Definition of made

"made" in the verb sense

1. make, do

engage in

"make love, not war"

"make an effort"

"do research"

"do nothing"

"make revolution"

2. make, get

give certain properties to something

"get someone mad"

"She made us look silly"

"He made a fool of himself at the meeting"

"Don't make this into a big deal"

"This invention will make you a millionaire"

"Make yourself clear"

3. make, create

make or cause to be or to become

"make a mess in one's office"

"create a furor"

4. induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make

cause to do cause to act in a specified manner

"The ads induced me to buy a VCR"

"My children finally got me to buy a computer"

"My wife made me buy a new sofa"

5. cause, do, make

give rise to cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally

"cause a commotion"

"make a stir"

"cause an accident"

6. produce, make, create

create or manufacture a man-made product

"We produce more cars than we can sell"

"The company has been making toys for two centuries"

7. draw, make

make, formulate, or derive in the mind

"I draw a line here"

"draw a conclusion"

"draw parallels"

"make an estimate"

"What do you make of his remarks?"

8. make

compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way

"People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law!"

"Heat makes you sweat"

9. create, make

create by artistic means

"create a poem"

"Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"

"Picasso created Cubism"

"Auden made verses"

10. gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in

earn on some commercial or business transaction earn as salary or wages

"How much do you make a month in your new job?"

"She earns a lot in her new job"

"this merger brought in lots of money"

"He clears $5,000 each month"

11. do, make

create or design, often in a certain way

"Do my room in blue"

"I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest"

12. form, constitute, make

to compose or represent

"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"

"The branches made a roof"

"This makes a fine introduction"

13. reach, make, get to, progress to

reach a goal

"make the first team"

"We made it!"

"She may not make the grade"

14. make

be or be capable of being changed or made into

"He makes a great host"

"He will make a fine father"

15. make

make by shaping or bringing together constituents

"make a dress"

"make a cake"

"make a wall of stones"

16. make

perform or carry out

"make a decision"

"make a move"

"make advances"

"make a phone call"

17. construct, build, make

make by combining materials and parts

"this little pig made his house out of straw"

"Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer"

18. make

change from one form into another

"make water into wine"

"make lead into gold"

"make clay into bricks"

19. make

act in a certain way so as to acquire

"make friends"

"make enemies"

20. name, nominate, make

charge with a function charge to be

"She was named Head of the Committee"

"She was made president of the club"

21. have, get, make

achieve a point or goal

"Nicklaus had a 70"

"The Brazilian team got 4 goals"

"She made 29 points that day"

22. reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain

reach a destination, either real or abstract

"We hit Detroit by noon"

"The water reached the doorstep"

"We barely made it to the finish line"

"I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

23. lay down, establish, make

institute, enact, or establish

"make laws"

24. make

carry out or commit

"make a mistake"

"commit a faux-pas"

25. make

form by assembling individuals or constituents

"Make a quorum"

26. hold, throw, have, make, give

organize or be responsible for

"hold a reception"

"have, throw, or make a party"

"give a course"

27. make, make up

put in order or neaten

"make the bed"

"make up a room"

28. take, make

head into a specified direction

"The escaped convict took to the hills"

"We made for the mountains"

29. stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make

have a bowel movement

"The dog had made in the flower beds"

30. make

undergo fabrication or creation

"This wool makes into a nice sweater"

31. make

be suitable for

"Wood makes good furniture"

32. make

add up to

"four and four make eight"

33. make

amount to

"This salary increase makes no difference to my standard of living"

34. make

constitute the essence of

"Clothes make the man"

35. make

appear to begin an activity

"He made to speak but said nothing in the end"

"She made as if to say hello to us"

36. make, work

proceed along a path

"work one's way through the crowd"

"make one's way into the forest"

37. make

reach in time

"We barely made the plane"

38. make

gather and light the materials for

"make a fire"

39. cook, fix, ready, make, prepare

prepare for eating by applying heat

"Cook me dinner, please"

"can you make me an omelette?"

"fix breakfast for the guests, please"

40. seduce, score, make

induce to have sex

"Harry finally seduced Sally"

"Did you score last night?"

"Harry made Sally"

41. make

assure the success of

"A good review by this critic will make your play!"

42. make, pretend, make believe

represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

"She makes like an actress"

43. make

consider as being

"It wasn't the problem some people made it"

44. make

calculate as being

"I make the height about 100 feet"

45. make

cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable

"make my day"

46. make

favor the development of

"Practice makes the winner"

47. make

develop into

"He will make a splendid father!"

