Truth never grows old. [ Proverb ]
Virtue never grows old. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The soul never grows old [ Longfellow ]
Folly grows without watering. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
After this leaf another grows. [ Proverb ]
A fool's head never grows grey. [ Proverb ]
The work under our labour grows
Luxurious by restraint. [ Milton ]
Grass grows not on the highway. [ Proverb ]
Power seldom grows old at Court. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There grows no grass at the cross. [ Proverb ]
Patience grows not in every garden. [ Proverb ]
Grace is a plant, where'er it grows
Of pure and heavenly root;
But fairest in the youngest shows,
And yields the sweetest fruit. [ William Cowper ]
The mind grows by what it feeds on. [ J. G. Holland ]
He that grows worse was never good. [ Proverb ]
Just above yon sandy bar,
As the day grows fainter and dimmer.
Lonely and lovely, a single star
Lights the air with a dusky glimmer. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Grass grows at last above all graves. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]
He that gets out of debt, grows rich. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes. [ William Shakespeare ]
The moral sense grows but by exercise. [ Robert Browning ]
In a narrow circle the mind contracts,
Man grows with his expanded needs. [ Schiller ]
Yet, all beneath the unrivalled rose,
The lowly daisy sweetly blows;
Tho' large the forest's monarch throws
His army shade,
Yet green the juicy hawthorn grows,
Adown the glade. [ Burns ]
'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store. [ Keble ]
The lofty oak from a small acorn grows. [ Lewis Buncombe ]
While the grass grows the steed starves. [ Proverb ]
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows.
In every rill a sweet instruction flows. [ Young ]
With fame, in just proportion, envy grows. [ Young ]
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows;
Quite over-canopies with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine. [ William Shakespeare ]
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. [ William Shakespeare ]
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. [ Milton ]
I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. [ William Shakespeare ]
Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome. [ Proverb ]
When a man grows angry his reason rides out. [ Proverb ]
When the hop grows high, it must have a pole. [ Proverb ]
Ambition is a lust that's never quenched,
Grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment. [ Otway ]
There's not a wind but whispers of thy name,
And not a flower that grows beneath the moon,
But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale
Of thee, my love. [ Barry Cornwall ]
The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees.
Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.
Three centuries he grows, and three he stays
Supreme in state; and in three more decays. [ Dryden ]
A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A mastiff grows the fiercer for being tied up. [ Proverb ]
Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
The more it grows and fawneth on her still. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act IV. Sc. 2 ]
The best of men have ever loved repose;
They hate to mingle in the filthy fray;
Where the soul sours, and gradual rancour grows,
Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day. [ Thomson ]
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves. [ George Sand ]
Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. [ Milton, Paradise Lost ]
Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
Sweet is the eglantine, but sticketh nere;
Sweet is the firbloome, but its branches rough;
Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.
[ Spenser ]
Detraction is a weed that grows only on dunghills. [ Proverb ]
Oh! liberty, thou goddess, heavenly bright.
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign.
And smiling plenty, leads thy wanton train;
Eased of her load, subjection grows more light
And poverty looks cheerful in the sight;
Thou makest the gloomy face of nature gay,
Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. [ Addison ]
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows.
