Soon hot soon cold. [ Proverb ]
A cold April
The barn will fill. [ Proverb ]
Hot love is soon cold. [ Proverb ]
A cold hand, a warm heart. [ Proverb ]
God sends cold after clothes. [ Proverb ]
I have a cold coal to blow at. [ Proverb ]
Feed a cold and starve a fever. [ Proverb ]
To a child all weather, is cold. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
When I could not sleep for cold,
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with roofs of gold,
My beautiful castles in Spain! [ Lowell ]
The scalded dog fears cold water. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Bright and yellow, hard and cold. [ Hood ]
Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song;
Love that is too hot and strong
Burneth soon to waste;
Still I would not have thee cold,
Not too backward or too bold;
Love that lasteth till 'tis old
Fadeth not in haste. [ Old Ballad ]
Scalded cats fear even cold water. [ Proverb ]
To throw cold water on a business.
Let him that is cold blow the fire. [ Proverb ]
Ah me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!
What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps
Do dog him still with after-claps. [ Butler, Hudibras ]
Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron! [ Butler ]
My equal he will be again
Down in that cold oblivious gloom,
Where all the prostrate ranks of men
Crowd without fellowship, the tomb. [ J. Montgomery ]
Then with no fiery throbbing pain.
No cold gradations of decay.
Death broke at once the vital chain.
And freed his soul the nearest way. [ Samuel Johnson ]
God sends cold according to clothes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Men of cold passions have quick eyes. [ Hawthorne ]
Good words cool more than cold water. [ Proverb ]
Cold of complexion, good of condition. [ Proverb ]
Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold,
And envy base to bark at sleeping fame. [ Spenser ]
And the cold marble leapt to life, a god. [ Milman ]
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]
Hunger and cold betray a man to his enemy. [ Proverb ]
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. [ Burke ]
Death comes to all.
His cold and sapless hand
Waves over the world, and beckons us away.
Who shall resist the summons? [ Thomas Love Peacock ]
World's use is cold, world's love is vain.
World's cruelty is bitter bane
But pain is not the fruit of pain. [ E. B. Browning ]
That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
And straight is cold again. [ Jul. Caes ]
Traverse the desert, and then ye can tell
What treasures exist in the cold deep well,
Sink in despair on the red parch'd earth,
And then ye may reckon what water is worth. [ Miss Eliza Cook ]
He takes in good counsel like cold porridge. [ Proverb ]
Can storied urn or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death? [ Gray ]
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath give. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
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 ]
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 ]
Dogs once scalded are afraid even of cold water. [ Proverb ]
Like to the time of the year between the extremes
Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry. [ William Shakespeare ]
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
Ten thousand furies lash my soul with whips.
At every look sharp stings transfix my heart.
And my chill blood thrills cold through every vein. [ Darcy ]
Twas a public feast and public day -
Quite full, right dull, guests hot, and dishes cold,
Great plenty, much formality, small cheer.
And everybody out of their own sphere. [ Byron ]
Revenge in cold blood is the devil's own act and deed. [ Proverb ]
Drink wine in winter for cold, and in summer for heat. [ Proverb ]
Now cold despair To livid paleness turns the glowing red;
His blood, scarce liquid, creeps within his veins,
Like water which the freezing wind constrains. [ Dryden ]
Full oft we see cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. [ Shakespeare ]
He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper. [ Proverb ]
No man can guess in cold blood what he may do in a passion. [ Proverb ]
I will give up my gun when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. [ Unknown ]
He's so covetous, that he will not give even a cup of cold water. [ Proverb ]
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. [ Hannah More ]
The church is out of temper when charity waxes cold, and zeal hot. [ Proverb ]
Winter binds our strengthened bodies in a cold embrace constringent. [ Thomson ]
Wouldst thou unlock the door to cold despair and knowing pensiveness? [ George Herbert ]
Weep for love, but not for anger; a cold rain will never bring flowers. [ Duncan ]
Cold natures have only recollections; tender natures have remembrances. [ Mme. de Krudener ]
The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago.
