Home-keeping hearts are happiest. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Fame is in the keeping of the mob. [ Proverb ]

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. [ William Shakespeare ]

Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath,
Study to break it and not break my troth. [ William Shakespeare ]

The old horse must die in somebody's keeping. [ Proverb ]

Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares. [ Proverb ]

There is no piety in keeping an unjust promise. [ Proverb ]

Keeping from falling is better than helping up. [ Proverb ]

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. [ Proverb ]

I never knew any man grow poor by keeping an orderly table. [ Lord Burleigh ]

Our eyes when gazing on sinful objects are out of their calling and God's keeping. [ Fuller ]

Every one is weary: the poor in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Advice about keeping secrets: it's a lot easier if you don't know them in the first place. [ Alan Turing ]

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. [ Socrates ]

Small thanks to the man for keeping his hands clean who would not touch the work but with gloves on. [ Carlyle ]

The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and of keeping within due bounds when elated by prosperity. [ Virgil ]

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. [ Hazlitt ]

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. [ Horace Mann ]

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. [ Bovee ]

Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

That inexhaustible good-nature which is the most precious gift of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. [ Washington Irving ]

There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them. [ Matthew Henry ]

What with the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or pleasure. It gives one position and prevents one from keeping it up. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Observation or Observance? The act of noting is called observation; that of keeping or celebrating is called observance. The difference in the meaning of these words is clearly illustrated by such phrases as, the acute observation of the detective; and the religious observance of the Sabbath. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Courage, by keeping the senses quiet, and the understanding clear, puts us in a condition to receive true intelligence, to make just computations upon danger, and pronounce rightly upon that which threatens us. Innocence of life, consciousness of worth, and great expectations, are the best foundations of courage. These ingredients make a richer cordial than youth can prepare. They warm the heart at eighty, and seldom fail in operation. [ Collier ]

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]