Better known than trusted. [ Proverb ]
Merit was ever modest known. [ Gay ]
Wealth is best known by want. [ Proverb ]
A cook is known by his knife. [ Proverb ]
If I had known,
is a poor man. [ German Proverb ]
A disease known is half cured. [ Proverb ]
How long have you known me, Jack? [ Yogi Berra, upon receiving a check from Jack Buck made out to Bearer ]
A carpenter's known by his chips. [ Swift ]
Fate is known to us as limitations. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Every man is best known to himself. [ Proverb ]
He that complies against his will.
Is of his own opinion still.
Which he may adhere to, yet disown,
For reasons to himself best known. [ Butler ]
What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own? [ Cowley ]
Every bird is known by its feathers. [ Proverb ]
A friend is never known till needed. [ Proverb ]
In sports and journeys men are known. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fools, to talking ever prone
Are sure to make their follies known. [ Gay ]
He thought the World to him was known,
Whereas he only knew the Town;
In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set - Mankind. [ Hannah More ]
Sins are not known till they be acted. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A boy is known by the company he keeps. [ Proverb ]
Cowardice is afraid to be known or seen. [ Proverb ]
By navigation new worlds are made known. [ J. G. Zarco ]
The cause is hidden, but the result known. [ Ovid ]
The best known evil is the most tolerable. [ Livy ]
A servant is known by his master's absence. [ Proverb ]
The life of spies is to know, not be known. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Every one speaks of it, - who has known it? [ Mme. Necker ]
O, that a man might know
The end of this day's business, ere it come.
But it sufficeth that the day will end;
And then the end is known. [ William Shakespeare ]
Who knows nothing base, fears nothing known. [ Owen Meredith ]
What is it to be wise?
It is but to know how little can be known,
To see all others' faults, and feel our own. [ Pope ]
What is known to three is known to everybody. [ Proverb ]
Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one. [ Herrick ]
To have heard the voice
Of Godhead in the winds and in the seas,
To have known him in the circling of the suns,
And in the changeful fates and lives of men. [ Lewis Morris ]
The secret known to two is no longer a secret. [ Ninon da Lenclos ]
If you are wise, and prize your peace of mind,
Believe me true, nor listen to your Jealousy,
Let not that devil which undoes your sex,
That cursed curiosity seduce you
To hunt for needless secrets, which, neglected,
Shall never hurt your quiet, but once known
Shall sit upon your heart, pinch it with pain,
And banish sweet sleep forever from you. [ Rowe ]
Everywhere am I at home, everywhere am I known. [ F. Hückstädt ]
Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known. [ Lyttelton ]
A spirit may be known from only a single thought. [ Swedenborg ]
'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be known so. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk. [ Proverb ]
If you would know and not be known, live in a city. [ Colton ]
Many are esteemed, only because they are not known.
All of heaven and hell is not known till hereafter. [ Proverb ]
A tree is known better by its fruit than its leaves. [ Proverb ]
One must tell women only what one wants to be known. [ Caron ]
The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it. [ Proverb ]
A good archer is not known by his arrows but his aim. [ Proverb ]
Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will. [ Whittier ]
No worth, known or unknown, can die even on this earth. [ Carlyle ]
I never whisper'd a private affair
Within the hearing of cat or mouse,
No, not to myself in the closet alone,
But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house;
Everything came to be known. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
A man is known to be mortal by two things : sleep and lust. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One seeks new friends only when too well known by old ones. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]
Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known. [ Ruskin ]
He that is known to have no money has no friends nor credit. [ Proverb ]
This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. [ Samuel Johnson ]
I dimly guess, from blessings known, of greater out of sight. [ Whittier ]
There's not so much danger in a known foe as a suspected friend. [ Nabb ]
We easily forget those faults which are known only to ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
A world this in which much is to be done, and little to be known. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Celebrity: the advantage of being known to those who do not know us. [ Chamfort ]
Who hath not known ill-fortune, never knew Himself, or his own virtue. [ Mallet ]
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. [ Spurgeon ]
O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls! [ Bailey ]
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. [ Voltaire ]
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
The fool of vanity; for her alone he lives, loves, writes, and dies but to be known. [ Canning ]
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. [ N. Caussin ]
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. [ Colton ]
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. [ Colton ]
It is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age. [ Cicero ]
Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself. [ Cicero ]
Who borrow much, then fairly make it known, and damn it with improvements not their own. [ Young ]
Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die. [ Johnson ]
The speech of the tongue is best known to men; God best understands the language of the heart. [ Warwick ]
Men always say more evil of women than there really is; and there is always more than is known. [ Mezerai ]
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee - devil! [ William Shakespeare ]
By their patience and perseverance God's children are truly known from hypocrites and dissemblers. [ Augustine ]
I have been young, and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end. [ Berthold Auerbach ]
Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not. [ Chamfort ]
