Definition of does

"does" in the noun sense

1. Department of Energy, Energy Department, Energy, DOE

the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States created in 1977

2. doe

mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'

"does" in the verb sense

1. make, do

engage in

"make love, not war"

"make an effort"

"do research"

"do nothing"

"make revolution"

2. perform, execute, do

carry out or perform an action

"John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"

"the skater executed a triple pirouette"

"she did a little dance"

3. do, perform

get (something) done

"I did my job"

4. do, fare, make out, come, get along

proceed or get along

"How is she doing in her new job?"

"How are you making out in graduate school?"

"He's come a long way"

5. cause, do, make

give rise to cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally

"cause a commotion"

"make a stir"

"cause an accident"

6. practice, practise, exercise, do

carry out or practice as of jobs and professions

"practice law"

7. suffice, do, answer, serve

be sufficient be adequate, either in quality or quantity

"A few words would answer"

"This car suits my purpose well"

"Will $100 do?"

"A `B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"

"Nothing else will serve"

8. do, make

create or design, often in a certain way

"Do my room in blue"

"I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest"

9. act, behave, do

behave in a certain manner show a certain behavior conduct or comport oneself

"You should act like an adult"

"Don't behave like a fool"

"What makes her do this way?"

"The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people"

10. serve, do

spend time in prison or in a labor camp

"He did six years for embezzlement"

11. do, manage

carry on or function

"We could do with a little more help around here"

12. dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure

arrange attractively

"dress my hair for the wedding"

13. do

travel or traverse (a distance

"This car does 150 miles per hour"

"We did 6 miles on our hike every day"

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Quotations for does

But it does move. [ Galileo ]

Whom does it harm?

Whom does it benefit?

The heart does not lie. [ Alfieri ]

A letter does not blush. [ Cicero ]

At Rome do as Rome does. [ French Proverb ]

A document does not blush. [ Proverb ]

Blind zeal only does harm. [ M. G. Lichtwer ]

The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy. [ Emily Dickinson ]

Nature does nothing in vain.

What the eye does not admire,
The heart does not desire. [ Proverb ]

Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
Gold does civil wars create. [ Abraham Cowley ]

Dress does not give knowledge. [ Yriarte ]

Never does a wilder song
Steal the breezy lyre along,
When the wind in odors dying,
Wooes it with enamored sighing. [ Moore ]

Handsome is that handsome does. [ Proverb ]

Money calls, but does not stay:
It is round and rolls away. [ Proverb ]

Necessity does everything well. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Whatsoever time does it undoes. [ Proverb ]

The cowl does not make the monk. [ Proverb ]

He that stays does the business. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every mote does not blind a man. [ Proverb ]

In the forehead and the eye,
The lecture of the mind does lie. [ Proverb ]

One shoe does not fit every foot. [ Italian Proverb ]

Genius does not herd with genius. [ O. W. Holmes ]

You scorn it as a dog does tripe. [ Proverb ]

The dress does not make the monk. [ Rabelais ]

A gold ring does not cure a felon. [ Proverb ]

When all the sins are old in us.
And go upon crutches, covetousness
Does but lie in her cradle. [ Decker ]

Custom does often reason overrule. [ Rochester ]

The unspoken word never does harm. [ Kossuth ]

He sleeps enough who does nothing. [ French Proverb ]

He that would win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home. [ Butler ]

Gentleness does more than violence. [ La Fontaine ]

God does not measure men by inches. [ Scotch Proverb ]

God does not smite with both hands. [ Spanish Proverb ]

The act of God does wrong to no man. [ Law Max ]

Necessity does not submit to debate. [ [Garibaldi ]

Bad grammar does not vitiate a deed. [ Law ]

Love does much, but money does more. [ Proverb ]

He does much that does a thing well. [ Proverb ]

Art does not imitate, but interpret. [ Mazzini ]

Silence does not always mean wisdom. [ Coleridge ]

Society does not love its unmaskers. [ Emerson ]

He is good that does good to others. [ La Bruyere ]

Violence does ever justice unjustly. [ Carlyle ]

Every man does his own business best. [ Proverb ]

This mode of living does not suit me. [ Cicero ]

Who more than he is worth does spend,
He makes a rope his life to end. [ Proverb ]

An old dog does not bark for nothing. [ Italian Proverb ]

Who pays the physician does the cure. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The king reigns, but does not govern. [ Jan Zamoiski ]

Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did, and does, smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I saved and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again. [ Browning ]

A hated government does not last long. [ Seneca ]

Every shot does not bring down a bird. [ Dutch Proverb ]

The blushing cheek speaks modest mind.
The lips befitting words most kind,
The eye does tempt to love's desire,
And seems to say 'tis Cupid's fire. [ Harrington ]

Everything that totters does not fall. [ Montesquieu ]

She who means no mischief does it all. [ Aaron Hill ]

He that does well wearies not himself. [ Proverb ]

And he that makes his soul his surety,
I think, does give the best security. [ Butler ]

Reproof never does a wise man any harm. [ Proverb ]

With what a heavy and retarding weight
Does expectation load the wing of time. [ Mason ]

Music so softens and disarms the mind
That not an arrow does resistance find. [ Waller ]

The devil does not lie dead in a ditch. [ Proverb ]

What does not destructive time destroy? [ Horace ]

He who dies for virtue does not perish. [ Plautus ]

Nature has made man's breast no windows
To publish what he does within doors,
Nor what dark secrets there inhabit,
Unless his own rash folly blab it. [ Butler ]

But what fate does, let fate answer for. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

The act of the law does wrong to no man. [ Law Max ]

A woman conceals what she does not know. [ Proverb ]