48. make

behave in a certain way

"make merry"

49. make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water

eliminate urine

"Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"

"made" in the adjective sense

1. made

produced by a manufacturing process rope and nails"

"bought some made goods at the local store

2. made

of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order

"a neatly made bed"

3. made

successful or assured of success

"now I am a made man forever"- Christopher Marlowe

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Quotations for made

Made exactly by rule.

That dirt made this dust. [ Proverb ]

A poet is born, not made. [ Law ]

Critics all are ready made. [ Byron ]

Whose plenty made him poor. [ Spenser ]

Matches are made in heaven. [ Burton ]

I made my life my monument. [ Ben Jonson ]

Divorces are made in heaven. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Marriages are made in heaven. [ Tennyson ]

True wit never made us laugh. [ Emerson ]

Grief divided is made lighter. [ Proverb ]

For Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God. [ Owen Meredith ]

Long experience made him sage. [ Gay ]

Fearfully and wonderfully made. [ Bible ]

He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all. [ Coleridge ]

We made too many wrong mistakes. [ Yogi Berra ]

Word by word big books are made. [ French Proverb ]

A horse made, and a man to make. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

God made all pleasures innocent. [ Mrs. Norton ]

Such stuff the world is made of. [ Cowper ]

God made no body to forsake him. [ Proverb ]

Hope is a loan made to happiness.

The moon is made of green cheese. [ Proverb ]

All that I am, my mother made me. [ J. Q. Adams ]

Marriage is ever made by destiny. [ Chapman ]

Spears are not made of bulrushes. [ Proverb ]

All that's bright must fade -
The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
But to be lost when sweetest. [ Moore ]

A hat is not made for one shower. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Dark eyes - eternal soul of pride!
Deep life in all that's true!
Away, away to other skies!
Away over seas and sands!
Such eyes as those were never made
To shine in other lands. [ Leland ]

Happiness seems made to be shared. [ Corneille ]

A great man is made so for others. [ Thomas Wilson ]

We shape ourselves the joy or fear
Of which the coming life is made,
And fill our Future's atmosphere
With sunshine or with shade. [ Whittier ]

I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white.
The violets, and the lily-cups
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set,
The laburnum on his birthday -
The tree is living yet. [ Hood ]

I have no wish to be made a bishop. [ Applied to an affected indifference to obtaining what one really desires ]

The good are better made by ill,
As odors crushed are sweeter still. [ Samuel Rogers ]

Because my blessings are abus'd,
Must I be censur'd, curs'd, accus'd?
Even virtue's self by knaves is made
A cloak to carry on the trade. [ Gay ]

Let dogs delight to bark and bite.
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight.
For 'tis their nature to. [ Isaac Watts ]

Revolutions are not made; they come. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Ask why God made the gem so small,
And why so huge the granite?
Because God meant mankind should set
The higher value on it. [ Burns ]

Necessity never made a good bargain. [ Franklin ]

Death upon his face
Is rather shine than shade,
A tender shine by looks beloved made. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Men are what their mothers made them. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A feast is not made of mushrooms only. [ Proverb ]

His shoes are made of running leather. [ Proverb ]

Let every man do what he was made for. [ Proverb ]

You have made a hand of it like a foot. [ Proverb ]

Never anger made good guard for itself. [ William Shakespeare ]

Man is not made to question, but adore. [ Young ]

Choose a horse made and a wife to make. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Her overpowering presence made you feel
It would not be idolatry to kneel. [ Byron ]

A house ready made, but a wife to make. [ Proverb ]

Nature has made man's breast no windows
To publish what he does within doors,
Nor what dark secrets there inhabit,
Unless his own rash folly blab it. [ Butler ]

I would the gods had made thee poetical. [ William Shakespeare ]

By navigation new worlds are made known. [ J. G. Zarco ]

God never made His work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]

Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we;
For, such as we are made of, such we be. [ William Shakespeare ]

I am as free as nature first made man.
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. [ Dryden ]

Nature hath made nothing so base but can
Read some instruction to the wisest man. [ Aleyn ]

The wise for cure on exercise depend:
God never made His work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]

He makes no friend who never made a foe. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Woman is made of tongue, as fox of tail. [ Proverb ]

No sensible person ever made an apology. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

If eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being. [ Emerson ]

For a good poet's made, as well as born. [ Ben Jonson ]

Vows made in storms are forgot in calms. [ Proverb ]

One genius has made many clever artists. [ Martial ]

Every form as nature made it is correct. [ Propertius ]

A kiss from my mother made me a painter. [ Benjamin West ]

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance. [ Voltaire ]

Since every Jack became a gentleman,
There's many a gentle person made a Jack. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]

The soul was made for joy and good cheer. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

Human society is made up of partialities. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Her angel's face,
As the great eye of heaven shined bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place. [ Spenser ]

Whom have not flowing cups made eloquent? [ Horace ]

Women were made to give our eyes delight;
A female sloven is an odious sight. [ Young ]

Your tongue is made of very loose leather. [ Proverb ]

No blank, no trifle, Nature made or meant. [ Young ]

What my love is, proof hath made you know;
And as my love is sized, my fear is so. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Sc. 2 ]

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. [ John Webster ]

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love has made its best interpreter a sigh. [ Byron ]

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made.
To turn a penny in the way of trade. [ Cowper ]

The whole ocean is made up of single drops. [ Proverb ]

All tongues are not made of the same flesh. [ Proverb ]

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise.
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares,
The poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. [ Wordsworth ]

Man makes a death, which nature never made. [ Young ]

Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made his prophets poets; and the more
We feel of poesie do we become
Like God in love and power, - under makers. [ Bailey ]

Young men are made wise, old men become so. [ Proverb ]

No man was made for sports and recreations. [ Proverb ]

The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down. [ William Shakespeare ]

The soul,
Though made in time, survives for aye;
And, though it hath beginning, sees no end. [ Sir J. Davies ]

Nature never made us for play and pleasure. [ Proverb ]

Friendship made in a moment is of no moment. [ Proverb ]

He that learns a trade hath a purchase made. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

And conscience, truth and honesty are made
To rise and fall, like other wares of trade. [ Moore ]

Nature made every fop to plague his brother,
Just as one beauty mortifies another. [ Pope ]

Oh world, as God has made it! All is beauty:
And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. [ Browning ]

He that feareth is not made perfect in love. [ St. John ]

Friendships are discovered rather than made. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

Man is made great or little by his own will. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Friends I have made, whom envy must commend.
But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. [ Churchill ]

Would, no, I thank you, had never been made. [ Proverb ]

Stung by straitness of our life, made strait
On purpose to make sweet the life at large. [ Browning ]

Old porridge is sooner warmed than new made. [ Proverb ]

Fate made me what I am, may make me nothing;
But either that or nothing must I be;
I will not live degraded. [ Byron ]

Be thou assured, if words be made of breath,
And breath of life, I have no life to breathe
What thou hast said to me. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

A breath can make them, as a breath has made. [ Goldsmith ]

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. [ Emerson ]

Better to hunt in fields for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise for cure on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]

Life is probation: mortal man was made
To solve the solemn problem - right or wrong. [ John Quincy Adams ]

A sorrow shared is but half a trouble,
But a joy that's shared is a joy made double. [ Proverb ]

It is a good knife, it was made at Dull-edge. [ Proverb ]

Fortune in men has some small difference made.
One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. [ Pope ]

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden sceptre over a slumbering world.
Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound!
Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds;
Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and nature made a pause;
An awful pause! prophetic of her end. [ Young ]

Tell them, dear, if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being. [ Emerson ]

God created man, but Sam Colt made them equal! [ Unknown ]

The morals of today are made up of appearances. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain;
It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse. [ George Herbert ]

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
In every bosom where her nest is made.
Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. [ Cowper ]

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light [ Coleridge ]

Plenty has made me poor; wealth makes wit waver. [ Ovid ]

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

Death has made His darkness beautiful with thee. [ Tennyson ]

And made youth younger, and taught life to live. [ Young ]

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Do you never think what wondrous beings these?
Do you never think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man ever caught! [ Longfellow ]

And glory long has made the sages smile;
It is something, nothing, words, illusion, wind -
Depending more upon the historian's style
Than on the name a person leaves behind. [ Byron ]

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He that dies young has made a quick voyage of it. [ Proverb ]

Too curious man! why dost thou seek to know
Events, which, good or ill, foreknown, are woe!
The all-seeing power, that made thee mortal, gave
Thee every thing a mortal state should have. [ Dryden ]

An oath that is not to be made is not to be kept. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Do not turn baker if your head be made of butter. [ Proverb ]

She wept to feel her life so desolate,
And wept still more because the world had made it
So desolate: yet was the world her all;
She loathed it, but she knew it was her all. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight.
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous. [ Roscommon ]

Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes
And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 4 ]

Let the experiment be made on some worthless body.

