Forbear not sowing because of birds. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Rob not the poor, because he is poor. [ Bible ]

Trust dies because bad pay poisons him. [ Proverb ]

We love Him, because He first loved us. [ Bible ]

And weep the more because I weep in vain. [ Gray ]

The body charms because the soul is seen. [ Young ]

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [ Horace ]

Think not ambition wise, because it is brave. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

Little consoles us because little afflicts us. [ Pascal ]

Commonsense is in spite of, not because of age. [ Lord Thurlow ]

Got the ill name of augurs because they were bores. [ Lowell ]

Many are esteemed, only because they are not known.

Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.

Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded. [ Yogi Berra ]

The dog gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Very few enjoy money, because they can't get enough. [ Amer. Proverb ]

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. [ Hazlitt ]

Men err from selfishness, women because they are weak. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Slanderers do not hurt me, because they do not hit me. [ Socrates ]

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. [ Dr. Seuss ]

A wicked book is the wickeder, because it cannot repent. [ Proverb ]

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think [ Mlle. de Guerin ]

Truth is to be loved purely and solely because it is true. [ Carlyle ]

Little things console us, because little things afflict us. [ Pascal ]

The only reason I need these gloves is because of my hands. [ Yogi Berra ]

He shone with the greater splendour because he was not seen. [ Tac ]

Absolutism is tolerant, only because it knows itself mighty. [ A. de Gasparin ]

It is difficult to speak to the belly because it has no ears. [ Plutarch ]

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity. [ Tacitus ]

Hedgehogs lodge among thorns, because themselves are prickly. [ Proverb ]

Therefore a man is a cuckold, because two are too hard for one. [ Proverb ]

It is a most base thing to betray a man because he trusted you. [ Proverb ]

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

And am I to suffer for it because I was born a man? Is pity a sin? [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature? [ Benjamin West ]

The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise! [ Prud'homme ]

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

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. [ St. Augustine ]

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men. [ George Sand ]

Little things console us, because little things afflict us. (Trifles) [ Pascal ]

Scratching is bad, because it begins with pleasure and ends with pain. [ Proverb ]

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any. [ Beaconsfield ]

Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. [ Barry Cornwall ]

I like writing with a peacock's quill, because its feathers are all eyes. [ Proverb ]

Because its blessings are abused, must gold be censured, cursed, accused? [ Gay ]

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [ Goethe ]

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. [ Bible ]

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life. [ Hosea Ballou ]

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

To condemn the poor because of his poverty, is to affront God's providence. [ Proverb ]

We consecrate a great deal of nonsense, because it was allowed by great men. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Time is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great. [ Bacon ]

I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question. [ Yogi Berra ]

Great folks have five hundred friends because they have no occasion for them. [ Goldsmith ]

That blind, rascally boy that abuses everyone's eyes, because his own are out. [ William Shakespeare ]

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; it is cruel because it is wrong. [ Whately ]

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. [ Chamfort ]

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old! [ Stanislaus ]

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it. [ Goethe ]

Wise friends are the best book of life, because they teach with voice and looks. [ Calderon ]