He lives twice who can at once employ
The present well and e'en the past enjoy. [ Pope ]
Little pains
In a due hour employ'd great profit yields. [ John Philips ]
None but a wise man can employ leisure well. [ Proverb ]
One loses all the time which he can employ better. [ Rousseau ]
To live is not to spend or waste time, but to employ it. [ Proverb ]
How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! [ Robert Browning ]
We have not always enough reason to employ all our strength. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
We have not always sufficient strength to employ all our reason. [ Mme. de Grignan ]
Most men employ their first years so as to make their last miserable. [ Proverb ]
Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others. [ La Roche ]
He who has money to squander, let him employ workmen and not stand by them. [ Italian Proverb ]
If you suspect a man, don't employ him; if you employ him, don't suspect him. [ George Horace Lorimer ]
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable. [ Bruyere ]
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. [ Cicero ]
We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions. [ Richard Steele ]
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. [ Ovid ]
The best philosophy to employ toward the world is to alloy the sarcasm of gayety with the indulgence of contempt. [ Chamfort ]
May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ! [ Plato ]
Employ your time in improving yourselves by other men's documents: so shall you come easily by what others have labored hard for. [ Socrates ]
A weapon is anything that can serve to wound; and sentiments are perhaps the most cruel weapons man can employ to wound his fellow man. [ Balzac ]
The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce. [ F. Osborn ]
They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons. [ Addison ]
Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love. [ Hosea Ballou ]
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion. [ Joubert ]
An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe: but the man who moulds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling. [ O. W. Holmes ]
If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A gentleman's taste in dress is, upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you will find him the cheapest. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. [ Bruyere ]