Death keeps no calendar. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One chick keeps a hen busy. [ Proverb ]
Bad keeps up a strife with good. [ Bodenstedt ]
He that keeps his own makes war. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Mother's truth keeps constant youth. [ Proverb ]
The shadow cloaked from head to foot,
Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. [ Tennyson ]
One sword keeps another in the sheath. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A boy is known by the company he keeps. [ Proverb ]
Whoe'er has gone thro' London street,
Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat,
And how he keeps
Gloating upon a sheep's
Or bullock's personals, as if his own;
How he admires his halves
And quarters - and his calves,
As if in truth upon his own legs grown. [ Hood ]
A hedge between, keeps friendship green. [ Proverb ]
Oh, if there is one thing above the rest
Written in Wisdom - if there is a word
That I would trace as with a pen of fire
Upon the unsullied temper of a child —
If there is anything that keeps the mind
Open to angel visits, and repels
The ministry of ill - It is Love. [ N. P. Willis ]
And keeps that palace of the soul serene. [ Edmund Waller ]
Sweetheart and honeybird, keeps no house. [ Proverb ]
The wind keeps not always in one quarter. [ Proverb ]
Lips never err when wisdom keeps the door. [ Delaune ]
Keeps mankind sweet by action; without that
The world would be a filthy settled mud. [ Crown ]
Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery. [ Shakespeare ]
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that attends to his interior self,
That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind
That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks
A social, not a dissipated life,
Has business. [ Cowper ]
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. [ William Shakespeare ]
The singing man keeps his shop in his throat. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He loses nothing that keeps God for his friend. [ Proverb ]
Fear keeps the garden better than the gardener. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Anger makes dull men witty, but keeps them poor. [ Bacon ]
His eloquence is classic in its style,
Not brilliant with explosive coruscations
Of heterogeneous thoughts, at random caught.
And scattered like a shower of shooting stars,
That end in darkness: no; - his noble mind
Is clear, and full, and stately, and serene.
His earnest and undazzled eye he keeps
Fixed on the sun of Truth, and breathes his words
As easily as eagles cleave the air,
And never pauses till the height is won;
And all who listen follow where he leads. [ Mrs. Hale ]
Wine neither keeps secrets, nor fulfils promises. [ Proverb ]
Hope keeps a man from hanging and drowning himself. [ Proverb ]
He that keeps malice harbours a viper in his breast. [ Proverb ]
The tree that grows slowly keeps itself from another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The kid that keeps above, is in no danger of the wolf. [ Proverb ]
Fear keeps and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird.
That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word,
That folds its wild wings there, ne'er dreaming of flight.
That tenderly sings there in loving delight!
Oh! my sad heart keeps pining for one fond word,
Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird! [ Mrs. Osgood ]
Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady. [ Fuller ]
A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth. [ Aristotle ]
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. [ Plato ]
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. [ Cicero ]
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment. [ Longfellow ]
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. [ Thoreau ]
The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies, and keeps it to himself. [ Brougham ]
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps doubt in reserve. [ Froude ]
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. [ Proverb ]
He that keeps up his riches and lives poorly, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. [ Proverb ]
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell but the mere pleasure of God. [ Jonathan Edwards ]
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. [ Bruyere ]
I am amazed how men can call her blind, when, by the company she keeps, she seems so very discriminating. [ Goldsmith ]
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness. [ Sheridan ]
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. [ Willis ]
Any pleasure which takes and keeps the heart from God is sinful, and unless forsaken, will be fatal to the soul. [ Richard Fuller ]
Little League baseball is a good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets and the kids out of the house. [ Yogi Berra ]
We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean. [ Cowper ]
Science keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation. [ Tyndall ]
Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest light of truth. [ Holmes ]
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. [ Thomas Paine ]
A coquette is to a man what a toy is to a child: as long as it pleases him, he keeps it; when it ceases to please him, he discards it.
A good heart is the sun and moon, or, rather, the sun. and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly. [ William Shakespeare ]
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop-window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. [ Spurgeon ]
In a tête-à-tête a woman speaks in a loud tone to the man she is indifferent to, in a low tone to the one she begins to love, and keeps silent with the one she loves. [ Rochebrune ]
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? [ Yogi Berra ]
A man may kill a tender and delicate wife by cold neglect, and ruin himself and her too by debauchery; but if he keeps within his own dwellings and does not disturb his neighbors, the law would be slow to move against him. [ A. S. Roe ]
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. Remember this; they that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you over your knuckles. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune. [ Rev. T. Adams ]
What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation? It is that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the Wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and, through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life. [ Channing ]
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]