A constant guest is never welcome. [ Proverb ]
Constant complaints never get pity. [ Proverb ]
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more!
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. [ Percy ]
Mother's truth keeps constant youth. [ Proverb ]
Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him never make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe. [ Schiller ]
She is as constant as the stars
That never vary, and more chaste than they. [ Proctor ]
Woman is more constant in hatred than in love.
A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage. [ Ovid ]
A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find. [ Plutarch ]
Constant thought will overflow in words unconsciously. [ Byron ]
Constant quiet fills my peaceful breast with unmixed joy. [ Dillon ]
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. [ Ovid ]
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. [ Seneca ]
A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue. [ Bonaventura ]
Human life is a constant want, and ought to be a constant prayer. [ S. Osgood ]
Hang constancy! you know too much of the world to be constant, sure. [ Fielding ]
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. [ Confucius ]
She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him. [ Fuller ]
A sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with constant use. [ Washington Irving ]
The world is a scene of changes, and to be constant in nature were inconstancy. [ Cowley ]
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. [ Socrates ]
Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love. [ William Shakespeare ]
Virtue, as understood by the world, is a constant struggle against the laws of nature. [ De Finod ]
Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Style seems to depend on three things:
1. a mental attitude and character,
2. a familiarity with the best authors,
3. dexterity in the use of words, acquired by constant practice.
So we must learn to speak by speaking, as we learn to walk by walking, or to dance by dancing. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Constant and exclusive devotion to mere physical necessities, degrades man to the rank of an animal. [ Lamennais ]
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. [ Colton ]
There are opinions which come from the heart, and whoever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. [ Joubert ]
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy. [ Plutarch ]
The greatest friend of Truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
Open, candid, and generous, his heart was the constant companion of his hand, and his tongue the artless index of his mind. [ George Canning ]
The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. [ John Ruskin ]
To have any chance of lasting, a book must satisfy, not merely some fleeting fancy of the day, but a constant longing and hunger of human nature. [ Lowell ]
To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. [ John Ruskin ]
Diligence is a steady, constant, and pertinacious study, that naturally leads the soul into the knowledge of that which at first seemed locked up from it. [ R. South ]
No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. [ Fisher Ames ]
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. [ Johnson ]
In human life there is a constant mutability; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate; life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. [ Plutarch ]
Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him. [ Richter ]
Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts. [ Bovee ]
In human life there is a constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. [ Plutarch ]
All was ended now, the hope and the fear and the sorrow, all the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, fill the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Learn the lesson of your own pain - learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul - in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love. [ Mrs. Humphry Ward ]
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source than at its termination. [ Colton ]
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body. It preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and affections which can possibly befall us. [ Addison ]
That constant desire of pleasing, which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this, that it scarcely ever fails of attaining its ends, when not disgraced by affectation. [ Fielding ]
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying. [ Charron ]
The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action. [ Macaulay ]
There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom: and it may be said, that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom: so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life, is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain. [ Saville ]
Friendship is one of the greatest boons God can bestow on man. It is a union of our finest feelings; an uninteresting binding of hearts, and a sympathy between two souls. It is an indefinable trust we repose in one another, a constant communication between two minds, and an unremitting anxiety for each other's souls. [ J. Hill ]
As the health and strength or weakness of our bodies is very much owing to their methods of treating us when we were young, so the soundness or folly of our minds is not less owing to those first tempers and ways of thinking which we eagerly received from the love, tenderness, authority, and constant conversation of our mothers. [ E. Law ]
Weakness can never be beautiful, either morally or physically: and though the feminine type may possess greater softness and more feeling, it must be active, firm, and healthy, or it cannot be beautiful; the weak mind, distracted by alternations of feeling, and constant craving for help and sympathy from others, cannot at the same time possess that tenderness and unselfish devotion which is the loveliest trait of the female character. [ M. Martell ]