Light injuries are made none by not regarding them. [ Proverb ]

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. [ Cowley ]

No covenant is to be made with the serpent's brood. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

A fault is made worse by endeavoring to conceal it. [ Proverb ]

The friend of order has made half his way to virtue. [ Lavater ]

A whole bushel of wheat is made up of single grains. [ Proverb ]

Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit. [ Willmott ]

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. [ Waller ]

I have heard they are the most lewd impostors,
Made of all terms and shreds, no less beliers
Of great men's favours than their own vile medicines,
Which they will utter upon monstrous oaths;
Selling that drug for two pence ere they part.
Which they have valued at twelve crowns before. [ Ben Jonson ]

Men and pyramids are not made to stand on their head. [ G. K. Pfeffel ]

Woman, once made equal to man, becometh his superior. [ Socrates ]

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous. [ Chamfort ]

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts. [ George Eliot ]

Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. [ Lowell ]

He hath conquered well that hath made his enemies fly. [ Proverb ]

Hypocrites are a sort of creatures that God never made. [ Proverb ]

Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.. [ Proverb ]

God who made the world so wisely, as wisely governs it. [ Proverb ]

Fingers were made before forks and hands before knives. [ Swift ]

Fools and philosophers were made out of the same metal. [ Proverb ]

The Image of Eternity - the throne
Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. [ Byron ]

No Hecuba, by aid of rouge and ceruse, is a Helen made. [ William Cowper ]

Night is the benefit of nature, and made for man's rest. [ Livy ]

That which will not be butter, must be made into cheese. [ Proverb ]

The acquirement of music should be made simple and easy. [ Guy Aretin ]

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. [ Emerson ]

God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool. [ Victor Hugo ]

Probably he who never made a mistake never made anything. [ Samuel Smiles ]

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun. [ Proverb ]

Wounds may heal, but not those that are made by ill words. [ Proverb ]

Our birth made us mortal, our death will make us immortal. [ Proverb ]

If marriages are made in heaven, you had few friends there. [ Proverb ]

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon. [ Bovee ]

The finest language is chiefly made up of unimposing words. [ George Eliot ]

Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. [ Cervantes ]

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market. [ Colton ]

Our ideas, like pictures, are made up of lights and shadows. [ Joubert ]

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time. [ Johnson ]

Possession makes tyrants of some men whom desire made slaves. [ Brignicourt ]

The commandments have made as many good martyrs as the creed. [ Proverb ]

Death hath nothing terrible in it but what life hath made so. [ Proverb ]

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many. [ Washington Allston ]

Expediency is a law of nature.
The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. [ Beaconsfield ]

If God were not a necessary being of Himself,
He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men. [ John Tillotson ]

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. [ Chapin ]

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. [ Voltaire ]

A thief passes for a gentleman, when stealing has made him rich. [ Proverb ]

Some must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Cowards are made to be trampled on, unless their wit cover them. [ Proverb ]

The buttercups across the field made sunshine rifts of splendor. [ Miss Mulock ]

The essential thing for all creatures is to be made to do right. [ John Ruskin ]

Sweetest melodies are those that are by distance made more sweet. [ Wordsworth ]

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it? [ John Lyly ]

With cost, good pottage may be made out of a leg of a joint stool. [ Proverb ]

When God is made the master of a family, He orders the disorderly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I find that most people are made only for the common uses of life. [ John Foster ]

How many could be made happy with the happiness lost in this world. [ Levis ]

The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong. [ George William Curtis ]

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away. [ Willmott ]

When you have made me shuffle the cards then truly you will not play. [ Proverb ]

Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol which itself hath made. [ Sir T. Overbury ]

The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. [ Browning ]

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job. [ H. W. Shaw ]

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. [ Lowell ]

As birds are made to fly and rivers to run, so the soul to follow duty. [ Ramayana ]

We have not only multiplied diseases, bnt we have made them more fatal. [ Rush ]

In all affairs thou undertakest, a diligent preparation should be made. [ Cicero ]

