Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain.
And make men giddy, proud and vain;
By this the fool commands the wise;
The noble with the base complies;
The sot assumes the role of wit.
And cowards make the base submit. [ Butler ]
An obedient wife commands her husband. [ Proverb ]
He commands enough that obeys a wise man. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Charity is the scope of all God's commands. [ St. Chrysostom ]
He that commands well shall be obeyed well. [ Proverb ]
Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. [ Rivarol ]
For through the south the custom still commands
The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands. [ Byron ]
We are not ourselves
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
To suffer with the body. [ William Shakespeare ]
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood;
The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. [ Churchill ]
I know My God commands, whose power no power resists. [ Robert Greene ]
Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties. [ F. H. Hedge ]
It is modesty that places in the feeble hand of beauty the sceptre that commands power. [ Helvetius ]
Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it. [ Froude ]
We're not ourselves when Nature, being oppressed, commands the mind to suffer with the body. [ William Shakespeare ]
As much virtue as there is, so much appears; as much goodness as there is, so much reverence it commands. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Whatever the will commands, the whole man must do; the empire of the will over all the faculties being absolutely overruling and despotic. [ South ]
Earnestness commands the respect of mankind. A wavering, vascillating, dead-and-alive Christian does not get the respect of the church or the world. [ John Hall ]
Whosoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world, commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. We are bought by the enemy with the treasure in our own coffers. [ Burke ]
There is a certain majesty in plainness; as the proclamation of a prince never frisks in its tropes or fine conceits, in numerous and well-turned periods, but commands in sober, natural expressions. [ South ]
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]
High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it. [ Froude ]