I have never known a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other. [ Coleridge ]
Learn now of the treachery of the Greeks, and from one example the character of the nation may be known. [ Virgil ]
I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance. [ Paley ]
I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. [ Izaak Walton ]
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. [ Alcibiades ]
Trust no man till you have eaten a peck of salt with him, (i.e. known him so long as you might have done so. [ Proverb ]
The true scholar learns from the known to unfold the unknown, and approaches more and more to being a master. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Louis XVI knew only how to love, pardon, and die; had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign. [ Tilly ]
Real friendship is a slow grower; and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit. [ Chesterfield ]
In the man whose childhood has known caresses there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. [ George Eliot ]
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. [ Stanislaus ]
We are for the most part but the contemporaries of happiness. It is spoken of about us, but we die without having known it. [ O. Firmez ]
A really great man is known by three signs - generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success. [ Bismarck ]
Plunge boldly into the thick of life! each lives it, not to many is it known; and seize it where you will, it is interesting. [ Goethe ]
A name is a kind of face whereby one is known; wherefore taking a false name is a kind of visard whereby men disguise themselves. [ Thomas Fuller ]
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry. [ Hosea Ballou ]
New or Novel? New and novel are sometimes used indiscriminately. New is opposed to old, novel to known; as, a new house, a novel invention. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all. [ Lord Bacon ]
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot. [ Wm. Hazlitt ]
The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, - they have torn me, and I bleed: I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. [ Byron ]
God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffinman's bell. [ Carlyle ]
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it. [ Dr. Horne ]
Government is the greatest combination of forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined. [ D. D. Field ]
The history of woman is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael. [ Goethe ]
We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary. [ Epicurus ]
Had he unjustly fallen, your name had then been stained to latest times with foul reproach; and what more dreadful, more to be abhorred, than to be known with infamy forever? [ Paterson ]
Nothing makes so much impression on the heart of man as the voice of friendship when it is really known to be such; for we are aware that it never speaks to us except for our advantage. [ Rousseau ]
All reasoning is retrospect; it consists in the application of facts and principles previously known. This will show the very great importance of knowledge, especially of that kind called experience. [ J. Foster ]
Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose? You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires. [ Montaigne ]
It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists. [ Rousseau ]
Have you known how to compose your manners, you have achieved a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to attain repose, you have achieved more than he who has taken cities and subdued empires. [ Montaigne ]
He that has complex ideas, without particular names for them, would be in no better case than a book-seller who had volumes that lay unbound and without titles, which he could make known to others only by showing the loose sheets. [ Locke ]
All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions. [ Thomas Paine ]
A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. [ Ruskin ]
From the year 1789 to the year 1860 no nation has ever known a more unbounded prosperity, a fuller space of happiness. In the short space of seventy years, within the turn of a single life, the nation, poor, weak and despised, raised itself to the pinnacle of power and of glory. [ Robert C. Winthrop ]
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]
The failure of his mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment brings indolence: indolence, decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy. [ Sir Benjamin Brodie ]
As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern. [ Fielding ]
The powers of music are felt or known by all men, and are allowed to work strangely upon the mind and the body, the passions and the blood; to raise joy and grief; to give pleasure and pain; to cure diseases, and the mortal sting of the tarantula; to give motions to the feet as well as the heart; to compose disturbed thoughts; to assist and heighten devotion itself. [ Sir W. Temple ]
It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]
All are to be men of genius in their degree, - rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on. [ Ruskin ]
If I might venture to appeal to what is so much out of fashion at Paris, I mean to experience, I should tell you that in my course I have known and, according to my measure, have cooperated with great men; and I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. [ Burke ]
We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. [ Johnson ]
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 ]
There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it. Let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power. [ Emerson ]
The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth. [ Willmott ]
My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. There is the great ocean, holding the navies of the world, which comes from little drops of water no larger than a woman's tears. There are the great constellations in the sky, made up of little bits of stars. Oh, if you could consider his future you might see that he might become the greatest poet of the universe, the greatest warrior the world has ever known, greater than Caesar, than Hannibal, than--er--er" (turning to the father) - What's his name?
The father hesitated, then whispered back: His name? Well, his name is Mary Ann.
[ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]