Tomorrow you will live, you always cry;
In what far country does this morrow lie? [ Cowley ]

Ill will never speaks well nor does well. [ Proverb ]

Like a hog, he does no good till he dies. [ Proverb ]

Why are those tears? why droops your head
Is then your other husband dead?
Or does a worse disgrace betide?
Hath no one since his death applied? [ Gay ]

Wit does not take the place of knowledge. [ Vauvenargues ]

Love is the only ink which does not fade. [ Dr. Parker ]

Not always actions show the man; we find
Who does a kindness is not therefore kind. [ Pope ]

Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
Of slight beginnings to important ends. [ Davenant ]

He is very blind who does not see the sun. [ Italian Proverb ]

Who does know the bent of woman's fantasy. [ Spenser ]

Equal nature fashion'd us
All in one mould.
All's but the outward gloss
And politic form that does distinguish us. [ Massinger ]

A linsey-wolsey gown does not become June. [ Proverb ]

He who does all he can do never does well. [ Italian Proverb ]

A foe to God was never true friend to man;
Some sinister intent taints all he does. [ Young ]

He that does not love a woman sucked a sow. [ Proverb ]

He teaches me to be good that does me good. [ Proverb ]

Bright as does the morning star appear,
Out of the east with flaming locks bedight,
To tell the dawning day is drawing near. [ Spenser ]

Whoso does no evil, is apt to suspect none. [ Proverb ]

But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last. [ Abraham Cowley ]

Woman conceals only what she does not know. [ Proverb ]

That what he will he does, and does so much
That proof is called impossibility. [ William Shakespeare ]

Everything goes to him who does not need it. [ French Proverb ]

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who does the best his circumstance allows.
Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. [ Edward Young ]

Who does not know the bent of woman's fancy? [ Spenser ]

The heart does not think all the mouth says. [ Ariosto ]

A gilded bit does not make the horse better. [ Proverb ]

He that does what he can, does what he ought. [ Proverb ]

Fortune does not change men: it unmasks them. [ Mme. Necker ]

He benefits himself that does good to others. [ Proverb ]

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good. [ Aurelius Antoninus ]

Fancy tortures more people than does reality. [ Ouida ]

Thought once awakened does not again slumber. [ Carlyle ]

Science does not know its debt to imagination. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep. [ William Shakespeare ]

To serve thy generation, this thy fate:
Written in- water, swiftly fades thy name;
But he who loves his kind does, first and late,
A work too great for fame. [ Mary Clemmer ]

A miser does nothing right except when he dies. [ Proverb ]

He who rises late never does a good day's work. [ Proverb ]

One looks at a lover; one does not examine him. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

To be virtuous, it does not suffice to will it. [ La Beaumelle ]

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live. [ Goethe ]

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man. [ George MacDonald ]

And whether coldness, pride, or virtue, dignify
A woman; so she's good, what does it signify? [ Byron ]

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates. [ Cervantes ]

Not oft near home does genius brightly shine,
No more than precious stones while in the mine. [ Omar Khayyam ]

He that does a good turn looks for a good turn. [ Proverb ]

He is not born yet, and does he sneeze already? [ Proverb ]

The master's eye does more than both his hands. [ German Proverb ]

He does not deserve wine who drinks it as water. [ Bodenstedt ]

Not one false man but does uncountable mischief. [ Carlyle ]

For he that sows in craft does reap in jealousy. [ Middleton ]

It does not beseem a philosopher to be dejected. [ Cicero ]

Take your thirst to the stream, as the dog does. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate. [ Ward Beecher ]

A man in distress or despair does as much as ten. [ Proverb ]

A man who does not love praise is not a full man. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

For whom does the blind man's wife paint herself? [ Proverb ]

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]

Virginity is poetry: it does not exist for fools. [ Limayrac ]

He that does his own business hurts not his hand. [ Proverb ]

He tells me my way, and does not know it himself. [ Proverb ]

How does our will become sanctified?
By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God. [ Fenelon ]

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]

Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say:
Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday. [ Cowley ]

One expresses well only the love he does not feel. [ A. Karr ]

That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Daylight will come, though the cock does not crow. [ Danish Proverb ]

Why does man hunger so much after forbidden fruit? [ Ovid ]

It would make one scratch, where it does not itch. [ Proverb ]

What is there that corroding time does not impair? [ Horace ]

Money, like manure, does no good till it is spread.

The poet's pen is the true divining rod
Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling;
Bringing to light and use, else hid from all.
The many sweet clear sources which we have
Of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms;
And marks the variations of all mind
As does the needle. [ Bailey ]

A broad hat does not always cover a venerable head. [ Proverb ]

He who has a dread of the devil does not grow rich. [ Italian Proverb ]

When a man is not liked, whatever he does is amiss. [ Proverb ]

The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not. [ Emerson ]

One eye of the master does more than both his hands. [ Proverb ]

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats. [ Corneille ]

That which a man causes to be done, he does himself. [ Proverb ]

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

God does not pay every week, but He pays at the end. [ Dutch Proverb ]

An old fox does not run into the snare a second time. [ German Proverb ]

The fire that does not warm me shall never scorch me. [ Proverb ]

He does not do right who unlearns what he has learnt. [ Plaut ]

Friendship makes more happy marriages than love does.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. [ Franklin ]

He touches it as warily as a cat does a coal of fire. [ Proverb ]

He who has good health is rich, and does not know it. [ Italian Proverb ]

When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike. [ German Proverb ]

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. [ Mohammed ]

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. [ Bossuet ]

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul. [ Landor ]

He that does what he will, oft does not what he ought. [ Proverb ]

