Push on, - keep moving. [ Thomas Morton ]
Courts keep no almanacks. [ Proverb ]
Keep some till more come. [ Proverb ]
Keep touch in small things. [ Proverb ]
Who shall keep the keepers? [ Proverb ]
Lord, keep my memory green! [ Dickens ]
Keep counsel thyself first. [ Proverb ]
The head and feet keep warm,
The rest will take no harm. [ Proverb ]
Praise a hill, but keep below. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The poor keep a continual fast. [ Proverb ]
I may not to the world impart
The secret of its power,
But treasured in my inmost heart
I keep my faded flower. [ Ellen C Howarth ]
Praise the sea, but keep on land. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Keep cool. Anger is not argument. [ Daniel Webster ]
Men get wealth and women keep it. [ Proverb ]
You keep Easter when I keep Lent. [ Proverb ]
Make all sure, and keep all pure. [ Proverb ]
Keep your misfortunes to yourself. [ Hazlitt ]
Even reckonings keep long friends. [ Proverb ]
Lest men suspect your tale untrue,
Keep probability in view. [ Gay ]
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. [ Burns ]
Better keep peace than make peace. [ N. Kaas ]
Let every tailor keep to his goose. [ Proverb ]
I will never keep a dog to bite me. [ Proverb ]
Wants keep pace with wealth always. [ J. G. Holland ]
The hushed winds their Sabbath keep. [ William Cullen [Bryant ]
If you would keep money, save money. [ Proverb ]
Little boats should keep near shore. [ Franklin ]
Keep your purse and your mouth close. [ Proverb ]
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. [ Schiller ]
Who bulls the cow must keep the calf. [ Proverb ]
Heap on more wood! the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will.
We'll keep our Christmas merry still. [ Scott ]
I will not keep a dog and bark myself. [ Proverb ]
Borrowed garments never keep one warm. [ Lowell ]
Keep the common road and you are safe. [ Proverb ]
Enough to keep the wolf from the door. [ Proverb ]
Three may keep counsel if two be away. [ Proverb ]
I'll never keep a dog and bark myself. [ Proverb ]
Keep thyself unspotted from the world. [ Cecil ]
It is a great sin to swear unto a sin.
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. [ William Shakespeare ]
Three can keep a secret if two be away. [ Proverb ]
Great trees keep under the little ones. [ Proverb ]
Keep thy mouth shut, but thy eyes open.
Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming. [ Franklin ]
Keep your working power at its maximum. [ W. R. Alger ]
Two may keep counsel, putting one away. [ Proverb ]
How many sleep who keep the world awake! [ Young ]
Our life contains a thousand springs.
And dies if one be gone.
Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long. [ Watts ]
Thy credit wary keep, 'tis quickly gone;
Being got by many actions, lost by one. [ Randolph ]
We know that wealth well understood,
Hath frequent power of doing good;
Then fancy that the thing is done,
As if the power and will were one;
Thus oft the cheated crowd adore,
The thriving knaves that keep them poor. [ Gay ]
Keep thy friend under thy own life's key. [ William Shakespeare ]
Who knows who may keep sheep another day? [ Proverb ]
Keep thy mind always at its own disposal. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. [ Burns ]
Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Keep your mouth closed and your eyes open. [ Proverb ]
In love matters, keep your pen from paper. [ Alfred de Musset ]
In silence weep, and thy convulsive sorrow
Inward keep. [ Prior ]
Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap;
Who sows the false will reap the vain;
Erect and sound thy conscience keep,
From hollow words and deeds refrain. [ Horatius Bonar ]
Keep together here, lest, running thither.
We unawares run into danger's mouth. [ Milton ]
Keep a mid course between the two extremes. [ Ovid ]
Two may keep counsel when the third's away. [ William Shakespeare ]
Mortal man must not keep up immortal anger. [ Proverb ]
Live with yourself; keep within your means.
Keep the Church and State forever separate. [ U. S. Grant ]
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. [ Dryden ]
One to destroy is murder by the law.
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name.
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. [ Young ]
Keep your shop, and your shop will keep. you. [ Proverb ]
Truth is the highest thing that man can keep. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]
These grains of gold are not grains of wheat!
