Definition of comes

"comes" in the noun sense

1. semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come

the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

"comes" in the verb sense

1. come, come up

move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

"He came singing down the road"

"Come with me to the Casbah"

"come down here!"

"come out of the closet!"

"come into the room"

2. arrive, get, come

reach a destination arrive by movement or progress

"She arrived home at 7 o'clock"

"She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"

3. come

come to pass arrive, as in due course

"The first success came three days later"

"It came as a shock"

"Dawn comes early in June"

4. come

reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position

"The water came to a boil"

"We came to understand the true meaning of life"

"Their anger came to a boil"

"I came to realize the true meaning of life"

"The shoes came untied"

"come into contact with a terrorist group"

"his face went red"

"your wish will come true"

5. come, follow

to be the product or result

"Melons come from a vine"

"Understanding comes from experience"

6. come

be found or available The furniture comes unassembled"

"These shoes come in three colors

7. issue forth, come

come forth

"A scream came from the woman's mouth"

"His breath came hard"

8. hail, come

be a native of

"She hails from Kalamazoo"

9. come

extend or reach

"The water came up to my waist"

"The sleeves come to your knuckles"

10. come

exist or occur in a certain point in a series

"Next came the student from France"

11. come

cover a certain distance

"She came a long way"

12. fall, come

come under, be classified or included

"fall into a category"

"This comes under a new heading"

13. come

happen as a result

"Nothing good will come of this"

14. total, number, add up, come, amount

add up in number or quantity

"The bills amounted to $2,000"

"The bill came to $2,000"

15. come, add up, amount

develop into

"This idea will never amount to anything"

"nothing came of his grandiose plans"

16. come, come in

be received

"News came in of the massacre in Rwanda"

17. occur, come

come to one's mind suggest itself

"It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"

"A great idea then came to her"

18. derive, come, descend

come from be connected by a relationship of blood, for example

"She was descended from an old Italian noble family"

"he comes from humble origins"

19. do, fare, make out, come, get along

proceed or get along

"How is she doing in her new job?"

"How are you making out in graduate school?"

"He's come a long way"

20. come

experience orgasm

"she could not come because she was too upset"

21. come

have a certain priority

"My family comes first"

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Quotations for comes

Death comes but once. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Ill news comes apace. [ Proverb ]

Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's crown well won,
Now comes rest. [ President Garfield's Epitaph ]

Haste comes not alone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Sorrow comes unsent for. [ Proverb ]

After cheese comes nothing. [ Proverb ]

After Christmas comes Lent. [ Proverb ]

Good luck comes by cuffing. [ Proverb ]

To many fame comes too late. [ Camoens ]

At one stride comes the dark. [ Coleridge ]

His very foot has music in 't,
As he comes up the stair. [ W. J. Mickle ]

The wished-for comes too late. [ Proverb ]

Dexterity comes by experience. [ Proverb ]

Good counsel comes over-night. [ German Proverb ]

Long looked for comes at last. [ Proverb ]

Every good gift comes from God. [ Proverb ]

Good counsel never comes amiss. [ Proverb ]

Ill fortune seldom comes alone. [ Dryden ]

God comes to see without a bell. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A woman's fitness comes by fits. [ William Shakespeare ]

The swan sings when death comes. [ Proverb ]

Better counsel comes over-night. [ Lessing ]

Of idleness never comes any good. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom comes to no one by chance. [ Seneca ]

In time comes he, whom God sends. [ Proverb ]

A toiling dog comes halting home. [ Proverb ]

What comes by kind costs nothing. [ Proverb ]

Punishment is lame, but it comes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Face to face, the truth comes out. [ Proverb ]

Pain is forgotten when gain comes. [ Proverb ]

All is fish that comes to the net. [ Proverb ]

What comes too late is as nothing. [ Proverb ]

It is a good ill that comes alone. [ Proverb ]

The rain comes when the wind calls. [ Emerson ]

Youth comes but once in a lifetime. [ Longfellow ]

And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound. [ O. W. Holmes ]

He that comes of a hen must scrape. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is not lost if it comes at last. [ Proverb ]

It is ever thus with happiness;
It is the gay tomorrow of the mind,
That never comes. [ Proctor ]

It comes -- the beautiful, the free,
The crown of all humanity -
In silence and alone
To seek the elected one. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man. [ Proverb ]

