Quotations for cannot

He that cannot pay,
Let him pray. [ Proverb ]

Echoes we: listen!
We cannot stay,
As dewdrops glisten,
Then fade away. [ Shelley ]

Weep I cannot;
But my heart bleeds. [ William Shakespeare ]

What cannot be cured,
Must be endured. [ Proverb ]

Truth may be blamed,
But cannot be shamed. [ Proverb ]

Principles cannot die. [ Wade Hampton ]

Dead folks cannot bite. [ Proverb ]

Money cannot buy merit. [ Proverb ]

A good heart cannot lie. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

All men cannot be first. [ Proverb ]

You cannot slay a stone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The will cannot be forced.

All men cannot be masters. [ Proverb ]

Mad dogs cannot live long. [ Proverb ]

Great sorrows cannot speak. [ John Donne ]

One cannot know everything. [ Horace ]

You cannot hide any secret. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Day is the Child of Time,
And Day must cease to be:
But Night is without a sire,
And cannot expire.
One with Eternity. [ R. H. Stoddard ]

We cannot all do all things. [ Virgil ]

Man cannot choose his duties. [ George Eliot ]

A broken glass cannot be hurt. [ Proverb ]

If man come not to gather
The roses where they stand,
They fade among their foliage.
They cannot seek his hand. [ Bryant ]

Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! [ Francis Kazinczy ]

The frog cannot out of her bog. [ Proverb ]

An ill deed cannot bring honor. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Conscience cannot be compelled. [ Proverb ]

Love and a cough cannot be hid. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that cannot think, is a fool;
He that will not, is a bigot;
He that dare not, is a slave. [ Inscription on the wall of Andrew Carnegie's Library ]

Blushes cannot be counterfeited. [ Marguerite de Vaiois ]

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why, I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. [ Tom Brown ]

Hunger cannot bear contradiction. [ Proverb ]

You cannot hide an eel in a sack. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You cannot know wine by the cask. [ Proverb ]

Truth in its own essence cannot be
But good. [ Byron ]

Time and words cannot be recalled. [ Proverb ]

Alas! that dreams are only dreams!
That fancy cannot give
A lasting beauty to those forms.
Which scarce a moment live! [ Rufus Dawes ]

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only. [ Emerson ]

My wife lies here.
All my tears cannot bring her back;
Therefore, I weep. [ Miscellaneous epitaph ]

Love will creep where it cannot go. [ Proverb ]

You cannot know wine by the barrel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Heat cannot be separated from fire,
Or beauty from the eternal. [ Dante ]

Tremble, ye tyrants; ye cannot die. [ Delille ]

An empty sack cannot stand upright. [ Proverb ]

Nature and love cannot be concealed. [ German Proverb ]

You cannot push a man far up a tree. [ Proverb ]

Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we that have not seen Thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

She cannot leap an inch from a slut. [ Proverb ]

We cannot wish for that we know not. [ Voltaire ]

Here lies one Wood enclosed in wood,
One Wood within another.
The outer wood is very good.
We cannot praise the other. [ Epitaph ]

O there are Voices of the Past,
Links of a broken chain.
Wings that can bear me back to times
Which cannot come again;
Yet God forbid that I should lose
The echoes that remain! [ Adelaide A. Procter ]

Art may err, but nature cannot miss. [ Dryden ]

A nightingale cannot sing in a cage. [ Proverb ]

Here lies the body of Johnny Haskell,
A lying, thieving, cheating rascal;
He always lied, and now he lies,
He has no soul and cannot rise. [ Epitaph ]

A fog cannot be dispelled with a fan. [ Japan. Proverb ]

He cannot see the wood for the trees. [ German Proverb ]

Wrong cannot have a legal descendant. [ Thomas Paine ]

Galled horses cannot endure the comb. [ Proverb ]

You cannot escape away from yourself. [ Proverb ]

If honesty cannot, knavery should not. [ Proverb ]

A scabbed horse cannot abide the comb. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle. [ Dutch Proverb ]

The value of a thought cannot be told. [ Bailey ]

They cannot set their horses together. [ Proverb ]

You cannot make velvet of a sow's ear. [ Proverb ]

Oh! call my brother back to me!
I cannot play alone;
The summer comes with flower and bee -
Where is my brother gone? [ Mrs. Hemans ]

A brave man may fall but cannot yield.

Good horses cannot be of a bad colour. [ Proverb ]

The king cannot deceive or be deceived.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. [ William Shakespeare ]

We cannot be just if we are not humane. [ Vauvenargues ]

If you cannot see the bottom, wade not. [ Proverb ]

Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity. [ Jeremiah Seed ]

Time's waters will not ebb nor stay;
Power cannot change them, but Love may;
What cannot be, Love counts it done. [ Keble ]

Why read a book which you cannot quote? [ Bentley ]

Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed king;
The breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the Lord. [ Rich. II ]

He that has but one coat cannot lend it. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is a misery,
Unless our weakness apprehend it so:
We cannot be more faithful to ourselves,
In anything that's manly, than to make
Ill-fortune as contemptible to us
As it makes us to others. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. [ Lactantius ]

I cannot believe you, you speak so fair. [ Proverb ]

A poor idle man cannot be an honest man. [ Achilles Poincelot ]

Swine, bees and women, cannot be turned. [ Proverb ]

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease. [ Rousseau ]

One of the heavenly days that cannot die. [ Wordsworth ]

He's a slave that cannot command himself. [ Proverb ]

