Great wits draw together. [ French Proverb ]

Nothing stake nothing draw. [ Proverb ]

Would you draw oil out of sand? [ Proverb ]

To draw the worm out of the root. [ Proverb ]

You and I draw both in the same yoke. [ Proverb ]

The eternal feminine doth draw us on. [ Goethe ]

To draw a long bow (i.e. exaggerate). [ Proverb ]

Every word he speaks is a syren's note
To draw the careless hearer. [ Beaumont ]

Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep,
Did soon draw in again. [ Robert Herrick ]

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,
As they draw near to their eternal home. [ Edmund Waller ]

Draw not your bow before your arrow be fixed. [ Proverb ]

When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability.
What do we then, but draw anew the model
In fewer offices; or, at least, desist
To build at all? [ William Shakespeare ]

Behold the threaden sails.
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge. [ William Shakespeare ]

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain;
Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,
Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law. [ Joseph Story ]

The fated must happen; the feared must draw near. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

No thing to do but draw in your stool and sit down. [ Proverb ]

A hare may draw a lion if she have but a golden cord. [ Proverb ]

Lidford Jaw; first hang and draw, then hear the cause. [ Proverb ]

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

He draws nothing well who thirsts not to draw everything. [ John Ruskin ]

He'll rather die with thirst than take the pains to draw water. [ Proverb ]

The drowsy frightened steeds that draw the litter of close-curtained sleep. [ Milton ]

What avails it me, to draw one foot out of the mire, and stick the other in? [ Proverb ]

Strong thoughts are iron nails driven in the mind, that nothing can draw out. [ Diderot ]

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. [ Alphonse Karr ]

No accidents are so unlucky that the prudent may not draw some advantage from them. [ La Roche ]

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. [ Lowell ]

The spider lost her distaff, and is ever since forced to draw her thread through her tail. [ Proverb ]

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. [ Gray ]

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread. [ Burton ]

The native soil of our thoughts is the heart; whoso will have his fresh must draw from this spring. [ Börne ]

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows. [ Eschylus ]

It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. [ Menander ]

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. [ Burke ]

It is a masterpiece to draw good out of evil, and by the help of virtue to improve misfortune into blessings. [ Seneca ]

A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. [ Emerson ]

The sun's power cannot draw a wandering star from its path. How then could a human being fall out of God's love! [ Rückert ]

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past see how that which is to come will be drawn on. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Beauty or unbecomingness is of more force to draw or deter invitation than any discourses which can be made to them. [ Locke ]

Nay, but weigh well what you presume to swear. Oaths are of dreadful weight! and, if they are false. Draw down damnation. [ Sir Thomas Overbury ]

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together. [ Jeremy Collier ]

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license. [ Montaigne ]

I would recommend the learned imitator to study closely his model in life and manners, and thence to draw his expressions to the life. [ Horace ]

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are ground of the Divinity. [ Bailey ]

Love is like the painter, who, being to draw the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of his face. [ South ]

There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. [ Emerson ]

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in. [ Beecher ]

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins. [ Mrs. Browning ]

There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skillful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

How many of us have been attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. [ Lord Lytton ]

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted. [ Horace Walpole ]

Music, if only listened to, and not scientifically cultivated, gives too much play to the feelings and fancy; the difficulties of the art draw forth the whole energies of the soul. [ Richter ]

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

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 ]

He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men, - of men ia distant countries and in past times. [ Emerson ]

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read a book so bad but he drew some profit from it [ Sterne ]

Grief or misfortune seems to be indispensable to the development of intelligence, energy, and virtue. The proofs to which the people are submitted, as with individuals, are necessary then to draw them from their lethargy, to disclose their character. [ Fearon ]

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. [ St. Augustine ]

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 ]

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them, and which, if you do otherwise, emit what is unpleasant and noxious, so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsatisfactory and unsafe. [ Landor ]