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. [ Tennyson ]

He that goes out with often loss
Comes home at last by weeping cross. [ Proverb ]

A bad penny always comes back again. [ German Proverb ]

The longest day soon comes to an end. [ Pliny the Younger ]

That that comes of a hen will scrape. [ Proverb ]

- the blush is formed - and flies -
Nor owns reflection's calm control;
It comes, it deepens - fades and dies,
A gush of feeling from the soul. [ Mrs. Dinnies ]

My birthday! - what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round.
Less and less white its mark appears. [ Moore ]

Oh! call my brother back to me!
I cannot play alone;
The summer comes with flower and bee -
Where is my brother gone? [ Mrs. Hemans ]

The night comes on that knows no morn. [ Tennyson ]

Good comes to better and better to bad. [ French Proverb ]

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone. [ Cervantes ]

How calm - how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms have gone,
When warring winds have died away
And clouds, beneath the dancing ray
Melt off and leave the land and sea,
Sleeping in bright tranquillity. [ Moore ]

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. [ Martial ]

The night comes on that knows not morn,
When I shall cease to be all alone,
To live forgotten, and love forlorn. [ Tennyson ]

The army that comes off best loses some. [ Proverb ]

Nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. [ Bailey ]

He who comes in late has an ill lodging. [ Proverb ]

Usefulness comes by labour, wit by ease. [ George Herbert ]

When necessity comes in turn modesty out. [ Proverb ]

God comes in distress, and distress goes. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Everything comes if a man will only wait. [ Beaconsfield or Benjamin Disraeli ]

Health is not valued till sickness comes. [ Proverb ]

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor. [ William Shakespeare ]

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 ]

Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. [ Rabelais ]

All is not butter that comes from the cow. [ Proverb ]

All foreign wisdom doth amount to this,
To take all that is given, whether wealth,
Or love, or language; nothing comes amiss;
A good digestion turneth all to health. [ Herbert ]

From small fires comes oft no small mishap. [ George Herbert ]

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare, The Taming Of The Shrew ]

When a thing is done advice comes too late. [ Proverb ]

She comes unlooked for if she comes at all. [ Pope ]

Blessed is the misfortune that comes alone. [ Italian Proverb ]

When all is gone, repentance comes too late. [ Proverb ]

Whatever comes, let's be content withal;
Among God's blessings there is no one small. [ Herrick ]

Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome. [ Proverb ]

What comes from the heart goes to the heart. [ Proverb ]

Danger comes the sooner when it is despised. [ Syrus ]

Drip, drip, the rain comes falling,
Rain in the woods, rain on the sea;
Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling
As if to find shelter here with me. [ James Herbert Morse ]

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late. [ Seneca ]

When a new book comes out, I read an old one. [ Rogers ]

Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

They talk of Christmas so long that it comes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Hymen comes after love, as smoke after flame. [ Chamfort ]

The sluggard's convenient season never comes. [ Proverb ]

The thorn comes forth with the point forwards. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes. [ Proverb ]

Merry is the company till the reckoning comes. [ Proverb ]

That comes too late that comes for the asking. [ Seneca ]

All is not gospel that comes out of his mouth. [ Proverb ]

Old men go to death; death comes to young men. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Now the bright Morning-star, Day's harbinger,
Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her
The flow'ry May, who from her green lap throws
The yellow Cowslip, and the pale Primrose. [ Milton ]

But strong of limb
And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far
Outstripping all, comes first to every land,
And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers
Do afterwards redress. [ Homer ]

Good that comes too late is as good as nothing. [ Proverb ]

It is a great victory that comes without blood. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It happens in an hour that comes not in an age. [ Proverb ]

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. [ Quintilian ]

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. [ Plato ]

Borne on the swift, tho' silent wings of time,
Old age comes on apace, to ravage all the clime. [ Beattie ]

See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring;
Graces her subjects. [ Shakespeare ]

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance. [ Pope ]

Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches. [ Proverb ]

A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing so secret but it comes to light. [ Proverb ]

It is a silly goose that comes to a fox's sermon. [ Proverb ]

It is late ere an old man comes to know he is old. [ Proverb ]

O wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? [ Shelley ]

Through danger safety comes, through trouble rest. [ John Marston ]

What comes from God to us, returns from us to God.