You have a little wit, and it does you good sometimes. [ Proverb ]

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. [ Owen Meredith ]

Faith is like love; it does not admit of being forced. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

A truth that one does not understand becomes an error. [ Desbarolles ]

The dust, raised by the sheep, does not choke the wolf. [ Proverb ]

The discreet hand does not do all that the tongue says. [ Proverb ]

Necessity imposes law, but does not herself receive it. [ Publius Syrus ]

One may forgive infidelity, but one does not forget it. [ Mlle. de Lafayette ]

On the pinnacle of fortune man does not stand long firm. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He that does you a very ill turn will never forgive you. [ Proverb ]

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [ Horace ]

Reputation serves to virtue, as light does to a picture. [ Proverb ]

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. [ Proverb ]

A colt is nothing worth if it does not break its halter. [ French Proverb ]

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. [ William Shakespeare ]

He merits no thanks that does a kindness for his own end. [ Proverb ]

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven. [ Phillips Brooks ]

A crown in pocket does you more credit than an angel spent. [ Proverb ]

'Twas a hand
White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland
The hand of a woman is often, in youth.
Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless, in truth;
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm? [ Lord Lytton ]

Impatience does not diminish, but always augments the evil. [ Proverb ]

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him. [ Pope ]

A covetous man does nothing that he should do, till he dies. [ Proverb ]

Light visits the hearts, as it does the eyes, of all living. [ Carlyle ]

Nobody does all the mischief, and nobody is always to blame. [ W. L. Parsons ]

Pride wishes not to owe, and self-love does not wish to pay. [ La Roche ]

He that does not knot his thread will lose his first stitch. [ Gaelic ]

He that does good for praise only merits but a puff of wind. [ Proverb ]

Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in its own coin. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe. [ Vauvenargues ]

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time. [ Alexander Smith ]

Of how few lives does not stated duty claim the greater part? [ Johnson ]

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

The plainer the dress, with greater luster does beauty appear. [ Lord Halifax ]

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering. [ Syrus ]

Alas! what does man here below? A little noise in much shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]

The act does not make a man guilty, unless the mind be guilty. [ Law Max ]

He loves you as a ferret does a rabbit, to make a meal of you. [ Proverb ]

He is the wretch that does the injury, not he that endures it. [ Proverb ]

The fool thinks nothing well done except what he does himself.

Men speak but little when vanity does not induce them to speak. [ Rochefoucauld ]

A man does not please long when he has only one species of wit. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. [ Montesquieu ]

He who does not love flowers has lost all love and fear of God. [ Ludwig Tieck ]

Love is like the moon: when it does not increase, it decreases. [ Segur ]

The only medicine which does women more good than harm is dress. [ Richter ]

What the fool does at length the wise man does at the beginning. [ Spanish Proverb ]

It is not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do. [ Robert Browning ]

He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief. [ Proverb ]

Not in pulling down, but in building up, does man find pure joy. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart. [ Dewey ]

Talk that does not end in action is better suppressed altogether. [ Carlyle ]

Nature does more than supply materials; she also supplies powers. [ J. S. Mill ]

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body. [ Seneca ]

What the fool does in the end, the wise man does at the beginning. [ Italian Proverb ]

Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He who fasts and does no good, saves his bread but loses his soul. [ Proverb ]

Abuse does not hinder the use of a thing that is in itself lawful. [ Proverb ]

That fire that does not warm me, I will never permit to scorch me. [ Proverb ]

To be a fool or knave in print, does but bring the truth to light. [ Proverb ]

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [ Cicero ]

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity. [ Burke ]

Virtue carries a reward with it; and so does vice with a vengeance. [ Proverb ]

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. [ Horace Mann ]

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. [ Shakespeare ]

Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love. [ Buddha ]

God gives every bird its nest, but does not throw it into the nest. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man. [ Cowper ]

We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means. [ Cicero ]

He does bounty an injury, who shews her so much as to be laughed at. [ Proverb ]

If the ball does not stick to the wall, yet it will leave some mark. [ Proverb ]

We must be careful that the bond of wedlock does not become bondage. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Truth irritates only those whom it enlightens, but does not convert. [ Pasquier Quesnel ]

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded. [ Hannah More ]

A wise writer does not reveal himself here and there, but everywhere. [ Lowell ]

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect. [ Joubert ]

The world does not understand that we can prefer anything else to it. [ George Sand ]

Telling the truth does good to him who hears, harm to him who speaks. [ German Proverb ]

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles. [ Alexander Smith ]

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome? [ Addison ]

He that buys what he does not want, must often sell what he does want. [ Proverb ]

He does nothing who endeavours to do more than is allowed to humanity. [ Johnson ]

He that does not as he ought, must not look to be done to as he would. [ Proverb ]

He will always be a slave, who does not know how to live upon a little. [ Horace ]

The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any. [ Beaconsfield ]

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it? [ Shenstone ]

The true value of a man's book is determined by what he does not write. [ Carlyle ]

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. [ J. M. Barrie ]

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. [ Amiel ]

He gets a double victory who overcomes himself, when he does his enemy. [ Proverb ]

Duty is what one expects from others - it is not what one does oneself. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

He that does any thing for the public, is accounted to do it for nobody. [ Proverb ]

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery. [ William Shakespeare ]

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. [ Montaigne ]

The public! the public! How many fools does it take to make up a public. [ Chamfort ]

Truth does not conform itself to us, but we most conform ourselves to it. [ M. Claudius ]

Dignities and honours set off merit, as good dress does handsome persons. [ Proverb ]

Love mocks all sorrows but its own, and damps each joy he does not yield. [ Lady Dacre ]

The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [ Chamfort ]