Riches have made mair men covetous than covetousness has made men rich. [ Scotch Proverb ]

The only conquests that cause no regrets, are those made over ignorance. [ Napoleon I ]

He cannot complain of a hard sentence who is made master of his own fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Riches have made more covetous men, than covetousness hath made rich men. [ Proverb ]

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Had not God made this world, and death too, it were an insupportable place. [ Carlyle ]

Steve McQueen looks good in this movie. He must have made it before he died. [ Yogi Berra ]

She is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one. [ Burke ]

Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count never made a man. [ Southern ]

Civil wars of France made a million of atheists, and thirty thousand witches. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! [ Holmes ]

London bridge was made for wise men to pass over, and for fools to pass under. [ Proverb ]

In the spot where liberty has made her last stand she was fated to be smitten. [ Lucan ]

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. [ Richard Hooker ]

Men are more eloquent than women made; but women are more powerful to persuade. [ Thomas Randolph ]

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. [ Keats ]

There is something in the shape of harps as though they had been made by music. [ P. J. Bailey ]

By of what is the business of the world made up? Of the wealth of other people. [ Béroalde Verville ]

The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. [ De Tocqueville ]

Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man's own making. [ Addison ]

Who thinks a woman hath no merit, but her money, deserve , to be made a cuckold. [ Proverb ]

Life is a mauvais quart d'heure (bad quarter hour) made up of exquisite moments. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. [ H. W. Shaw ]

If a man is unhappy, this must be his own fault; for God made all men to be happy. [ Epictetus ]

What's true beauty but fair virtue's face, - virtue made visible in outward grace? [ Young ]

The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams that are bright all the time. [ Dr. John Aiken ]

If God didn't want holsters to be leather, he wouldn't have made so many damn cows. [ Unknown ]

Who despises all that is despicable, is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot. [ Sharp ]

Though all men were made of one metal, yet they were not cast all in the same mould. [ Proverb ]

Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all other mothers venerable. [ Agnesi ]

Glory long has made the sages smile; 'tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind. [ Byron ]

He hath made a good progress in a business, that hath thought well of it beforehand. [ Proverb ]

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me. [ Nelson ]

There is work on God's wide earth for all men that he has made with hands and hearts. [ Carlyle ]

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea He made heavens, and to rivers fords. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Dost thou love life? then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

There are charms made only for distant admiration. No spectacle is nobler than a blaze. [ Johnson ]

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man. [ Johnson ]

Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was made for kissing, lady, not for such contempt. [ William Shakespeare ]

God is all love; it is He who made everything, and He loves everything that He has made. [ Henry Brooke ]

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee. [ St. Augustine ]

Fortune's wings are made of Time's feathers, which stay not whilst one may measure them. [ Lilly ]

The more tender our spirits are made by religion, the more ready we are to let in grief. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

From Egypt arts their progress made to Greece, wrapped in the fable of the golden fleece. [ Sir J. Denham ]

A well-cultivated mind is, so to say, made up of all the minds of the centuries preceding. [ Fontenelle ]

Would you eat finer bread than is made of wheat, or wear finer cloth than is made of wool? [ Proverb ]

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired. [ Amiel ]

Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combinations. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]

Aphorisms, except they be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences. [ Lord Bacon ]

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. [ Froude ]

I have made as much of myself as could be made of the stuff and no man should require more. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Nature had made occupation a necessity; society makes it a duty; habit may make it a pleasure. [ Capelle ]

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. [ Daniel Webster ]

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make! [ Joubert ]

I have made it a rule never to be with a person ten minutes without trying to make him happier. [ Dr. Raffler ]

Philosophy does not regard pedigree; she did not receive Plato as a noble, but she made him so. [ Seneca ]

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. [ Schiller ]

She is the most virtuous woman whom Nature has made the most voluptuous, and reason the coldest. [ La Beaumelle ]

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world. [ South ]

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. [ F. Osborn ]

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man. [ Macaulay ]

The death of your first wife made such an impression in your heart, that all the rest fly through. [ Proverb ]

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame. [ Skobeleff ]

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man. [ Ruskin ]

Nature never made an unkind creature; ill-usage and bad habits have deformed a fair and lovely creation. [ Sterne ]

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Temperance, courage, love, are made up of the same jewels. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Still on it creeps, each little moment at another's heels, till hours, days, years, and ages are made up. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Men have made of Fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order to be made responsible for all their blunders. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choice of good or evil we have made through life. [ J. C. Geikie ]

The poorest human soul is infinite in wishes, and the infinite universe was not made for one, but for all. [ Carlyle ]

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together. [ Southern ]

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

It seems to me as if not only the form, but the soul of man was made to walk erect, and look upon the stars. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Casuists who made absolute chastity a virtue, have produced but false appearances in a hypocritical society. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. [ William Ellery Channing ]

I have seen young ladies of twenty-five affecting a childish ingenuousness which has made me doubt their virtue.

