Gentle in method, resolute in action. [ From the Latin ]
We rise in glory as we sink in pride. [ Young ]
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong. [ Dryden ]
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee. [ Bayard Taylor ]
False in one thing, false in everything. [ Law Maxim ]
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone. [ Ouida ]
Bliss is the same, in subject or in king. [ Pope ]
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. [ Pope ]
In bad fortune hold out; in good, hold in. [ German Proverb ]
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. [ Proverb ]
There are heroes in evil as well as in good. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Infinite in degree, and endless in duration. [ Franklin ]
Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake! [ Pope ]
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. [ Shakespeare ]
He lives in fame, that died in virtue's cause. [ William Shakespeare ]
Be slow in considering, but resolute in action. [ Bias ]
They learn in suffering what they teach in song. [ Shelley ]
For he that sows in craft does reap in jealousy. [ Middleton ]
Purity in person and in morals is true godliness. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Eloquence is in the assembly, not in the speaker. [ Wm. Pitt ]
Every one in his own house and God in all of them. [ Cervantes ]
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. [ John Wesley ]
As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul! [ Sophocles ]
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. [ Solon ]
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude. [ Colton ]
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. [ W. R. Alger ]
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation. [ Racine ]
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. [ Bacon ]
Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture. [ Hazlitt ]
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. [ Coleridge ]
There is hope in extravagance, there la none in routine. [ Emerson ]
There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands. [ Chamfort ]
What the orators want in depth, they give you in length. [ Montesquieu ]
A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit. [ Victor Hugo ]
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art. [ Froude ]
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good. [ Aristotle ]
You should not live one way in private, another in public. [ Syrus ]
As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable. [ Hazlitt ]
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. [ Voltaire ]
They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. [ Burton ]
Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [ Livy ]
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity. [ H. W. Shaw ]
We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives. [ James Ellis ]
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in deserving them. [ Aristotle ]
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. [ Shakespeare ]
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. [ Fuller ]
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [ Goethe ]
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. [ William Shakespeare ]
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. [ Madame de Stael ]
Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
In essential matters, unity, in doubtful, liberty; in all, charity. [ Melanthon ]
Where there is room in the heart, there is always room in the house. [ Moore ]
Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. [ Seneca ]
Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek. [ William Shakespeare ]
Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. [ William Shakespeare ]
Up start as many aches in his bones, as there are ouches in his skin. [ George Chapman ]
Music must begin in harmony, continue in harmony, and end in harmony. [ Confucius ]
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. [ Wendell Phillips ]
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. [ Spurgeon ]
We must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is. [ Chapin ]
Ambiguous things that ape goats in their visage, women in their shape. [ Byron ]
In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude, in all the ages. [ William Matthews ]
Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness. [ Michelet ]
The variation of excellence among men is rather in degree than in kind. [ Bancroft ]
It is best to be with those in time that we hope to be with in eternity. [ Fuller ]
Liberality consists less in giving profusely than in giving judiciously. [ Bruygre ]
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. [ Beecher ]
She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body. [ Swift ]
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. [ Bacon ]
A talent is perfected in solitude: a character in the stream of the world. [ Goethe ]
The nervous fluid in man is consumed by the brain; in women, by the heart. [ Stendhal ]
There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest cause. [ Southern ]
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius, in the power of executing. [ Blair ]
Charity ever finds in the act reward, and needs no trumpet in the receiver. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
He speaks home; you may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar. [ William Shakespeare ]
The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it. [ Madame Swetchine ]
The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in his conduct. [ Confucius ]
To succeed in the world, we must be foolish in appearance, but really wise. [ Montesquieu ]
It is true that friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship never. [ Colton ]
In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. [ Plautus ]
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. [ Glanvill ]
As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. [ Henry Home ]
When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Violence in the voice is often only the death-rattle of reason in the throat. [ J. F. Boyes ]
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day. [ Sir T. Overbury ]
It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first a hero in faith. [ Jacobi ]
Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, thou shalt be buried in a good old age. [ Genesis ]
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. [ Tillotson ]
In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]
Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance. [ Spu rgeon ]
When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins. [ Cowper ]
As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger. [ Chapin ]