He is a poor smith who cannot bear smoke. [ Proverb ]

We cannot cc me to honour under coverlet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He hath swallowed a stake; he cannot bow. [ Proverb ]

I cannot spin and weave at the same time. [ Proverb ]

I cannot sell the cow and drink her milk. [ Proverb ]

The face that cannot smile is never fair. [ Martial ]

You cannot eat your cake and have it too. [ Proverb ]

War cannot be put on a certain allowance. [ Archidamus III ]

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live. [ Napoleon ]

You cannot say mass but at your own altar. [ Proverb ]

Young men want to be faithful and are not,
old men want to be faithless and cannot. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit. [ William Shakespeare ]

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing. [ Charles Sumner ]

I cannot be content with less than heaven. [ Bailey ]

Books cannot always please, however good.
Minds are not ever craving for their food. [ Crabbe ]

Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach. [ Thomson ]

My loss is such as cannot be repaired,
And to the wretched, life can be no mercy. [ Dryden ]

No man is free who cannot command himself. [ Pythagoras ]

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor
I cannot woo in festival terms. [ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5, Sc. 2 ]

He'll soon be a beggar that cannot say nay. [ Proverb ]

One cannot live by selling goods for words. [ Proverb ]

He that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. [ William Shakespeare ]

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. [ Proverb ]

Proud men cannot bear with pride in others. [ Proverb ]

Ulcers cannot be cured, that are concealed. [ Proverb ]

If I cannot by might, I'll do it by slight. [ Proverb ]

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. [ William Shakespeare ]

I have a good bow, but I cannot come at it. [ Proverb ]

He must not talk of running that cannot go. [ Proverb ]

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself. [ William Shakespeare ]

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

I cannot sit and think; books think for me. [ Lamb ]

He cannot be virtuous that is not rigorous. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love, the itch, and a cough, cannot be hid. [ Proverb ]

A mind diseased cannot bear anything harsh. [ Ovid ]

Creation is great, and cannot be understood. [ Carlyle ]

One cannot take true aim at things too high. [ Proverb ]

A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tried. [ Stirling — Doomes-day. The Fifth Houre ]

A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. [ William Shakespeare ]

Philosophy may be feigned, eloquence cannot. [ Quinct ]

One cannot speak the truth with false words. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Wise men care not for what they cannot have. [ Proverb ]

I cannot run and sit still at the same time. [ Proverb ]

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. [ Moore ]

A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled. [ Proverb ]

These grains of gold are not grains of wheat!
These bars of silver thou canst not eat;
These jewels and pearls and precious stones
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones,
Nor keep the feet of death one hour
From climbing the stairways of thy tower. [ Longfellow ]

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal. [ Thomas Paine ]

Entire love is a worship and cannot be angry. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Alas! I have not words to tell my grief;
To vent my sorrow would be some relief;
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain;
We groan, we cannot speak, in greater pain. [ Dryden ]

The mill cannot grind with water that's past. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Let another try to understand that; I cannot. [ A. Lortzing ]

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade. [ Montaigne ]

Great deeds cannot die;
They with the sun and moon renew their light,
For ever blessing those that look on them. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

We cannot enjoy a friend here.
If we are to meet it is beyond the grave.
How much of our soul a friend takes with him!
We half die in him. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Life's a reckoning we cannot make twice over. [ George Eliot ]

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You cannot judge of the horse by the harness. [ Proverb ]

See what money can do: that can change
Men's manners; alter their conditions!
How tempestuous the slaves are without it!
O thou powerful metal! what authority
Is in thee! thou art the key to all mens
Mouths: with thee, a man may lock up the jaws
Of an informer; and without thee, he
Cannot open the lips of a lawyer. [ Richard Brome ]

You cannot sell the cow and have her milk too. [ Proverb ]

Without real masters you cannot have servants. [ Carlyle ]

Mad bulls cannot be tied up with a packthread. [ Proverb ]

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. [ Young ]

What cannot art and industry perform,
When science plans the progress of their toil! [ Beattie ]

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out. [ Bible ]

Sin is free, or you cannot make sin out of it. [ Joseph Cook ]

But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree,
That cannot so much as a blossom yield
In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry. [ William Shakespeare ]

O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approved,
When women cannot love where they're beloved! [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act V. Sc. 4 ]

He that makes the shoe cannot tan the leather. [ Proverb ]

That's the greatest torture souls feel in hell.
In hell, that they must live, and cannot die. [ John Webster ]

Man is a carnivorous production,
And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction.
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey.
Although his anatomical construction
Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
Your laboring people think beyond all question,
Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. [ Byron ]

Heaven, without good society, cannot be heaven. [ Proverb ]

You cannot secure even enjoyment in stagnation. [ Mrs. Gatty ]

As kind as a kite; all you cannot eat you hide. [ Proverb ]

He that is fallen cannot help him that is down. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I live.
But live to die: and living, see no thing
To make death hateful, save an innate clinging,
A loathsome and yet all invincible
Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I
Despise myself, yet cannot overcome -
And so I live. [ Byron ]

It is a bad action that success cannot justify. [ Proverb ]

He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person. [ Proverb ]

Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top,
A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop. [ Trench ]

There is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. [ Bible ]

Who thinks that Fortune cannot change her mind.
Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind. [ Pope ]

I cannot be your friend and your flatterer too. [ Proverb ]

Fortune cannot take away what she did not give. [ Seneca ]

