Ease with dignity. [ Cicero ]

Think of ease, but work on. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A dog's life, hunger and ease. [ Proverb ]

Great pains quickly find ease. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No slave, to lazy ease resign'd,
E'er triumphed over noble foes;
The monarch, Fortune, most is kind
To him who bravely dares oppose. [ Cervantes ]

He that is at ease seeks dainties. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He lives at ease that freely lives. [ Barbour ]

Up, then, with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away -
This is no time for thee to sleep -
Up, watch, and work, and pray! [ Horatius Bonar ]

With little wit and ease to suit them,
They whirl in narrow circling trails,
Like kittens playing with their tails. [ Goethe ]

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. [ Cowper ]

Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows. [ Proverb ]

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. [ John Dryden ]

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give,
For not to live at ease is not to live. [ Persius ]

A penny-worth of ease is worth a penny. [ Proverb ]

Usefulness comes by labour, wit by ease. [ George Herbert ]

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. [ Pope ]

The world agrees
That he writes well who writes with ease. [ Prior ]

Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease. [ Rousseau ]

You write with ease to show your breeding
But easy writing's curst hard reading. [ Sheridan ]

What's a fine person, or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment gives them decent grace?
Blessed with all other requisites to please.
Some want the striking elegance of ease;
The curious eye their awkward movement tires:
They seem like puppets led about by wires. [ Churchill ]

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

What can power give more than food and drink,
To live at ease and not be bound to think? [ Dryden ]

Ease leads to habit, as success to ease.
He lives by rule who lives himself to please. [ Crabbe ]

Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease.
Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. [ Pope ]

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease.
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. [ Pope ]

If you would be at ease, all the world is not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Windy attorneys to their client woes,
Airy succeeders of intestate joys,
Poor breathing orators of miseries!
Let them have scope: though what they do impart
Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dexterity lends an air of ease to every action. [ G. Crabb ]

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance. [ Pope ]

Grief finds some ease by him that like doth bear. [ Spenser ]

Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [ Goethe ]

O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whatever thy name;
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh
For which we bear to live, or dare to die. [ Pope ]

The toothache is more ease than to deal with ill people. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Without labor there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. [ Carlyle ]

Half the ease of life oozes away through the leaks of unpunctuality. [ Anon ]

What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence. [ Dr. Johnson ]

So let them ease their hearts with prate of equal rights, which man never knew. [ Byron ]

The way to cheerfulness is to keep our bodies in exercise and our minds at ease. [ Steele ]

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. [ Lord Greville ]

What is more at ease, more abstracted from the world, than a true single-hearted honesty? [ Thomas à Kempis ]

A man may as well expect to be well, and at ease without wealth, as happy without virtue. [ Proverb ]

I am always ill at ease when tumults arise among the mob - people who have nothing to lose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. [ Milton ]

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty. [ Emerson ]

He who will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor frozen churl. [ Joanna Baillie ]

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice. [ Swift ]

Very great benefactors to the rich, or those whom they call people at their ease, are your persons of no consequence. [ Steele ]

Oh, fair undress, best dress! It checks no vein, but every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, and heightens ease with grace. [ Thomson ]

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. [ Hawthorne ]

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. [ La Roche ]

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty. [ Joubert ]

A principle fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. [ Lord Bacon ]

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, end like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. [ Colton ]

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described but is immediately felt, and puts the stranger at once at his ease. [ Washington Irving ]

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. [ Charron ]

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body. It preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and affections which can possibly befall us. [ Addison ]

Nothing is so difficult as the apparent ease of a clear and flowing style; those graces which, from their presumed facility, encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. [ Colton ]

It is not ease, but effort - not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved. [ Samuel Smiles ]

As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. [ George Washington ]

As the mind of Johnson was robust, but neither nimble nor graceful, so his style was void of all grace and ease, and, being the most unlike of all styles to the natural effusion of a cultivated mind, had the least pretension to the praise of eloquence. [ Sir J. Mackintosh ]

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes. [ Hazlitt ]

Young women, the glory of your life is to do something, and to be something. You may have formed the idea that ease and personal enjoyment are the ends of your life. This is a terrible mistake. Development, in the broadest sense and in the highest direction, is the end of your life. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

Pain itself is not without its alleviations. It may be violent and frequent, but it is seldom both violent and long-continued; and its pauses and intermissions become positive pleasures. It has the power of shedding a satisfaction over intervals of ease, which, I believe, few enjoyments exceed. [ Paley ]

The little flower which sprung up through the hard pavement of poor Picciola's prison was beautiful from contrast with the dreary sterility which surrounded it. So here amid rough walls, are there fresh tokens of nature. And O, the beautiful lessons which flowers teach to children, especially in the city! The child's mind can grasp with ease the delicate suggestions of flowers. [ Chapin ]

The little flower which sprung up through the hard payment of poor Picciola's prison, was beautiful from contrast with the dreary sterility which surrounded it. So here, amid the rough walls, are there fresh tokens of nature; and oh, the beautiful lessons which flowers teach to children, especially in the city! The child's mind can grasp with ease the delicate suggestions of flowers. [ E. H. Chapin ]

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Consistent characters are those which in social intercourse are easy, sure, and gentle. We do not clash with them, and they are never wanting nor contradictory to themselves; their stability incites confidence, their frankness induces self-surrendering openness. We feel at ease with them, we are not offended at their superiority, doubtless we admire them less, but we also hardly dream of feeling envious of them, and they seem almost to disdain malignity by the peaceful influence of their presence. [ Degerando ]

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. [ Colton ]