True jests do the greatest execution. [ Proverb ]
Under your good correction, I have seen.
When, after execution, judgment hath
Repented over his doom. [ William Shakespeare ]
Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune. [ Proverb ]
Boldness is bad in counsel, but good in execution. [ Lord Bacon ]
The severity of the laws prevents the execution of them. [ Montesquieu ]
When things are come to the execution, there is no secrecy comparable to celerity. [ Bacon ]
Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet. [ Chamfort ]
I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so efficient as their stringent execution. [ U. S. Grant ]
Hasty and adventurous schemes are at first view flattering, in execution difficult and in the issue disastrous. [ Livy ]
A really great man is known by three signs - generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success. [ Bismarck ]
In mediaeval art, thought is the first thing, execution the second; in modern art, execution is the first thing and thought the second. [ John Ruskin ]
The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded. [ W. G. Simms ]
Revenge, which, like envy, is an instinct of justice, does but take into its own hands the execution of that natural law which precedes the social. [ Chatfield ]
When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than the mightiest blow. [ South ]
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception, his spirit, and design, he is hardly below even the poet in liberal art. [ Steele ]
Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution. [ Goethe ]
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like the column that guided Israel in the desert, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, and a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies. [ Colton ]
If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels. [ Colton ]
It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. In springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it hears no noise; but the thunderclap which follows, and which I most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. [ Colton ]