You cannot make a hunting-horn of a fox's-tail. [ Proverb ]

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. [ Proverb ]

I cannot be at York and London at the same time. [ Proverb ]

He cannot be good that knows not why he is good. [ Proverb ]

Death cannot come
To him untimely who is fit to die;
The less of this cold world, the more of heaven;
The briefer life, the earlier immortality. [ Millman ]

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together;
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; youth I do adore thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that will not be counselled cannot be helped. [ Proverb ]

He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue. [ Proverb ]

Though malice darken truth, it cannot put it out. [ Proverb ]

A word and a stone let go, cannot be called back. [ Proverb ]

Great deeds immortal are - they cannot die,
Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost,
They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake
Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. [ Aytoun ]

You cannot climb a ladder by pushing others down. [ Proverb ]

You cannot fare well but you must cry roast-meat. [ Proverb ]

What cannot be altered, must be borne, not blamed. [ Proverb ]

Two sparrows, upon one ear of wheat, cannot agree. [ Proverb ]

One thought cannot awake without awakening others. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. [ Proverb ]

Kindnesses that we cannot requite are troublesome. [ Proverb ]

The little cannot be great, unless he devour many. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He alone has energy that cannot be deprived of it. [ Lavater ]

He's an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. [ Proverb ]

There cannot possibly be friendship without virtue. [ Sall ]

Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. [ Froude ]

Weigh well what your shoulders can and cannot bear. [ Horace ]

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

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her. [ Machiavelli ]

Millers need no noise, yet cannot grind without it. [ Proverb ]

You cannot drive a wind-mill with a pair of bellows. [ Proverb ]

Let fate do her worst; there are moments of joy,
Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy;
Which come in the nighttime of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features that joy used to wear. [ Moore ]

Great things cannot have escaped former observation. [ Dr. Johnson ]

All the water in the sea cannot wash out this stain. [ Proverb ]

The dog gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If you lose your time you cannot get money nor gain. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Good men must die, but death cannot kill them quite. [ Proverb ]

Propriety cannot be sundered from what is honourable. [ Cicero ]

The heart ought to give charity when the hand cannot. [ P. Quesnel ]

A good shift may serve long but cannot serve forever. [ Proverb ]

When we cannot act as we wish, we must act as we can. [ Terrence ]

Misfortunes that cannot be avoided must be sweetened. [ Proverb ]

What is an estate good for, if it cannot buy content? [ Proverb ]

Here stand I. I cannot act otherwise. So help me God! [ Luther at the Diet of Worms ]

Behold, we live through all things, - famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery.
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, - but we cannot die.
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn, -
Lo, all things can be borne! [ Elizabeth Akers Allen ]

Cannot I be your friend, but I must be your fool too? [ Proverb ]

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Many get into a dispute well that cannot get out well. [ Proverb ]

Astrology is true, but the astrologers cannot find it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. [ Edmund Spenser ]

A malady preys on my heart that medicine cannot reach. [ Maturin ]

We may despise the world, but we cannot do without it. [ French Proverb ]

We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard. [ St. Peter and St. John ]

They who cannot do as they would, must do as they can. [ Proverb ]

Good advice can be given, a good name cannot be given. [ Turk. Proverb ]

Raise up no spirits that you cannot conjure down again. [ Proverb ]

Idleness and chastity cannot set their horses together. [ Proverb ]

If the staff be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight. [ Anonymous ]

He must have leave to speak who cannot hold his tongue. [ Proverb ]

You cannot rear a temple like a hut of sticks and turf. [ Dr. W. Smith ]

From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up. [ Bourdaloue ]

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Usefulness and baseness cannot exist in the same thing. [ Cicero ]

You cannot judge of a man till you know his whole story. [ Proverb ]

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Where the devil cannot come, he will send his messenger. [ German Proverb ]

A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honour. [ Proverb ]

In the human breast two master* passions cannot coexist. [ Campbell ]

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius. [ Thomas Starr King ]

One cannot be fully happy until after his sixtieth year. [ Bonstetten ]

A wicked book is the wickeder, because it cannot repent. [ Proverb ]

I cannot hear what you say for listening to what you are. [ Emerson ]

When all men have what belongs to them it cannot be much. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If your joys cannot be long, so neither can your sorrows. [ Proverb ]

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Secret mines may take the town, when open battery cannot. [ Proverb ]

A wound never heals so well that the scar cannot be seen. [ Danish Proverb ]

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees. [ Tennyson ]

He is no wise man that cannot play the fool upon occasion. [ Proverb ]

He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good one. [ Proverb ]

And let him who cannot understand me learn to read better. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Man cannot live exclusively by intelligence and self-love. [ Alfred Mercier ]

An ass among perfumes, (i.e. things he cannot appreciate).

