Bound by necessity. [ Cicero ]

The world is bound to no man. [ Proverb ]

They that are bound must obey. [ Proverb ]

Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground. [ Pope ]

As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port - heaven -
Friend, what years could us divide? [ D. M. Mulock ]

Her hair is bound with myrtle leaves,
(Green leaves upon her golden hair!),
Green grasses through the yellow sheaves
Of autumn corn are not more fair. [ Oscar Wilde ]

Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
That knows his rider. [ Byron ]

Even a child may beat a man that is bound. [ Proverb ]

Music loosens a heart that care has bound. [ Byrd ]

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bound,
Resign'd or sullen, he will hear our sighs. [ Keble ]

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

Heaven is not reached at a single bound,
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And we mount to its summit, round by round. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

My garden is a forest ledge
Which older forests bound;
The banks slope down to the blue lake edge,
Then plunge to depths profound! [ Emerson ]

The sea! the sea!- the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Without a mark, without a bound,
It runneth the earth's wide regions round;
It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;
Or like a cradled creature lies. [ Barry Cornwall ]

What can power give more than food and drink,
To live at ease and not be bound to think? [ Dryden ]

Good unexpected, evil unforeseen,
Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene;
Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain
And fall so hard, they bound and rise again. [ Lord Lansdowne ]

We are bound to be honest, but not to be rich. [ Proverb ]

Sweet letters of the angel tongue,
I've loved ye long and well.
And never have failed in your fragrance sweet
To find some secret spell -
A charm that has bound me with witching power,
For mine is the old belief,
That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,
There's a soul in every leaf! [ M. M. Ballou ]

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. [ Yogi Berra ]

But Heaven hath a hand in these events,
To whose high will we bound our calm contents. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries:
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. [ William Shakespeare ]

I am bound to find you in reasons, but not in brains. [ Johnson ]

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound. [ Seneca ]

Nobody can be bound to do beyond what he is able to do. [ Law ]

No man is bound to accuse himself unless it be before God. [ Law Max ]

Honest men are soon bound, but you can never bind a knave. [ Proverb ]

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If you leap into a well, providence is not bound to fetch you out. [ Proverb ]

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. [ Proverb ]

How the giant element from rock to rock leaps with delirious bound! [ Byron ]

All June I bound the rose in sheaves. Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. [ Robert Browning ]

Though you are bound to love your enemy, you are not bound to put your sword in his hand. [ Proverb ]

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. [ Horace ]

Astronomy has revealed the great truth that the whole universe is bound together by one all-pervading influence. [ Leitch ]

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. [ Amiel ]

When you have got so much true knowledge as is worth fighting for, you are bound to fight or to die for it, but not to debate about it any more. [ John Ruskin ]

I am glad to think that I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints. [ Jean Ingelow ]

Witty, above all, O be not witty; none of us is bound to be witty, under penalties; to be wise and true we all are, under the terriblest penalties. [ Carlyle ]

He used words as mere steppingstones, upon which, with a free and youthful bound, his spirit crosses and recrosses the bright and rushing stream of thought. [ Longfellow ]