Definition of both

"both" in the adjective sense

1. both

used with count nouns) two considered together the two

"both girls are pretty"

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Quotations for both

He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all. [ Coleridge ]

Much might be said on both sides. [ Addison ]

Pride is both a virtue and a vice. [ Theodore Parker ]

He lights his candle at both ends. [ Proverb ]

God does not smite with both hands. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Light not your candle at both ends. [ Proverb ]

If youth knew what age would crave,
It would both get and save. [ Proverb ]

One common fate we both must prove;
You die with envy, I with love. [ Gay ]

Your bread is buttered on both sides. [ Proverb ]

The wolf and fox are both privateers. [ Proverb ]

You and I draw both in the same yoke. [ Proverb ]

And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound.
And curs of low degree. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]

Grain of glory mixt with humbleness
Cures both a fever and lethargicness. [ Herbert ]

She can laugh and cry both in a wind. [ Proverb ]

Genius involves both envy and calumny. [ Pope ]

Loan oft loses both itself and friend. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Hear the other party; hear both sides. [ Law Max ]

They both put their hands in one glove. [ Proverb ]

The smith and his penny both are black. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Virtue is a man's both guard and glory. [ Proverb ]

Through perils both of wind and limb.
Through thick and thin she follow'd him. [ Butler ]

A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
For then both parties nobly are subdued.
And neither party loser. [ William Shakespeare ]

Judges should have two ears, both alike. [ German Proverb ]

The collier and his money are both black. [ Proverb ]

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive. [ Balzac ]

Great wits to madness nearly are allied;
Both serve to make our poverty our pride. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

An idler is a watch that wants both hands. [ Cowper ]

It is a bad bargain where both are losers. [ Proverb ]

Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend.
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

You see me here, - a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both! [ William Shakespeare ]

It adds to the glory both of soul and body. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong. [ Gay ]

Like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect. [ William Shakespeare ]

And both were young, and one was beautiful. [ Byron ]

Couldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? [ Herbert ]

To follow foolish precedents, and wink
With both our eyes, is easier than to think. [ Cowper ]

Wisdom and Goodness are twin born, one heart
Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. [ Cowper ]

Danger and delight grow both upon one stock. [ Proverb ]

Through age both weak in body and oblivious. [ Latimer ]

One hand washeth another, and both the face. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wise is the man prepared for either end,
Who in due measure can both spare and spend. [ Lucian ]

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun. [ Shakespeare ]

He wears out both night and day at his work. [ Virgil ]

Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet
Could rule them both without ten women's wit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears. [ Horace Mann ]

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. [ William Shakespeare ]

Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one. [ Herrick ]

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year. [ Proverb ]

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both. [ Addison ]

Both folly and wisdom come upon us with years. [ Proverb ]

Let thy alms go before, and keep heaven's gate
Open for thee, or both may come too late. [ George Herbert ]

Neither for king nor for people, but for both. [ Motto ]

There was a laughing devil in his sneer,
That raised emotions both of rage and fear;
And where his frown of hatred darkly fell,
Hope withering fled, and mercy sighed farewell. [ Byron ]

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat. [ Tusser ]

O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake
The fool throws up his interest in both worlds. [ Blair ]

The master's eye does more than both his hands. [ German Proverb ]

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known. [ Lyttelton ]

One hand may wash the other, but both the face. [ Proverb ]

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run. [ Herbert ]

A mare's shoe and a horse's shoe are both alike. [ Proverb ]

They are so like that both are the worse for it. [ Proverb ]

What rage for fame attends both great and small!
Better be damned than mentioned not at all. [ John Wolcott ]

I deny that with both my hands, and all my teeth. [ Proverb ]

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath;
Who shuns not to break one, will sure crack both. [ William Shakespeare ]

Music is both sunshine and irrigation to the mind. [ W. S. Landor ]

Love and pease will make a man speak at both ends. [ Proverb ]

He hath cut both his legs, and cannot go nor stand. [ Proverb ]

Love and religion are both stronger than friendship. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

One eye of the master does more than both his hands. [ Proverb ]

