Crafty men deal in generals. [ Proverb ]
You must not cut and deal too. [ Proverb ]
Doing nothing with a deal of skill. [ Cowper ]
A little gall spoils a great deal of honey. [ French Proverb ]
He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope. [ Italian Proverb ]
Men that are crafty deal mostly in generals. [ Proverb ]
If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks. [ Proverb ]
What a great deal of good great men might do! [ Proverb ]
Sometimes it costs a great deal to do mischief. [ Proverb ]
There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words. [ Landor ]
When two knaves deal the devil drives the bargain. [ Proverb ]
The toothache is more ease than to deal with ill people. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. [ Cervantes ]
It is better living on a little than outliving a great deal.
There is a deal of difference between love and gratefulness. [ Proverb ]
Unmannerly a little, is better than troublesome a great deal. [ Proverb ]
Let not another shuffle and cut the cards you are to deal out. [ Proverb ]
A little time may be enough to catch a great deal of mischief. [ Proverb ]
They left a great deal for the industry and sagacity of after ages. [ Locke ]
He that deals with a senseless man had need of a good deal of sense. [ Proverb ]
He who knows not, knows a good deal if he knows how to hold his tongue. [ Italian Proverb ]
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. [ Samuel Johnson ]
A good deal of water passes by the mill which the miller takes no note of. [ Italian Proverb ]
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing. [ Proverb ]
We consecrate a great deal of nonsense, because it was allowed by great men. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful in the contempt and anger of his lip! [ William Shakespeare ]
Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more. [ William Shakespeare ]
God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure. [ Hans Andersen ]
Death possesses a good deal of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town. [ Hawthorne ]
Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more. [ Thackeray ]
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. [ Colton ]
Laziness is a good deal like money: the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
A little philosophy leads men to despise learning; a great deal leads them to esteem it. [ Chamfort ]
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. [ Blanco White ]
Live and learn; and indeed it takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning. [ John Ruskin ]
She was a good deal shocked, - not shocked at tears, for women shed and use them at their liking. [ Byron ]
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. [ Steele ]
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. [ Seneca ]
Perfect life is ever in one's acts to deal with innocence, which proves itself in doing wrong to no one but itself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The pen is a formidable weapon; but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. [ G. D. Prentice ]
Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. [ Pope ]
It is safer to believe evil of everyone until people are found out to be good, but that requires a great deal of investigation nowadays. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
He will steal himself into a man's favor and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but when you find him out, you have him ever after. [ William Shakespeare ]
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop-window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. [ Spurgeon ]
When a mother, as fond mothers will, vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much. [ Thackeray ]
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one; a great deal may arouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure. [ Lord Greville ]
My notions about life are much the same as they are about travelling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road, but, after all, one wants to be at rest. [ Southey ]
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
A good deal depends upon luck as well as care, and sometimes a writer must wait, or even leave off and return to work again, before he can hit upon the turn of words required. [ Richard D. Blackmore, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
It is not written, blessed is he that feedeth the poor, but he that considereth the poor. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. [ Ruskin ]
The junk you collect today is the garbage your children have to deal with after you die. Don't burden them with this. They have their own lives to live. Don't make garbage your legacy.
Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose? You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires. [ Montaigne ]
All the other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorable logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignores them utterly, and says that she knows a great deal better than they can tell her. [ Helps ]
Have you known how to compose your manners, you have achieved a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to attain repose, you have achieved more than he who has taken cities and subdued empires. [ Montaigne ]
Good people do a great deal of harm in the world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. [ Franklin ]
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time. [ Richard Baxter ]
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; it is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation; from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief. [ Sydney Smith ]
There is a sort of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in exaggeration; their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame. [ Hume ]
If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you. But I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself; it puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company, and takes up a great deal of time which might be much better employed. [ Chesterfield ]
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order. A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness. [ Bacon ]
If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end. [ Tillotson ]
My method has been simply this - to think well on the subject which I had to deal with and when thoroughly impressed with it and acquainted with it in all its details, to write away without stopping to choose a word, leaving a blank where I was at a loss for it; to express myself as simply as possible in vernacular English, and afterwards to go through what I had written, striking out all redundancies, and substituting, when possible, simpler and more English words for those I might have written. I found that by following this method I could generally reduce very considerably in length what I had put on paper without sacrificing anything of importance or rendering myself less intelligible. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]