If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews
Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,
It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost,
Weeps only tears of poison. [ Coleridge ]
Duty grows everywhere - like children, like grass. [ Emerson ]
Friendship, the older it grows, the stronger it is. [ Proverb ]
Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly in a dunghill. [ Proverb ]
The envious man's face grows sharp and his eyes big. [ Proverb ]
What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it. [ Mackenzie ]
The tree that grows slowly keeps itself from another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows. [ Michael Angelo ]
Revenge the longer it is delayed the crueler it grows. [ Proverb ]
Where love is great the littlest doubts are fear;
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Sc. 2 ]
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. [ Ward Beecher ]
Good nature is the proper soil upon which virtue grows. [ Proverb ]
The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]
Creation lives, grows, and multiplies: man is but a witness. [ Victor Hugo ]
There's a method in man's wickedness: it grows up by degrees. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. [ Rousseau ]
It is a sign of a good man if he grows better for commendation. [ Proverb ]
Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them. [ William Shakespeare ]
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn. [ Goethe ]
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [ Barere ]
Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
A sculptor wields the chisel, and the stricken marble grows to beauty. [ Bryant ]
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. [ Sir Matthew Hale ]
A sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with constant use. [ Washington Irving ]
We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]
Living religion grows not by the doctrines, but by the narratives of the Bible. [ Jean Paul ]
We must consider humanity as a man who continually grows old, and always learns. [ L. Figuier ]
Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows. [ Knowles ]
Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil. [ Chapin ]
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations. [ Napoleon ]
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. [ Shenstone ]
An evil at its birth is easily crushed, but it grows and strengthens by endurance. [ Cicero ]
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. [ Addison ]
Nature, as It grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy. [ William Shakespeare ]
This avarice sticks deeper; grows with more pernicious root than summer-seeding lust. [ William Shakespeare ]
The heart of woman never grows old; when it has ceased to love, it has ceased to live. [ Rochepedre ]
He that flatters himself in sciences, and grows worse in morals, makes no improvement. [ Proverb ]
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. [ Herbert ]
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked up in strangers' galleries. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows common-place, as to the rest of us. [ Lowell ]
Out of the same garden-mould grows the weed as the flower, and the weed flaunts itself abroad. [ Bodenstedt ]
We bury love; forgetfulness grows over it like grass; that is a thing to weep for, not the dead. [ Alexander Smith ]
There is no use or money equal to that of beneficence; here the enjoyment grows upon reflection. [ Mackenzie ]
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them. [ George Villiers ]
How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil. [ Carlyle ]
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. [ Juvenal ]
Midnight, - strange mystic hour, - when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin. [ Mrs. Stowe ]
The heart which truly loves puts not its love aside ... but grows stronger for that which seeks to thwart it. [ Lewis Morris ]
Religion is an everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night. [ Carlyle ]
Mystic, deep as the world's centre, are the roots a man has struck into his native soil; no tree that grows is rooted so. [ Carlyle ]
The Soul is born old, but it grows young; that is the comedy of life. The Body is born young and grows old; that is Life's tragedy. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells? [ Thackeray ]
There are two ways of attaining an important end - force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
There grows In my most ill-compos'd affection such A stanchless avarice, that, were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands. [ William Shakespeare ]
With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant when Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay. [ Lowell ]
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old. [ Phillips Brooks ]
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures. [ J. G. Holland ]
There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely wicked; but grows so, either as he holds himself up in virtue, or lets himself slide to viciousness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose [ James A. Garfield ]
At first one omits writing for a little while; and then one stays a little while to consider of excuses; and at last it grows desperate, and one does not write at all. [ Swift ]
The young mind is naturally pliable and imitative, but in a more advanced state it grows rigid, and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression. [ Joshua Reynolds ]
The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. [ Chesterfield ]
Friendship, unlike love, which is weakened by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual, the soul is reformed by the habit of it. [ Montaigne ]
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time. [ Judge Hale ]
Genius never grows old - young today, mature yesterday, vigorous tomorrow, always immortal. It is peculiar to no sex or condition, and is the divine gift to woman no less than to man. [ Juan Lewis ]
Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity. [ Bishop Heber ]
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length. Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]
Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm that of individuals: the former grows inveterate by time: the latter is cured by it. [ Robert Hall ]
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 ]
The courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; and when it is only a kind of instinct in the soul, it breaks out on all occasions, without judgment or discretion. [ Addison ]
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head. [ Charron ]
There are two ways of attaining au important end - force and perseverance. Force falls to the lot only of the privileged few, but austere and sustained perseverance can be practiced by the most insignificant. Its silent power grows irresistible with time. [ Madame Swetchine ]
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. Long prior to reflection is the thinking of the mind. [ Emerson ]
No language can express the power and beauty, and heroism and majesty of a mother's love; it shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven. [ E. H. Chapin ]
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects. [ Johnson ]