One does not reason with his heart: one either breaks it, or yields to it. [ Rochepedre ]

Truth does not do as much good in the world as the shows of it do of evil. [ La Roche ]

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls, valor does not wait for years. [ Corneille ]

He does me double wrong, that wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. [ William Shakespeare ]

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. [ Tillotson ]

Art is a gift of Heaven, yet does it borrow its fire from earthly passion. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

He that does not speak truth to me, does not believe me when I speak truth. [ Proverb ]

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. [ Joubert ]

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon decency. [ Balzac ]

It is not affliction itself, but affliction rightly borne, that does us good. [ Aughey ]

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. [ H. W. Shaw ]

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Truth does not do so much good in the world as the appearance of it does evil. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He will always lack what is best who does not give credit to what others know. [ Rückert ]

That nation is worthless which does not joyfully stake everything on her honor. [ Schiller ]

The grief that does not speak whispers the overfraught heart and bids it break. [ William Shakespeare ]

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. [ Landor ]

The time never comes when a reconstruction does not imperil some great interest. [ Heber Newton ]

The wise man knows well that he does not know; the ignorant man thinks he knows. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Genius does not need a special language; it newly uses whatever tongue it finds. [ Stedman ]

Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other. [ Carlyle ]

One of the greatest of human sufferings is to ask of one's self: Does God exist? [ Erckmann Chatrian ]

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. [ Longfellow ]

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering. [ Quintilian ]

As threshing separates the corn from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. [ Bacon ]

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. [ Socrates ]

Instinct harmonizes the interior of animals, as religion does the interior of men. [ Jacobi ]

He who boasts of his lineage boasts of that which does not properly belong to him. [ Seneca ]

He who does not conform to courtesy generally pays the penalty of his haughtiness. [ Phaedr ]

What does a man think of when he thinks of nothing? Answer: A great man's promise. [ Proverb ]

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. [ Robert Burton ]

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity. [ Trench ]

The wolf does something every week, that hinders him from going to church a Sunday. [ Proverb ]

He that refuses praise the first time does it, because he would have it the second. [ Proverb ]

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. [ Seneca ]

Age does not make us childish, as people say; it only finds us still true children. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A taste which plenty does deprave loathes lawful goods, and lawless ill does crave. [ Dryden ]

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always from the noblest motive. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Here's talk of the Turk and Pope, but it is my next neighbour that does me the harm. [ Proverb ]

Nature does not make all great men, more than all other men, in the self-same mould. [ Carlyle ]

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they never pardon, who commit the wrong. [ Dryden ]

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does, - skip. [ Rogers ]

The real Nimrod of this era, who alone does any good to the era, is the rat-catcher. [ Carlyle ]

He who does evil that good may come pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven. [ Hare ]

Certain importunities always please women - even when the importuner does not please.

Real goodness does not attach itself merely to this life; it points to another world. [ Daniel Webster ]

All women become like their mothers - that is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The disposition to do a bad deed is the most terrible punishment of the deed it does. [ Charles Mildway ]

Not till a new thing sprouts up does a man ever enjoy intelligently that which is old. [ Rückert ]

Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body. [ Levis ]

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged. [ J. G. Saxe ]

Rarely does punishment, with halting foot, fail to overtake the criminal in his flight. [ Horace ]

'Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries; but he's a greater that does not marry a fool. [ Wycherly ]

His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly. [ Samuel Johnson ]

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's. [ Alcott ]

It is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. [ Cicero ]

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie. [ Dryden ]

This is an art which does mend nature, - change it rather; but the art itself is nature. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ceremony and great professing renders friendships as much suspected as it does religion. [ Wycherley ]

Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by, love; this is an old rule. [ Buddha ]

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. [ South ]

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. [ Izaak Walton ]

Nature does not like to be observed, and likes that we should be her fools and playmates. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. [ Henri Beyle ]

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [ Rochefoucauld ]

That happiness does still the longest thrive where joys and griefs have turns alternative. [ Robert Herrick ]

All beauty does not inspire love. Some please the sight without captivating the affections. [ Cervantes ]

A favour does not consist in the service done, but in the spirit of the man who confers it. [ Seneca ]

My modesty does not permit me to essay a thing which my powers are not equal to accomplish. [ Virgil ]

Superstition is the poesy of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. [ Blanco White ]

God is mightier and wiser than we; therefore he does with us according to his good pleasure. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. [ Joseph Roux ]

The most delightful letter does not possess a hundredth part of the charm of a conversation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of man than the discovery of a star. [ Brillat-Savarin ]

Satire lies respecting literary men during their life, and eulogy does so after their death. [ Voltaire ]

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter.
O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. [ Saadi ]

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. [ Ruskin ]

To judge a country one does not know the language of is like judging a book from the binding.

He who receives a good turn should never forget it, he who does one should never remember it. [ Charron ]

True magnanimity does not consist so much in undertaking difficult things, as enduring evils. [ Proverb ]

A man must be a fool, who does not succeed in making a woman believe that which flatters her. [ Balzac ]

They that do an act that does deserve requital pay first themselves the stock of such content. [ Sir Robert Howard ]

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. [ William Penn ]

Philosophy does not regard pedigree; she did not receive Plato as a noble, but she made him so. [ Seneca ]

Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does. [ William Mountford ]

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another. [ Richter ]

The Roman mob follows the lead of fortune, as it always does, and hates those that are condemned. [ Juv ]

Love is the passion of great souls: it makes them merit glory, when it does not turn their heads. [ Mme. de Pompadour ]

Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for. He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us. [ Babcock ]

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

The mind does not know what diet it can feed on until it has been brought to the starvation point. [ Holmes ]

