Good finds good. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Their rage finds them arms. [ Virgil ]
One slumberer finds another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do. [ Watts ]
He who finds fault means to buy. [ Proverb ]
Love that asketh love again
Finds the barter naught but pain;
Love that giveth in full store
Aye receives as much, and more.
Love exacting nothing back
Never knoweth any lack;
Love compelling Love to pay,
Sees him bankrupt every day. [ Dinah Muloch Craik ]
A shabby coat finds small credit. [ Italian Proverb ]
Genius invents, wit merely finds. [ Weber ]
He the cross who longest bears
Finds his sorrow's bounds are set. [ Winkworth ]
For virtue only finds eternal fame. [ Petrarch ]
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery. [ Proverb ]
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, then wisdom finds a way. [ William Shakespeare ]
All's not offence that indiscretion finds. [ William Shakespeare ]
A work of real merit finds favour at last. [ A. B. Alcott ]
We sail the sea of life; a calm one finds.
And one a tempest; and, the voyage o'er,
Death is the quiet haven of us all. [ Wordsworth ]
The night is long that never finds the day. [ Macbeth ]
Here lies my wife, poor Molly, let her lie,
She finds repose at last, and so do I. [ Epitaph ]
Truth finds foes where it should find none. [ Proverb ]
He that brings a present finds the door open. [ Proverb ]
There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late
She finds some honest gander for her mate. [ Pope ]
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden sceptre over a slumbering world.
Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound!
Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds;
Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and nature made a pause;
An awful pause! prophetic of her end. [ Young ]
Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art.
For there thy habitation is the Heart -
The Heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consigned -
To fetters and the damp vault's dayless gloom,
Their country conquers with their Martyrdom,
And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. [ Byron ]
He that looks not before finds himself behind. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One takes what is his own wherever he finds it. [ French Proverb ]
There is nothing can equal the tender hours
When life is first in bloom,
When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
Finds everywhere perfume;
When the present is all and it questions not
If those flowers shall pass away,
But pleased with its own delightful lot,
Dreams never of decay. [ Bohn ]
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. [ Boileau ]
Grief finds some ease by him that like doth bear. [ Spenser ]
No barber shaves so close but another finds work. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A fool loses his estate before he finds his folly. [ Proverb ]
It is not he who searches for praise who finds it. [ Rivarol ]
A jealous man always finds more than he looks for. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]
This is the fruit of craft:
Like him that shoots up high, looks for the shaft,
And finds it in his forehead. [ Middleton ]
He that gropes in the dark finds what he would not. [ Proverb ]
Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp. [ Willmott ]
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
No! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved;
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [ William Shakespeare ]
If any fool finds the cap fits him, let him wear it. [ Proverb ]
Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt. [ Rochefoucauld ]
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. [ Proverb ]
One barber shaves not so close but another finds work. [ Proverb ]
They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]
He that knows how to waste finds everything to his purpose. [ Proverb ]
Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs. [ Crabbe ]
The eye of Paul Pry often finds more than he wished to find. [ Lessing ]
A fool always finds some one more foolish than he to admire him. [ Boileau ]
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. [ Bacon ]
At every stage of life he reaches, man finds himself but a novice. [ Chamfort ]
A man in earnest finds means, or, if he cannot find, creates them. [ William Ellery Channing ]
He that finds a thing, steals it, if he endeavours not to restore it. [ Proverb ]
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his own home. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
He that finds something before it is lost will die before he falls ill. [ Dutch Proverb ]
Age makes us not childish, as some say; it finds us still true children. [ Goethe ]
The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
In regard to virtue, each one finds certainty by consulting his own heart. [ Renan ]
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Charity ever finds in the act reward, and needs no trumpet in the receiver. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
When a man has no occasion to borrow, he finds numbers willing to lend him. [ Goldsmith ]
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise. [ Fontenelle ]
Genius does not need a special language; it newly uses whatever tongue it finds. [ Stedman ]
Happy he who finds a friend; without that second self one lives but half of life. [ Chenedolle ]
Who takes an eel by the tail, or a woman at her word, soon finds he holds nothing. [ Proverb ]
Weariness can snore upon the flint, when restive sloth finds the down pillow hard. [ William Shakespeare ]
When a man finds not repose in himself it is in vain for him to seek it elsewhere. [ From the French ]
Age does not make us childish, as people say; it only finds us still true children. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. [ Ward Beecher ]
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. [ Landor ]
At the bottom of the faith-sea lies the pearl of knowledge; happy the diver that finds it. [ Bodenstedt ]
There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. [ Ovid ]
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. [ St. Augustine ]
The devil never assails a man except he finds him either void of knowledge or of the fear of God. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There is an English song beginning, Love knocks at the door.
He knocks less often than he finds it open. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Possession is the touchstone of love: true love finds new ardor, frivolous love extinguishes itself in it. [ Panage ]
A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him. [ Goethe ]
In love, it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that one finds pleasure in frequently recommencing. [ Prince de Ligne ]
Man is the highest product of his own history. The Discoverer finds nothing so tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. [ Theodore Parker ]
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil, and still more, the man who is indifferent to everything. [ Lavater ]
There is not less wit, nor less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. [ Pierre Boyle ]
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! [ Scott ]
Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The soul moralises the past in order not to be demoralised by it, and finds in the crucible of experience only the gold that she herself has poured into it. [ Amiel ]
Physic is of little use to a temperate person, for a man's own observation on what he finds does him good, and what hurts him is the best physic to preserve health. [ Bacon ]
Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. [ Lowell ]
A man explodes with indignation when a woman ceases to love him, yet he soon finds consolation; a woman is less demonstrative when deserted, and remains longer inconsolable.
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. [ Emerson ]
I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns! the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate. [ Percival ]
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. [ Emerson ]
When a woman finds out that her husband is absolutely indifferent to her she either becomes dreadfully dowdy or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived. [ Shenstone ]
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences, or asides, hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Man is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest. [ Carlyle ]
A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little - always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature. [ Frederic Saunders ]
When the wandering demon of Drunkenness finds a ship adrift - no steady wind in its sails, no thoughtful pilot directing its course - he steps on board, takes the helm and steers straight for the maelstrom. [ Holmes ]
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. [ Robert Collyer ]
Secrets from other people's wives are a necessary luxury in modern life, but no man should have a secret from his own wife. She invariably finds out. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Exaggeration is neither thoughtful, wise, nor safe; it is a proof of the weakness of the understanding, or the want of discernment of him that utters it, so that even when he speaks the truth, he soon finds it is received with large discount, or utter unbelief. [ W. B. Kinney ]
Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Oh! woe to him who first had the cruelty to ridicule the name of old maid, a name which recalls so many sorrowful deceptions, so many sufferings, so much destitution! Woe to him who finds a target for his sarcasm in an involuntary misfortune, and who crowns white hair with thorns! [ E. Souvestre ]
It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke. [ Colton ]
It is averse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds or inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed, nor calls out his powers, if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke. [ Colton ]
Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him. [ Heinrich Heine ]
If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the Wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, - the wise, the good, or the great man, - very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light. [ Joseph Addison ]
See a fond mother encircled by her children; with pious tenderness she looks around, and her soul even melts with maternal love. One she kisses on its cheeks, and clasps another to her bosom; one she sets upon her knee, and finds a seat upon her foot for another. And while, by their actions, by their lisping words, and asking eyes, she understands their numberless little wishes, to these she dispenses a look, and a word to those; and whether she grants or refuses, whether she smiles or frowns, it is all in tender love. [ Krummacher ]
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]