Pride feels no frost. [ Proverb ]
Loyalty feels no shame. [ Motto ]
Like the bird be thou,
That for a moment rests
Upon the topmost bough:
He feels the branch to bend
And yet as sweetly sings,
Knowing that he has wings. [ Victor Hugo ]
A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death? [ Wordsworth ]
Quiet sleep feels no foul weather. [ Proverb ]
Alas by some degree of woe,
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can never a transport know,
That never feels a pain. [ Lord Lyttleton ]
In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [ Caesar ]
He is noble who feels and acts nobly. [ Heine ]
Not the poet in the moment
Fancy lightens on his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gies to me. [ Burns ]
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken feels her present God again
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away. [ John Keble ]
He scorns his own who feels another's woe. [ Campbell ]
When the head aches, all the body feels it. [ Proverb ]
And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice. [ Thomson ]
He that lies long abed, his estate feels it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that fears danger in time seldom feels it. [ Proverb ]
He that always fears dangers always feels it. [ Proverb ]
The more we know, the better we forgive;
Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all who live. [ Mme. de Stael ]
Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels
When the tired player shuffles off the buskin;
A page of Hood may do a fellow good
After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. [ Lowell ]
Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days.
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone.
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. [ Cowper ]
The string that jars
When rudely touch'd, ungrateful to the sense,
With pleasure feels the master's flying fingers,
Swells into harmony and charms the hearers. [ Rowe ]
The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [ Campistron ]
The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Who always buys and sells feels not what he spends. [ Proverb ]
He that the devil drives feels no lead at his heels. [ Proverb ]
A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants. [ Emerson ]
Even when the bird walks one feels that it has wings. [ Lemierre ]
He teaches best.
Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
And knows their strength or weakness through his own. [ Bayard Taylor ]
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. [ Philip J. Bailey ]
It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels. [ Horace Walpole ]
Our pity is often misapplied, for none can tell what another feels. [ Proverb ]
A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
He that is surprised with the first frost feels it all the winter after. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains. [ Hannah More ]
Ever, as of old, the thing a man will do is the thing he feels commanded to do. [ Carlyle ]
The heroic heart, the seeing eye, of the first times, still feels and sees in us of the latest. [ Carlyle ]
No evil can touch him who looks on human beauty; he feels himself at one with himself and with the world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable. [ Seneca ]
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. [ Lowell ]
The beginning and the decline of love manifest themselves in the embarrassment that one feels in the tête-à-tête. [ La Bruyere ]
We do not know of how much a man is capable if he has the will, and to what point he will raise himself if he feels free. [ J. von Muller ]
He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest. [ James Martineau ]
He that is sensible of no evil but what he feels, has a hard heart; and he that can spare no kindness from himself, has a narrow soul. [ Collier ]
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and consequently imperishable. [ Aristotle ]
I think I am rather fond of silent people myself. I cannot bear to live with a person who feels compelled to talk because he is my companion. [ Disraeli ]
Rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures. [ Colton ]
There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire. [ Carlyle ]
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow. [ Alan Turing ]
If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence. [ George Eliot ]
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels. [ Alfieri ]
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment: it imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. [ Whipple ]
Civilized society feels that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value than the possession of a good chef. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for cold entrees, nor an irreproachable private life for a bad dinner and poor wines. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects. [ Johnson ]
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; the passions are powerful pleaders, and their very silence, like that of Garrick, goes directly to the soul, but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures. [ Colton ]
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. [ Helps ]