Necessity becomes will. [ Ariosto ]

A twig in time becomes a tree. [ Motto ]

No one becomes guilty by fate. [ Seneca ]

It becomes a young man to be modest. [ Plaut ]

Too much rest itself becomes a pain. [ Homer ]

A small pack becomes a small pedlar. [ Proverb ]

A great mind becomes a great fortune. [ Seneca ]

Temperate anger well becomes the wise. [ Philemon ]

Practice in time becomes second nature. [ Anon ]

Generosity, wrong placed, becomes a vice.

Corruption of the best becomes the worst. [ Proverb ]

When it thunders the thief becomes honest. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. [ F. R. Havergal ]

For youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds
Importing health and graveness. [ William Shakespeare ]

It becomes her as a pack-saddle would a sow. [ Proverb ]

The burden which is well borne becomes light. [ Ovid ]

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. [ Ovid ]

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. [ St. Augustine ]

A smith becomes a smith by working at the forge. [ Proverb ]

The burden becomes light which cheerfully borne. [ Ovid ]

The burden becomes light that is shared by love. [ Ovid ]

It becomes a wise man to try negotiation before arms. [ Terence ]

A truth that one does not understand becomes an error. [ Desbarolles ]

Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts. [ Edward L. Youmans ]

With time and patience, the mulberry-leaf becomes satin. [ Proverb ]

As soon as a woman becomes ours, we are no longer theirs. [ Montaigne ]

Through love the earth becomes free; through deeds, great. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Man is only what he becomes, but he becomes only what he is. [ Amiel ]

Hypocrisy becomes a necessity for those who live scandalously. [ De Finod ]

It becomes one, while exempt from woes, to look to the dangers. [ Sophocles ]

Society becomes my glittering bride, and airy hopes my children. [ Wordsworth ]

How quickly nature falls to revolt when gold becomes her object! [ Shakespeare ]

For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion. [ Schiller ]

Pride becomes not a rich man, but is insupportable in a poor man. [ Proverb ]

When a man becomes dear to me, I have touched the goal of fortune. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The world is stupid, the world is blind, becomes daily more absurd. [ Heine ]

Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Life resembles a cup of clear water which becomes muddy as we drink it. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]

The man who becomes a critic by trade, ceases in reality to be one at all. [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]

In love, the confidant of a woman's sorrow often becomes the consoler of it.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Man thinks, and, at once, becomes the master of the beings that do not think. [ Buffon ]

There are authors in whose hand the pen becomes a magic wand: but they are few. [ Lady Montagu ]

That friendship, which is exerted in too wide a sphere, becomes totally useless. [ Goldsmith ]

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The finite is annihilated in the presence of infinity, and becomes a simple nothing. [ Pascal ]

To speak but little becomes a woman: and she is best adorned who is in plain attire. [ Democritus ]

A calumnious abuse, too often repeated, becomes so familiar to the ear as to lose its effect.

That which astonishes, astonishes once; but whatever is admirable becomes more and more admired. [ Joubert ]

What otherwise is good and just, if it be aimed at by fraud or violence, becomes evil and unjust. [ Law Maxim ]

Heaven gives the grace needed for the moment; he who seizes it quickly becomes master of his fate. [ Raupach ]

It becomes extremely hard to disentangle our idea of the cause from the effect by which we know it. [ Burke ]

That man is great who rises to the emergencies of the occasion, and becomes master of the situation. [ Donn Piatt ]

A child becomes for his parents, according to the education he receives, a blessing or a chastisement. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Jealousy lives upon doubt, and comes to an end or becomes a fury as soon as it passes from doubt to certainty. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Methinks a being that is beautiful becomes more so as it looks on beauty, the eternal beauty of undying things. [ Byron ]

Like the air, the water, and everything else in the world, the heart too rises the higher the warmer it becomes. [ Cötvös ]

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. [ Goethe ]

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the press than the pulpit. [ Goldsmith ]

A woman, when she has passed forty, becomes an illegible scrawl; only an old woman is capable of divining old women. [ Balzac ]

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence. [ Joseph Story ]

The beloved friend does not fill one part of the soul, but, penetrating the whole, becomes connected with all feeling. [ William Ellery Channing ]

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real, too. [ Greville ]

The ambitious deceive themselves when they propose an end to their ambition; for that end, when attained, becomes a means. [ Rochefoucauld ]

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted. [ Thomas Paine ]

The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression: the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a steppingstone in the pathway of the strong. [ Carlyle ]

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name. [ Goldsmith ]

In the destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power and his dark path becomes a way of light to heaven. [ Dickens ]

Humor is one of the elements of genius - admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius. [ Goethe ]

It is a fine observation of Plato, in his Laws, that atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of the understanding. [ Wm. Fleming ]

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him.