Whatever we cannot help, is our misfortune, not our fault. [ Proverb ]

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate:
only love can do that. [ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ]

A whetstone cannot itself cut, but yet it makes tools cut. [ Proverb ]

We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves. [ Desmahis ]

Chastity, lost once, cannot be recalled; it goes only once. [ Ovid ]

There is many a good wife, that cannot sing and dance well. [ Proverb ]

We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]

Rivers cannot fill the sea, that, drinking, thirsteth still. [ Christina Rossetti ]

A fool cannot look, nor stand, nor walk like a man of sense. [ La Bruyere ]

It is a poor stake that cannot stand one year in the ground. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No night is so dark that our Father's smile cannot cheer it. [ Mrs. S. H. De Kroyft ]

The sun of freedom cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron. [ E. M. Arndt ]

God's power never produces what His goodness cannot embrace. [ South ]

A man may lead his horse to water but cannot make him drink. [ Proverb ]

Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter. [ Disraeli ]

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do. [ Hamerton ]

He's not ungrateful that cannot, but he that will not repay. [ Proverb ]

There is no pot so ugly that a cover cannot be found for it. [ Proverb ]

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot. [ J. G. Holland ]

An empty human heart is an abyss earth's depths cannot match. [ Anne C. Lynch ]

Fools can find fault indeed, but they cannot act more wisely. [ Langbein ]

What reason and endeavour cannot bring about, often time will. [ Proverb ]

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone. [ Hamerton ]

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. [ La Roche ]

That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. [ Bacon ]

Human reason may cure illusions, but it cannot cure sufferings. [ A. de Musset ]

There cannot be a more intolerable thing than a fortunate fool. [ Proverb ]

We cannot recompense the gods; beautiful it is to be like them. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Credit lost is a Venice-glass broken, which cannot be soldered. [ Proverb ]

Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon nor live too long. [ Lady R. Russel ]

One cannot help doing a good office when it comes in one's way. [ Le Sage ]

A dishonest woman cannot be kept in, and an honest one will not. [ Proverb ]

He that cannot conceal his own shame will not conceal another's. [ Proverb ]

When women cannot be revenged, they do as children do: they cry. [ Cardan ]

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain. [ Aubrey de Vere ]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference. [ Reinhold Niebuhr, Serenity Prayer ]

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]

He who cannot counterfeit a friend can never be a very bad enemy. [ Proverb ]

He who buys what he cannot pay for, sells what he fain would not. [ Italian Proverb ]

It is foolish to distress ourselves about what cannot be avoided. [ Syr ]

Anxiety is good for nothing, if we cannot turn it into a defense. [ George Eliot ]

We cannot be kind to each other here for an hour;
We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame;
However we brave it out, we men are a little breed. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The fox, when he cannot reach the grapes, says they are not ripe. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I can promise to be candid, but I cannot promise to be impartial. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Misfortune cannot endure wisdom, but wisdom can endure misfortune. [ Bodenstedt ]

As water spilt upon the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. [ Bible ]

So true it is, that nature has caprices which, art cannot imitate. [ Macaulay ]

That city cannot prosper where an ox is sold for less than a fish. [ Proverb ]

A man in earnest finds means, or, if he cannot find, creates them. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven. [ Richter ]

What is the use of patience, if we cannot find it when we want it? [ Proverb ]

The king may bestow offices, but cannot bestow wit to manage them. [ Proverb ]

He will ill catch a bird flying that cannot keep his own in a cage. [ Proverb ]

The man who has never been in danger cannot answer for his courage. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Antiquity cannot privilege an error, nor novelty prejudice a truth. [ Proverb ]

The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? [ La Fontaine ]

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one cannot give it limits. [ Mme. Necker ]

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. [ William Shakespeare ]

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome. [ Proverb ]

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not. [ Seneca ]

What is excellent cannot be fathomed, probe it as and where we will. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

All the joys in the world cannot take one grey hair out of our heads. [ Proverb ]

What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust! [ James Otis ]

Every fool can find faults, that a great many wise men cannot remedy. [ Proverb ]

Since he cannot be revenged on the ass, he falls upon the pack-saddle. [ Proverb ]

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. [ Colton ]

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last. [ Bacon ]

Mental stains cannot be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [ Cicero ]

He is so suspicious, that he cannot be got at without a stalking horse. [ Proverb ]

You cannot have your work well done if the work be not of a right kind. [ Carlyle ]

There is no book so worthless, that I cannot collect something from it. [ Scaliger ]

We may forgive those who bore us, we cannot forgive those whom we bore. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

My heart laments that virtue cannot live out of the teeth of emulation. [ William Shakespeare ]

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness. [ Johnson ]

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He that cannot ride a gentle horse must not attempt to back a mad colt. [ Proverb ]

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome. [ H. W. Shaw ]

When the lion's skin cannot prevail, a little of the fox's must be used. [ Lysander ]

Men are less eager for what they may have, than what they cannot obtain. [ Proverb ]

He cannot complain of a hard sentence who is made master of his own fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too long. [ Lady Rachel Russell ]

Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

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

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools. [ Colton ]

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. [ John Stuart Mill ]

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. [ Landor ]

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. [ Goldoni ]

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections. [ Addison ]

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. [ Rev. Thomas Scott ]

He hath tied a knot with his tongue that he cannot untie with all his teeth. [ Proverb ]

Dreams cannot picture a world so fair; sorrow and death may not enter there. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. [ Laurence Sterne ]

Old age is not so fiery as youth, but when once provoked cannot be appeased. [ Proverb ]

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. [ Noah Porter ]

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love. [ George P. Upton ]

If the poor man cannot always get meat, the rich man cannot always digest it. [ Henry Giles ]

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. [ Erasmus ]

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

'T is the good reader that makes the good book: a good head cannot read amiss. [ Emerson ]

One had better forgive a debt, where he cannot recover so much as his charges. [ Proverb ]

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command. [ Landor ]

He's a blockhead that cannot make two verses, and he's a fool that makes four. [ Proverb ]

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

Since we cannot attain to greatness, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it. [ Montaigne ]

