Definition of many

"many" in the adjective sense

1. many

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that' amounting to a large but indefinite number

"many temptations"

"the temptations are many"

"a good many"

"a great many"

"many directions"

"take as many apples as you like"

"too many clouds to see"

"never saw so many people"

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Quotations for many

In so many words.

Fear has many eyes. [ Cervantes ]

Many smile who bite. [ Cotgrave ]

One fool makes many. [ Proverb ]

Penny and penny
Laid up will be many. [ Proverb ]

One lie calls for many. [ Proverb ]

Not many but good books. [ Bayard Taylor ]

By many a happy accident. [ Thomas Middleton ]

The blind eat many a fly. [ Proverb ]

Death in very many a form. [ Virgil ]

Many strokes fell the oak. [ Proverb ]

Money is the ruin of many. [ Proverb ]

Of young men die many,
Of old men escape not any. [ Proverb ]

There's many a slip
'Twixt the cup and the lip. [ Proverb ]

So many men, so many minds.

Love overlooks many faults. [ Proverb ]

Many hands make light work. [ Proverb ]

There are many ways to fame. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To many fame comes too late. [ Camoens ]

Who will not lay up a penny,
Shall never have many. [ Proverb ]

As many men, so many opinions. [ Terence ]

Read much, but not many works. [ Sir W. Hamilton ]

Ill kings make many good laws. [ Proverb ]

A proud man hath many crosses. [ Proverb ]

Many dogs soon eat up a horse. [ Proverb ]

To command many will cost much. [ Proverb ]

Too many cooks spoil the broth. [ Proverb ]

First appearances deceive many.

Many dishes bring many diseases. [ Pliny ]

So many heads, so many opinions. [ Ter ]

So many branches, so many trees. [ Motto ]

Ill layers up make many thieves. [ Proverb ]

So many laws argue so many sins! [ Milton ]

We made too many wrong mistakes. [ Yogi Berra ]

A fair booty makes many a thief. [ Proverb ]

He who knows much has many cares. [ Lessing ]

To brisk notes in cadence beating
Glance their many-twinkling feet. [ Gray ]

Fair words never break a bone,
Foul words have broke many a one. [ Proverb ]

Many rendings need many mendings. [ Proverb ]

Happy men shall have many friends. [ Proverb ]

So many hours must I take my rest;
So many hours must I contemplate. [ William Shakespeare ]

'Tis noon - a calm, unbroken sleep
Is on the blue waves of the deep;
A soft haze, like a fairy dream,
Is floating over wood and stream;
And many a broad magnolia flower,
Within its shadowy woodland bower,
Is gleaming like a lovely star. [ George D. Prentice ]

He that chastises one amends many. [ Proverb ]

Many words will not fill a bushel. [ Proverb ]

An ill-timed jest has ruined many. [ Proverb ]

So many countries so many customs. [ Proverb ]

Think of many things, do only one. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

Fair words gladden so many a heart. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Many can argue - not many converse. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

He who hath many friends, hath none. [ Aristotle ]

They bore him barefaced on the bier;
And in his grave rained many a tear. [ William Shakespeare ]

Many a good cow hath but a bad calf. [ Proverb ]

Small wounds if many, may be mortal. [ Proverb ]

And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound.
And curs of low degree. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]

O! the gallant fisher's life.
It is the best of any:
'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife
And 'tis beloved by many.
Other joys
Are but toys;
Only this,
Lawful is;
For our skill
Breeds no ill,
But content and pleasure. [ Izaak Walton ]

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Many drops of water will sink a ship. [ Proverb ]

Dogs that put up many hares kill none. [ Proverb ]

But how many moments are already past!
Ah! who thinks of those that are past? [ Lessing ]

Heaven give you many, many merry days! [ William Shakespeare ]

Love thyself, and many will hate thee. [ Anon ]

There's many a true tale told in jest. [ Proverb ]

The mob has many heads, but no brains. [ Proverb ]

In my Father's house are many mansions. [ Jesus ]

An honest good look covers many faults. [ Proverb ]

He that goeth far hath many encounters. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

By requiting one friend we invite many. [ Proverb ]

How many fond fools serve mad jealousy! [ William Shakespeare ]

Many have come to a port after a storm. [ Proverb ]

Too many giddy, foolish hours are gone. [ Rowe ]

Many things are lost for want of asking. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that cuts off twenty years of life
Cuts off so many years of fearing death. [ Horace ]

Many have sought roses and found thorns.

Many friends in general, one in special. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Thy credit wary keep, 'tis quickly gone;
Being got by many actions, lost by one. [ Randolph ]

Jumping over times,
Turning the accomplishment of many years
Into an hourglass. [ William Shakespeare ]

Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. [ Gray ]

One genius has made many clever artists. [ Martial ]

He has as many tricks as a dancing bear. [ Proverb ]

The many-headed monster, (i.e. the mob).

