Fast bind, fast find. [ Proverb ]
Pleasant hours fly fast. [ Proverb ]
Secrets travel fast in Paris. [ Napoleon ]
The poor keep a continual fast. [ Proverb ]
Fun fast the leaves are dropping
Before that wandering breath. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
Feast today makes fast tomorrow. [ Plautus ]
And binding nature fast in fate.
Left free the human will. [ Pope ]
Hold fast an eel with a fig leaf. [ Proverb ]
To man, in this his trial state,
The privilege is given,
When tost by tides of human fate,
To anchor fast in heaven. [ Watts ]
How fast has brother followed
From sunshine to the sunless land. [ Wordsworth ]
Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by, [ Ella Wheeler Wilcox ]
Nothing anchors itself fast for us. [ Pascal ]
Is there no mean, but fast or feast? [ Proverb ]
The belly that is full may well fast. [ Proverb ]
Hold fast is the first point in hawking. [ Proverb ]
The Present, the Present is all thou hast
For thy sure possessing;
Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast
Till it gives its blessing. [ Whittier ]
Faster and more fast,
O'er night's brim, day boils at last;
Boils, pure gold, over the cloud-cup's brim. [ Robert Browning ]
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
Proneness to sin cleaves fast to mortal men. [ Theognis ]
Eat, and welcome; fast, and heartily welcome. [ Proverb ]
A moneyless man goes fast through the market. [ Proverb ]
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that grasps at too much holds nothing fast. [ Proverb ]
'Tis our fast intent
To shake all cares and business from our age,
Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
Unburden'd crawl toward death. [ William Shakespeare ]
The crackling embers on the hearth are dead;
The indoor note of industry is still;
The latch is fast; upon the window-sill
The small birds wait not for their daily bread;
The voiceless flowers - how quietly they shed
Their nightly odours; - and the household rill
Murmurs continuous dulcet sounds that fill
The vacant expectation, and the dread
Of listening night. [ Hartley Coleridge ]
As fast lock'd up in sleep, as guiltless labor,
When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones. [ William Shakespeare ]
Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame.
Die fast away; only themselves die faster.
The far-famed sculptor, and the laurelled bard,
Those bold insurancers of deathless fame,
Supply their little feeble aids in vain. [ Blair ]
Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. [ Wm. Knox ]
Trust none,
For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer cakes.
And hold-fast is the only doer. [ William Shakespeare ]
To go as fast as a friar that is invited to dinner. [ Proverb ]
Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast.
And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;
At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,
Troop home to churchyards. [ William Shakespeare ]
Holding an eel too fast is the way to let her escape. [ Proverb ]
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. [ Proverb ]
One may as soon break his neck as his fast at your house. [ Proverb ]
One woe doth tread upon another's heel, so fast they follow. [ William Shakespeare ]
A man must often exercise or fast or take physic, or be sick. [ Sir W. Temple ]
A noble man attracts noble men, and knows how to hold them fast. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
If your hand be in a lion's mouth, get it out as fast as you can. [ Proverb ]
Attack not thoughtlessly a wasp's nest, but if you do, stand fast. [ M. Claudius ]
Principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast. [ Richter ]
Oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, and hold-fast is the only dog. [ William Shakespeare ]
You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips must touch the toe. [ Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, The Sour-Toe Cocktail ]
The eyes, the ears, the tongue, the hands, the feet, they all fast in their way. [ Proverb ]
Make the most of time, it glides away so fast; but order teaches you to gain time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
If you would have the nuptial union last, Let virtue be the bond that ties it fast. [ Rowe ]
Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Men drop so fast, ere life's mid stage we tread, Few know so many friends alive, as dead. [ Young ]
Those are wise who through error press on to truth; those are fools who hold fast by error. [ Rückert ]
As surfeit is the father of much fast, so every scope by the immoderate use turns to restraint. [ William Shakespeare ]
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread. [ Burton ]
The memory of a benefit soon vanishes, but the remembrance of an injury sticks fast in the heart. [ Proverb ]
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on! hold fast! hold out! Patience is genius. [ Count de Buffon ]
Literature is fast becoming all in all to us - our church, our senate, our whole social constitution. [ Carlyle ]
Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. [ Bible ]
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. [ Tillotson ]
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change. [ N. P. Willis ]
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures. [ J. G. Holland ]
Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly. Youth, while we have it, we must wear daily; and it will fast wear away. [ John Foster ]
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
There is the same difference between their tongues as between the hour and the minute-hand; one goes ten times as fast, and the other signifies ten times as much. [ Sydney Smith ]
The poetry of the ancients was that of possession, ours is that of aspiration; the former stands fast on the soil of the present, the latter hovers between memory and anticipation. [ Schlegel ]
Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and, by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction. They stereotype the lesson they have learned into a mode. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
For the short-lived bloom and contracted span of brief and wretched life is fast fleeting away! While we are drinking and calling for garlands, ointments, and women, old age steals swiftly on with noiseless step. [ Juvenal ]
Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence, probity, and grace, to wear out life with, - persons with whom we can speak a few reasonable words every day, by whom we can measure ourselves, and who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
'Tis the merry nightingale that crowds and hurries and precipitates, with fast thick warble, his delicious notes, as he were fearful that an April night would be too short for him to utter forth his love-chant, and disburden his full soul of all its music. [ Coleridge ]
An era is fast approaching when no writer will be rend by the majority, save and except those than can effect that for bales of manuscript that the hydrostatic screw performs for bales of cotton, by condensing that matter into a period that before occupied a page. [ Cottar ]
The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day. [ Chapin ]
Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]
Infinity is the retirement in which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and eternity the skeptic sees an abyss in which all is lost. I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support. Here, holding by the pillars of heaven, I exist - I stand fast. [ Miller ]
A town, before it can be plundered and deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. [ Colton ]