Wealth comes and goes like smoke, like everything. [ Bret. Proverb ]

All mischief comes from our inability to be alone. [ La Bruyère ]

Rest comes from unrest, and unrest again from rest. [ German Proverb ]

What is much desired is not believed when it comes. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Between two stools, the breech comes to the ground. [ Proverb ]

God comes at last, when we think He is farthest off. [ Proverb ]

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it because it is right. [ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ]

From hearing comes wisdom, from speaking repentance. [ Proverb ]

He that comes after sees with more eyes than his own. [ Proverb ]

There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow. [ Spurgeon ]

It is time to set in when the oven comes to the bread. [ Proverb ]

Death hath no advantage but where it comes a stranger. [ Jeremy TayJor ]

Love comes in at the window and flies out at the door. [ Proverb ]

Harvest comes not every day, though it come every year. [ Proverb ]

Like the wife with many daughters, the best comes last. [ Proverb ]

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation. [ Beaumont ]

A man loses his time that comes early to a bad bargain. [ Proverb ]

That mischief comes justly that is of your own seeking. [ Proverb ]

Truth, when not sought after, sometimes comes to light. [ Menander ]

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,
Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. [ Lowell ]

God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands. [ Proverb ]

Mischief comes by the pound, and goes away by the ounce. [ Proverb ]

Patience - with patience everything comes in due season. [ Laboulaye ]

Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety. [ Solon ]

Tomorrow comes, and we are where? Then let us live today. [ Schiller ]

Take advantage of the right mood, for it comes so seldom. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought. [ William Shakespeare ]

All our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. [ La Bruyère ]

The ill that comes out of our mouth falls into our bosom. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

My money comes in at the door and flies out at the window. [ Proverb ]

If misfortune comes, she brings along the bravest virtues. [ Thomson ]

Everything comes in time to the man who knows how to wait. [ French Proverb ]

That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age. [ Propertius ]

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. [ La Roche ]

Set a stool in the sun, when one knave rises another comes. [ Proverb ]

The poor man turns his cake, and another comes and eats it. [ Proverb ]

There comes naught ought out of the sack but what was there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The evil that comes out of your mouth, flies into your bosom. [ Proverb ]

Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish. [ Lord Stanley ]

When a lackey comes to hell's door, the devils lock the gates. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Lose the habit of hard labour with its manliness, and then,
Comes the wreck of all you hope for in the wreck of noble men. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

One cannot help doing a good office when it comes in one's way. [ Le Sage ]

Brain is always to be bought, but passion never comes to market. [ Lowell ]

All writing comes by the grace of God, and all doing and having. [ Emerson ]

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. [ Prof. Jowett ]

Happiness appears to be a state that comes easiest when unsought. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

When poverty comes in at the door, love creeps out at the window. [ Proverb ]

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. [ Lowell ]

It is the danger which is least expected that soonest comes to us. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]

Take heed of wind that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled enemy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Since sorrow never comes too late. And happiness too swiftly flies. [ Gray ]

The pitcher that goes often to the well, comes home broken at last. [ Proverb ]

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life. [ Jerrold ]

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. [ Donne ]

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share comes to. [ Proverb ]

God comes to our help only when there is no more help for us in man. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. [ Joubert ]

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

The man comes before the citizen, and our future is greater than both. [ Jean Paul ]

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. [ J. M. Barrie ]

The world is all perfect except where man comes with his burden of woe. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness. [ Byron ]

Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that goes to church with brothers-in-law, comes back without kindred. [ Proverb ]

The water that comes from the same spring, cannot be fresh and salt both. [ Proverb ]

Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all. [ Prope rti us ]

At Christmas play, and make good cheer. For Christmas comes but once a year. [ Tusser ]

The fact is, nothing comes, - at least, nothing good. All has to be fetched. [ Charles Buxton ]

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

The credit that is got by a lie, lasts no longer than till the truth comes out. [ Proverb ]

None can give the dew but God; it comes from above, and is of celestial origin. [ Bishop Reynolds ]

I have not wept these forty years; but now my mother comes afresh into my eyes. [ Dryden ]

The wisdom of women comes to them by inspiration, their folly by premeditation. [ Dumas, Pere ]

Serve a noble disposition, though poor, the time comes that he will repay thee. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [ Tacitus ]

