force. Yet I can assure you I have written the last lines of most of my stories with tears. The characters of my own creation had become dear to me. I could not bear to bid them good-bye and send them away from me into the wide world. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together; and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems. [ Coleridge ]

Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost. Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it. [ John Flavel ]

The Christian cemetery is a memorial and a record. It is not a mere field in which the dead are stowed away unknown; it is a touching and beautiful history, written in family burial plots, in mounded graves, in sculptured and inscribed monuments. It tells the story of the past, - not of its institutions, or its wars, or its ideas, but of its individual lives, - of its men and women and children, and of its household. It is silent, but eloquent; it is common, but it is unique. We find no such history elsewhere; there are no records in all the wide world in which we can discover so much that is suggestive, so much that is pathetic and impressive. [ Joseph Anderson ]

A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbors sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing. [ Martial ]

My method has been simply this - to think well on the subject which I had to deal with and when thoroughly impressed with it and acquainted with it in all its details, to write away without stopping to choose a word, leaving a blank where I was at a loss for it; to express myself as simply as possible in vernacular English, and afterwards to go through what I had written, striking out all redundancies, and substituting, when possible, simpler and more English words for those I might have written. I found that by following this method I could generally reduce very considerably in length what I had put on paper without sacrificing anything of importance or rendering myself less intelligible. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]