Of young men die many,
Of old men escape not any. [ Proverb ]
You cannot escape away from yourself. [ Proverb ]
The deeds of men never escape the gods. [ Ovid ]
It is an ill counsel that hath no escape. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart,
How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart!
Those escape thy anger who refuse thy sway,
And those are punished most who most obey. [ Prior ]
It is a hard-fought field where none escape. [ Proverb ]
To escape the rocks, and perish in the sands. [ Proverb ]
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure escape; brick-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes: what king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? [ William Shakespeare ]
Holding an eel too fast is the way to let her escape. [ Proverb ]
Better ten guilty escape than one innocent man suffer. [ Proverb ]
The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery. [ George Eliot ]
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself. [ Horace ]
Those faces which have charmed us most escape us the soonest. [ Walter Scott ]
We confide our secrets in friendship, but they escape us in love. [ Du Coeur ]
We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves. [ H. W. Shaw ]
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death! [ Martial ]
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
It is not so much for love of the world that we seek it, as to escape our own companionship.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting. [ Ouida ]
He that lets his fish escape into the water, may cast his net often yet never catch it again. [ Proverb ]
Words really flattering are not those which we prepare, but those which escape us unthinkingly. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
It is vain for the coward to fly; death follows close behind; it is by defying it that the brave escape. [ Voltaire ]
All men are fools: to escape seeing one, one would be compelled to shut himself in his room, and break his mirror. [ De Sade ]
Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them. [ Pascal ]
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. [ Chamfort ]
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. [ Ulysses S. Grant ]
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself: for every guilty person is his own hangman. [ Seneca ]
He will steal himself into a man's favor and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but when you find him out, you have him ever after. [ William Shakespeare ]
Love is a bird of passage that women await with curiosity in youth, retain with pleasure in maturer years, and allow to escape with regret when old age creeps upon them. [ A. Ricard ]
Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald. If you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her; but if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again. [ Seneca ]
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. [ Lowell ]
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it; and with this I begin and end. [ John Newton ]
Generosity is catching: and if so many escape it, it is somewhat for the same reason that countrymen escape the smallpox - because they meet with no one to give it to them. [ Lord Greville ]
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]
To escape from arrangements that tortured me, my heart sought refuge in the world of ideas, when as yet I was unacquainted with the world of realities, from which iron bars excluded me. [ Schiller at his training-school ]
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. Rut to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. [ Hume ]
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world is their finding so little there. Generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason the countrymen escape the smallpox, - because they meet no one to give it to them. [ Greville ]
It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles. [ Senancour ]
Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the bands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of the public. [ Addison ]
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]