A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A drop of water has all the properties of water, but it cannot exhibit a storm. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but the moment has the supreme claim. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. [ Hazlitt ]

With audacity, one can undertake anything, but one cannot accomplish everything. [ Napoleon I ]

Two things a man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot. [ Proverb ]

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide. [ Warburton ]

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

A man who cannot mind his own business is not fit to be trusted with the king's. [ Saville ]

Is there a heart that music cannot melt? Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn. [ Beattie ]

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy. [ Joubert ]

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. [ Proverb ]

Love cannot clasp all it yearns for in its bosom, without first suffering for it. [ Ward Beecher ]

You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave. [ Dryden ]

You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out We know not who lives or dies. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Try what repentance can; what can it not? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent? [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

To be a good poet and painter genius is required, and this cannot be communicated. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Man can only learn to rise from the consideration of that which he cannot surmount. [ Richter ]

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. [ Beaconsfield ]

If you cannot bring your condition to your mind, bring your mind to your condition. [ Dr. Jacobus ]

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker. [ Hosea Ballou ]

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself one. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways. [ Carlyle ]

The want of perception is a defect which all the virtues of the heart cannot supply. [ Thoreau ]

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. [ Halleck ]

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. [ Horace Mann ]

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age; but the heart can. [ Richter ]

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve happiness. [ Fichte ]

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage. [ Lavater ]

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world. [ T. W. Higginson ]

Commerce is a game of skill, which every one cannot play, which few men can play well. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Trust in that man's promise who dares to refuse that which he fears he cannot perform. [ Spurgeon ]

That man that has a tongue, I say, is no man if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. [ William Shakespeare ]

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow. [ Aaron Hill ]

Two persons will not be friends long if they cannot forgive each other little failings. [ La Bruyere ]

The want of belief is a defect which ought to be concealed where it cannot be overcome. [ Swift ]

The man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue be cannot win a woman. [ William Shakespeare ]

Machines cannot increase the possibilities of life, only the possibilities of idleness. [ John Ruskin ]

The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod. [ Milton ]

There is a time of life beyond which we cannot form a tie worth the name of friendship. [ Burns ]

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. [ Goethe ]

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. [ Cicero ]

There are few husbands whom the I wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate those you cannot conquer. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white. [ Kabir ]

He that cannot keep his mind to himself cannot practise any considerable thing whatever. [ Carlyle ]

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]

Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where liberty is, there slavery cannot be. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. [ Rochefoucauld ]

I cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision. [ H. P. Liddon ]

Nature cannot but always act rightly, quite unconcerned as to what may be the consequences. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Hatred is nearly always honest - rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Aphorisms, except they be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences. [ Lord Bacon ]

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. [ Bruyere ]

Memory is like a purse: if it be overfull, that it cannot be shut, all will drop out of it. [ Fuller ]

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair. [ Froude ]

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. [ Montaigne ]

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting. [ Ouida ]

I cannot conceive that mere idlers can have respect enough for themselves to be comfortable. [ Timothy Flint ]

There is no evil which we cannot face or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded. [ Daniel Webster ]

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. [ Mme. Girardin ]

You cannot get anything out of Nature or from God by gambling; - only out of your neighbour. [ John Ruskin ]

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. [ Emerson ]

He that cannot be the servant of many will never be master, true guide, and deliverer of many. [ Carlyle ]

When any one has offended me. I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it. [ Descartes ]

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. [ W. W. Story ]

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone. [ Aime-Martin ]

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent, still less how to act with vigour and decision. [ Lavater ]

Think not your estate your own, while any man can call upon you for money which you cannot pay. [ Johnson ]

Friendship cannot go far if we are not disposed mutually to forgive each other's venial faults. [ La Bruyère ]

Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy. [ Izaak Walton ]

There cannot be a body of rules without a rationale, and this rationale constitutes the science. [ Sir G. C. Lewis ]

Love of men cannot be bought by cash payment; and without love men cannot endure to be together. [ Carlyle ]

It is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm, that cannot be seduced? [ William Shakespeare ]

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please. [ Johnson ]

He who cannot govern his passions should kill them, as we kill a horse when we cannot master it. [ Chamfort ]

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. [ Chesterfield ]

Under the weight of his knowledge, a man cannot move so lightly as in the days of his simplicity. [ John Ruskin ]

A beloved face cannot grow ugly, because, not flesh and complexion, but expression, created love. [ Richter ]

We must be patient; but I cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him in the cold ground. [ Shakespeare ]

Books are a sort of dumb teachers; they cannot answer sudden questions, or explain present doubts. [ J. Watts ]

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from, but the consciousness of duty disregarded. [ Daniel Webster ]

How dire is love when one is so tortured; and yet lovers cannot exist without torturing themselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined will of a peasant. [ Confucius ]

You cannot save men from death but by facing it for them, nor from sin but by resisting it for them. [ John Ruskin ]

There are no rules for friendship; it must be left to itself; we cannot force it any more than love. [ Hazlitt ]

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education. [ Harriet Martineau ]

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master. [ Martial ]

An injury cannot be done to a consenting party, (i.e. if he consents or connives, he cannot complain. [ Law ]

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people. [ M. de Bonald ]

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king. [ Theodore Parker ]

A world all sincere, a believing world; the like has been; the like will again be - cannot help being. [ Carlyle ]

A man cannot be cheerful and goodnatured unless he is also honest; which is not to be said of sadness. [ Steele ]

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest him. [ Lavater ]