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not bold, than of the office which one fills. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

As amber attracts a straw, so does beauty admiration, which only lasts while the warmth continues. [ Robert Burton ]

The art of painting does not proceed so much by intelligence as by sight and feeling and invention. [ Hamerton ]

By reading a man does, as it wore, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with past ages. [ Jeremy Collier ]

When a man is conscious that he does no good himself, the next thing is to cause others to do some. [ Pope ]

Great is the power of habit: teaching us as it does to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. [ Cicero ]

He that condemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her. [ L'Estrange ]

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. [ William Shakespeare ]

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness. [ B. R. Haydon ]

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. [ Henry van Dyke ]

I have not wounded any one with stinging satire, nor does my poetry contain a charge against any man. [ Ovid ]

A nation does wisely, if not well, in starving her men of genius. Fatten them, and they are done for. [ Charles Buxton ]

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority. [ Mencius ]

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury. [ E. H. Chapin ]

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. [ Cervantes ]

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life. [ Ik Marvel ]

Now is the time to show by deeds that the dignity of a man does not yield to the sublimity of the gods. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It does not depend upon us to avoid poverty, but it does depend upon us to make that poverty respected. [ Voltaire ]

Whenever the good done to us does not touch and penetrate the heart, it wounds and irritates our vanity. [ E. de Girardin ]

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

It is rare that, after having given the key of her heart, a woman does not change the lock the day after. [ Sainte-Beuve ]

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which by has. [ Epictetus ]

Nobody can continue easy in his own mind who does not endeavour to become least of all and servant of all. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. [ A. B. Alcott ]

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench. [ Joubert ]

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station. [ Talfourd ]

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth. [ Seneca ]

The question is not at what door of fortune's palace shall we enter in, but what doors does she open to us? [ Burns ]

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm (fanaticism). [ Addison ]

A lover is a herald who proclaims the merit, the wit, or the beauty of a woman: what does a husband proclaim? [ Balzac ]

It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not return to the bow; nor a word to the lips. [ Abdel-Kader ]

Persecution often does in this life what the last day will do completely - separate the wheat from the tares. [ Milner ]

It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one: society does not exist on moral ideas only. [ Balzac ]

If thou wouldst attain to thy highest, go look upon a flower; what that does willessly, that do thou willingly. [ Schiller ]

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this, - one dog does not change a bone with another. [ Adam Smith ]

Nothing under heaven so strongly does allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love bait. [ Spenser ]

Man is like the worker at Gobelins, who weaves on the wrong side a tapestry of which he does not see the design. [ Renan ]

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

The old saying is expressed with depth and significance: On the pinnacle of fortune man does not long stand firm. [ Goethe ]

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. [ Froude ]

Weary the path that does not challenge reason. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Virtue does not give talents, but it supplies their place. Talents neither give virtue, nor supply the place of it. [ Chinese Proverb ]

As the ant does not wend her way to empty barns, so few friends will be found to haunt the place of departed wealth.

The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love. [ Marivaux ]

The beloved friend does not fill one part of the soul, but, penetrating the whole, becomes connected with all feeling. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Well does Agathon say: Of this alone is even God deprived - the power of making that which is past never to have been. [ Aristotle ]

Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy. He does not like to hear the truth, and he shuns telling it. [ Pascal ]

All the thinking in the world does not bring us to thought; we must be right by nature, so that good thoughts may come. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produces amendment; and the greatest is insufficient, if it does not. [ Colton ]

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure; emotion is easily propagated from the writer to the reader. [ Joubert ]

The rest which does us all good, and enables us to do our work well, is the rest of the heart - the Sabbath of the soul. [ James Freeman Clarke ]

That nation is in the enjoyment of liberty which stands by its own strength, and does not depend on the will of another. [ Livy ]

A man who does not learn to live while he is getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before. [ J. G. Holland ]

In the opinion of the world marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the reverse; it begins all. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Her deep blue eyes smile constantly, as if they had by fitness won the secret of a happy dream she does not care to speak. [ Mrs. Browning ]

God does with His children as a master does with his pupils; the more hopeful they are, the more work He gives them to do. [ Plato ]

No man can be said to have the spirit who does not walk in it, or to be born of the spirit until the spirit is born of him. [ Ed ]

Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence. [ Ruffini ]

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions. [ Goethe ]

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things. [ James Howell ]

The Stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as the slave does. [ E. Souvestre ]

Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Often a man is irregular in his conduct solely because his position does not allow him the monotonous pleasures of marriage. [ La Beaumelle ]

Bring yourself up. Only you can do that. Don't bring others down. This does not improve you. This does not improve anything.

Have you so much leisure from your own business that you can take care of other people's that does not at all belong to you? [ Terence ]

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire, - not too near, lest he burn: nor too far off, lest he freeze. [ Diogenes ]

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created. [ Tuckerman ]

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. [ Emerson ]

Like a beautiful flower full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly. [ Buddha ]

It does not take twenty years for men to change their opinions of things which had seemed to them the truest, and most certain. [ La Bruyere ]

The freedom of a government does not depend upon the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them. [ Thaddeus Stevens ]

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed. [ Addison ]

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 ]

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. [ John Ruskin ]

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not withal show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. [ Carlyle ]

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. [ Horace ]

A gentleman is always a gentleman; but the butterflies of society differ as much in their moods as does that insect in its colors. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning. [ Goethe ]

Truly unhappy is the man who leaves undone what he can do, and undertakes what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to grief. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Does an error do harm you ask? Not always! but going wrong always does. How far we shall certainly find out at the end of the road. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them. [ From the French ]

