Pens carry further than rifled cannon. [ Bayard Taylor ]
When resolution hath prepared the will;
It wants no helps to further any ill. [ Mirror for Magistrates ]
We must not stint
Our necessary actions, in the fear
To cope malicious censurers; which ever,
As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new trimmed, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
Trust him no further than you can throw him. [ Proverb ]
The nearer the church, the further from God. [ Proverb ]
Though absent, present in desires they be;
Our souls much further than our eyes can see. [ Drayton ]
The further you run, the further you are behind. [ Proverb ]
Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, the further we make it go. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further. [ George MacDonald ]
The more haste we make in a wrong way, the further we are from our journey's end. [ Proverb ]
Women go further in love than most men, but men go further in friendship than women. [ La Bruyere ]
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps doubt in reserve. [ Froude ]
Refined taste forms a good critic; but genius is further necessary to form the poet or the orator. [ Blair ]
God is a blank tablet on which nothing further is inscribed than what thou hast thyself written thereupon. [ Luther ]
I only look straight before me at each day as it comes, and do what is nearest me, without looking further afield. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good. [ Atterbury ]
Look forward a little further to the period when all the noise and tumult and business of this world shall have closed forever. [ J. G. Pike ]
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave. [ Heine ]
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 ]
With the possession or certain expectation of good things our demand rises, and increases our capacity for further possession and larger expectations. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Aphorisms, representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire further; whereas methods carrying the show of a total do secure men, as if they were at furthest. [ Bacon ]
We content ourselves to present to thinking minds the original seeds from whence spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged. [ Chevalier Ramsay ]
All the good things of this world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and whatever we may heap up to give to others, we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more. [ De Foe ]
Extreme avarice is nearly always mistaken; there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Surely it is better to enclose the gulf and hinder all access, than by encouraging us to advance a little, to entice us afterwards a little further, and let us perceive our folly only by our destruction. [ Johnson ]
If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]
The physical plagues and the calamities of human nature have rendered society necessary. Society has added to the evils of nature; the imperfections of society have created the necessity for government, and government adds still further to the woes of society: this is the whole history of humanity. [ Chamfort ]
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. [ Sir Thomas Browns ]
If I were to choose the people with whom I would spend my hours of conversation, they should be certainly such as labored no further than to make themselves readily and clearly apprehended, and would have patience and curiosity to understand me. To have good sense and ability to express it are the most essential and necessary qualities in companions. When thoughts rise in us fit to utter among familiar friends, there needs but very little care in clothing them. [ Steele ]