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace. [ Landor ]

Well might the cat wink, when both her eyes were out. [ Proverb ]

We both expect this privilege, and give it in return. [ Horace ]

Books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good;
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow. [ Wordsworth ]

If you would compare two men, you must know them both. [ Proverb ]

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. [ Yogi Berra ]

I thought to bless myself, and I beat out both my eyes. [ Proverb ]

Who must account for himself and others must know both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. [ Horace Greeley ]

It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

O memory, thou bitter sweet, - both a joy and a scourge! [ Madame de Stael ]

Idleness is both a great sin, and the cause of many more. [ South ]

Now, good digestion wait on appetite. And health on both! [ William Shakespeare ]

No man knows himself till he hath tasted of both fortunes. [ Proverb ]

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. [ Sterne ]

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. [ Denham ]

They were both equally bad; so the devil put them together. [ Proverb ]

Clay and clay differs in dignity, whose dust is both alike. [ William Shakespeare ]

I do not hear that a bribe on both sides is out of fashion. [ Proverb ]

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. [ Franklin ]

Both my language and my sentiments differ widely from theirs. [ Horace ]

But the soul is not the body and the breath is not the flute;
Both together make the music, either marred and all is mute. [ Robert Browning ]

Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor. [ Proverb ]

Be the same to your friends, both in prosperity and adversity. [ Periander ]

Disputations leave truth in the middle, and party at both ends. [ Proverb ]

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. [ Bible ]

The present holds in it both the whole past and the whole future. [ Carlyle ]

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. [ Voltaire ]

Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering and innocent. [ Byron ]

A father is a treasure, a brother a comfort; but a friend is both. [ Proverb ]

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble. [ Cardinal Manning ]

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. [ Goethe ]

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. [ Madame de Stael ]

He has more wit in his head than Sampson had in both his shoulders. [ Proverb ]

If you light the fire at both ends, the middle will shift for itself. [ Proverb ]

Poor men may think well, but rich men may both think well and do well. [ Proverb ]

Description is always a bore, both to the describer and the describee. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

The man comes before the citizen, and our future is greater than both. [ Jean Paul ]

Common distress is a great promoter both of friendship and speculation. [ Swift ]

Music and painting both add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor. [ Sterne ]

Good sense is both the first principle and parent-source of good writing. [ Horace ]

To sleep on both ears, (i.e. soundly, as no longer needing to keep awake. [ Proverb ]

The water that comes from the same spring, cannot be fresh and salt both. [ Proverb ]

Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value. [ Francis Quarles ]

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. [ Zimmermann ]

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. [ De La Bruyere ]

Next to ye both I love the palm, with his leaves of beauty, his fruit of balm. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it. [ Hillard ]

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is hoarded up, what profit is in them both? [ Ecclus ]

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both, as his honest interest leads him. [ William Penn ]

To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]

If you be false to both beasts and birds, you must with the bat, fly only by night. [ Proverb ]

Every power of both heaven and earth is friendly to a noble and courageous activity. [ J. Burroughs ]

What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind find tide. [ Shakespeare ]

Knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty. [ Daniel Webster ]

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea He made heavens, and to rivers fords. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a, devil may be respectable and wear good clothes. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged. [ J. G. Saxe ]

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The grandest operations, both in nature and grace, are the most silent and imperceptible. [ Cecil ]

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

It is noble and so regarded both among nations and individuals to keep faith in adversity. [ Silius Italicus ]

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we wake. [ Milton ]

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter. [ Horace Mann ]

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

There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. [ Ovid ]

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. [ William Penn ]

Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Both are merely poses. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Nature has planted passions in the heart of man for the wisest purposes both of religion and life. [ Fox ]

The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [ La Bruyere ]

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice and both are acts of the will. [ Epictetus ]

Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbor doth me more harm than either of them both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love is a malicious blind boy, who seeks to blind the eyes of his guide, that both may go astray together.