Riches are like bad servants, whose shoes are made of running leather, and will never tarry long with one master. [ Brooks ]

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunders. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Beauty or unbecomingness is of more force to draw or deter invitation than any discourses which can be made to them. [ Locke ]

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of His wisdom who made it. [ Burke ]

It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation. [ Washington Gladden ]

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. [ Trench ]

Equality is not a law of nature. Nature has made no two things equal: its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. [ Vauvenargues ]

Ennui, perhaps, has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. [ Colton ]

The abandoning of some lower end in obedience to a higher aim is often made the very condition of securing the lower one. [ J. C. Sharp ]

To hate a man for his errors is as unwise as to hate one who, in casting up an account, has made an error against himself. [ Robertson ]

Alphabets, if rightly understood, can be made to tell their own history, as well as the history of those who employed them. [ Prof. Sayce ]

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. [ Seneca ]

Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam, or a balloon without gas. [ Beecher ]

It is the greatest invention man has ever made, this of marking down the unseen thought that is in him by written characters. [ Carlyle ]

The thing formed says that nothing formed it; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not! The folly is infinite. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Character is made up of small duties faithfully performed - of self-denials, of self-sacrifices, of kindly acts of love and duty. [ Anonymous ]

Sir Amyas Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, Stay awhile, that we may make an end the sooner. [ Bacon ]

We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

I do not number my borrowings; I weigh them, and had I designed to raise their value by their number, I had made them twice as many. [ Montaigne ]

What has become of those personages who made so much noise in the world? Time has made one step, and the face of the earth is renewed. [ Chateaubriand ]

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a simple reason, - they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. [ Colton ]

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received. [ Macaulay ]

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration. [ Ouida ]

Suspicions are nothing when a man is really true, and every one should persevere in acting honestly, for all will be made right in time. [ Hans Andersen ]

The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made higher and broader, or he will hardly get in. [ Thomas Adams ]

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate. [ Montaigne ]

A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing. [ Colton ]

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. [ Ben. Franklin ]

Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but they have lived and died poor, that made them their meat. [ Fuller ]

That immense majority, the fools, who made the laws that regulate the manners of the world, very naturally made them for their own benefit.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours. [ Swift ]

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war. [ Bovee ]

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position. [ Plutarch ]

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface. [ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings among the Sheaves ]

Nature has directly formed woman to be a mother, only indirectly to be a wife; man, on the contrary, is rather made to be a husband than a father. [ Jean Paul ]

I make little account of genealogical trees. Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fate. [ General Skobeleff ]

Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? That parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? [ William Shakespeare ]

God has made an unerring law for His whole creation, upon principles which, so far as we now know, can never he understood without the aid of mathematics. [ E. D. Mansfield ]

There comes a time when the souls of human beings, women more even than men, begin to faint for the atmosphere of the affections they are made to breathe. [ Holmes ]

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time. [ Fontenelle ]

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us? [ Goethe ]

Oh, but books are such safe company! They keep your secrets well; they never boast that they made your eyes glisten, or your cheek flush, or your heart throb. [ Mrs. S. P. Parton ]

The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but who have taken them, besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the chance their servitor. [ Chapin ]

Many sacrifices have been made just to enjoy the feeling of vengeance, without any intention of causing an amount of injury equivalent to what one has suffered. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realised? [ Carlyle ]

Education, indeed, has made the fondness for fine things next to natural; the corals and bells teach infants on the breasts to be delighted with sound and glitter. [ H. Brooke ]

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. [ Plato ]

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by; it is good, and made by a good workman. [ Bruyere ]

To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor. [ Pope ]

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work. [ Bruyere ]

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and should do their duty. [ Leigh Hunt ]

The poorest day that passes over us is the conflux of two eternities; it is made-up of currents that issue from the remotest part, and flow onwards into the remotest future. [ Carlyle ]

