Frugality is an estate alone. [ Proverb ]
Oh, frail estate of human things! [ Dryden ]
A good reputation is a fair estate. [ Proverb ]
It is good to be a-kin to an estate. [ Proverb ]
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen.
Fallen from his high estate.
And welt'ring in his blood;
Deserted at his utmost need.
But those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ Dryden ]
Goodness is beauty in its best estate. [ Marlowe ]
But to the world no bugbear is so great,
As want of figure and a small estate. [ Pope ]
No honest man gets an estate of a sudden. [ Proverb ]
The press is the fourth estate of the realm. [ Carlyle ]
He that lies long abed, his estate feels it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Man yields to custom as he bows to fate.
In all things ruled - mind, body and estate;
In pain or sickness, we for cure apply
To them we know not, and we know not why. [ Crabbe ]
Man yields to custom as he bows to fate,
In all things ruled--mind, body, and estate;
In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply
To them we know not, and we know not why. [ Crabbe ]
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A fool loses his estate before he finds his folly. [ Proverb ]
The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing. [ Juvenal ]
No estate can make him rich that has a poor heart. [ Proverb ]
He that gets an estate will probably never spend it. [ Proverb ]
What is an estate good for, if it cannot buy content? [ Proverb ]
A gentleman without an estate is a pudding without suet. [ Proverb ]
What is a great estate good for, if it brings melancholy? [ Proverb ]
It is a hard thing to have a great estate, and not fall in love with it. [ Proverb ]
Diligence alone is a good patrimony, but negligence will waste a fair estate. [ Proverb ]
There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate. [ Jane Porter ]
Death possesses a good deal of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town. [ Hawthorne ]
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Man yields to custom as he bows to fate, - in all things ruled, mind, body, and estate. [ Crabbe ]
They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heat themselves at the altar. [ South ]
The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies, and keeps it to himself. [ Brougham ]
Think not your estate your own, while any man can call upon you for money which you cannot pay. [ Johnson ]
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thy estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity. [ Quarles ]
Knowledge is not a shop for profit or sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate. [ Bacon ]
Extremes are dangerous: a middle estate is safest; as a middle temper of the sea, between a still calm and a violent tempest, is most helpful to convey the mariner to his haven. [ Swinnock ]
Your estate, your home, and your pleasing wife must be left, and of these trees which you are rearing, not one shall follow you, their short-lived owner, except the hateful cypresses. [ Horace ]
Portion or Part? The distinction between these words is usually unheeded. A portion is a part assigned, allotted, or set aside for a special purpose; part has a less limited meaning. Hence, we may say correctly:
In what part of the city do you live?
What portion of the estate do you inherit?
. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]