Cruelty deserves no mercy. [ Proverb ]

One good turn deserves another. [ Proverb ]

A good dog deserves a good bone. [ Proverb ]

None but the brave deserves the fair. [ Dryden ]

A forced kindness deserves no thanks. [ Proverb ]

Every sow deserves not a sack-posset. [ Proverb ]

Folly always deserves its misfortunes. [ A. Preault ]

He that has no cross deserves no crown. [ Quarles ]

It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust. [ Proverb ]

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that had no cross deserves no crown. [ Quarles ]

It deserves with characters of brass,
A forted residence against the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion. [ William Shakespeare ]

He deserves not good that can away with bad. [ Proverb ]

He that has no head deserves not a laced hat. [ Proverb ]

A fault wilfully committed deserves no pardon. [ Proverb ]

He that cuts himself wilfully deserves no salve. [ Proverb ]

Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days.
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone.
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. [ Cowper ]

That life is long which answers life's great end;
The tree that bears no fruit deserves no name;
The man of wisdom is the man of years. [ Edward Young ]

Great actions crown themselves with lasting bays;
Who well deserves needs not another's praise. [ Heath ]

It is not every question that deserves an answer. [ Proverb ]

He deserves not sweet that will not taste of sour. [ Proverb ]

Praise is pleasing to him that thinks he deserves it. [ Proverb ]

A wilful fault has no excuse, and deserves no pardon. [ Proverb ]

A good face needs no band, and a bad one deserves none. [ Proverb ]

He that deserves nothing should be content with anything. [ Proverb ]

He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good one. [ Proverb ]

He is more noble that deserves, than he that confers benefits. [ Proverb ]

He deserves small trust who is not privy counsellor to himself. [ Forde ]

He that stumbles twice at the same stone deserves to have his shins broke. [ Proverb ]

He that is well, and ventures to be ill, deserves no pity when it happens. [ Proverb ]

No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. [ Carlyle ]

He who has less than he desires should know that he has more than he deserves. [ Lichtenberg ]

He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Who fails to grieve when just occasion calls.
Or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest: Inhuman, or effeminate, his heart. [ Young ]

Love is merely a madness, and .... deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III. Sc. 2 ]

Whosoever entertains you with the faults of others, deserves to serve you in the same kind. [ Proverb ]

When a thought is too weak to bear a simple expression, it is a sign that it deserves rejection. [ Vauvenargues ]

If time is precious. no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. [ Carlyle ]

The man who has taken one wife deserves a crown of patience; the man who has taken two deserves two crowns of folly. [ Proverb ]

The preacher aims by his eloquence at an archbishopric, the apostle makes converts; he deserves to get what the other aims at. [ La Bruyère ]

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one. [ Feltham ]

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. [ Pliny ]

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration. [ Addison ]

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it. [ Carlyle ]

The emperor one day took up a pencil which fell from the hand of Titian, who was then drawing his picture; and upon the compliment which Titian made him on that occasion he said, Titian deserves to be served by Caesar. [ Dryden ]

Whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. [ Jonathan Swift ]

Are we capable of so intimate and cordial a coalition of friendship as, that one man may pour out his bosom - his very inmost soul, with unreserved confidence to another, without hazard of losing part of that respect which man deserves from man. [ A. Burn ]

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]

It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]