Dew depends not on Parliament. [ J. Otis ]

Civilisation depends on morality. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

'Tis thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends. [ Gay ]

It is thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends. [ Gay ]

Everything in this world depends upon will. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]

All human history attests
That happiness for man - the hungry sinner —
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner! [ Byron ]

The fidelity of barbarians depends on fortune. [ Livy ]

The joy of Jerusalem depends upon the peace of Zion. [ Proverb ]

So much depends on habit in the tender years of youth. [ Virgil ]

Happiness depends not on the things, but on the taste. [ La Roche ]

The fate of empires depends upon the education of youth. [ Aristotle ]

Reputation depends less upon ourselves than upon fortune. [ Proverb ]

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Society depends upon women. The nations who confine them are unsociable. [ Voltaire ]

Human happiness depends mainly upon the improvement of small opportunities. [ J. L. Basford ]

The destiny of nations depends upon the manner in which they feed themselves. [ Brillat-Savarin ]

Beauty depends more on the movement of the face than the form of the features. [ Mrs. Hall ]

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire. [ Duchesse de Praslin ]

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Our happiness in this world depends chiefly on the affections we are able to inspire. [ Mme. de Praslin ]

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. [ Klopstock ]

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The future of girls depends altogether upon the knowledge, courage, and prudence of good mothers. [ Dr. Porter ]

Happiness generally depends more on the opinion we have of things, than on the things themselves. [ Proverb ]

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. [ Goethe ]

The way to wealth is as plain as the road to market. It depends chiefly on two words, - industry and frugality. [ Franklin ]

The happiness of married life depends upon the power of making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. [ Selden ]

Much of the pleasure, and all the benefit of conversation, depends upon our own opinion of the speaker's veracity. [ Paley ]

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not. [ Fenelon ]

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling. [ Draper ]

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. [ Macaulay ]

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Between two beings susceptible to love, the duration of love depends upon the first resistance of the woman, or the obstacles that society puts in their way. [ Balzac ]

The two weak points of our age are want of principle and want of profile. Style depends largely on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high at present. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The flavor of detached thoughts depends upon the conciseness of their expression: for thoughts are grains of sugar, or of salt, that must be melted in a drop of water. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform very good or very bad actions; all depends upon the principles which direct him. [ Napoleon ]

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 ]

The amount of honey which we accumulate from the years as they pass, depends not so much upon the number of flower-gardens through which we rove, as upon our powers of extraction. [ Henry Wood ]

What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make. [ Whipple ]

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons? [ Lamb ]

The power of painter or poet to describe rightly what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal, but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith. [ Ruskin ]

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner. [ Dr. Johnson ]

He hazards much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. [ Roger Ascham ]

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. [ Ruskin ]

He that can keep handsomely within rules, and support the carriage of a companion to his mistress, is much more likely to prevail than he who lets her see the whole relish of his life depends upon her. If possible, therefore, divert your mistress rather than sigh for her. [ Steele ]

Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. On the due digestion of facts depends the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigour and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable in the commerce of life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. [ Burke ]

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]

If there were no readers there certainly would be no writers. Clearly, therefore, the existence of writers depends upon the existence of readers; and, of course, as the cause must be antecedent to the effect, readers existed before writers. Yet, on the other hand, if there were no writers there could be no readers, so it should appear that writers must be antecedent to readers. [ Paul Chatfield, M.D ]

You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success. [ G. A. Sala ]

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective nature? [ Emerson ]