These bars of silver thou canst not eat;
These jewels and pearls and precious stones
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones,
Nor keep the feet of death one hour
From climbing the stairways of thy tower. [ Longfellow ]
I will keep no cats that will not catch mice. [ Proverb ]
Let thy alms go before, and keep heaven's gate
Open for thee, or both may come too late. [ George Herbert ]
To nurse up and keep a vice, is a vast charge. [ Proverb ]
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoken can never be recalled. [ Roscommon ]
Who waits until the winds shall silent keep,
Will never have the ready hour to sow;
Who watcheth clouds will have no time to reap. [ Helen Hunt Jackson ]
He builds cages fit for oxen to keep birds in. [ Proverb ]
Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. [ Dryden after Hor ]
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. [ Hen. IV ]
It is easy to rob an orchard when none keep it. [ Proverb ]
Honor travels in a strait so narrow,
Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path. [ William Shakespeare ]
My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,
And makes as healthful music. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
He that has nothing to spare must not keep a dog. [ Proverb ]
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Keep good company, and you shall be of the number. [ George Herbert ]
Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not. [ William Shakespeare ]
God keep us from a man who knows only one subject. [ French Proverb ]
Keep the dogs near when thou suppest with the wolf. [ Eastern Proverb ]
Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway. [ Spenser ]
The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy, we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells. [ Cowper ]
Who keep company with the wolf, will learn to howl. [ Proverb ]
It is easy to open a shop, but hard to keep it open. [ Chinese Proverb ]
The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle. [ Proverb ]
A woman can keep one secret, - the secret of her age. [ Voltaire ]
Who hath no more bread than need must not keep a dog. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is easy to keep a castle that was never assaulted. [ Proverb ]
A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong. [ Ecclus ]
The Alphabet Of Success
Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. [ John Keats, Endymion ]
Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Keep a tight hand over your son (hold the bridle high). [ French Proverb ]
If virtue keep court within, honour will attend without. [ Proverb ]
Blessed are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it. [ Bible ]
God keep me from the man that hath but one thing to mind. [ Proverb ]
It is ill to take an unlawful oath, but worse to keep it. [ Proverb ]
Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. [ Col. Blacker ]
To keep the best place (the highest side of the pavement). [ French Proverb ]
By entertaining good thoughts, you will keep out evil ones. [ Proverb ]
If you be a jester, keep your wit till you have use for it. [ Proverb ]
Keep your plough jogging, so you have corn for your horses. [ Proverb ]
You may keep wool till it is dirt, and flax till it is silk. [ Proverb ]
Three are too many to keep a secret, and too few to be merry. [ Proverb ]
Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. [ Bible ]
Distrust is the mother of safety, but must keep out of sight. [ Proverb ]
They only fall that strive to move, or lose that care to keep. [ Owen Meredith ]
Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep. [ Paxton Hood ]
If you make Bacchus your god, Apollo will not keep you company. [ Proverb ]
You will keep it no longer than you can a cat in a wheelbarrow. [ Proverb ]
Promises may get friends, but it is performances that keep them. [ Proverb ]
The vulgar will keep no account of your hits, but of your misses. [ Proverb ]
Every one can keep house better than her mother, till she trieth. [ Proverb ]
An artist should be fit for the best society, and keep out of it. [ Ruskin ]
Better keep the devil at the door than turn him out of the house. [ Proverb ]
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability. [ Montesquieu ]
Keep yourself from opportunities, and God will keep you from sins. [ Italian Proverb ]
He will ill catch a bird flying that cannot keep his own in a cage. [ Proverb ]
Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Who would keep a cow, when he may have a quart of milk for a penny? [ Proverb ]
Etiquette is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance. [ Steele ]
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. [ Charles Dickens ]
'Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. [ William Shakespeare ]
He knows enough who knows how to live and how to keep his own counsel. [ French Proverb ]
To keep a custom, you hammer the anvil still, though you have no iron. [ Proverb ]
The best way to keep good acts in memory, is to refresh them with new. [ Cato ]
Great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion (love). [ Bacon ]
Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. [ Bible ]
Oaths were not purposed more than law to keep the good and just in awe. [ Samuel Butler ]
Ever keep thy promise, cost what it may; this it is to be true as steel.
[ Charles Reade ]
Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. [ Bible ]
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. [ Holmes ]
I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools. [ Shakespeare ]
God defend me from the still water, and I'll keep myself from the rough. [ Proverb ]
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.Light gains make heavy purses.
