Carry coals to Newcastle. [ Proverb ]
I carry my satchel still. [ Michael Angelo ]
A full cup is hard to carry. [ Proverb ]
Apt quotations carry conviction. [ William Ewart Gladstone ]
Let every pedlar carry his own pack. [ Proverb ]
Because my blessings are abus'd,
Must I be censur'd, curs'd, accus'd?
Even virtue's self by knaves is made
A cloak to carry on the trade. [ Gay ]
Not worthy to carry guts after a bear. [ Proverb ]
Pens carry further than rifled cannon. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Little pigeons can carry great messages. [ Proverb ]
We carry our greatest enemies within us. [ Proverb ]
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace. [ Shakespeare ]
Good actions carry their warrant with them. [ Proverb ]
Patience and application will carry us through. [ Proverb ]
Innocent actions carry their warrant with them. [ Proverb ]
Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Don't carry your head too high; the door is low. [ German Proverb ]
Proud is the horse that won't carry its own oats. [ Italian Proverb ]
You carry fire in one hand and water in the other. [ Proverb ]
Old camels carry young camels' skins to themarket. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Can pocket states, or fetch or carry kings. (Gold) [ Pope ]
It is a shame to steal, but a worse to carry home. [ Proverb ]
While words of learned length, and thundering sound,
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head should carry all he knew. [ Goldsmith ]
I stout and you stout, who shall carry the dirt out? [ Proverb ]
Fortune is weary to carry one and the same man always. [ Proverb ]
Carry your knife even between the paring and the apple. [ Proverb ]
Gold has wings which carry everywhere except to heaven. [ Rus. Proverb ]
You have good manners, but never carry them about you . [ Proverb ]
A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats. [ Proverb ]
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back. [ Haliburton ]
It is a proud horse that will not carry his own provender. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is a sad burden for a woman to carry a dead man's child. [ Proverb ]
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us. [ Joubert ]
A good cause and a good tongue, and yet money must carry it. [ Proverb ]
Let the guts be full, for it is they that can carry the legs. [ Proverb ]
Better strive with an ill ass than carry the wood one's self. [ Proverb ]
The only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom. [ James Alfred Langford ]
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
He who has carried the calf will be able by and by to carry the ox. [ Proverb ]
The diamond, though small, is a heavy load for a poor man to carry. [ Ejik ]
Enemies carry a report in a quite different form from the original. [ Plautus ]
He that takes the devil into his boat must carry him over the sound. [ Proverb ]
Moderate riches will carry you, if you have more, you must carry them. [ Proverb ]
Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave. [ Madame Necker ]
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. [ Hazlitt ]
That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry on his work. [ Donn Piatt ]
Rivers are roads which travel, and which carry us whither we wish to go. [ Pascal ]
Of all the lights you carry in your face, joy shines farthest out to sea.
Be persuaded that your only treasures are those which you carry in your heart. [ Demophilus ]
I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. [ Emerson ]
Many persons carry about their character in their hands, not a few under their feet. [ Murillo ]
A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. [ Ecclesiastes ]
We should not pass from the earth without leaving traces to carry our memory to posterity. [ Napoleon I ]
We carry our neighbour's failings in sight, we throw our own crimes over our own shoulders. [ Proverb ]
Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world. [ Mrs. E. B. Browning ]
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out. [ Lessing ]
The world is a picnic to which every one takes his basket, to carry back whatever he can grasp.
Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished. [ Beaconsfield ]
Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. [ Johnsoniana ]
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone carry themselves into practice. [ Mencius ]
The grace will carry us, if we do not willfully betray our succors, victoriously through all difficulties. [ Henry Hammond ]
He that takes a wife at Shrewsbury must carry her to Staffordshire, else she will drive him to Cumberland. [ Proverb ]
For cowards the road of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. [ Bovee ]
The great are only great because we carry them on our shoulders; when we throw them off they sprawl on the ground. [ Montandre ]
Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream. [ Bonnell ]
There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of. [ Hesiodus ]
The law is a pretty bird, and has charming wings. It would be quite a bird of paradise if it did not carry such a terrible bill. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. [ George Washington ]
We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us. [ Mme. de Lambert ]
Be not liquorish after fame, found by experience to carry a trumpet, that doth for the most part congregate more enemies than friends. [ Osborn ]
Our minds are like certain vehicles, - when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly. [ Elihu Burritt ]
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. [ George Eliot ]
There are forty men of wit for one of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of ready change. [ Unknown ]
Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts; the difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. [ A. W. Hare ]
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil. [ St. Augustine ]
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious, if unmixed, and to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. [ Emerson ]
Flowers are the terrestrial stars that bring down heaven to earth, and carry up our thoughts from earth to heaven; the poetry of the Creator, written in beauty and fragrance. [ Chatfield ]
Everything dies, and on this spring morning, if I lay my ear to the ground, I seem to hear from every point of the compass the heavy step of men who carry a corpse to its burial. [ Madame de Gasparin ]
It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds. [ Beecher ]
It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current. [ Fielding ]
It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallowtrade; you must know where to find yourself. [ George Eliot ]
There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance, or worth. [ Young ]
He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations. [ La Bruyere ]
Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers. [ Marryat ]
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half as useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense. And he that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change. [ Pope ]
We should carry up our affections to the mansions prepared for us above, where eternity is the measure, felicity the state, angels the company, the Lamb the light, and God the inheritance and portion of His people forever. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
'Tis, in fact, utter folly to ask whether a person has anything from himself, or whether he has it from others, whether he operates by himself, or operates by means of others. The main point is to have a great will, and skill and perseverance to carry it out. All else is indifferent. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day. [ Chapin ]
Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. [ James A. Garfield ]
If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron!
and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.
Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men in one mould. Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can do. Our common nature is to be unfolded in unbounded diversities. It is rich enough for infinite manifestations. It is to wear innumerable forms of beauty and glory. Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. [ Channing ]