The time never comes when a reconstruction does not imperil some great interest. [ Heber Newton ]

In this world of change, nought which comes stays, and nought which goes is lost. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep. [ Ilosea Ballou ]

Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself. [ Shairp ]

Control the heart's bitterness. Nothing good comes of returning hatred for hatred. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

There are no women to whom virtue comes easier than those who possess no attractions.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing. [ George Eliot ]

When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself. [ Zimmermann ]

Day follows the murkiest night; and when the time comes, the latest fruits also ripen. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. [ J. G. Holland ]

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. [ L'Estrange ]

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence. [ Spurgeon ]

Bid that welcome which comes to punish us, and we punish it, seeming to bear it lightly. [ William Shakespeare ]

When the glad sun, exulting in his might, comes from the dusky-curtained tents of night. [ Emma G. Embary ]

He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for iiis opportunity when it comes. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]

Fame comes only when deserved, and then it is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources. [ Colton ]

Night comes, that another morning, with all its glory and freshness, may dawn upon the earth. [ Fanny Fern ]

The good-finder (if such a barbaric sounding word may be used), is thankful for whatever comes. [ Ossian Lang ]

He comes to you with a tale which holds children from play and old men from the chimney-corner. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The moderation of fortunate people comes from' the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

If you love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours. If not, it was never meant to be. [ Source unknown ]

While you are prosperous, you can number many friends; but when the storm comes, you are left alone. [ Ovid ]

There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high. [ Ovid ]

When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated. [ Joseph Bartlett ]

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. [ Landor ]

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. [ Hazlitt ]

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Creator; everything deteriorates in the hands of man. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

No evil is felt till it comes, and when it comes no counsel helps. Wisdom is always too early and too late. [ Rückert ]

Doubt insinuates itself into a soul that is dreaming; faith comes down into one that struggles and suffers.

In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never comes until after the disorder is cured. [ Mme. de la Tour ]

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted. [ Dryden ]

All the evil that women have done to us comes from us, and all the good they have done to us comes from them. [ Martin ]

Jealousy lives upon doubt, and comes to an end or becomes a fury as soon as it passes from doubt to certainty. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Life, as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence where it comes upon soundings. [ Holmes ]

A more valuable inheritance falls to each of us in our civil and legal rights than comes to us from our fathers. [ Cicero ]

I only look straight before me at each day as it comes, and do what is nearest me, without looking further afield. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

To wait for what never comes, to lie abed and not sleep, to serve and not be advanced, are three things to die of. [ Italian Proverb ]

A great book that comes from a great thinker, - it is a ship of thought, deep-freighted with truth and with beauty. [ Theodore Parker ]

There comes a period of the imagination to each - a later youth - the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry. [ Emerson ]

Death is not, in fact, the worst of all evils; when it comes, it is a relief to those who are worn out with suffering. [ Metastasio ]

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. [ Emerson ]

It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation. [ Washington Gladden ]

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes like the warbling of music, than in the hand. [ Lord Bacon ]

He who loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age will hardly love them enough afterward to understand them. [ Earl of Clarendon ]

Life, upon the whole, is much more pleasurable than painful, otherwise we should not feel pain so impatiently when it comes. [ Leigh Hunt ]

God hath blessed you with a good name: to be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant. [ Pascal ]

Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth. [ Dante ]

Truly unhappy is the man who leaves undone what he can do, and undertakes what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to grief. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. [ Amiel ]

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. [ Landor ]

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer. Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best. [ Burton ]

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that we can't stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. [ George Eliot ]

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings. [ Metastasio ]

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life, [ Marcus Aurelius ]

So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down. [ H. K. White ]

Whatever you suffer deservedly should be borne with resignation; the penalty that comes upon us undeservedly comes as a matter of just complaint. [ Ovid ]

There are women so hard to please that it seems as if nothing less than an angel will suit them: hence it comes that they often meet with devils. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Everything comes and goes. Today in joy, tomorrow in sorrow. We advance, we retreat, we struggle; then, the eternal and profound silence of death! [ Victor Hugo ]

Sudden tumultuous popularity comes more from partial delirium on both sides than from clear insight, and is of evil omen to all concerned with it. [ Carlyle ]