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism; as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. [ Colton ]

Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself. [ Shaftesbury ]

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases which He does not choose to subscribe openly with His own sign-manual. [ Coleridge ]

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer. [ Professor Vinet ]

We learn nothing from mere hearing, and he who does not take an active part in certain subjects knows them but half and superficially. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about. [ Hazlitt ]

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. [ Goethe ]

As a shoe, when too large, is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet; so is it with him whose fortune does not suit him. [ Horace ]

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and be does it without effort. [ Ruskin ]

A great writer possesses, so to speak, an individual and unchangeable style, which does not permit him easily to preserve the anonymous. [ Voltaire ]

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. [ Johnson ]

He that does not know those things which are of use and necessity for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. [ Tillotson ]

Not in the achievement, but in the endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite God. [ Chapin ]

Mathematics does not exercise the judgment, and if too exclusively pursued, may leave the student very ill qualified for moral reasoning. [ R. Whately ]

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods. [ Seneca ]

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]

The chief pleasure (in eating) does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating. [ Horace ]

We cannot abolish fate, but we can in a measure utilise it. The projectile force of the bullet does not annul or suspend gravity; it uses it. [ John Burroughs ]

Such penalties does the mere intention to sin suffer; for he who meditates any secret wickedness within himself incurs the guilt of the deed. [ Juv ]

What is man but a symbol of God, and all that he does, if not symbolical, a revelation to sense of the mystic God-given force that is in him? [ Carlyle ]

The youth longs so to love, the maiden so to be loved; ah! why does there spring out of this holiest of all our instincts such agonising pain? [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He that prolongs his meals, and sacrifices his time as well as his other conveniences, to his luxury, how quickly does be outset his pleasure! [ South ]

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure. [ Emerson ]

Perfection does not exist. To understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to desire to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness. [ Alfred de Musset ]

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost! [ Bruyere ]

Is death more cruel from a private dagger than in the field from murdering swords of thousands? Or does the number slain make slaughter glorious? [ Gibber ]

I struggle against an opposing current; the torrent which sweeps away others does not overpower me, and I make head against the on-rushing stream. [ Ovid ]

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise itself in grandeur, but in mediocrity. [ Montaigne ]

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application. [ Thoreau ]

Revenge, which, like envy, is an instinct of justice, does but take into its own hands the execution of that natural law which precedes the social. [ Chatfield ]

Earnestness commands the respect of mankind. A wavering, vascillating, dead-and-alive Christian does not get the respect of the church or the world. [ John Hall ]

The world never forgives our talents, our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

He is ungrateful who denies a benefit; he is ungrateful who hides it; he is ungrateful who does not return it; he, most of all, who has forgotten it. [ Seneca ]

Books give the same turn to our thoughts that company does to our conversation, without loading our memories, or making us even sensible of the change. [ Swift ]

Books produce the same effect on the mind that diet does on the body; they may either impart no salutary nutriment, or convey that which is pernicious. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

If a traveler does not meet with one who is his better or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool. [ Max Muller ]

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury: for he has it then in his power to make himself his superior to the other by forgiveness. [ Drummond ]

Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force. [ Prof. Drummond ]

There is no vice or crime that does not originate in self-love; and there is no virtue that does not grow from the love of others out of and beyond self. [ Anon ]

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer. [ H. W. Shaw ]

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it. [ Colton ]

Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or small change. [ Chamfort ]

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee. [ James Hervey ]

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not feel more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings. [ Lavater ]

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy. [ Cicero ]

Physic is of little use to a temperate person, for a man's own observation on what he finds does him good, and what hurts him is the best physic to preserve health. [ Bacon ]

There is no possible success without some opposition as a fulcrum; force is always aggressive, and crowds something or other, if it does not hit and trample upon it. [ O. W. Holmes ]

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 ]

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God: pride takes her glory from man. [ Quarles ]

A jest that makes a virtuous woman only smile, often frightens away a prude; but, when real danger forces the former to flee, the latter does not hesitate to advance. [ Latena ]

At first one omits writing for a little while; and then one stays a little while to consider of excuses; and at last it grows desperate, and one does not write at all. [ Swift ]

Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk. [ Count de Maistre ]

There is no man whom Fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door and flies out at the window. [ Cardinal Imperiali ]

What a comfort a dull but kindly person is at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring any more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our mind. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit. [ Macaulay ]

Nature, mysterious even under the light of day, is not to be robbed of her veil; and what she does not choose to reveal you will not extort from her with levers and screws. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He who does not respect confidence, will never find happiness in his path. The belief in virtue vanishes from his heart, the source of nobler actions becomes extinct in him. [ Auffenberg ]

Women speak easily of platonic love; but, while they appear to esteem it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilette that does not drive platonism from our hearts. [ A. Ricard ]

There is one preacher who does preach with effect, and gradually persuade all persons; his name is Destiny, Divine Providence, and his sermon the inflexible course of things. [ Carlyle ]

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader. [ Washington Irving ]

Nature has given to each one all that as a man he needs, which it is the business of education to develop, if, as most frequently happens, it does not develop better of itself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character. [ Shenstone ]

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin. [ Lowell ]

Eternal life does not depend upon our perfection; but because it does depend upon the grace of Christ and the love of the Spirit, that love shall prompt us to emulate perfection. [ William Adams ]

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant of both the character they leave and of the character they assume. [ Burke ]

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flintstone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. [ Saadi ]

Pain and love are the portion of the man who does not like a coward shirk the world's destiny; if he plucks the arrow from his breast, he becomes as one dead for the world and God. [ N. Lenau ]

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour? [ Dr. Johnson ]

