Ill got, ill spent. [ Proverb ]
Soon got soon spent. [ Proverb ]
It was got out of the fire. [ Proverb ]
The race is got by running. [ Proverb ]
A penny spared is twice got. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A penny saved is twopence got. [ Proverb ]
Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed. [ Tennyson ]
The hog is got into the honey-pot. [ Proverb ]
Underneath large blue-bells tented
Where the daisies are rose-scented,
And the rose herself has got
Perfume which on earth is not. [ Keats ]
Wisdom not only gets, but, got, retains. [ Quarles ]
Thy credit wary keep, 'tis quickly gone;
Being got by many actions, lost by one. [ Randolph ]
Seek your salve where you got your sore. [ Proverb ]
Only that which is honestly got is gain. [ Proverb ]
He has got the fiddle, but not the stick. [ Proverb ]
The dead are got quite away from fortune. [ Proverb ]
Gain got by a lie will burn one's fingers. [ Proverb ]
Your tongue has got the start of your wit. [ Proverb ]
Nothing to be got without pains but poverty. [ Proverb ]
An atheist has got one point beyond the devil. [ Swift ]
But when the fox hath once got in his nose,
He'll soon find means to make the body follow. [ William Shakespeare ]
That is not ours that is got by unlawful means. [ Proverb ]
What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy. [ Cicero ]
Things all are big with jest; nothing that's plain
But may be witty, if thou hast the vein ...
Many affecting wit beyond their power,
Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. [ George Herbert ]
Friends are not so soon got or recovered, as lost. [ Proverb ]
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Got the ill name of augurs because they were bores. [ Lowell ]
Riches well got and well used are a great blessing. [ Proverb ]
For every ten jokes thou hast got an hundred enemies. [ Sterne ]
My son is my son till he have got him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life. [ Proverb ]
There is more money got by ill means than by good acts. [ Proverb ]
Friends got without desert, will be lost without cause. [ Proverb ]
Property ill got is ill spent; lightly come, lightly go. [ Plaut ]
Riches are got with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. [ Proverb ]
Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime. [ Proverb ]
Now I have got an ewe and a lamb, every one cries welcome Peter. [ Proverb ]
The credit that is got by a lie only lasts till the truth is out. [ Proverb ]
Riches are got wi' pain, kept wi' care, and tint (lost) wi' grief. [ Scotch Proverb ]
Our spit is not yet at the fire, and you are got a basting already. [ Proverb ]
Good-will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one. [ Jeffrey ]
Virtue and vice divide the world; but vice has got the greater share. [ Proverb ]
Whence you have got your wealth, nobody inquires; but you must have it. [ Juv ]
He is so suspicious, that he cannot be got at without a stalking horse. [ Proverb ]
Sin is not a monster to be mused on, but an impotence to be got rid of. [ Matthew Arnold ]
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Nothing not a reality ever yet got men to pay bed and board to it for long. [ Carlyle ]
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. [ Thoreau ]
The credit that is got by a lie, lasts no longer than till the truth comes out. [ Proverb ]
The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence. [ Goethe ]
There are very many things that men, when their cloaks have got holes in them, dare not say. [ Juv ]
Laurie got offended that I used the word puke.
But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Belief in compensation, or, that nothing is got for nothing, characterizes all valuable minds. [ Emerson ]
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. [ Warburton ]
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. [ William Shakespeare ]
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there. [ Yogi Berra ]
The nearest we can come to perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Bores are not to be got rid of except by rough means. They are to be scraped off like scales from a fish. [ Bovee ]
It is no less merit to keep what you have got than to gain it. In the one there is chance; the other will be a work of art. [ Ovid ]
Some kind of pace may be got out of the veriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood. [ Lowell ]
Covetousness, by a greediness of getting more, deprives itself of the true end of getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it has got. [ Sprat ]
Midas longed for gold. He got gold, so that whatever he touched became gold; and he, with his long ears, was little the better for it. [ Carlyle ]
Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged of from glimpses got in the press of affairs or a few occasions. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
When you have got so much true knowledge as is worth fighting for, you are bound to fight or to die for it, but not to debate about it any more. [ John Ruskin ]
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, I helped skin Bob.
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Instead of having answers
on a math test, they should just call them impressions
and it you got a different impression
so what, can't we all be brothers? [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Society is a necessary thing. No man has any real success in this world unless he has women to back him, and women rule society. If you have not got women on your side you are quite over. You might as well be a barrister, or a stock-broker, or a journalist at once. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Bear your burden manfully. Boys at school, young men who have exchanged boyish liberty for serious business - all who have got a task to do, a work to finish - bear the burden till God gives the signal for repose - till the work is done, and the holiday is fairly earned. [ James Hamilton ]
Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they have occasion. [ J. Locke ]
It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores: for it is too bad that a poor wretch can be punished for stealing your pocket handkerchief or gloves, and that no punishment can be inflicted on those who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience, as well as the bright thoughts that might have entered into your mind (like the Irishman who lost the fortune before he had got it), but were frightened away by the bore. [ Byron ]
I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]