The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The boughs that bears most hang lowest. [ Proverb ]
We frequently misplace esteem,
By judging men by what they seem,
To birth, wealth, power, we should allow
Precedence, and our lowest bow. [ Gay ]
Where the hedge is lowest men leap over. [ Proverb ]
Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest.
Save he who courts the flattery. [ Hannah More ]
The heaviest head of corn hangs its head lowest. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
Myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide;
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. [ Milton ]
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. [ Syrus ]
The highest spoke in fortune's wheel may soon turn lowest. [ Proverb ]
Ambition hath but two steps; the lowest, blood; the highest, envy. [ Lilly ]
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and he who goes the lowest builds the safest. [ Bailey ]
Even the lowest book of chronicles partakes of the spirit of the age in which it was written. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit. [ L'Estrange ]
This iron world brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate. [ Spenser ]
Though color be the lowest of all the constituent parts of beauty, yet it is vulgarly the most striking. [ Joseph Spence ]
Adulation is the death of virtue. Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, save he who courts the flattery. [ Hannah More ]
Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality, of which the brightest instances are frequently found in the lowest savage. [ Chatfield ]
Were there but one man in the world, he would be a terror to himself; and the highest man not less so than the lowest. [ Carlyle ]
National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent in the lowest degree of culture. [ Goethe ]
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. [ Charron ]
The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all. [ Carlyle ]
He who without discrimination affirms or denies, ranks lowest among the foolish ones, and this in either case, (i.e. in denying as well as affirming. [ Dante ]
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. [ Seneca ]
The blessings of fortune are the lowest: the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind. [ L'Estrange ]
The generality of princes, if they were stripped of their purple and cast naked on the world, would immediately sink to the lowest rank of society, without a hope of emerging from their obscurity. [ Gibbon ]
The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves. [ Shenstone ]
The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it Axes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. [ Pascal ]
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can at any time descend; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible. [ Colton ]
By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to appear without. [ Adam Smith ]
Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army. [ Napoleon I ]