Leave is light. [ Proverb ]
Better leave than lack. [ Proverb ]
No one has leave to sin. [ Cicero ]
Leave a jest
When it pleases you best. [ Proverb ]
Give losers leave to talk. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To leave no stone unturned. [ Proverb ]
Brutes leave ingratitude to man. [ Colton ]
To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die. [ Thomas Campbell ]
To leave all at sixes and sevens. [ Proverb ]
Lives of great men all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of Time. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine. [ Ben Jonson ]
Love yourself, and in that love
Not unconsidered leave your honour. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
Civil wars leave nothing but tombs. [ Lamartine ]
Leave boy's play and go to push-pin. [ Proverb ]
Leave no dirt, you will find no dirt. [ Proverb ]
After the house is finished, leave it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To love the door, and leave the hatch. [ Proverb ]
How calm - how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms have gone,
When warring winds have died away
And clouds, beneath the dancing ray
Melt off and leave the land and sea,
Sleeping in bright tranquillity. [ Moore ]
I'm called away by particular business.
But I leave my character behind me. [ Sheridan ]
Tempted Fate will leave the loftiest star. [ Byron ]
A man must ask his wife's leave to thrive. [ Proverb ]
For a morning rain leave not your journey. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If he had twenty in a flock,
He would leave but one to go with the cock. [ Proverb ]
Intend honestly and leave the event to God. [ Aesop ]
Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. [ Johnson ]
That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,
And follows but for form,
Will pack, when it begins to rain,
And leave thee in a storm. [ William Shakespeare ]
We enter the world alone, we leave it alone. [ Froude ]
Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit is strongest; evils that take leave.
On their departure most of all show evil. [ William Shakespeare ]
But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
And leave them honeyless. [ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act V. Sc.1 ]
Leave us in the dirt and find us in the mire. [ Proverb ]
Perhaps he hath great projects in his mind,
To build a college, or to found a race,
An hospital, a church - and leave behind
Some dome surmounted by his meagre face,
Perhaps he fain would liberate mankind
Even with the very ore which makes them base;
Perhaps he would be wealthiest of his nation,
Or revel in the joys of calculation. [ Byron ]
In all games it is good to leave off a winner. [ Proverb ]
Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease.
Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. [ Pope ]
We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do,
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. [ William Shakespeare ]
Leave off play as soon as the pleasure is past. [ Proverb ]
Like conquering tyrants you our breasts invade.
Where you are pleased to ravage for awhile;
But soon you find new conquests out and leave
The ravaged province ruinate and bare. [ Otway ]
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility. [ Lord J. Manners ]
Don't choose me because I am faithful,
Don't choose me because I am kind,
If your heart settles on me, I'm for the taking,
Take me for longing or leave me behind. [ Mark Simos, Take Me for Longing ]
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run. [ Herbert ]
What avails it that indulgent Heaven
From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
If we, ingenious to torment ourselves.
Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
Enjoy the present; nor with needless cares
Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
Serene, and master of yourself, prepare
For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven. [ Armstrong ]
And where we love is home.
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
The chain may lengthen, but it never parts. [ Holmes ]
Give losers leave to speak, and winners to laugh. [ Proverb ]
The face should give leave to the tongue to speak. [ Proverb ]
We leave more to do when we die than we have done. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them. [ Proverb ]
And otherwhyles with amorous delights
And pleasing toyes he would her entertaine.
Now singing sweetly to surprise her sprights,
Now making layes of love and lover's paine,
Bransles, ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine!
Oft purposes, oft riddles, he devys'd;
And thousands like which flowed in his braine,
With which he fed her fancy, and entys'd
To take to his new love, and leave her old despys'd. [ Spenser ]
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead.
(Strange dream! that gives a dead man leave to think)
And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips
That I reviv'd, and was an emperor. [ William Shakespeare ]
Although the sun shines, leave not thy cloak at home. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last.
