A sympathy in choice. [ William Shakespeare ]
Follow thou thy choice. [ William Cullen [Bryant ]
No choice among stinking fish. [ Proverb ]
So much to win, so much to lose.
No marvel that I fear to choose. [ Miss Landon ]
It is a sad choice, frying or fire. [ Proverb ]
'Tis thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends. [ Gay ]
There's a small choice in rotten apples. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends. [ Gay ]
Preferment goes by letter and affection. [ William Shakespeare ]
Come, and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow. [ William Shakespeare ]
Choose you this day whom ye shall serve. [ Bible ]
And therefore is love said to be a child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]
Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. [ Johnson ]
When better cherries are not to be had.
We needs must take the seeming best of bad. [ Daniel ]
The tongue of the just is as choice silver. [ Bible ]
Still to ourselves in every place consigned
Our own felicity we make or find. [ Goldsmith ]
Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one. [ Herrick ]
Where bad is the best, bad must be the choice. [ Proverb ]
A small number of choice books are sufficient. [ Voltaire ]
Fate gives us parents; choice gives us friends. [ Delille ]
First on thy friend deliberate with thyself;
Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice;
Nor jealous of the chosen; fixing, fix;
Judge before friendship, then confide till death. [ Young ]
Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction. [ R. G. Ingersoll ]
Be ignorance thy choice where knowledge leads to woe. [ Beattie ]
There is but bad choice where the whole stock is bad. [ Proverb ]
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. [ George Eliot ]
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. [ Delille ]
Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you. [ Epictetus ]
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
God offers to every man his choice between truth and repose. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. [ Emerson ]
Light, or, failing that, lightning--the world can take its choice. [ Carlyle ]
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. [ C. C. Colton ]
Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate?
What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely? [ Lowell ]
The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright, and is as choice silver. [ Bible ]
The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. [ Lamb ]
What is life but the choice of that good which contains the least of evil! [ B. R. Haydon ]
No man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice of his company. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. [ Barrow ]
A wise man likes that best, that is itself; Not that which only seems, though it look fairer. [ Middleton ]
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choice of good or evil we have made through life. [ J. C. Geikie ]
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will render it easy and agreeable. [ Pythagoras ]
In ill-matched marriages, the fault is less the woman's than the man's, as the choice depended on her the least. [ Mme. de Rieux ]
Nature meant to make woman her masterpiece, but committed a mistake in the choice of the clay; she took it too fine. [ Lessing ]
It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune. [ La Bruyere ]
There is as much eloquence in the tone of the voice, in the eyes, and in the air of a speaker as in his choice of words. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Good poetry has a lot in common with good copy. A poem evokes vivid images and strong emotions through very careful word choice. [ Kathy Kleidermacher, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Copywriter's Words And Phrases ]
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune. [ Rochefoucauld ]
But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance, and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice. [ Mark Hopkins ]
Psychical pain is more easily borne than physical: and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former. [ Heinrich Heine ]
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness. [ Addison ]
Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty. [ Shenstone ]
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force. [ Pascal ]
There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars. [ Macaulay ]
No good or lovely thing exists in this world without its correspondent darkness; and the universe presents itself continually to mankind under the stern aspect of warning, or of choice, the good and the evil set on the right hand and the left. [ John Ruskin ]
To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes. [ Hazlitt ]
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. [ Quarles ]
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth. [ Willmott ]
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 ]