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. [ Cervantes ]

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out. [ Thackeray ]

We cannot expect the deepest friendship unless we are willing to pay the price, a self-sacrificing love. [ Peloubet ]

Since your eyes are so sharp, that you cannot only look through a millstone, but clean through the mind. [ Lyly ]

Esteem cannot be where there is no confidence, and there can be no confidence where there is no respect. [ Henry Giles ]

Except in knowing what it has to do and how to do it, the soul cannot resolve the riddle of its destiny. [ Ed ]

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk. [ Cicero ]

To all intents and purposes, he who will not open his eyes is, for the present, as blind as he who cannot. [ South ]

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty, but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. [ Joseph Addison ]

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades. [ Mme. Du Deffand ]

All that is enviable is not bought: love, genius, beauty, are divine gifts that the richest cannot acquire. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced. [ Confucius ]

We cannot all serve our country in the same way, but each may do his best, according as God has endowed him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We cannot fashion our children after our fancy. We must have them and love them as God has given them to us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. [ Alex. Dumas ]

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think. [ Emerson ]

You cannot put a quartern loaf into a child's head; you must break it up, and give him the crumb in warm milk. [ Spurgeon ]

In perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense. [ Rückert ]

Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. [ S. Smiles ]

He is an unfortunate and on the way to ruin who will not do what he can, but is ambitious to do what he cannot. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others? [ Franklin ]

He who trusts all things to chance makes a lottery of his life. He who wants content cannot find an easy chair. [ Proverb ]

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The sun's power cannot draw a wandering star from its path. How then could a human being fall out of God's love! [ Rückert ]

It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion. [ Bacon ]

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. [ Carlyle ]

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised until personal experience has brought it home. [ J. S. Mill ]

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers. [ Colton ]

Pride, though it cannot prevent the holy affections of nature from beings felt, may prevent them from being shown. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could. [ Landor ]

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

That philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathise with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed. [ Lowell ]

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. [ Bovee ]

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear. [ La Roche ]

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb. Time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. [ Southey ]

Be not angry that you cannot make others what you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. [ Adolph Monod ]

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot; no, not by the strongest and the noblest flame. [ South ]

In our age of down-pulling and disbelief, the very devil has been pulled down; you cannot so much as believe in a devil. [ Carlyle ]

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing. [ Thoreau ]

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. [ Edward Herbert ]

Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Like talks best with like, laughs best with like, works best with like, and enjoys best with like; and it cannot help it. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite. [ Hall ]

For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. [ Cervantes ]

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. [ Seneca ]

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me. [ Charles Lamb ]

No one is qualified to entertain, or receive entertainment from others, who cannot entertain himself alone with satisfaction. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God cannot be written. [ Kabir ]

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many. [ Swift ]

Great poets try to describe what all men see and to express what all men feel; if they cannot describe it, they let it alone. [ John Ruskin ]

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself: all that runs over will be yours. [ Colton ]

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast [ Coleridge ]

He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let a woman beware of the man who owns that he loves no one but herself. [ Talleyrand ]

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease. [ Addison ]

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know. [ John Ruskin ]

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. [ Alexander Walker ]

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. [ Otway ]

To have the tongue cut out, and to be seated deaf and dumb in a corner, were preferable to his condition who cannot govern his tongue. [ Sadi ]

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free; their passions forge their fetters. [ Burke ]

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. [ O. W. Holmes ]

A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. [ Brooke ]

We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. [ Colton ]

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit. [ Seneca ]

A man who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. [ Frederick the Great ]

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one. [ Feltham ]

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth - that is the secret of the fine arts. [ Joubert ]

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. [ Johnson ]

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory. [ Emerson ]

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness. [ Joubert ]

I think I am rather fond of silent people myself. I cannot bear to live with a person who feels compelled to talk because he is my companion. [ Disraeli ]

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest. [ Pythagoras ]

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours. [ Swift ]

We cannot abolish fate, but we can in a measure utilise it. The projectile force of the bullet does not annul or suspend gravity; it uses it. [ John Burroughs ]

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours. [ Tillotson ]

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be not to write at all. [ Mme. de Staël ]

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. [ Lord Kames ]

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage. [ Johnson ]

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God. [ Jeremy Bentham ]

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The guardian angel of life sometimes flies so high that man cannot see it; but he always is looking down upon us, and will soon hover nearer to us. [ Richter ]

Science cannot grapple with the problem of women. It can never grapple with the irrational. That is why there is no future before it in this world. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

No; creation, one would think, cannot be easy; your Jove has severe pains, and fire flames, in the head out of which an armed Pallas is struggling. [ Carlyle ]

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves. [ Paxton Hood ]

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element. [ Hare ]

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 ]

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know. [ Goethe ]

Rightly, poetry is organic. We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There is but one class of men to be trembled at, and that is the stupid class, the class that cannot see; who, alas! are mainly they that will not see. [ Carlyle ]

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect. [ Zimmermann ]

You cannot lead a fighting world without having it regimented, chivalried; nor can you any more continue to lead a working world unregimented, anarchic. [ Carlyle ]

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described but is immediately felt, and puts the stranger at once at his ease. [ Washington Irving ]

The best ground, untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds; a man of knowledge that is either negligent or uncorrected cannot but grow wild and godless. [ Bishop Hall ]

Many people think of knowledge as of money. They would like knowledge, but cannot face the perseverance and self-denial that go to the acquisition of it. [ John Morley ]

