The chief good.
The chief box of health is time. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Their chief pleasure is being displeased. [ Whipple ]
The chief end of man is not to get money. [ Proverb ]
'Tis in books the chief
Of all perfections to be plain and brief. [ Butler ]
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
What is man,
If his chief good, and market of his time,
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no man. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. [ Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham ]
Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief. [ William Shakespeare ]
Of bard and chief. Old Erin's native Shamrock. [ Moore ]
The chief disease that reigns this year is folly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
That is the upper end where the chief person sits. [ Proverb ]
The fall of waters and the song of birds.
And hills that echo to the distant herds.
Are luxuries excelling all the glare
The world can boast, and her chief favorites share. [ Cowper ]
Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness. [ Beaconsfield ]
Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God. [ Hermes ]
You think it the chief good to live on another's crumbs. [ Juv ]
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. [ Sam'l John ]
Man's chief wisdom consists in being sensible of his follies. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties. [ Blair ]
To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.
The moral amelioration of man constitutes the chief mission of woman. [ A. Comte ]
It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good. [ Johnson ]
Life is not the supreme good; but of all earthly ills the chief is guilt. [ Schiller ]
Before old age, it was my chief care to live well; in old age, it is to die well. [ Seneca ]
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast. [ William Shakespeare ]
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. [ John Ruskin ]
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. [ John Sheffield ]
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain. [ Colton ]
My own style is the result of downright hard work. This, and the experience of life, have been my chief teachers. [ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lower world. [ Dr. Watts ]
When the commander-in-chief is not with the army, that is sooner done which need not to be done than that which requires to be done. [ Plaut ]
The chief pleasure (in eating) does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating. [ Horace ]
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. [ Addison ]
Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes, form the chief interests of human life. [ Channing ]
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade. [ Ben Jonson ]
Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material. [ Yriarte ]
The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves. [ Garfield ]
The chief art of learning is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights, frequently repeated, the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions. [ Locke ]
There is no action so slight, nor so mean, but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled therefore; nor is any purpose so great but that slight actions may help it, and may be so done as to help it much, most especially that chief of all purposes, the pleasing of God. [ Ruskin ]
Talk, except as the preparation for work, is worth almost nothing; sometimes it is worth infinitely less than nothing; and becomes, little conscious of playing such a fatal part, the general summary of pretentious nothingnesses, and the chief of all the curses the posterity of Adam are liable to in this sublunary world. [ Carlyle ]
Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle; and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hardworking, and intent men - their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others. [ Samuel Smiles ]
We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man. [ Emerson ]
It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]
Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters. [ Colton ]