Friends are good, - good, if well chosen. [ De Foe ]
A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only. [ Proverb ]
Of two evils the less is always to be chosen. [ Thomas A Kempis ]
In this world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
To sleep for a season and hear no word
Of true love's truth or of light love's art,
Only the song of a secret bird. [ Swinburne ]
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 ]
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. [ Bible ]
The proper reward of the good workman is to be chosen.
[ John Ruskin ]
A pilot is not chosen for his riches, but his knowledge. [ Proverb ]
There's a charm in delivery, a magical art,
That thrills like a kiss from the lip to the heart;
It is the glance - the expression - the well-chosen word -
By whose magic the depths of the spirit are stirred.
The lip's soft persuasion - its musical tone:
Oh! such were the charms of that eloquent one! [ Mrs. Welby ]
Prudery is often the mantle chosen to conceal triumphant vice.
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a leader. [ Arthur Helps ]
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. [ Tillotson ]
Only that being can surmise the infinite who is chosen for infinity. [ Liedge ]
God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it. [ Dewey ]
The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. [ Lamb ]
Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art. [ Addison ]
Except in obedience to the heaven-chosen is freedom not so much as conceivable. [ Carlyle ]
My son, be not now negligent, for the Lord hath chosen thee to stand before Him. [ Apoc ]
He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. [ William Godwin ]
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license. [ Goethe ]
Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. [ Bayard Taylor ]
If the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniences, console yourself by reflecting that no profession is without them. [ Johnson ]
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. [ E. de Girardin ]
With temperance, health, cheerfulness, friends, a chosen task, one pays the cheapest fees for living, and may well dispense with other physicians. [ A. B. Alcott ]
Friends should not be chosen to flatter. The quality we should prize is that rectitude which will shrink from no truth. Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship. [ William Ellery Channing ]
A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longer to be retained, and, indeed, never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Remember always in painting, as in eloquence, the greater your strength the quieter will be your manner and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life, the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim. [ Ruskin ]
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]