Long looked for comes at last. [ Proverb ]
New things are most looked at. [ Proverb ]
With eyes that looked into the very soul -
Bright - and as black and burning as a coal. [ Byron ]
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright;
But looked too near, have neither heat nor light. [ Webster ]
Few men have been looked up to by their domestics. [ Montaigne ]
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
A garden must be looked unto and dressed, as the body. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the consoler,
Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Hope, folding her wings, looked backward, and became regret. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]
The butcher looked for his knife when he had it in his mouth. [ Proverb ]
Things above your height are to be looked at, not reached at. [ Proverb ]
Death and the sun are two things not to be looked on with a steady eye. [ Proverb ]
Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into. [ Plutarch ]
I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death. [ Bible ]
Such eyes as may have looked from heaven, but never were raised to it before! [ Moore ]
The old woman would never have looked for her daughter in the oven, had she not been there herself. [ Proverb ]
Looking where others looked, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Men in general do not live as if they looked to die; and therefore do not die as if they looked to live. [ Manton ]
In short, heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but as the natural effect, of a religious life. [ Addison ]
I regard them, as Charles the Emperor did Florence, that they are too pleasant to be looked upon except on holidays. [ Izaak Walton ]
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. [ Sir W. Temple ]
It is expedient to have an acquaintance with those who have looked into the world; who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted. [ Bishop Horne ]
There never has been a nation that has not looked upon woman as the companion or the consolation of man, or as the sacred instrument of his life, and that has not honored her in those characters. [ A. de Musset ]
If ever you have looked on better days, if ever been where bells have knolled to church, if ever sat at any good man's feast, if ever from your eyelids wiped a tear and know what it is to pity and be pitied, let gentleness my strong enforcement sue. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is in the time of trouble, when some to whom we may have looked for consolation and encouragement regard us with coldness, and others, perhaps, treat us with hostility, that the warmth of the friendly heart and the support of the friendly hand acquire increased value and demand additional gratitude. [ Bishop Mant ]
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]