To borrow upon usury
Brings on beggary. [ Proverb ]
Sudden acquaintance
Brings long repentance. [ Proverb ]
Perseverance brings success. [ Goujet ]
Every day brings a new light. [ Proverb ]
Tarry-long brings little home. [ Proverb ]
All brings grist to your mill. [ Proverb ]
False fancy brings real misery. [ Schiller ]
Jesting brings serious sorrows. [ Proverb ]
Bad luck often brings good luck. [ Proverb ]
Wilful waste brings woeful want. [ Proverb ]
Covetousness brings nothing home. [ Proverb ]
A good winter brings a good summer. [ Proverb ]
Every day brings its bread with it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Little wealth brings little trouble. [ Proverb ]
Though stars in skies may disappear,
And angry tempests gather,
The happy hour may soon be near
That brings us pleasant weather. [ Burns ]
Misunderstanding brings lies to town. [ Proverb ]
He that brings good news knocks hard. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The lame post brings the truest news. [ Proverb ]
Light is the burden love lays on;
Content and love brings peace and joy,
What mair hae queens upon a throne? [ Burns ]
When God wills, all winds brings rain. [ Proverb ]
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous form of things:
We murder to dissect. [ Wordsworth ]
When God will, no wind but brings rain. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven
That from the East glad message brings:
Night is a stealthy, evil Raven,
Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. [ T. B. Aldrich ]
I hear the howl of the wind that brings
The long drear storm on its heavy wings. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
Virtue brings honour, and honour vanity. [ Proverb ]
Every sin brings its punishment with it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day. [ Addison ]
Necessity, not pleasure, brings him here. [ Dante ]
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor. [ William Shakespeare ]
Modesty ruins all that brings it to court. [ Proverb ]
Fortune rarely brings good or evil singly. [ Proverb ]
A surfeit or the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. [ William Shakespeare ]
Surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]
Grace abused brings forth the foulest deeds,
As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds. [ William Cowper ]
Know when to speak, for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings. [ Herrick ]
The evening of life brings with it its lamps. [ Joubert ]
The eye sees what it brings the power to see. [ Carlyle ]
Many books,
Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
Uncertain and unsettled still remains -
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]
He that brings a present finds the door open. [ Proverb ]
I love night more than day - she is so lovely;
But I love night the most because she brings
My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie. [ Bailey ]
Great fortune brings with it great misfortune. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Time is a great physician: he brings us death.
Dark the Night, with breath all flowers.
And tender broken voice that fills
With ravishment the listening hours, -
Whisperings, wooings.
Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
Dark the night
Yet is she bright.
For in her dark she brings the mystic star.
Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love.
From some unknown afar. [ George Eliot ]
Craft counting all things, brings nothing home. [ Proverb ]
The ebb will fetch off what the tide brings in. [ Proverb ]
What instruction the baby brings to the mother! [ T. W. Higginson ]
A jest driven too far brings home hate or scorn. [ Proverb ]
Earth, turning from the sun, brings night to man. [ Young ]
Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears. [ Humboldt ]
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths. [ Philip J. Bailey ]
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. [ William Shakespeare ]
He knocks boldly at the door who brings good news. [ Proverb ]
Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. [ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ]
Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again,
Sorrow breeds sorrow, one grief brings forth twain. [ Dayton ]
Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [ Phaedrus ]
Patience, money and time, brings all things to pass. [ Proverb ]
He that brings up his son to nothing, breeds a thief. [ Proverb ]
All fame is dangerous: good, brings Envy; bad, shame. [ Proverb ]
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity. [ Proverb ]
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. [ Ovid ]
One jeer seldom goes forth but it brings back its equal. [ Proverb ]
She spins a good thread that brings up her daughter well. [ Proverb ]
What is a great estate good for, if it brings melancholy? [ Proverb ]
It is not prating but working, that brings in the harvest. [ Proverb ]
If misfortune comes, she brings along the bravest virtues. [ Thomson ]
Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. [ Tennyson ]
Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home? [ Proverb ]
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. [ Joubert ]
That besotting intoxication which verbal magic brings upon the mind. [ South ]
Nature gives parts and merit, but it is fortune that brings them forth. [ Proverb ]
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. [ Aughey ]
Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow. [ Hippocrates ]
Covetousness, as well as prodigality, brings a man to a morsel of bread. [ Proverb ]
Error, though blind herself, yet sometimes brings forth seeing children. [ Proverb ]
Ingratitude calls forth reproaches, as gratitude brings fresh kindnesses. [ Madame de Sevigne ]
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
There are many rare abilities in the world, which fortune never brings to light. [ Proverb ]
