Lightly come, lightly go. [ Proverb ]
Love me lightly, love me long. [ Proverb ]
A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death? [ Wordsworth ]
All are not merry that dance lightly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earth! [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
He loves but lightly who his love can tell. [ Petrarch ]
So lightly walks, she not one mark imprints,
Nor brushes off the dews, nor soils the tints. [ Churchill ]
As winds come lightly whispering from the west.
Kissing, not ruffling the blue deep's serene. [ Byron ]
No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Property ill got is ill spent; lightly come, lightly go. [ Plaut ]
Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two bear it lightly. [ W. Hauff ]
Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this multitude. [ William Shakespeare ]
Bid that welcome which comes to punish us, and we punish it, seeming to bear it lightly. [ William Shakespeare ]
Under the weight of his knowledge, a man cannot move so lightly as in the days of his simplicity. [ John Ruskin ]
The truth we need is only lightly veiled, not deeply buried by the wise hand which has designed it for us. [ Gellert ]
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]