The curtains of Yesterday drop down, the curtains of Tomorrow roll up, but Yesterday and Tomorrow both are. [ Carlyle ]

Modern women find a new scandal as becoming as a new bonnet, and air them both in the Park every afternoon. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Labour endears rest, and both together are absolutely necessary for the proper enjoyment of human existence. [ Burns ]

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. [ Beecher ]

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both. [ Bacon ]

The too good opinion man has of himself is the nursing-mother of all false opinions, both public and private. [ Montaigne ]

Genius, in one respect, is like gold - numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. [ Colton ]

To him whose spirit is bowed down by the weight of piercing sorrow, the day and night are both of the same color. [ Dschami ]

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. [ Colton ]

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of food, variety supplies both with fresh appetite. [ Quintilian ]

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. [ Burke ]

The tale-bearer and the tale-hearer should be both hanged up, back to back, one by the tongue, the other by the ear. [ South ]

Both beauty and ugliness are equally to be dreaded; the one as a dangerous gift, the other as a melancholy affliction. [ Eliza Cook ]

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Time is the king of men; he is both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave. [ William Shakespeare ]

In life, we shall find many men that are great, and some men that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. [ Colton ]

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. [ Plutarch ]

The mind is the master over every kind of fortune: itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery. [ Seneca ]

Let us not disdain glory too much - nothing is finer except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. [ Chateaubriand ]

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. [ Fuller ]

Houses are built to live in more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. [ Bacon ]

God's way of forgiving is thorough and hearty - both to forgive and to forget; and if thine be not so, thou hast no portion of His. [ Leighton ]

A beautiful woman with the qualities of a noble man is the most perfect thing in nature: we find in her all the merits of both sexes. [ La Bruyere ]

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration. [ Ouida ]

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 ]

You may fail to shine, in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them. [ Greville ]

Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but they have lived and died poor, that made them their meat. [ Fuller ]

O cursed lust of gold; when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds, First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come. [ Blair ]

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. [ Cicero ]

Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. [ Johnson ]

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts - both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium. [ Shenstone ]

Sudden tumultuous popularity comes more from partial delirium on both sides than from clear insight, and is of evil omen to all concerned with it. [ Carlyle ]

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than the mightiest blow. [ South ]

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants - both know too much of him. [ Colton ]

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to commonsense, and in lending one's self to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe. [ Amiel ]

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. [ H. Clay ]

Kind words are benedictions. They are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them. [ Frederick Saunders ]

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change. [ Pope ]

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, nature. [ Jeffrey ]

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. [ Feltham ]

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. [ George Herbert ]

Go on, spare no invectives, but open the spout of your eloquence, and see with what a calm, connubial resignation I will both hear and bow to the chastisement. [ Colley Cibber ]

Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many. [ Lowell ]

We may hold it slavish to dress according to the judgment of fools and the caprice of coxcombs; but are we not ourselves both when we are singular in our attire? [ Chatfield ]

There must be work done by the arms, or none of us would live; and work done by the brains, or the life would not be worth having. And the same men cannot do both. [ John Ruskin ]

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts; the difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. [ A. W. Hare ]

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 ]

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 ]

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both. [ Goldsmith ]

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after. [ Bishop Hall ]

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and cease exertion in the proper place, than to expend both indiscriminately. [ Ruskin ]

It is gold which buys admittance; and it is gold which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief: nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what can it not do and undo? [ William Shakespeare ]

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant of both the character they leave and of the character they assume. [ Burke ]

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp - gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station. [ Colton ]

If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between them and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both. [ Addison ]

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting, and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both. [ Quarles ]

He who kindly shows the way to one who has gone astray, acts as though he had lighted another's lamp from his own, which both gives light to the other and continues to shine for himself. [ Cicero ]

Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart. [ Channing ]

Nobody can live by teaching any more than by learning; both teaching and learning are proper duties of human life, or pleasures of it, but have nothing whatever to do with the support of it. [ John Ruskin ]

In the youth of a State, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a State, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise. [ Bacon ]

Ought or Should? Both of these words, though implying obligation, have different shades of meaning. Ought is the stronger term. Thus a man ought to be honest; he should be neat in his dress. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. [ Beecher ]

