Make no baulks in good ground. [ Proverb ]
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground. [ Pope ]
No real happiness is found
In trailing purple over the ground. [ Parnell ]
No man can always stand his ground. [ Proverb ]
There is a calm for those who weep,
A rest for weary pilgrims found,
They softly lie and sweetly sleep
Low in the ground. [ Montgomery ]
I live an idle burden to the ground [ Homer ]
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on Life's parade shall meet
The brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And Glory guards, with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead. [ Theodore O'Hara ]
The dew-drop in the breeze of morn,
Trembling and sparkling on the thorn.
Falls to the ground, escapes the eye,
Yet mounts on sunbeams to the sky. [ Montgomery ]
And the dancing has begun now,
And the dancers whirl round gaily
In the waltz's giddy mazes.
And the ground beneath them trembles. [ Heine ]
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round. [ Milton ]
Having waste ground enough,
Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
And pitch our evils there? [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]
Here lies the body of Jonathan Ground,
Who was lost at sea and never found. [ Epitaph ]
To the weary the bare ground is a bed. [ Curt ]
No wickedness has any ground of reason. [ Livy ]
Let's choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Save our deposed bodies to the ground? [ William Shakespeare ]
Clouds dissolved the thirsty ground supply. [ Roscommon ]
The ground of all great thoughts is sadness. [ Bailey ]
For wheresoever I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
Poetic fields encompass me around.
And still I seem to tread on classic ground. [ Addison ]
I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts,
Each one of which down hurls me to the ground. [ Bailey ]
A noble plant suits not with a stubborn ground. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that lies upon the ground can fall no lower. [ Proverb ]
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race, the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those have passed away. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]
I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial ground, God's Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls.
And breathes a benison over the sleeping dust.
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Into its furrows shall we all be cast.
In the sure faith, that we shall rise again
At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain. [ Longfellow ]
Under ground Precedency's a jest; vassal and lord.
Grossly familiar, side by side consume. [ Blair ]
Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
Or what is worse, be left by it?
Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly.
Oh, man! ordained to die?
Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
Thou who art under ground to lie?
Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see.
For death, alas! is reaping thee. [ Cowley ]
Between two stools, the breech comes to the ground. [ Proverb ]
Too much asseveration is a good ground of suspicion. [ Proverb ]
The ground of true sorrow for sin, is the love of God. [ Proverb ]
Ground not upon dreams, you know they are ever contrary. [ Thos. Middleton ]
Virtue is the only ground for friendship to be built upon. [ Proverb ]
The master's eye fattens the horse and his foot the ground. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is a poor stake that cannot stand one year in the ground. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Once every atom of this ground lived, breathed, and felt like me! [ James Montgomery ]
As water spilt upon the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. [ Bible ]
No bird ever flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food. [ Dutch Proverb ]
A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. [ H. W. Beecher ]
Every man who would do anything well must come to us from a higher ground. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth. [ Bacon ]
To no more purpose, than it would be to knock one's heels against the ground. [ Proverb ]
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. [ Arthur Helps ]
A freeman contending for liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. [ George Washington ]
We must be patient; but I cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him in the cold ground. [ Shakespeare ]
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Even business should have a picturesque background. With a proper back-ground a woman can do anything. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
He that sows the ground with diligence gains more religious merit than by repeating ten thousand prayers. [ Zoroaster ]
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. [ Burke ]
To stumble on a level surface is matter of jest; by a false step on a height you are hurled to the ground. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A little plot of ground thick sown is better than a great field which, for the most part of it, lies fallow. [ Bishop Norris ]
Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion. [ Kant ]
The problem of philosophy is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute. [ Plato ]
The great are only great because we carry them on our shoulders; when we throw them off they sprawl on the ground. [ Montandre ]
I too must attempt a way by which I may raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men. [ Virgil ]
A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground. [ Longfellow ]
Science is a good piece of furniture for a man to have in an upper chamber, provided he has commonsense on the ground floor. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Everything falls and is effaced. A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet, so much tumult on the surface! [ Victor Hugo ]
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretenses, like flowers, fall to the ground: nor can any counterfeit last long. [ Cicero ]
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth - that is the secret of the fine arts. [ Joubert ]
Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are ground of the Divinity. [ Bailey ]
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground? [ Milton ]
With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The best ground, untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds; a man of knowledge that is either negligent or uncorrected cannot but grow wild and godless. [ Bishop Hall ]
The eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach; but that little spot of ground which lies betwixt those two great oceans, this we are to cultivate. [ Burnet ]
Many men build as cathedrals were built, - the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. [ Beecher ]
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 ]
When the foot of the mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us. [ Auerbach ]
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. [ Johnson ]
In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories - the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt. [ James A. Garfield ]
How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once - through inexperience, as we now perceive - we missed that happiness we might have found! [ Cowper ]
Everything dies, and on this spring morning, if I lay my ear to the ground, I seem to hear from every point of the compass the heavy step of men who carry a corpse to its burial. [ Madame de Gasparin ]
Too bad you can't just grab a tree by the very tiptop and bend it clear over the ground and then let her fly, because I bet you'd be amazed at all the stuff that comes flying out. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Here's a good joke to do during an earthquake: straddle a big crack in the ground, and if it opened wider, go Whoa! Whoa!
and flail your arms around, like you're going to fall in. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again. [ Hamerton ]
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. [ Zeno ]
This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again. [ Goethe ]
Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers. [ Marryat ]
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 ]
Whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. [ Jonathan Swift ]
God creates out of the dry, dull earth so many flowers of such beautiful colors, and such sweet perfume, such as no painter nor apothecary can rival. From the common ground God is ever bringing forth flowers, golden, crimson, blue, brown, and of all colors. [ M. Luther ]
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others; and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring. [ Bentham ]
Personal attachment is no fit ground for public conduct, and those who declare they will take care of the rights of the sovereign because they have received favours at his hand, betray a little mind and warrant the conclusion that if they did not receive those favours they would be less mindful of their duties, and act with less zeal for his interest. [ C. Fox ]
If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, Boy, these are good cigars!
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]
All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]