We should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it; and those sweets she herself improves and concocts into honey. [ C. C. Cotton ]

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections. [ Sir A. Alison ]

Everybody takes pleasure in returning small obligations; many go so far as to acknowledge moderate ones; but there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with ingratitude. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us. [ Montaigne ]

Does the man live who has not felt this spur to action, in a more or less generous spirit? Emulation lives so near to envy that it is sometimes difficult to establish the boundary-lines. [ Henry Giles ]

We rarely repent of having spoken too little, very often of having spoken too much: a maxim this which is old and trivial, and which every one knows, but which every one does not practise. [ La Bruyère ]

Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard. [ Macaulay ]

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking. [ Frances Power Cobbe ]

The present is withered by our wishes for the future; we ask for more air, more light, more space, more fields, a larger home. Ah! does one need so much room to love a day, and then to die? [ E. Souvestre ]

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's preexistence. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Nobility of birth does not always ensure a corresponding nobility of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog, rather than a spur. [ Colton ]

If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of the two does not make one reasonable being. [ Balzac ]

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever does or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes. [ Carlyle ]

A friend is he who sets his heart upon us, is happy with us and delights in us; does for us what we want, is willing and fully engaged to do all he can for us, on whom we can rely in all cases. [ William Ellery Channing ]

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world. [ Goethe ]

A copious manner of expression gives strength and weight to our ideas, which frequently make impression upon the mind, as iron does upon solid bodies, rather by repeated strokes than a single blow. [ Melmoth ]

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence: but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride. [ Confucius ]

Men are what their mothers made them; you may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback, wiry it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer, or a chemical discovery from that jobber. [ R. W. Emerson ]

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. [ J. G. Holland ]

Truth contradicts our nature, error does not, and for a very simple reason: truth requires us to regard ourselves as limited, error flatters us to think of ourselves as in one or other way unlimited. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Grief is a flower as delicate and prompt to fade as happiness. Still, it does not wholly die. Like the magic rose, dried and unrecognizable, a warm air breathed on it will suffice to renew its bloom. [ Mme. de Gasparin ]

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it pointblank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc. [ Emerson ]

The painter who is content with the praise of the world in respect to what does not satisfy himself is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic. [ Washington Allston ]

Man is placed in this world as a spectator; when he is tired with wondering at all the novelties about him, and not till then, does he desire to be made acquainted with the causes that create those wonders. [ Goldsmith ]

In the whole course of our observation there is not so misrepresented and abused a personage as Death. The shortest life is long enough if it lead to a better, and the longest life is too short if it does not. [ Colton ]

There is something cordial in a fat man, everybody likes him, and he likes everybody. Food does a fat man good; it clings to him; it fructifies upon him; he swells nobly out, and fills a generous space in life. [ Henry Giles ]

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 ]

The capacity of apprehending what is high is very rare; and therefore, in common life a man does well to keep such things for himself, and only to give out so much as is needful to have some advantage against others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. [ Whipple ]

As for drinking, I have no rule about that. When the others drink I like to help; otherwise I remain dry, by habit and preference. This dryness does not hurt me, but it could easily hurt you, because you are different. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

What real good does an addition to a fortune, already sufficient, procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement. [ Goldsmith ]

A man may kill a tender and delicate wife by cold neglect, and ruin himself and her too by debauchery; but if he keeps within his own dwellings and does not disturb his neighbors, the law would be slow to move against him. [ A. S. Roe ]

Education does not commence with the alphabet; it begins with a mother's look, with a father's nod of approbation, or a sign of reproof; with a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance. [ G. A. Sala ]

The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best. [ Plutarch ]

In art there is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste. [ Bruyere ]

Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy - its figures, its trees, or its palaces, - without a spot. [ Willmott ]

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down. [ Chapin ]

The name of a mother! what a long history does it bring with it of smiles and words of mildness, of tears shed by night and of sighings at the morning dawn, of love unrequited, of cares for which there can be no recompense on earth. [ Prof. Park ]

Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

With a pretty face and the freshness of twenty, a woman, however shallow she may be, makes many conquests, but does not retain them: with cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer conquests but more durable ones. [ A. Dupuy ]

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view. [ Goldsmith ]

The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused. [ Lucretius ]

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. [ La Bruyere ]

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. There does not live on earth the man, be his station what it may, that I despise myself compared with him. Man is made great or little by his own will. [ Schiller ]

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 ]

Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers. [ Joubert ]

Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age - flowers before they have bloomed, and trees ere they begin to bear. [ Rev. Dr. Guthrie ]

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. [ Emerson ]

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to her aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. [ Milton ]

Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other. [ Metastasio ]

Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soulmoving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow. [ Peter Bayne ]

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. [ Aristotle ]

Art does not imitate nature, but it founds itself on the study of nature, - takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz. the mind and the soul of man. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance; than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. [ Colton ]

Why does the evening, does the night, put warmer love in our hearts? Is it the nightly pressure of helplessness? or is it the exalting separation from the turmoils of life - that veiling of the world in which for the soul nothing then remains but souls? [ Richter ]

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do: therefore never go abroad in search of your wants. If they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

Let us pity the wicked man; for it is very sad to seek happiness where it does not exist. Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring him gently back to sacred principle, and if he persist, let us pity him the more for a blindness so fatal to himself. [ De Charnage ]

A man who knows the world, will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know; and will gain more credit by the dexterity he displays in hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. [ Sir R. B. Cotton ]

Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for the while without exponent; yet does it continue indestructible, unweariedly active, and work blindly in the great chaotic deep. Thus sect after sect, and church after church, bodies itself forth, and melts again into new metamorphosis. [ Carlyle ]