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him. [ Bacon ]

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me. [ Goethe ]

It is as absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music. [ Balzac ]

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others. [ Sir W. Temple ]

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it. [ Rousseau ]

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. [ Colton ]

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He that waits for repentance waits for that which cannot be had as long as it is waited for. It is absurd for a man to wait for that which he himself has to do. [ Nevins ]

He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him. [ Bishop Hall ]

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 ]

There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

How much more mothers love their children than their husbands; the latter are often selfish and cruel; but children cannot separate their mother's from their affection. [ Mme. Paterson Bonaparte ]

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which, with all his cunning, he cannot quite bury under the finite. [ Carlyle ]

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. [ Louisa May Alcott ]

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so. [ Pope ]

When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion. [ Joubert ]

Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem, as you may see a grafted fruit-tree spreading over the stock which cannot keep pace with its evolutions. [ Holmes ]

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised by it, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem. [ Pascal ]

I cannot see why women are so desirous of imitating men. I could understand the wish to be a boa constrictor, a lion, or an elephant; but a man! that surpasses my comprehension. [ T. Gautier ]

Superstition is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars in the sky; but the stars are there, and will re-appear. [ Carlyle ]

There is scarce any man who cannot persuade himself of his own merit. Has he commonsense, he prefers it to genius; has he some diminutive virtues, he prefers them to great talents. [ Sewall ]

As friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious; for we soon find ill company to be like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. [ Chatfield ]

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 ]

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported by the latter. [ Fielding ]

The mind has a certain vegetative power, which cannot be wholly idle. If it is not laid out and cultivated into a beautiful garden, it will of itself shoot up in weeds or flowers of a wild growth. [ Steele ]

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire-steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars. [ Coleridge ]

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences, or asides, hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail. [ Lowell ]

The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star - she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Make use of time, if you love eternity. Yesterday cannot be recalled. Tomorrow cannot be assured. Today is only yours, and if you procrastinate, you lose, and lose forever. One today is worth two tomorrows. [ Euchiridion ]

The great moments of life are but moments like others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

Friendship is more firmly secured by lenity toward failings than by attachment to excellence; the former is valued as a kindness, which cannot be claimed; the latter is exalted to the payment of a debt to merit. [ W. B. Clulow ]

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me. I have no repugnances. Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low. [ Lamb ]

Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength; there is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage. [ Hazlitt ]

Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Rely on principles; walk erect and free, not trusting to bulk of body, like a wrestler, for one should not be unconquerable in the sense that an ass is. Who then is unconquerable? He whom the inevitable cannot overcome. [ Epictetus ]

Music moves us, and we know not why; we feel the tears, and cannot trace the source. Is it the language of some other state, born of its memory? For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of another world, like music? [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. [ Ruskin ]

Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything - morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance. [ Mme. Necker ]

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast. [ Jeremy Collier ]

A poet of superior merit, whose vein is of no vulgar kind, who never winds off anything trite, nor coins a trivial poem at the public mint, I cannot describe, but only recognise as a man whose soul is free from all anxiety. [ Juv ]

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes. [ George Washington ]

Make use of time, if thou lovest eternity; know yesterday cannot be recalled, tomorrow cannot be assured; today is only thine; Which if thou procrastinate, thou losest; which lost, is lost forever. One today is worth two tomorrows. [ Quarles ]

There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline dove's-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which have all this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears otherwise gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent. [ Quarles ]

Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed today, it will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove, perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years. [ Carlyle ]

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate. [ Bryant ]

We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent; we cannot kill and not kill at the same moment; but a moment is room enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outflash of a murderous thought, and the sharp backward stroke of repentance. [ George Eliot ]

We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the richness of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul, wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle. [ Burke ]

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right. [ Henry George ]

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do: therefore never go abroad in search of your wants. If they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there. [ Rutherford ]

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has not the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching shrieking fish. [ Leigh Hunt ]

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired. But let another person try my way, and see where he will come out. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. [ Anna Katharine Green ]

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where she ends, and we cannot miss of being good naturalists. [ William Penn ]

The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. [ Emerson ]

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. [ Voltaire ]

A man's name is not like a mantle, which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which like the skin has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. [ Goethe ]

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. [ St. Augustine ]

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke. [ Pope ]

The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance. [ Ruskin ]

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. Remember this; they that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you over your knuckles. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Civilized society feels that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value than the possession of a good chef. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for cold entrees, nor an irreproachable private life for a bad dinner and poor wines. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. That nation cannot be free, where reform is a common hack, that is dismissed with a kick the moment it has brought its rider to his place. [ Colton ]

There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend; but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please. [ Lord Greville ]

True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. [ Webster ]

There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove. [ Mackenzie ]

A man who cannot win fame in his own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of commonsense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed upon man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. [ Cervantes ]

There is nothing more necessary to establish reputation than to suspend the enjoyment of it. He that cannot bear the sense of merit with silence must of necessity destroy it; for fame being the genial mistress of mankind, whoever gives it to himself insults all to whom he relates any circumstance to his own advantage. [ Steele ]

It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger. [ Goldsmith ]

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day. [ Hawthorne ]

The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure employment. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot. [ Montaigne ]

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; the passions are powerful pleaders, and their very silence, like that of Garrick, goes directly to the soul, but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures. [ Colton ]

