Hannibal is at the gates. [ Cicero ]
Slowly, slowly falls night's curtain
Over all the wide-spread land;
And the angels of the twilight
At the gates of heaven stand.
Lo, they come, a band of angels.
Clad in robes of tender gray;
And before their gracious presence,
Fades the sun's last lingering ray. [ C. E, Charles ]
Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]
Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
City gates stand open to the bad as well as the good. [ Proverb ]
Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all. [ Abd-el-Kader ]
When a lackey comes to hell's door, the devils lock the gates. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Morn, waked by the circling hours, with rosy hand unbarred the gates of light. [ Milton ]
Clamorous labor knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Soon as man, expert from time, has found the key of life, it opes the gates of death. [ Young ]
In the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hand hold each other with an equal clasp. [ Mrs. Stowe ]
Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as king's palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees. [ Daniel Webster ]
At the gates of the forest the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the grave shall never prevail against him to do him mischief. [ Jeremv Taylor ]
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Thou tell'st me there is murder in my eye: 'tis pretty, sure, and very probable that eyes - that are the frailest and softest things, who shut their coward gates on atomies - should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! [ William Shakespeare ]
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]