Commit the rest to the gods. [ Horace ]
But love is blind and lovers can not see
The pretty follies that themselves commit. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II. Sc. 6 ]
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee. [ Fenelon ]
I would seek unto God and unto God would I commit my cause. [ Bible ]
If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory. [ Sir Henry Sidney ]
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
The first faults are theirs that commit them; the second theirs that permit them. [ Proverb ]
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they never pardon, who commit the wrong. [ Dryden ]
The wise man will commit no business of importance to a proxy when he may do it himself. [ L'Estrange ]
He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act. [ Ludwig Tieck ]
Reckon no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may overlook it. [ Confucius ]
The greatest of all sins is the sin of love: it is so great that it takes two persons to commit it. [ Cardinal Le Camus ]
Thee, Fortune, I follow; hence far all treaties past; to fate I commit myself, and the arbitrament of war. [ Lucan on the crossing of the Rubicon by Caesar ]
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. [ Samuel Johnson ]
One could not commit a greater crime against public interests than to show indulgence to those who violate them. [ Richelieu ]
If hearty sorrow be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here; I do as truly suffer, as ever I did commit. [ William Shakespeare ]
Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse. [ Hosea Ballou ]
A woman repents sincerely of her fault, only after being weaned from her infatuation for the one who induced her to commit it. [ Latena ]
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 ]
How different the fate of men who commit the same crimes! For the same villany one man goes to the gallows, and another is raised to a throne.
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have the world proclaimeth, and what faults they commit the earth covereth. [ Quarles ]
Neglect is enough to ruin a man; a man who is in business need not commit forgery or robbery to ruin himself; he has only to neglect his business, and his ruin is certain. [ A. Barnes ]
Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books. [ William Shakespeare ]
There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom. [ Schiller ]
If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it. [ Beecher ]
No woman is a genius: women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. They represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the colored. The plain women are very useful. If you want to gain a reputation for respectability you have merely to take them down to supper. The other women are very charming. They commit one mistake, however. They paint in order to try to look young. Our grandmothers painted in order to try to talk brilliantly. Rouge and esprit used to go together. That has all gone out now. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]