Be sad, good brothers, for, by my faith, it very well becomes you: sorrow so royally in you appears, that I will deeply put the fashion on. [ William Shakespeare ]

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 ]

'Tis only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a Supreme Being that our calamities can be borne in that manner which becomes a man. [ Mackenzie ]

A friendship formed in childhood, in youth, - by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood becomes the genius that rules the rest of life. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none; and then they endeavor to persuade themselves so. [ Tillotson ]

That elevation of mind which we see in moments of peril, if it is uncontrolled by justice, and strives only for its own advantage, becomes a crime. [ Cicero ]

Happy is he to whom his business itself becomes a puppet, who at length can play with it, and amuse himself with what his situation makes his duty. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never his inborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes all the more fragrant. [ Sataka ]

One should never take sides in anything - taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly after, and the human being becomes a bore. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow. [ Alan Turing ]

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. [ Johnson ]

He who does not respect confidence, will never find happiness in his path. The belief in virtue vanishes from his heart, the source of nobler actions becomes extinct in him. [ Auffenberg ]

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity. [ George D. Prentice ]

Pain and love are the portion of the man who does not like a coward shirk the world's destiny; if he plucks the arrow from his breast, he becomes as one dead for the world and God. [ N. Lenau ]

When a woman finds out that her husband is absolutely indifferent to her she either becomes dreadfully dowdy or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

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 ]

There is so little to redeem the dry mass of follies and errors from which the materials of this life are composed that anything to love or to reverence becomes, as it were, the Sabbath for the mind. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. [ Spurgeon ]

Monotony, even under circumstances least favourable to the usual elements of happiness, becomes a happiness in itself, growing, as it were, unseen, out of the undisturbed certainty of peculiar customs. [ Lord Lytton ]

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought. [ Theodore T. Munger ]

An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. [ Addison ]

Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or all forehead, or something horrid. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men. [ Thoreau ]

The habit of exaggeration, like dram-drinking, becomes a slavish necessity, and they who practise it pass their lives in a kind of mental telescope, through whose magnifying medium they look upon themselves and everything around them. [ J. B. Owen ]

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked path looks straighter as we approach the end. [ Richter ]

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one intelligence becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a mere weed by the same change. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Music once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies; it wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. [ Bulwer ]

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like the column that guided Israel in the desert, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, and a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies. [ Colton ]

Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. [ Chapin ]

As we look up into these glorious culminations, how grand life becomes! To be forever with the Lord, and forever changing into His likeness, and, still more, forever deepening in the companionship of His thought and bliss, from glory to glory - could we desire more? [ Bishop R. S. Foster ]

Courtship is a fine bowling-green turf, all galloping round and sweethearting, a sunshine holiday in summer time; but when once through matrimony's turnpike, the weather becomes wintry, and some husbands are seized with a cold, aguish fit, to which the faculty give the name of indifference. [ G. A. Stevens ]

If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]

Talk, except as the preparation for work, is worth almost nothing; sometimes it is worth infinitely less than nothing; and becomes, little conscious of playing such a fatal part, the general summary of pretentious nothingnesses, and the chief of all the curses the posterity of Adam are liable to in this sublunary world. [ Carlyle ]

Music has certainly a powerful influence on the passions, and produces happy effects upon the human heart and mind when cultivated moderately; but when it becomes the general prevailing passion of a nation, or, as it were, gets dominion over them, it unquestionably produces not effeminacy merely, but a hateful depravity of manners. [ S. F. Bradford ]

The only thing that has been taught successfully to women is to wear becomingly the fig-leaf they received from their first mother. Everything that is said and repeated for the first eighteen or twenty years of a woman's life is reduced to this: My daughter, take care of your fig-leaf; your fig-leaf becomes you; your fig-leaf does not become you. [ Diderot ]

A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image, - the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual Venus, - whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons, - breathes the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever. [ Willmott ]

There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. The casual deliration of a few becomes, by this mysterious reverberation, the frenzy of many; men lose the use, not only of their understandings, but of their bodily senses; while the most obdurate unbelieving hearts melt like the rest in the furnace where all are cast as victims and as fuel. [ Carlyle ]

If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the Wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]

A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and inflame; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess them. What is the fond love of dearest friends compared to his treasure? Is memory as strong as expectancy, fruition as hunger, gratitude as desire? [ Thackeray ]

A clear running brook is the best teacher of style. There is a quick forward movement - but not measured or monotonous movement - while the water is so limpid that everything is seen through the crystal medium. It seems to me that the best style is that which reveals the writer's thoughts so easily, plainly, and musically that the reader becomes engrossed in the thought or story and forgets the writer. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times my steriously in each of these books: thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right. [ Richard Cecil ]

In the hands of genius, the driest stick becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms out in poetry. Is he a Burns? the sight of a mountain daisy unseals the fountains of his nature, and he embalms the bonny gem in the beauty of his spirit. Is he a Wordsworth? at his touch all nature is instinct with feeling; the spirit of beauty springs up in the footsteps of his going, and the darkest, nakedest grave becomes a sunlit bank empurpled with blossoms of life. [ H. N. Hudson ]

The province of music is rather to express the passions and feelings of the human heart than the actions of men, or the operations of nature. When employed in the former capacity, it becomes an eloquent language; when in the latter, a mere mimic - an imitator, and a very miserable one - or rather a buffoon, caricaturing what it cannot imitate; the idea of the different stages of a battle, or the progress of a tempest being represented to the eye or the ear, or even the imagination, by the quavering of a fiddler's elbow, or the squeaking of catgut, is preposterous. [ G. P. Morris ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. [ Dr. Johnson ]