Old maids lead apes in hell. [ Proverb ]
Silver from the living
Is gold in the giving:
Gold from the dying
Is but silver a-flying.
Gold and silver from the dead
Turn too often into lead. [ Fuller ]
Goslings lead the geese to water. [ Proverb ]
But they whom truth and wisdom lead
Can gather honey from a weed. [ Cowper ]
He never is crowned
With immortality, who fears to follow
Where airy voices lead. [ Keats ]
Content to follow when we lead the way. [ Homer ]
Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven. [ Proverb ]
Wherever the fates lead us let us follow. [ Virgil ]
The paths of glory lead but to the grave. [ Gray ]
Her tears, like drops of molten lead,
With torment burn the passage to my heart. [ Young ]
These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [ Horace ]
Although my cares do hang upon my soul
Like mines of lead, the greatness of my spirit
Shall shake the sullen weight off. [ Clapthorne ]
We are not to lead events, but to follow them. [ Epictetus ]
Wisdom in a poor man is a diamond set in lead. [ Proverb ]
What matter though the scorn of fools be given,
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven! [ Mrs. Hale ]
Come, my best friends, my books! and lead me on. [ Cowley ]
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. [ Seneca ]
He that the devil drives feels no lead at his heels. [ Proverb ]
The balance distinguisheth not between gold and lead. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
As wilful as a pig, that will neither lead nor drive. [ Proverb ]
They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]
Whither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear. [ Lucan ]
A man may lead his horse to water but cannot make him drink. [ Proverb ]
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none. [ Fielding ]
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. [ Bible ]
Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night. [ Proverb ]
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure. [ Fielding ]
When a pig is given you, run presently for a string to lead it home. [ Proverb ]
Of all the paths that lead to a woman's heart, pity is the straightest. [ Beaumont ]
To guard from error is not the instructor's business; but to lead the erring pupil. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
An old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. [ Wordsworth ]
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. [ Cowper ]
There were in him candor and generosity, which, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin. [ Tacitus ]
The Roman mob follows the lead of fortune, as it always does, and hates those that are condemned. [ Juv ]
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze. [ Lavater ]
It is a blessing to be fair, yet such a blessing as if the soul answer not to the face, may lead to a curse. [ Bishop Hall ]
Everything ought to lead to good sense; but in order to attain to it, the road is slippery and difficult to walk in. [ Boileau ]
Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please. [ Montaigne ]
The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead. [ Julia Ward Howe ]
Oppose kindness to perverseness. The heavy sword will not cut soft silk; by using sweet words and gentleness you may lead an elephant with a hair. [ Saadi ]
You cannot lead a fighting world without having it regimented, chivalried; nor can you any more continue to lead a working world unregimented, anarchic. [ Carlyle ]
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. [ Louisa May Alcott ]
Superior powers of mind and profound study are of no use if they do not sometimes lead a person to different conclusions from those which are formed by ordinary powers of mind without study. [ J. S. Mill ]
The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction. [ John Ruskin ]
In the whole course of our observation there is not so misrepresented and abused a personage as Death. The shortest life is long enough if it lead to a better, and the longest life is too short if it does not. [ Colton ]
Friendship has steps which lead up on the throne of God, through all spirits, even to the Infinite; only love is satiable, and like truth admits no three degrees of comparison; and a single being fills the heart. [ Richter ]
Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace. [ Cicero ]
We proudly say we are equal. In the largest sense before God we are, but in every other sense we are not. No two persons have the same gifts, the same tastes, the same habits. One must complement the other. It is a mutual life we lead in a mutual world. [ Caroline Hazard ]
Imaginary evils soon become real ones, by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall, or the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied. [ Swift ]
The contemplation of night should lead to elevating, rather than depressing, ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe? [ Richter ]
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The contemplation of night should lead to elevating rather than to depressing ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe, composed of countless suns and worlds, all full of light and life and motion? [ Richter ]
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. [ Sir Thomas Browns ]
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 ]
There are chords in the human heart - strange varying strings - which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. In the most insensible or childish minds there is some train of reflection which art can seldom lead or skill assist, but which will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and when the discoverer has the plainest and simplest end in view. [ Dickens ]