'Tis good to be merry and wise. [ George Chapman ]
To sleep on both ears, (i.e. soundly, as no longer needing to keep awake. [ Proverb ]
I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice. [ Samuel Johnson ]
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived. [ Erasmus ]
Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage only can support him in it. [ Proverb ]
God keep me from four houses: a usurer's, a tavern, a spital, and a prison. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them. [ Owen Feltham ]
Alas! no fleshly pinion will so easily keep pace with the wings of the spirit. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
I will listen to any one's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. [ Goethe ]
Once more for pity, that I may keep the flavor upon my lips till we meet again. [ Dryden ]
The way to cheerfulness is to keep our bodies in exercise and our minds at ease. [ Steele ]
You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with exercise. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Keep the bowels open, the head cool, and the feet warm, and a fig for the doctors. [ Proverb ]
Be more careful to keep the doors of your heart shut than the doors of your house. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
First keep thyself in peace, and then thou shalt be able to keep peace among others. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose. [ Goldsmith ]
Sell your confidence at a high price, if at all; to be strong, keep your own counsel. [ Dumas, Pere ]
When ill news comes too late to be serviceable to your neighbor, keep it to yourself. [ Zimmermann ]
Conscience is but a word that cowards use. Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. [ William Shakespeare ]
How can we expect another to keep our secret, when it is more than we can do ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
If you keep painting the devil on the walls, he will by and by appear to you in person. [ French Proverb ]
He that cannot keep his mind to himself cannot practise any considerable thing whatever. [ Carlyle ]
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called Conscience. [ George Washington ]
Keep the imagination sane; that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven. [ Hawthorne ]
It is noble and so regarded both among nations and individuals to keep faith in adversity. [ Silius Italicus ]
It is difficult for a woman to keep a secret, and I know more than one man who is a woman. [ La Fontaine ]
There is a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack. [ Dibdin ]
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula and Superman away. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties. [ Emerson ]
It is the ordinary way of the world to keep Folly at the helm, and Wisdom under the hatches. [ Proverb ]
It is better to keep children to their duty by a sense of honor and by kindness than by fear. [ Terence ]
He that would relish success to purpose should keep his passion cool and his expectation low. [ Collier ]
Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated. [ Lamartine ]
We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best books. [ Sydney Smith ]
It is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm, that cannot be seduced? [ William Shakespeare ]
Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer. [ Bishop Hall ]
Superstitions would soon die out if so many old women would not act as nurses to keep them alive. [ Punch ]
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within bounds, but pushed to excess they cause offence. [ Phaedr ]
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. [ Alexander Smith ]
It is a great misfortune not to have enough wit to speak well, or not enough judgment to keep silent. [ La Bruyere ]
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived, and apt to have ague fits. [ Erasmus ]
I would keep better hours, if I were a boy again; that is I would go to bed earlier than most boys do. [ James Fields ]
Patience is the ballast of the soul that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms. [ Bishop Hopkins ]
Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys, leading nowhere; the great art is to keep out of them. [ Bovee ]
He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the inkpot. [ L'Estrange ]
The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it. [ Phillips Brooks ]
If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am [ William Shakespeare ]
It is important not to keep a business engagement if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. [ Johnson ]
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep pace in their downward tendency. [ Goethe ]
It is easier for a wit to keep fire in his mouth, than to hold in a witty saying that he is burning to tell. [ Cicero ]
Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one and frost out of the other. [ Addison ]
Keep but ever looking, whether with the body's eye or the mind's, and you will soon find something to look on. [ Robert Browning ]
Youth will never live to age unless they keep themselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. [ Bishop Hall ]
You will never live to my age, without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
We all have in our hearts a secret place where we keep, free from the contact of the world, our sweetest remembrances. [ De Finod ]
It is no less merit to keep what you have got than to gain it. In the one there is chance; the other will be a work of art. [ Ovid ]
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know it when you find it. [ Steve Jobs ]
Were wisdom given me with this reservation, that I should keep it shut up within myself and not impart it, I would spurn it. [ Seneca ]
Who has a breast so pure but some uncleanly apprehensions keep leets and law-days and in session sit with meditations lawful? [ William Shakespeare ]
He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it. [ Bishop Horne ]
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it. [ Lavater ]
You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us in solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. [ J. Collier ]
If wisdom were conferred with this proviso, that I must keep it to myself and not communicate it to others, I would have none of it. [ Seneca ]
Some books we should keep in our hands, and on our hearts; the best way we could dispose of others would be, to throw them in the fire. [ Acton ]
As ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance, so good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equal. [ Steele ]
Avoid an inquisitive person, for he is sure to be a gossip; ears always open to hear will not keep faithfully what is intrusted to them. [ Horace ]
The custom of frequent reflection will keep their minds from running adrift, and call their thoughts home from useless unattentive roving. [ Locke ]
I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil. [ James A. Garfield ]
Give, and you may keep your friend if you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship. [ Longfellow ]
Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. [ Johnson ]
Nor is it enough to have once seen him; they are delighted to linger near him, and to keep step with him, and to learn the reason of his coming. [ Virgil ]
We should love our friends as true amateurs love pictures: they keep their eyes perpetually fixed on the fine points, and do not see the defects. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]
Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. [ Paxton Hood ]
If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
If a traveler does not meet with one who is his better or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool. [ Max Muller ]
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality. [ Joubert ]
When a man gives proof that his heart is sound and that his life is sound, there is no divergence of opinion that should keep us from fellowship with him. [ Ward Beecher ]
Oh, but books are such safe company! They keep your secrets well; they never boast that they made your eyes glisten, or your cheek flush, or your heart throb. [ Mrs. S. P. Parton ]
Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly. Youth, while we have it, we must wear daily; and it will fast wear away. [ John Foster ]
Mountains never shake hands.
Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
A good library is an anchor to keep a young man from roving, and a helm to aid an old man to gain the greatest possible benefit from what remains of the breeze. [ W. D. Haley ]
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts; the difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. [ A. W. Hare ]
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. [ Johnson ]
See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven. [ Richter ]
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored and taken pains to belie me. It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions. [ Ben Jonson ]
There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to hear the opposers of it with patience, and preserve the virtue by which it was acquired. [ Steele ]
Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem, as you may see a grafted fruit-tree spreading over the stock which cannot keep pace with its evolutions. [ Holmes ]
People who are jealous, or particularly careful of their own rights and dignity, always find enough of those who do not care for either to keep them continually uncomfortable. [ Barnes ]
Monkeys, as soon as they have brought forth their young, keep their eyes fastened on them, and never weary of admiring their beauty; so amorous is Nature of whatever she produces. [ John Dryden ]
If you keep Nature faithfully in view, the example of every thorough master will be of service to you; but if you merely cling to human work, all that you do will be but mannerism. [ Geibel ]
Wickedness may well be compared to a bottomless pit, into which it is easier to keep one's self from falling, then, being fallen, to give one's self any stay from falling infinitely. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books. [ William Shakespeare ]
Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep company some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men. [ Hare ]
The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken. [ Macaulay ]
It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. Get a reputation and then go to bed,
is the absurdest of all maxims. Keep up a reputation or go to bed,
would be nearer the truth. [ Chapin ]
Many favors which God giveth us, ravel out for want of hemming, through our own unthankfulness, for through prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them. [ Thomas Fuller ]
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. They are apt to become feeble in the utterance; the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. [ George Eliot ]
O brave poets! keep back nothing, nor mix falsehood with the whole; look up Godward; speak the truth in worthy song from earnest soul; hold, in high poetic duty, truest truth the fairest beauty! [ Mrs. Browning ]
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. [ Colton ]
To give pleasure to others and take it ourselves, we have to begin by removing the ego, which is hateful, and then keep it in chains as long as the diversions last. There is no worse killjoy than the ego. [ Charles Wagner ]
The capacity of apprehending what is high is very rare; and therefore, in common life a man does well to keep such things for himself, and only to give out so much as is needful to have some advantage against others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, What was that?
! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. [ B. R. Haydon ]
Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy - its figures, its trees, or its palaces, - without a spot. [ Willmott ]
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance! [ Lamb ]
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million, count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to keep one's spirit always sweet and avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability, - that is an ideal as noble as it is difficult. [ Edward Howard Griggs ]
He that can keep handsomely within rules, and support the carriage of a companion to his mistress, is much more likely to prevail than he who lets her see the whole relish of his life depends upon her. If possible, therefore, divert your mistress rather than sigh for her. [ Steele ]
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear. [ Hare ]
If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things: the first, that they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess. [ Sir W. Raleigh ]
With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch. [ Gotthold ]
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good ; exercise ; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but, my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Some are so close and reserved that they will not show their wares but by a dark light, and seem always to keep back somewhat; and when they know within themselves they speak of that which they do not well know, would nevertheless seem to others to know of that which they may not well speak. [ Bacon ]
Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause. Many of its conclusions, more ingenious than sound, are like the recommendations of a people to keep full bottles, because a good many have been found dead with empty ones by them. [ Bovee ]
Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing!
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]
Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. [ Dean Alford ]
The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]
To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself: here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]
When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books. [ James Freeman Clarke ]
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride! [ Henry Martyn ]
Your invitation honors me, and pleases me because you still keep me in your remembrance, but I am seventy; seventy, and would nestle in the chimney-corner, and smoke my pipe, and read my book, and take my rest, wishing you well in all affection; and that when you in your return shall arrive at pier No. 70 you may step aboard your waiting ship with a reconciled spirit, and lay your course toward the sinking sun with a contented heart. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
A town, before it can be plundered and deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. [ Colton ]
We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]
When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together;
and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]
Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]