Too late to spare
When the bottom is bare. [ Proverb ]
The best is at the bottom. [ Proverb ]
Venture not all in one bottom. [ Proverb ]
The thread leads to the bottom. [ Proverb ]
The beggar's bag has no bottom. [ German Proverb ]
Truth hath always a sure bottom. [ Proverb ]
Spare at the brim, not at the bottom. [ Proverb ]
If you cannot see the bottom, wade not. [ Proverb ]
Every tub must stand on its own bottom. [ Proverb ]
Every tub must stand upon its own bottom. [ Bunyan ]
Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom. [ Montaigne ]
My pen is at the bottom of a page,
Which being finished, here the story ends;
'Tis to be wish'd it had been sooner done,
But stories somehow lengthen when begun. [ Byron ]
O melancholy, whoever yet could sound thy bottom? [ William Shakespeare ]
Ruin is most fatal when it begins from the bottom. [ Goldsmith ]
In the world who knows not to swim goes to the bottom. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. [ Ruskin ]
He goes a great voyage that goes to the bottom of the sea. [ Proverb ]
Top and bottom teeth sometimes come into awkward collision. [ Ch. Proverb ]
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom. [ Alphonse Karr ]
By ever taking out and never putting in, one soon reaches the bottom. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole. [ Balzac ]
Nothing at bottom is interesting to the majority of men but themselves. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. [ Carlyle ]
At the bottom of the faith-sea lies the pearl of knowledge; happy the diver that finds it. [ Bodenstedt ]
It is not always like to like in love. Titania loved the weaver Bottom, with the ass's head. [ Anthony Trollope ]
Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth of which, alas! gives but little hope of release. [ Democritus ]
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. [ Joubert ]
Charity is the temple of which justice is the foundation, but you can't have the top without the bottom. [ John Ruskin ]
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends. [ Carlyle ]
Such a one, in reading your work, admires every line, but, at the bottom of his soul, he fears and hates you. [ Boileau ]
Man is at bottom a savage animal and an object of dread, as we may see (it is added) he still is when emancipated from all control. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. [ Horace ]
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing; but the conquest of God through love. [ Amiel ]
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. [ Sterne ]
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. [ O. W. Holmes ]
The times that are past are a book with seven seals. What ye call the spirit of the times is at bottom but the spirit of the gentry in which the times are mirrored. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Faust ]
It is hard to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or another. [ Tillotson ]
Nature builds upon a false bottom, seeks herself what she values in others, and is oftentimes deceived and disappointed. Grace reposes her whole hope and love in God, and is never mistaken, never deluded by false expectations. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom: and it may be said, that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom: so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life, is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain. [ Saville ]
Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is not the aim of any life. Do not think that your life means a mere searching in gutters for fallen creatures to wipe and set up.... In our life there is no meaning at all except the work we have done. [ Carlyle ]
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take commonsense quantum sufficit (in sufficient quantity); add a little application to the rules and orders of the House of Commons, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface. [ Chesterfield ]
Over Under. These words have various meanings besides the designation of mere locality, and are often misapplied. The terms under oath,
under hand and seal,
under arms,
under his own signature,
etc., are fully established and authorized forms of expression, which do not concern the relative positions of the persons and things indicated, but are idiomatic. Hence, over his own signature,
is an unjustifiable phrase, despite the fact that the signature is really at the bottom of the instrument signed. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]