True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. [ Webster ]

Resistance ought never to be thought of but when an utter subversion of the laws of the realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution, and no redress can otherwise be hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the law as the highest offence. [ Walpole ]

Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty. [ Whittier ]

Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me! [ Charles Dickens ]

Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars. [ Whipple ]

When you take the wires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down? - that it does not release me, and put me into some better place, and better condition of life? [ Bishop Randolph S. Foster ]

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case. [ Colton ]

He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career; and he is greatest who does the most of all these things, and does them best. [ R. D. Hitchcock ]

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know that the morning and spring of your life are past. [ Thoreau ]

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold, a woman adds to it her sympathy. A small sum in the hands of a woman does more good than a hundred times as much in the hands of a man. Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a multitude with a few loaves and fishes. [ E. Legouve ]

Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

How often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies. [ Henry Melville ]

A woman's life can be divided thus: the age when she dances but does not dare to waltz - it is the spring; the age when she dances and dares to waltz - it is summer; the age when she dances but prefers to waltz - it is autumn; finally, when she dances no longer - it is winter, that rigorous winter of life. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted. [ Addison ]

A prolific source of obscurity is ambiguous arrangement. A member of the Savage Club, so runs the story, was one day standing on the steps of the club house. A messenger stopped and inquired: Does a gentleman belong to your club with one eye named Walker? I don't know, was the answer, what was the name of his other eye? [ Sir J. F. Stephen, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. [ Seneca ]

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass. [ Hazlitt ]

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it. [ Addison ]

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. [ Rousseau ]

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. [ Dean Alford ]

The world produces for every pint of honey a gallon of gall, for every dram of pleasure a pound of pain, for every inch of mirth an ell of moan; and as the ivy twines around the oak, so does misery and misfortune encompass the happy man. Felicity, pure and unalloyed felicity, is not a plant of earthly growth: her gardens are the skies. [ Robert Burton ]

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

To be a finite being is no crime, and to be the Infinite is not to be a creditor. As man was not consulted he does not find himself a party in a bargain, but a child in the household of love. Reconciliation, therefore, is not the consequence of paying a debt, or procuring atonement for an injury, but an organic process of the human life. [ John Weiss ]

There is no one passion which all mankind so naturally give in to as pride, nor any other passion which appears in such different disguises. It is to be found in all habits and all complexions. Is it not a question whether it does more harm or good in the world, and if there be not such a thing as what we may call a virtuous and laudable pride? [ Steele ]

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly; for then they would satiate us, and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent. [ Ruskin ]

The only thing that has been taught successfully to women is to wear becomingly the fig-leaf they received from their first mother. Everything that is said and repeated for the first eighteen or twenty years of a woman's life is reduced to this: My daughter, take care of your fig-leaf; your fig-leaf becomes you; your fig-leaf does not become you. [ Diderot ]

The devil does not stay long where music is performed. Music is the best balsam for a distressed heart; it refreshes and quickens the soul. Music is a governess which makes people milder, meeker, more modest and discreet. Yes, my friends, music is a beautiful, glorious gift of God, and next to theology, I give it the highest place and the highest honor. [ Martin Luther ]

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go. to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch. [ Pascal ]

Pity and forbearance, and long-sufferance and fair interpretation, and excusing our brother, and taking in the best sense, and passing the gentlest sentence, are as certainly our duty, and owing to every person that does offend and can repent, as calling to account can be owing to the law, and are first to be paid; and he that does not so is an unjust person. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made. There must be inspiration back of all true and permanent art, dramatic or otherwise, and art is universal: there is nothing national about it. Its field is humanity, and it takes in all the world; nor does anything else afford the refuge that is provided by it from all troubles and all the vicissitudes of life. [ William Winter ]

All are to be men of genius in their degree, - rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on. [ Ruskin ]

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. [ Pascal ]

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. [ Chesterfield ]

The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject. [ Blakey ]

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside. [ Massinger ]

Neighborhood or Vicinity? Neighborhood means the place which is nigh, that is, nigh to one's habitation; vicinity primarily means the place which does not exceed in distance the extent of a village. Neighborhood refers to the inhabitants, or to inhabited places, and denotes nearness of persons to each other, or to objects; as, a populous neighborhood, vicinity denotes nearness of one object to another, whether person or thing; as, Oakland is in the vicinity of San Francisco.

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive. [ H. W. Beecher ]

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Though no participator in the joys of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practice toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

I put myself, my experiences, my observations, my heart and soul into my work. I press my soul upon the white paper. The writer who does this may have any style, he or she will find the hearts of their readers. Writing a book involves, not a waste, but a great expenditure of vital force. Yet I can assure you I have written the last lines of most of my stories with tears. The characters of my own creation had become dear to me. I could not bear to bid them good-bye and send them away from me into the wide world. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth. [ Willmott ]

I have very often lamented and hinted my sorrow, in several speculations, that the art of painting is made so little use of to the improvement of manners. When we consider that it places the action of the person represented in the most agreeable aspect imaginable, - that it does not only express the passion or concern as it sits upon him who is drawn, but has under those features the height of the painter's imagination, - what strong images of virtue and humanity might we not expect would be instilled into the mind from the labors of the pencil! [ Steele ]

With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]

does in Scrabble®

The word does is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters does:

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does in Words With Friends™

The word does is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters does:

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Words containing the sequence does

Words that start with does (3 words)

Words with does in them (2 words)

Word Growth involving does

Shorter words in does

do doe

Longer words containing does

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crescendoes

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dildoes

diminuendoes

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doest

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misdoes

outdoes

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tornadoes tornadoesque

torpedoes

underdoes

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