Two orders of poets I admit, but no third; the creative (Shakespeare, Homer, Dante), and reflective or perceptive (Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson); and both these must be first-rate in their range. [ John Ruskin ]

For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snow-flake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last. [ William Mountford ]

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

When you leave the unimpaired hereditary freehold to your children, you do but half your duty. Both liberty and property are precarious, unless the possessors have sense and spirit enough to defend them. [ Junius ]

Trust to me, judicious mother: do not make of your daughter an honest man, as if to give the lie to Nature; make her an honest woman, and be assured that she will be of more worth both to herself and to us. [ Rousseau ]

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists. [ Rousseau ]

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying. [ Charron ]

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less. [ Colton ]

Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning humility, and virtue; - that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy. [ Sterne ]

The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour - never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other. [ Sismondi ]

Food, improperly taken, not only produces originnl diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may. In temperance is certainly its mother. [ Burton ]

Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; it is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort. [ Bacon ]

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it. [ Montaigne ]

There are jilts in friendship, as well as in love; and by the behavior of some men in both, one would almost imagine that they industriously sought to gain the affections of others with the view only of making the parties miserable. [ Fielding ]

In composing, think much more of your matter than your manner. To be sure, spirit, grace, and dignity of manner are of great importance, both to the speaker and writer; but of infinitely more importance is the weight and worth of matter. [ Wirt ]

That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make the iron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. [ Colton ]

The vengeful thought that has root merely in the mind is but a dream of idlest sort which one clear day will dissipate; while revenge, the passion, is a disease of the heart which climbs up, up to the brain, and feeds itself on both alike. [ Lew Wallace ]

The study of art is a taste at once engrossing and unselfish, which may be indulged without effort, and yet has the power of exciting the deepest emotions, - a taste able to exercise and to gratify both the nobler and softer parts of our nature. [ Guizot ]

No doubt every person is entitled to make and to think as much of himself as possible, only he ought not to worry others about this, for they have enough to do with and in themselves, if they too are to be of some account, both now and hereafter. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]

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 ]

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receives. [ Colton ]

Not in a man's having no business with men, but in having no unjust business with them, and in having all manner of true and just business, can either his or their blessedness be found possible, and this waste world become, for both parties, a home and peopled garden. [ Carlyle ]

I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively with the transitory in things and lose themselves in the study of what is perishable, since we are here for this very end that we may make the perishable imperishable, which we can do only after we have learned how to appreciate both. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light. [ Emerson ]

Pain itself is not without its alleviations. It may be violent and frequent, but it is seldom both violent and long-continued; and its pauses and intermissions become positive pleasures. It has the power of shedding a satisfaction over intervals of ease, which, I believe, few enjoyments exceed. [ Paley ]

If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together - a main plot and an underplot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress. [ Colton ]

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it. [ Beecher ]

There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads. [ Colton ]

That which I have found the best recreation both to my mind and body, whensoever either of them stands in need of it, is music, which exercises at once both body and soul; especially when I play myself; for then, methinks, the same motion that my hands make upon the instrument, the instrument makes upon my heart. [ J. Beveridge ]

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers, - they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners and things that never have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding or perverting history and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. [ Mary Wortley Montagu ]

Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. [ Bishop Hall ]

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman. Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings. [ Colton ]

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism. [ Southey ]

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it. [ Bishop Porteus ]

The study of the mathematics cultivates the reason; that of the languages at the same time the reason and the taste. The former gives power to the mind; the latter, both power and flexibility. The former, by itself, would prepare us for a state of certainties, which nowhere exists; the latter, for a state of probabilities, which is that of common life. [ T. Godfrey ]

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike; and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give. [ Ruskin ]

There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centers of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity. [ Matthew Arnold ]

Take the title of nobility which thou hast received by birth, but endeavor to add to it another, that both may form a true nobility. There is between the nobility of thy father and thine own the same difference which exists between the nourishment of the evening and of the morrow. The food of yesterday will not serve three for today, and will not give thee strength for the next. [ Jamakchari ]

