Fame is a magnifying glass. [ Proverb ]
A broken glass cannot be hurt. [ Proverb ]
He that loves glass without G,
Take away L and that is he. [ Proverb ]
Muddy water is a bad looking-glass. [ Proverb ]
A friend's eye is a good looking-glass. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
A woman and a glass are ever in danger. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Life, like a dome of many coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity. [ Shelley ]
Reputation cracked is a Venice-glass broke. [ Proverb ]
There is no hope - the future will but turn
The old sand in the falling glass of time. [ R. H. Stoddard ]
A sea before
The Throne is spread; - its pure still glass
Pictures all earth-scenes as they pass.
We, on its shore,
Share, in the bosom of our rest,
God's knowledge, and are blest. [ Cardinal Newman ]
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]
Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass. [ William Shakespeare ]
Even a Venice-glass, if well kept, will last long. [ Proverb ]
There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. [ South ]
Look in the glass when you with anger glow,
And you'll confess you scarce yourself would know. [ Ovid ]
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. [ Proverb ]
Pride hath no other glass to show itself but pride. [ William Shakespeare ]
There is no better looking-glass than an old friend. [ Proverb ]
Great persons seldom see their face in a true glass. [ Proverb ]
She who often looks in the glass thinks of her tail. [ Proverb ]
If your head be glass, engage not at throwing stones. [ Proverb ]
Fortune is like glass; when she shines, she is broken. [ Syrus ]
What your glass tells you will not be told by counsel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven. [ Cudworth ]
Whose house is of glass must not throw stones at another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to see. [ Joubert ]
Credit lost is a Venice-glass broken, which cannot be soldered. [ Proverb ]
The more women look in their glass the less they look to their house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass. [ Rabelais ]
The more women look into their glass, the less they look into their hearts. [ Proverb ]
How wisely fate ordained for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass.
Wherein we truly see and know ourselves. [ Davenant ]
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. [ Hare ]
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue. [ Frances Anne Kemble ]
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand. [ Owen Feltham ]
I never knew the old gentleman with the scythe and hour-glass bring anything but gray hairs, thin cheeks, and loss of teeth. [ Dryden ]
My advice is to consult the lives of other men as we would a looking-glass, and from thence fetch examples for our own imitation. [ Terence ]
Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe. What power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity! [ George D. Prentice ]
We look at death through the cheapglazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. [ Lowell ]
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 ]
What a comfort a dull but kindly person is at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring any more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our mind. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle: and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise. [ William Shakespeare ]
Eternity is the divine treasure-house and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing. [ Mountford ]
A fop who admires his person in a glass soon enters into a resolution of making his fortune by it, not questioning that every woman who falls in his way will do him as much justice as himself. [ Thomas Hughes ]
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Women have that feminine sensuousness which delights in color and odor and richness of fabric. Their sense of beauty is untaught. A little lower in the scale of civilization, they would pierce their noses, and dye their fingernails, and wear strings of glass beads. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he boasted, The less you speak of your greatness, the more I shall think of it.
Mirrors are the accompaniments of dandies, not heroes. The men of history were not perpetually looking in the glass to make sure of their own size. Absorbed in their work they did it, and did it so well that the wondering world saw them to be great, and labeled them accordingly. [ Rev. S. Coley ]
How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending, - the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems. [ Coleridge ]