The reputation of a woman may also be compared to a mirror of crystal, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it. [ Cervantes ]

Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship comes like dawning moonlight. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices but asks nothing. [ Geibel ]

The stroke that comes transmitted through a whole galaxy of elastic balls, is it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck and sent flying? [ Carlyle ]

There comes a time when the souls of human beings, women more even than men, begin to faint for the atmosphere of the affections they are made to breathe. [ Holmes ]

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward. [ Horace Mann ]

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire. [ Carlyle ]

When danger threats, the friend comes forth resolved and shields his friend; in fortune's golden smile what need of friends? Her favoring power wants no auxiliary. [ Euripides ]

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which, with all his cunning, he cannot quite bury under the finite. [ Carlyle ]

For it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. [ William Shakespeare ]

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger. [ Quarles ]

Love is - I know not what; which comes - I know not whence; which is formed - I know not how; which enchants - I know not by what; and which ends - I know not when or why. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again; wisely improve the present, it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Too bad you can't just grab a tree by the very tiptop and bend it clear over the ground and then let her fly, because I bet you'd be amazed at all the stuff that comes flying out. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word effrontery comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall. [ Leigh Hunt ]

With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. [ Macaulay ]

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough, and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. [ Goldsmith ]

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed. [ Fichte ]

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy. [ Beaconsfield ]

My own firm conviction is that no education can make a writer. The heart must be hot behind the pen. Out of the abundance of life and its manifold experiences comes the power to touch life. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

The era of Christianity - peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters - is yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure. [ Kossuth ]

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names. [ Ausonius ]

Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters? [ Alcott ]

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is God is crying. And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is Probably because of something you did. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants. [ Lavater ]

The day of life spent in honest and benevolent labor comes in hope to an evening calm and lovely; and though the sun declines, the shadows that he leaves behind are only to curtain the spirit unto rest. [ Henry Giles ]

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The prayers of a mother do not die when she dies, and the real heart and its sinless sympathies are never buried in the tomb; her love is purer and warmer now, for it comes from the sainted spirit shore. [ A. W. Mangum ]

It is from Cadmus, the inventor of the alphabet, this ingenious art comes to us of painting words, speaking to the eyes, and by the different form of traced figures, giving color and body to the thoughts. [ De Brebeuf ]

"No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. [ Scott ]

Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]

I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, What was that?! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

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 ]

For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit. [ William Mountford ]

The brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest. Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. [ Holmes ]

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. [ Richard Cecil ]

I may grieve with the smart of an evil as soon as I feel it, but I will not smart with the grief of an evil as soon as I hear of it. My evil, when it Cometh, may make my grief too great; why, then, should my grief, before it comes, make my evil greater? [ Arthur Warwick ]

Peacefully and reasonably to contemplate is at no time hurtful, and while we use ourselves to think of the advantages of others, our own mind comes insensibly to imitate them; and every false activity to which our fancy was alluring us is then willingly abandoned. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Granted the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged; the pilot is blameworthy; he has not been all-wise and all-powerful; but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the globe or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs. [ Carlyle ]

To act with commonsense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is, and despise affectation. [ Horace Walpole ]

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him. [ Seneca ]

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority - demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice - comes graceful and beloved as a bride. [ Emerson ]

After the fever of life - after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding - after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death - at length the white throne of God - at length the beatific vision. [ Newman ]

You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults; still less of others faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it ; as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. [ Ruskin ]

What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation? It is that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]

When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still; then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life; it is only needful to place yourself so that it may come, and then it comes of itself; and then everything turns and changes itself for the best. [ Frederika Bremer ]

The language of the heart - the language which comes from the heart and goes to the heart - is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language - difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied. [ Bovee ]

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. [ Ruskin ]

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending, - the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]

When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together; and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. There is the great ocean, holding the navies of the world, which comes from little drops of water no larger than a woman's tears. There are the great constellations in the sky, made up of little bits of stars. Oh, if you could consider his future you might see that he might become the greatest poet of the universe, the greatest warrior the world has ever known, greater than Caesar, than Hannibal, than--er--er" (turning to the father) - What's his name? The father hesitated, then whispered back: His name? Well, his name is Mary Ann. [ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]

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The word comes is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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comes in Words With Friends™

The word comes is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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Words within the letters of comes

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