The light of the sun, the light of the moon, and the light of the air, in nature and substance are one and the same light, and yet they are there distinct lights: the light of the sun being of itself, and from none; the light of the moon from the sun; and the light of the air from them both. So the Divine Nature is one, and the persons three; subsisting, after a diverse manner, in one and the same Nature. [ R. Newton ]

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and flame up to heaven. [ Daniel Webster ]

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose. [ Balzac ]

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful. [ Montaigne ]

The grandest operations, both in nature and in grace, are the most silent and imperceptible. The shallow brook babbles in its passage, and is heard by every one; but the coming on of the seasons is silent and unseen. The storm rages and alarms, but its fury is soon exhausted, and its effects are partial and soon remedied; but the dew, though gentle and unheard, is immense in quantity, and the very life of large portions of the earth. And these are pictures of the operations of grace in the church and in the soul. [ Cecil ]

The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]

both in Scrabble®

The word both is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters both:

BOTH
(39)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word both

BOTH
(39)
BOTH
(36)
BOTH
(27)
BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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The 55 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In both

BOTH
(39)
BOTH
(36)
BOTH
(27)
BOTH
(27)
BOTH
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BOTH
(27)
BOTH
(26)
BOTH
(24)
HOT
(18)
HOT
(18)
BOTH
(18)
HOT
(18)
BOTH
(18)
BOTH
(18)
BOTH
(18)
BOTH
(17)
OH
(15)
OH
(15)
BOTH
(15)
BOTH
(14)
HOT
(14)
BOTH
(13)
BOTH
(13)
OH
(13)
HOT
(12)
HOT
(12)
HOT
(12)
BOTH
(12)
HOT
(11)
BOTH
(11)
BOTH
(11)
OH
(10)
OH
(10)
HOT
(10)
BOTH
(10)
BOTH
(10)
OH
(9)
BOTH
(9)
HOT
(8)
HOT
(8)
HOT
(7)
OH
(7)
HOT
(7)
TO
(6)
TO
(6)
OH
(6)
HOT
(6)
OH
(5)
TO
(4)
TO
(4)
TO
(4)
TO
(4)
TO
(3)
TO
(3)
TO
(2)

both in Words With Friends™

The word both is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters both:

BOTH
(51)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word both

BOTH
(51)
BOTH
(45)
BOTH
(27)
BOTH
(27)
BOTH
(27)
BOTH
(27)
BOTH
(26)
BOTH
(24)
BOTH
(19)
BOTH
(18)
BOTH
(18)
BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
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BOTH
(9)

The 59 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In both

BOTH
(51)
BOTH
(45)
BOTH
(27)
BOTH
(27)
BOTH
(27)
BOTH
(27)
BOTH
(26)
BOTH
(24)
BOTH
(19)
BOTH
(18)
BOTH
(18)
BOTH
(18)
BOTH
(18)
BOTH
(17)
BOTH
(17)
BOTH
(16)
BOTH
(15)
HOT
(15)
HOT
(15)
HOT
(15)
BOTH
(14)
HOT
(13)
BOTH
(13)
BOTH
(13)
OH
(12)
OH
(12)
BOTH
(12)
HOT
(11)
BOTH
(11)
BOTH
(11)
OH
(10)
BOTH
(10)
HOT
(10)
HOT
(10)
BOTH
(10)
HOT
(10)
BOTH
(9)
HOT
(9)
OH
(8)
HOT
(8)
OH
(8)
HOT
(7)
HOT
(7)
OH
(7)
TO
(6)
TO
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HOT
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HOT
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OH
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OH
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HOT
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TO
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TO
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OH
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TO
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TO
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TO
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TO
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TO
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Words within the letters of both

2 letter words in both (2 words)

3 letter words in both (1 word)

4 letter words in both (1 word)

both + 1 blank (4 words)

Words containing the sequence both

Words with both in them (3 words)

Words that end with both (1 word)

Word Growth involving both

Shorter words in both

(No shorter words found)

Longer words containing both

bother bothered unbothered

bother bothering

bother botherment botherments

bother bothers bothersome

bothrodendron bothrodendrons

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