Fetters even of gold are heavy. [ Proverb ]

Grandeur has a heavy tax to pay. [ Alex. Smith ]

The heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world. [ Wordsworth ]

Old age is a heavy burden to man.

A light purse makes a heavy heart. [ Proverb ]

A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy. [ Proverb ]

The anger of kings is always heavy. [ Seneca ]

My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [ Goethe ]

Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. [ William Shakespeare ]

Light burdens carried far grow heavy. [ French and Ger. Proverb ]

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every one thinks his own burden heavy. [ French Proverb ]

A light wife doth make a heavy husband [ William Shakespeare ]

With what a heavy and retarding weight
Does expectation load the wing of time. [ Mason ]

I am a heavy stone,
Rolled up a hill by a weak child: I move
A little up, and tumble back again. [ W. Rider ]

I hear the howl of the wind that brings
The long drear storm on its heavy wings. [ William Cullen Bryant ]

The folly of a mother is a heavy burden. [ Racine ]

Golden chains are heavy, and love is best! [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

Nothing presses so heavy on us as a secret. [ La Fontaine ]

Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies:
Learn this, ye men of wealth - a heavy purse
In a fool's pocket is a heavy curse. [ Cumberland ]

Do not insult calamity:
It is a barbarous grossness to lay on
The weight of scorn, where heavy misery
Too much already weighs men's fortunes down. [ Daniel ]

Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy burden. [ Proverb ]

Brutus and Caesar: what should be in Caesar?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? [ William Shakespeare ]

So work the honey-bees;
Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home.
To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum.
Delivering over to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. [ William Shakespeare ]

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens! [ Joubert ]

Oh, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!
To prison, eyes, never look on liberty!
Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;
And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier! [ William Shakespeare ]

A love-tint flushes the wind-flower's cheek,
Rich melodies gush from the violet's beak.
On the rifts of the rock, the wild columbines grow.
Their heavy honey-cups bending low. [ Sarah Helen Whitman ]

A small debt makes a debtor; a heavy one, an enemy. [ Publius Syrus ]

The small cart creaks, as the heavy wain should do. [ Proverb ]

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

His exalted rank weighs heavy on him as a grievous burden. [ Seneca ]

The English have a heavy-hearted way of amusing themselves. [ Sully ]

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too soon famous! [ Voltaire ]

No burden is really heavy to a man which necessity lays on him.

The diamond, though small, is a heavy load for a poor man to carry. [ Ejik ]

Heavy sorrow is silent, and the deepest mourning is the most solitary. [ Charles Buxton ]

Of all heavy bodies, the heaviest is the woman we have ceased to love. [ Lemontey ]

Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.Light gains make heavy purses.
'Tis good to be merry and wise. [ George Chapman ]

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind. [ Creech ]

Suspicion is a heavy armour, and with its own weight impedes more than protects. [ Byron ]

Debt is a heavy burden to an honest mind, but thievish borrowers make light of it. [ Proverb ]

Nature, as It grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy. [ William Shakespeare ]

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water. [ Rivarol ]

Expression is of more consequence than shape; it will light up features otherwise heavy. [ Sir C. Bell ]

Light gains make heavy purses, because they come thick, whereas the great come but now and then. [ Bacon ]

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy sad soul.... He goes always heavy-loaded, and thou must bear half. [ Fenélon ]

The proverb is true, that light gains make heavy purses; for light gains come often, great gains now and then. [ Bacon ]

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light. [ Emerson ]

But Christian faith knows that wealth means responsibility, and that responsibility may come to mean only heavy arrears of sin. [ H. P. Liddon ]

In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends. [ Shenstone ]

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oppose kindness to perverseness. The heavy sword will not cut soft silk; by using sweet words and gentleness you may lead an elephant with a hair. [ Saadi ]

If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crash of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment and undermine security. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Jupiter has laid two wallets on us; he has placed one behind our backs filled with our own faults, and has hung another before, heavy with the faults of other people. [ Phaedr ]

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 ]

Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor, and conscience, to obtain them: it is to pay so dear for them that the bargain is a loss. [ Bruyere ]

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful; and I am afraid that, whether married or unmarried, we shall find the vesture of terrestrial existence more heavy and cumbrous the longer it is worn. [ Steele ]

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]