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. [ Lady Blessington ]
'Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief. [ Grotius ]
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. [ Landor ]
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light. [ Rochefoucauld ]
I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery. [ Schiller ]
The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. [ Emerson ]
This iron world brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate. [ Spenser ]
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. [ Colton ]
A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end, than a fluttering way of advancing by starts. [ L'Estrange ]
The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of Work. [ Anthony Trollope ]
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. [ Bovee ]
Now learn what and how great benefits a moderate diet brings with it. Before all, you will enjoy good health. [ Horace ]
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into our old age, for old age brings with it its own defects. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. [ Ben Jonson ]
Sleep brings dreams; and dreams are often most vivid and fantastical before we have yet been wholly lost in slumber. [ Robert Montgomery Bird ]
Conflicts bring experience; and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means. [ Spurgeon ]
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws, of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose. [ Marcus Antoninus ]
Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures upon the tablet of memory into strong relief. [ Tuckerman ]
O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing! [ Carlyle ]
If time inflicts on thee many a wound, many a joy brings it too in its course; and one short hour of bliss outweighs a year of pains. [ Geibel ]
Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay. [ Boyle ]
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 ]
Most gladly would I give the bloodstained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year. [ Schiller ]
Drinking of wine brings poverty, shame, quarrels; leads to calumnious talk, unchastity, murder, and the loss of freedom, of honor, of understanding. [ Tosafot ]
It is not in the power of every one to taste humor, however he may wish it; it is the gift of God! and a true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. [ Sterne ]
He has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar who in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings, and endurances of a brother man. [ Carlyle ]
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears. [ Lamb ]
Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard. [ Macaulay ]
The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality; to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations, the relation between the creature and his Creator. [ Daniel Webster ]
As the cautious pilot steers the ship clear of the breakers, and brings the vessel safe to port, so should we steer our life-ship clear of the rocks and shoals of sin to the port of everlasting life. [ James Ellis ]
The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning softness that brings and shuts the day,
while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant, accommodates itself to the meanest capacities, silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible. [ Addison ]
As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow. [ Dr. Johnson ]
He said - and his observation was just - that a man on whom heaven hath bestowed a beautiful wife should be as cautious of the men he brings home to his house as careful of observing the female friends with whom his spouse converses abroad. [ Cervantes ]
When we think of the tenderness, of the solicitude, of the protection, of the grace, of the charm, of the happiness, or at least of the consolation that woman brings to the life of man, one is tempted to speak to her only with uncovered head, and bowed knee. [ L. Desnoyers ]
The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth. [ Bayne ]
Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage. [ Victor Cousin ]
The failure of his mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment brings indolence: indolence, decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy. [ Sir Benjamin Brodie ]
If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you. But I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself; it puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company, and takes up a great deal of time which might be much better employed. [ Chesterfield ]
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite. [ Victor Cousin ]
I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they have occasion. [ J. Locke ]
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing. [ Hillard ]
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and, through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life. [ Channing ]
After all there is a weariness that cannot be prevented. It will come on. The work brings it on. The cross brings it on. Sometimes the very walk with God brings it on, for the flesh is weak; and at such moments we hear softer and sweeter than it ever floated in the wondrous air of Mendelssohn, O rest in the Lord,
for it has the sound of an immortal requiem: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors.
[ James Hamilton ]
Paraphernalia, Trappings or Regalia? We often hear paraphernalia used in the sense of trappings or regalia; as, The Grand Marshal was conspicuous in his gorgeous paraphernalia
The word is derived from the Greek, and is strictly a law term, meaning whatever the wife brings with her at marriage, in addition to her dower, such as her dresses and her jewels. Hence the evident absurdity of the use of paraphernalia in the sentence cited. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]