We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary. [ Epicurus ]

Everywhere the strong have made the laws and oppressed the weak; and, if they have sometimes consulted the interests of society, they have always forgotten those of humanity. [ Turgot ]

Their avenging God! rancorous torturer who burns his creatures in slow fire! When they tell me that God made himself a man, I prefer to recognize a man who made himself a god. [ A. de Musset ]

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. [ Swift ]

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious. [ Plutarch ]

Man loves before he sees; his heart is open before his eyes; love must irradiate his world for him before he well knows he is in it, what it is made of, and what to make of it. [ Ed ]

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords. [ Rousseau ]

A friend is a rare book, of which but one copy is made. We read a page of it every day, till some woman snatches it from our hands, who sometimes peruses it, but more frequently tears it.

Man lives in Time, has his whole earthly being, endeavour, and destiny shaped for him by Time; only in the transitory Time-symbol is the ever-motionless eternity we stand on made manifest. [ Carlyle ]

To be as good as our fathers, Me must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it. [ Wendell Phillips ]

I fancy mankind may come in time to write all aphoristically, except in narration; grow weary of preparation and connection and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A good name is properly that reputation of virtue that every man may challenge as his right and due in the opinions of others, till he has made forfeit of it by the viciousness of his actions. [ South ]

Proverbs are somewhat analogous to those medical formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready made up in the chemists' shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct prescription. [ Whately ]

The night is made for tenderness; so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music; and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs, and on the lip made holy. [ N. P. Willis ]

Men are what their mothers made them; you may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback, wiry it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer, or a chemical discovery from that jobber. [ R. W. Emerson ]

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort. [ Sir Humphry Davy ]

The same conditions should be made in marriage that are made in the case of houses that one rents for a term of three, six, or nine years, with the privilege of becoming the purchaser if the house suits. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]

Man is placed in this world as a spectator; when he is tired with wondering at all the novelties about him, and not till then, does he desire to be made acquainted with the causes that create those wonders. [ Goldsmith ]

God took his softest clay and his purest colors, and made a fragile jewel, mysterious and caressing - the finger of woman; then he fell asleep. The devil awoke, and at the end of that rosy finger put a nail. [ Victor Hugo ]

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought. [ Theodore T. Munger ]

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. [ Diogenes ]

Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one. [ Chesterfield ]

The emperor one day took up a pencil which fell from the hand of Titian, who was then drawing his picture; and upon the compliment which Titian made him on that occasion he said, Titian deserves to be served by Caesar. [ Dryden ]

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words - mank and ind. What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read a book so bad but he drew some profit from it [ Sterne ]

Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust. [ Colton ]

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal. [ Emerson ]

The air seems made up of happiness, the clouds, the trees, the grass, the pathless birds, land and water, - all seem to pulsate happiness, to emit it, to breathe it forth upon us; and it falls upon us as dew upon flowers. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

When the passengers gallop by as if fear made them speedy, the cur follows them with an open mouth; let them walk by in confident neglect, and the dog will not stir at all; it is a weakness that every creature takes advantage of. [ J. Beaumont ]

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. [ Izaak Walton ]

A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. [ Tupper ]

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory. Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combinations. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. There does not live on earth the man, be his station what it may, that I despise myself compared with him. Man is made great or little by his own will. [ Schiller ]

The chief art of learning is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights, frequently repeated, the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions. [ Locke ]

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! [ Dewey ]

The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented. [ Addison ]

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. There is nothing in the world as unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they do not know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the freemasons sign - they reveal the initiated to each other. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in speaking their minds. A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune. [ Steele ]

He hazards much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. [ Roger Ascham ]

If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy - think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it many points in common therewith ... I call it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning again may be either true or false, either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or Insanity. [ Carlyle ]

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them? [ Haliburton ]

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it may be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country. [ Cowley ]

Words, those fickle daughters of the earth, are the creation of a being that is finite, and when applied to explain that which is infinite, they fail; for that which is made surpasses not the maker; nor can that which is immeasurable by our thoughts be measured by our tongues. [ Colton ]

Blessings we enjoy daily; and for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content. [ Izaak Walton ]

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance has been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good. [ J. G. Holland ]

Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]

The flitting sunbeam has been grasped and made to do man's bidding in place of the painter's pencil. And although Franklin tamed the lightning, yet not until yesterday has its instantaneous flash been made the vehicle of language: thus in the transmission of thought annihilating space and time. [ Professor Robinson ]