The man who will share his purse with you in the days of misfortune and distress, and like the good Samaritan, be surety for your support to the landlord, you may admit to your confidence, incorporate into the very core of your heart, and call him friend; misfortunes cannot shake him from you; a prison will not conceal you from his sight. [ J. Bartlett ]

Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink: but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system. [ Thackeray ]

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern. [ Fielding ]

The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn, We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. [ Thomas Starr King ]

What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation? It is that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of the public. [ Addison ]

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying. [ Beecher ]

Necessary or Essential? Necessary signifies not to be departed from, and is a general and an indefinite term. The essential contains that essence or property which cannot be omitted. It is necessary for men to die. Exercise is essential to the preservation of health. There is an essential difference between gold and silver. Here we could not properly use necessary for essential. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

The habit of exaggeration in language should be guarded against; it misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive; it imposes on us the society of a balloon, when a moderately-sized skull would fill the place much better; it begets much evil in promising what it cannot perform, and we have often found the most glowing declarations of intended good services end in mere Irish vows. [ Eliza Cook ]

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

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 ]

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 ]

As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may more properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame. [ Sterne ]

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 ]

Weakness can never be beautiful, either morally or physically: and though the feminine type may possess greater softness and more feeling, it must be active, firm, and healthy, or it cannot be beautiful; the weak mind, distracted by alternations of feeling, and constant craving for help and sympathy from others, cannot at the same time possess that tenderness and unselfish devotion which is the loveliest trait of the female character. [ M. Martell ]

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. [ Bruyere ]

We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]

As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside. [ Massinger ]

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these interTafs. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains. [ Orville Dewey ]

Though no participator in the joys of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practice toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it. Let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power. [ Emerson ]

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]

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 ]

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions. Some are disposed to view logic as a peculiar method of reasoning, and not as it is, a method of unfolding and analysing our reason. They have, in short, considered logic as an art of reasoning. The logician's object being, not to lay down principles by which one may reason, but by which all must reason, even though they are not distinctly aware of them - to lay down rules not which may be followed with advantage, but which cannot possibly be deviated from in sound reasoning. [ R. Whately ]

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(14)
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(12)
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(12)
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(12)
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(12)
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(12)
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(12)
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(12)
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(11)
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(11)
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(11)
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(11)
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(10)
TAN
(9)
TAN
(9)
COAT
(9)
TAN
(9)
TON
(9)

cannot in Words With Friends™

The word cannot is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters cannot:

CANTON
(69)
CANNOT
(69)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word cannot

CANNOT
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CANNOT
(57)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In cannot

CANTON
(69)
CANNOT
(69)
CANNOT
(57)
CANTON
(57)
CANON
(54)
CANNOT
(51)
CANTO
(51)
CANTON
(51)
CANT
(48)
COAT
(45)
CANTON
(45)
CANTON
(45)
CANNOT
(45)
CANNOT
(45)
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(44)
CANTON
(44)
CANNOT
(44)
CANTON
(44)
CANON
(42)
CANON
(40)
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(39)
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(39)
CANTON
(39)
CANTON
(39)
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(39)
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(38)
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(38)
CANON
(36)
CANTO
(36)
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(36)
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(36)
CANTO
(34)
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(33)
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(33)
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(33)
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(33)
CANTON
(33)
CANTO
(33)
CANTO
(33)
CANTON
(30)
CANON
(30)
CANON
(30)
CANTON
(30)
ANON
(30)
CANT
(30)
CANON
(30)
CANNOT
(30)
CANON
(28)
CANON
(28)
CANTO
(27)
TACO
(27)
CANTO
(27)
TACO
(27)
CANTO
(27)
COAT
(27)
CANTO
(26)
CANTON
(26)
CANNOT
(26)
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(26)
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(26)
CANTON
(26)
CANTON
(26)
CANTON
(26)
CANNOT
(26)
CANNOT
(26)
CANTON
(24)
CANT
(24)
CANT
(24)
CANNOT
(24)
ANON
(24)
CANTON
(24)
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(24)
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(24)
CANT
(24)
CANTON
(24)
CANT
(24)
CANON
(24)
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(24)
CANTON
(22)
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(22)
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(22)
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(22)
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(22)
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(22)
CANTON
(22)
CANTON
(22)
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(22)
CANTO
(22)
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(22)
COAT
(22)
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(22)
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(22)
CANTON
(22)
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(22)
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(22)
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(22)
CON
(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(20)
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(20)
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(19)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
CAT
(18)
ANON
(18)
CANON
(18)
CAT
(18)
ANON
(18)
CANTO
(18)
ACT
(18)
ACT
(18)
CANTO
(18)
ACT
(18)
CANTON
(17)
CANNOT
(17)
CANNOT
(17)
CANTON
(17)
CANTON
(17)
COAT
(17)
CANNOT
(17)
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(17)
TACO
(17)
CANT
(16)
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(16)
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(16)
ANON
(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(14)
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(14)
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(14)
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(14)
TACO
(14)
CANTO
(14)
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(14)

Words within the letters of cannot

2 letter words in cannot (6 words)

3 letter words in cannot (10 words)

4 letter words in cannot (4 words)

5 letter words in cannot (2 words)

6 letter words in cannot (Anagrams) (2 words)

cannot + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence cannot

Words that start with cannot (1 word)

Words with cannot in them (1 word)

Words that end with cannot (1 word)

Word Growth involving cannot

Shorter words in cannot

an can

no not

Longer words containing cannot

(No longer words found)