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men.
And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen. [ Bryant ]
Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the mouth. [ Cervantes ]
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment. [ Longfellow ]
The higher we rise, the more isolated we become, and all elevations are cold. [ De Boufflers ]
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. [ Theodore Parker ]
The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Those who appear cold, but are only timid, as soon as they dare to love, adore. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. [ Burke ]
Cold duty's path is not so blithely trod Which leads the mournful spirit to its God. [ William Herbert ]
In treachery it is not the fraud, but the cold-heartedness, that is chiefly dreadful. [ John Ruskin ]
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? [ Gray ]
As love without esteem is volatile and capricious, esteem without love is languid and cold. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Let it make no difference to thee whether thou art cold or warm, if thou art doing thy duty. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
Cold in the dust this perished heart may lie, but that which warmed it once shall never die. [ Campbell ]
We must be patient; but I cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him in the cold ground. [ Shakespeare ]
The cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile, though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while. [ Moore ]
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity! [ Montaigne ]
The cold iron of neglect is sharper to a child's sensitive nature than any alteration of harshness and affection. [ Mrs. Annie Edwards ]
Every man turns his dreams into realities as far as he can. Man is cold as ice to the truth, but as fire to falsehood. [ La Fontaine ]
Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood. [ La Fontaine ]
There is in all this cold and hollow world no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within a mother's heart. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. [ S. Bailey ]
Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world; and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room. [ George Eliot ]
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 ]
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effect; extreme heat mortifies, like extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety, as well as extreme hatred. [ Chapman ]
The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies - cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends. [ Lavater ]
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. [ Beecher ]
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies. [ Heine ]
Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert: that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates. [ Johnson ]
Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always - this is duty. [ Amiel ]
The fact is, that to do anything in tbia world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. [ Sydney Smith ]
The fact is, that to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. [ Sydney Smith ]
A cold-blooded learned man might, for anything I know, compose in his closet an eloquent book; but in public discourse, arising out of sudden occasions, he could by no possibility be eloquent. [ Erskine ]
Men with gray eyes are generally keen, energetic, and at first cold; but you may depend upon their sympathy with real sorrow. Search the ranks of our benevolent men and you will agree with me. [ Dr. Leask ]
We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects. [ Pascal ]
Feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rose-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but throughout the day grey and cold. [ Jean Paul ]
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God. [ Luther ]
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers. [ Emerson ]
Beautiful to Ledyard, stiffening in the cold of a northern winter, seemed the diminutive, smoke-stained women of Lapland, who wrapped him in their furs, and ministered to his necessities with kindness and gentle words. [ Whittier ]
Many shiver from want of defence against the cold; but there is vastly more suffering among the rich from absurd and criminal modes of dress, which fashion has sanctioned, than among the poor from deficiency of raiment. [ Channing ]
A man may kill a tender and delicate wife by cold neglect, and ruin himself and her too by debauchery; but if he keeps within his own dwellings and does not disturb his neighbors, the law would be slow to move against him. [ A. S. Roe ]
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, and philanthropy toward the misanthropic. [ Jean Paul ]
If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy - think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them. [ Alexander Maclaren ]
To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application: No thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to do.
[ Steele ]
We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament. [ Beecher ]
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 ]
Courtship is a fine bowling-green turf, all galloping round and sweethearting, a sunshine holiday in summer time; but when once through matrimony's turnpike, the weather becomes wintry, and some husbands are seized with a cold, aguish fit, to which the faculty give the name of indifference. [ G. A. Stevens ]
Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise. [ Cervantes ]
There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centers of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness. [ O. W. Holmes ]
When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books. [ James Freeman Clarke ]
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective nature? [ Emerson ]
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanketmaking and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace. [ Ruskin ]
There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me.
That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]