Shut thee from Heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. [ Dante ]
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Give not St. Peter so much, to leave St. Paul nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Let the church have leave to stand in the church-yard. [ Proverb ]
Do not think that years leave us and find us the same! [ Lord Lytton ]
Bad men excuse their faults; good men will leave them. [ Ben Jonson ]
He must have leave to speak who cannot hold his tongue. [ Proverb ]
Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open. [ Proverb ]
Leave jesting while it pleaseth, lest it turn to earnest. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Give the piper a penny to play, and twopence to leave off. [ Proverb ]
What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
In all thy quarrels, leave open the door of reconciliation. [ Old Persian Saying ]
He that dallies with his enemy gives him leave to kill him. [ Proverb ]
You should ask the world's leave before you commend yourself. [ Proverb ]
When you enter into a house leave the anger ever at the door. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Disputations leave truth in the middle, and party at both ends. [ Proverb ]
O sleep, why dost thou leave me? why thy visionary joys remove? [ Congreve ]
Leave the flesh to the fate it was fit for! the spirit be thine. [ Robert Browning ]
Leave the spring for the stream, so you shall have mud for water. [ Proverb ]
Be purity of life the test, leave to the heart, to heaven the rest. [ Sprague ]
If the ball does not stick to the wall, yet it will leave some mark. [ Proverb ]
'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious,
For tea +{Drink, Drunkenness} and coffee leave us much more serious. [ Byron ]
You who follow wealth and power with unremitting ardour,
The more in this you look for bliss, you leave your view the farther. [ Burns ]
When we first see the light, we weep; and when we leave it, we groan. [ Proverb ]
Habits leave their impress upon the mind, even after they are given up. [ Spurgeon ]
When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools. [ Shakespeare ]
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing. [ Proverb ]
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. [ Rev. Thomas Scott ]
To punish and not prevent, is to labour at the pump, and leave open the leak. [ Proverb ]
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one. [ Thackeray ]
How can the cat help it if the maid is fool enough to leave things in her way) [ Italian Proverb ]
To leave this keen encounter of our wits, and fall somewhat into a slower method. [ William Shakespeare ]
And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one. [ Montaigne ]
The divinity who rules within us forbids us to leave this world without his command. [ Cicero ]
He that gives himself leave to play with his neighbour's fame, may soon play it away. [ Proverb ]
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener. [ Fontenelle ]
When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Leave her to heaven and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, to prick and sting her. [ William Shakespeare ]
What the light of your mind pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. [ Carlyle ]
God governs the world, and we have only to do our duty wisely, and leave the issue to Him. [ John Jay ]
If we should leave out of conversation scandal, gossip, commonplaces, fatuity - what silence! [ Mme. Bachi ]
I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone. [ Gilpin ]
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Gold glitters most where virtue shines no more, as stars from absent suns have leave to shine. [ Young ]
Wrongs do not leave off there where they begin, but still beget new mischiefs in their course. [ Daniel ]
My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next age. [ Bacon ]
The quarrels of lovers are like summer showers that leave the country more verdant and beautiful. [ Mme. Necker ]
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves. [ Professor Vinet ]
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer. [ Cervantes ]
It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both. [ Bacon ]
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which make us stronger for the time, but leave us weaker forever after. [ Dean Swift ]
Leave it better than you found it. If we all did that, even in small ways, the world would be a much better place.
Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. [ Bacon ]
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. [ Pope ]
Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God. [ B. R. Haydon ]
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 ]
At the gates of the forest the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The gentle breath of peace would leave him on the surface neglected and unmoved. It is only the tempest that lifts him from his place. [ Junius ]
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. [ Legouve ]
Mathematics does not exercise the judgment, and if too exclusively pursued, may leave the student very ill qualified for moral reasoning. [ R. Whately ]
Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. [ 0. A. Sala ]
Leave a friend! So base I am not. I followed him in his prosperity, when the skies were clear and shining, and will not leave him when storms begin to rise. [ Metastasio ]
The difference between you and me,
said a philosopher, is that you say to masked hypocrites, I know you, while I leave them with the idea that they have deceived me.
[ Chamfort ]
The way out of our narrowness may not be so easy as the way in. The weasel that creeps into the corn-bin has to starve himself before he can leave by the same passage. [ Bartol ]
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou may'st get justly use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them. [ Bacon ]
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom - the very fashion of which passeth away.
[ Fenelon ]
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty, that Vice can obtain a lodging. When he knocks at your door, be able to say, No room for your lordship, pass on!
[ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]
A good deal depends upon luck as well as care, and sometimes a writer must wait, or even leave off and return to work again, before he can hit upon the turn of words required. [ Richard D. Blackmore, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant of both the character they leave and of the character they assume. [ Burke ]
Plutarch would rather we should applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge, and would rather leave us with an appetite to read more than glutted with that we have already read. [ Montaigne ]
Women always want one to be good. And if we are good when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad and to leave us quite unattractively good. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning, and goes to rest with us at night. It is the shadow that cleaves to us, go where we will, and which leaves us only when we leave the light of life. [ William Ewart Gladstone ]
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 ]
When you leave the unimpaired hereditary freehold to your children, you do but half your duty. Both liberty and property are precarious, unless the possessors have sense and spirit enough to defend them. [ Junius ]
Misery is so little appertaining to our nature, and happiness so much so, that we in the same degree of illusion only lament over that which has pained us, but leave unnoticed that which has rejoiced us. [ Richter ]
How many of these minds are there to whom scarcely any good can be done! They have no excitability. You are attempting to kindle a fire of stone. You must leave them as you find them, in permanent mediocrity. [ John Foster ]
There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom. [ Schiller ]
As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. [ George Washington ]
Seek such union to the Son of God as, leaving no present death within, shall make the second death impossible, and shall leave in all your future only that shadow of death which men call dissolution, and which the gospel calls sleeping in Jesus. [ James Hamilton ]
Give thy friend counsel wisely and charitably, but leave him to his liberty whether he will follow thee or no; and be not angry if thy counsel be rejected, for advice is no empire, and he is not my friend that will be my judge whether I will or no. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better. [ Quarles ]
The friendship of the world is like the leaves falling from their trees in autumn; while the sap of maintenance lasts, friends swarm in abundance; but in the winter of our need, they leave us naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of a friend. [ Arthur Warwick ]
Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter, easily produce vanity; hence women, wits, players, soldiers, are vain, owing to their presence, figure and dress. On the contrary, other excellences, which lie down like gold and are discovered with difficulty, leave their possessors modest and proud. [ Richter ]
A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar; the case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor toward the latter part of life. [ Shenstone ]
Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; they wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! [ Emerson ]
The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]