The education which has, however, made me a writer has been a living one. I have not only read much, I have seen much, and enjoyed much, and, above all, I have sorrowed much. God has put into my hands every cup of life, sweet and bitter, and the bitter has often become sweet, and the sweet bitter. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Manhood begins when we have, in a way, made truce with necessity; begins, at all events, when we have surrendered to necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to necessity, and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in necessity we are free. [ Carlyle ]

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

How sacred, how beautiful, is the feeling of affection in pure and guileless bosoms! The proud may sneer at it, the fashionable may call it fable, the selfish and dissipated may affect to despise it; but the holy passion is surely of heaven, and is made evil by the corruptions of those whom it was sent to bless and to preserve. [ Mordaunt ]

Was man made to disdain the gifts of nature? Was he placed on earth but to gather bitter fruits? For whom are the flowers the gods cause to bloom at the feet of mortals? It pleases Providence when we abandon ourselves to the different inclinations that He has given us: our duties come from His laws, and our desires from His inspirations.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition. [ Cicero ]

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, Dust to dust, some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, I'll be waiting for you in heaven - with a gun. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art. in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men - the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great many of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color. [ Leigh Hunt ]

The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made. There must be inspiration back of all true and permanent art, dramatic or otherwise, and art is universal: there is nothing national about it. Its field is humanity, and it takes in all the world; nor does anything else afford the refuge that is provided by it from all troubles and all the vicissitudes of life. [ William Winter ]

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying. [ Beecher ]

Maggie and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion, - when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial words, the lightest gestures, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent. [ George Eliot ]

Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride! [ Henry Martyn ]

Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. [ Rogers ]

Wherever there is a sky above him and a world around him, the poet is in his place; for here too is man's existence, with its infinite longings and small acquirings; its ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours; its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and hopes that wander through eternity; and all the mystery of brightness and of gloom that it was ever made of, in any age or climate, since man first began to live. [ Carlyle ]

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all - but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered. [ Coleridge ]

I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. [ Chesterfield ]

We have no permanent habits until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up - and that is one of the main things. I have made it a rule to go to bed when there wasn't anybody left to sit up with; and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to. This has resulted in an unswerving regularity of irregularity. It has saved me sound, but it would injure another person. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]

If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron! and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice. Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

I have very often lamented and hinted my sorrow, in several speculations, that the art of painting is made so little use of to the improvement of manners. When we consider that it places the action of the person represented in the most agreeable aspect imaginable, - that it does not only express the passion or concern as it sits upon him who is drawn, but has under those features the height of the painter's imagination, - what strong images of virtue and humanity might we not expect would be instilled into the mind from the labors of the pencil! [ Steele ]

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. [ John Ruskin ]

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and - not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. There is the great ocean, holding the navies of the world, which comes from little drops of water no larger than a woman's tears. There are the great constellations in the sky, made up of little bits of stars. Oh, if you could consider his future you might see that he might become the greatest poet of the universe, the greatest warrior the world has ever known, greater than Caesar, than Hannibal, than--er--er" (turning to the father) - What's his name? The father hesitated, then whispered back: His name? Well, his name is Mary Ann. [ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]

I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me, I said. I'm off the team, aren't I? Well, said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times. It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Why has the beneficent Creator scattered over the face of the earth such a profusion of beautiful flowers? Why is it that every landscape has its appropriate flowers, every nation its national flowers, every rural home its home flowers? Why do flowers enter and shed their perfume over every scene of life, from the cradle to the grave? Why are flowers made to utter all voices of joy and sorrow in all varying scenes? It is that flowers have in themselves a real and natural significance; they have a positive relation to man; they correspond to actual emotions; they have their mission - a mission of love and mercy; they have their language, and from the remotest ages this language has found its interpreters. [ Henrietta Dumont ]

made in Scrabble®

The word made is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters made:

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made in Words With Friends™

The word made is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters made:

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Word Growth involving made

Shorter words in made

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Longer words containing made

handmade

homemade

illmade

madefaction

madefication

madefied

madefies

madefy madefying

mademoiselle

maderise maderised

maderise maderises

maderising

maderize maderized

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maderizing

manmade

mismade

pomade pomaded

pomade pomades

readymade readymades

remade premade

selfmade

tailormade

unmade

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