Confess debt, and beg days. [ Proverb ]

Air, earth, and seas, obey'd the Almighty nod,
And with a general fear confess'd the God. [ Dryden ]

Who doth not feel, until his failing sight
Faints into dimness with its own delight,
His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess.
The might - the majesty of Loveliness? [ Byron ]

We rarely confess that we deserve what we suffer. [ Quesnel ]

Look in the glass when you with anger glow,
And you'll confess you scarce yourself would know. [ Ovid ]

To envy anybody is to confess ourselves his inferior. [ Mlle. de Lespinasse ]

A woman will confess her faults sooner than her follies. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

That is a woeful silly sheep that goes to the wolf to confess. [ Proverb ]

No gale disturb the trees, nor aspen leaves confess the gentle breeze. [ Gay ]

We confess small faults in order to insinuate that we have no great ones. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Chaucer, I confess, is a rough diamond, and must be polished ere he shine. [ Dryden ]

Women, like men, may be persuaded to confess their faults; but their follies, never. [ Alfred de Musset ]

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults. [ Haliburton ]

That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less. [ Pope ]

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. [ Confucius ]

Men declare their love before they feel it; women confess theirs only after they have proved it. [ Latena ]

Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them. [ Rochefoucauld ]

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty. [ W. G. Clark ]

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish, I confess that to my misfortune it is soft. [ Ovid ]

He that boasts of his ancestors, the founders and raisers of a family, doth confess that he hath less virtue. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness. [ Pascal ]

I confess I should be glad if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to me: in that case, I should often find matter for rejoicing. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground? [ Milton ]

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth. [ Richard Baxter ]

Paradise, as described by the theologians, seems to me too musical: I confess that I should be incapable of listening to a cantata that would last ten thousand years. [ T. Gautier ]

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Own or Confess? The verb to own means to possess, but it has borrowed the additional and objectionable meaning of to confess, to acknowledge; as, He owned his crime. A man owns a house, but confesses a larceny, or a murder, neither of which offenses is hardly susceptible of ownership. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]