Meat and mattins hinder not a journey. [ Proverb ]

Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Abuse does not hinder the use of a thing that is in itself lawful. [ Proverb ]

To men we can give no help, and they hinder us from helping ourselves. [ Jarno, in Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister." ]

God may, by almighty grace, hinder the absolute completion of sin in final obduracy. [ South ]

The words of men are like the leaves of trees; when they are too many they hinder the growth of the fruit. [ Steiger ]

Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog standing on his hinder legs. It is not done well, but you wonder to see it done at all. [ Johnson ]

Surely it is better to enclose the gulf and hinder all access, than by encouraging us to advance a little, to entice us afterwards a little further, and let us perceive our folly only by our destruction. [ Johnson ]

He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names, For those have served other men, haply may injure by their evils; Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself. To win for his individual name some clear praise. [ Tupper ]