Making their lives a prayer. [ Whittier ]

Talking of love is making it. [ Proverb ]

We're lost, but we're making great time! [ Yogi Berra ]

Thank you for making this day necessary. [ Yogi Berra, on being the guest of honor at an awards banquet ]

Making all futures fruits of all the past. [ Edwin Arnold ]

Dashing in big drops on the narrow pane,
And making mournful music for the mind,
While plays his interlude the wizzard wind,
I hear the singing of the frequent rain. [ William H. Burleigh ]

Grief should be
Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate,
Conforming, cleansing, raising, making free. [ Aubrey de Vere (the younger) ]

The man is either mad, or he is making verses. [ Horace ]

This world is God's workshop for making men in. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Nature is still the grand agent in making poets. [ Carlyle ]

Striking, and not making it felt, is anger lost. [ Proverb ]

Working and making a fire doth discretion require. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation. [ Bruyere ]

The art of making much show with little substance.. [ Macaulay ]

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 ]

Out of breath for nothing, making much ado about nothing. [ Phaed ]

The charges of building and making of gardens are unknown. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

More goes to the making of a fine gentleman than fine clothes. [ Proverb ]

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. [ Hazlitt ]

As prodigal of all dear grace as Nature was in making graces dear. [ Shakespeare ]

The secret of making one's self tiresome is not to know when to stop. [ Voltaire ]

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

The way to make friendships that will last long is to be long in making them.

The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them. [ Alfieri ]

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

A bluestocking despises her duties as a woman, and always begins by making herself a man. [ Rousseau ]

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. [ Montaigne ]

A man must be a fool, who does not succeed in making a woman believe that which flatters her. [ Balzac ]

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and of preserving happiness. [ Horace ]

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. [ Edward Everett Hale ]

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

Beauty deceives women in making them establish on an ephemeral power the pretensions of a whole life. [ Bignicourt ]

They begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth itself appear like falsehood. [ Shenstone ]

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned. [ Niebuhr ]

The happiness of married life depends upon the power of making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. [ Selden ]

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him? [ Tillotson ]

Well does Agathon say: Of this alone is even God deprived - the power of making that which is past never to have been. [ Aristotle ]

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar, is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince. [ Sadi ]

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. [ Swift ]

No artist-work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child. [ Charlotte Cushman ]

Wine leads to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. [ Homer ]

One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful: joy softens more hearts than tears. [ Mme. de Sartory ]

I hope you are becoming more and more interested in making those around you happy. That is the true way to secure your own happiness. [ Robert E. Lee ]

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors. [ Ouida ]

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. [ Swift ]

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least, - the privilege of making them happy. [ Colton ]

Books give the same turn to our thoughts that company does to our conversation, without loading our memories, or making us even sensible of the change. [ Swift ]

It is only the coward who reproaches as a dishonor the love a woman has cherished for him, since she can not retaliate by making a dishonor of his love for her. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

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 ]

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. [ Ruskin ]

A fop who admires his person in a glass soon enters into a resolution of making his fortune by it, not questioning that every woman who falls in his way will do him as much justice as himself. [ Thomas Hughes ]

We want more loving knowledge to enable us to enjoy life, and we require to cultivate the art of making the most of the common means and appliances of enjoyment which lie about us on every side. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Greatness of mind is not shown by admitting small things, but by making small things great under its influence. He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. [ John Ruskin ]

Men and communities in this world are often in the position of Arctic explorers, who are making great speed in a given direction, while the ice-floe beneath them is making greater speed in the opposite. [ John Burroughs ]

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making. [ Sydney Smith ]

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it. [ Lowell ]

Love works miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

There are jilts in friendship, as well as in love; and by the behavior of some men in both, one would almost imagine that they industriously sought to gain the affections of others with the view only of making the parties miserable. [ Fielding ]

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has not the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching shrieking fish. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Talk to the point, and stop when you have reached it. The faculty some possess of making one idea cover a quire of paper is not good for much. Be comprehensive in all you say or write. To fill a volume upon nothing is a credit to nobody; though Lord Chesterfield wrote a very clever poem upon nothing. [ John Neal ]

The word necessary is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary. [ Lord Halifax ]

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]