How many sleep who keep the world awake! [ Young ]

The soul needs few things, the body many. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Eyes bright, with many tears behind them. [ Carlyle, on his Wife ]

Life, like a dome of many coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity. [ Shelley ]

Many words and many lies look much alike. [ Proverb ]

Many friends and few helpers in distress. [ German Proverb ]

Many kiss the child for the nurse's sake. [ Proverb ]

One gift well given recovers many losses. [ Proverb ]

Mild arch of promise! on the evening-sky
Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,
Each in the other melting. [ Southey ]

Many owe their fortunes to their enviers. [ Proverb ]

And send him many years of sunshine days! [ William Shakespeare ]

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

So plain is the distinction of our words,
That many have supposed it a spirit
That answers. [ Webster ]

He that sips of many arts drinks of none. [ Fuller ]

O world! how many hopes thou dost engulf! [ A. de Musset ]

Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells.
Of youth, and home, and that sweet time,
When last I heard their soothing chime! [ Tom Moore ]

One wood is enough to feed many elephants. [ Proverb ]

Many a dog is dead since you were a whelp. [ Proverb ]

He who has many servants has many thieves. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Many that go out for wool come home shorn. [ Proverb ]

Many can bear adversity, but few contempt. [ Proverb ]

He threatens many that is injurious to one. [ Proverb ]

As many suffer from too much as too little. [ Bovee ]

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. [ Guicciardini ]

The wit of one man, and the wisdom of many. [ Lord John Russell's definition of a proverb ]

There is many a man hath more hair than wit [ William Shakespeare ]

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. [ Gray ]

Light is the task when many share the toil. [ Homer ]

So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves tonight.
They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;
I will go down to the chapel and pray. [ Longfellow ]

The plainest case in many words entangling. [ Baillie ]

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs. [ Helvetius ]

So many men in court and so many strangers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The foxglove, with its stately bells,
Of purple, shall adorn thy dells;
The wallflower, on each rifted rock,
From liberal blossoms shall breathe down,
(Gold blossoms frecked with iron-brown,)
Its fragrance; while the hollyhock,
The pink, and the carnation vie
With lupin and with lavender.
To decorate the fading year;
And larkspurs, many-hued, shall drive
Gloom from the groves, where red leaves lie.
And Nature seems but half alive. [ D. M. Moir ]

Death rides in triumph, - fell destruction
Lashes his fiery horse, and round about hint
His many thousand ways to let out souls. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone. [ Greville ]

Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one. [ Byron ]

The day
For whose returns, and many, all these pray;
And so do I. [ B. Jonson ]

An evil conscience breaks many a man's neck. [ Proverb ]

Know when to speak, for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings. [ Herrick ]

The earth now supports many bad and weak men. [ Juv ]

Many books,
Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
Uncertain and unsettled still remains -
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]

'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth.
But the plain single vow that is vowed true. [ William Shakespeare ]

Many kiss the hands they wish to see cut off. [ Proverb ]

So many miseries have crazed my voice,
That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute. [ William Shakespeare ]

Many wish to be pious, but none to be humble. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

An incurable itch for writing possesses many. [ Juv ]

Many humble servants have not one true friend. [ Proverb ]

Tasting so many dishes shows a dainty stomach. [ Seneca ]

Gradual sinks the breeze,
Into a perfect calm; that not a breath
I heard to quiver thro' the closing woods,
Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves,
Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods diffused?
In glassy breadth, seen through delusive lapse
Forgetful of their course. 'Tis silence all.
And pleasing expectation. [ Thomson ]

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Which show like grief itself, but are not so:
For sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects. [ William Shakespeare ]

That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. [ William Shakespeare ]

Two fools in a house are too many by a couple. [ Proverb ]

Ah many a storm love can safely outride,
But a secret at home is like rocks under tide. [ Dinah Muloch Craik ]

To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. [ Coleridge ]

Not that the heavens the little can make great,
But many a man has lived an age too late. [ R. H. Stoddard ]

He that builds by the wayside has many masters. [ Proverb ]

Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples. [ German Proverb ]

Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. [ Vauvenargues ]

Of big words and feathers many go to the pound. [ German Proverb ]

Roads are many; authentic finger-posts are few. [ Carlyle ]

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. [ Martial ]

Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions. [ Zimmermann ]

A man of many trades begs his bread on Sundays. [ Proverb ]

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. [ Richter ]

How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk. [ William Shakespeare ]

Many see more with one eye than others with two. [ German Proverb ]

Take your venture as many a good ship hath done. [ Proverb ]

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 ]

Many talk like philosophers and live like fools. [ Proverb ]

Civilisation degrades the many to exalt the few. [ A. B. Alcott ]

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. [ Publius Syrus ]

You will never be mad, you are of so many minds. [ Proverb ]

Many have reached their fate while reading fate. [ Seneca ]

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends.
And many friendships in the days of Time
Begun, are lasting there and growing still. [ Pollok ]

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. [ Gray ]

Many dressers put the bride's dress out of order. [ Proverb ]

Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths. [ Proverb ]

Through manifold misfortunes, and so many perils. [ Virgil ]

Many things fall out between the cup and the lip. [ Proverb ]

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough. [ Proverb ]

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones. [ Victor Hugo ]

Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. [ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar ]

How many people assume boldly the mask of virtue! [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears. [ Humboldt ]

Many that are wits in jest, are fools in earnest. [ Proverb ]

Careless shepherds make many a feast for the wolf. [ Proverb ]

One trick needs a great many more to make it good. [ Proverb ]

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens! [ Joubert ]

Be content to please a few; to please many is bad. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [ Ausonius ]

Things all are big with jest; nothing that's plain
But may be witty, if thou hast the vein ...
Many affecting wit beyond their power,
Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. [ George Herbert ]

The little cannot be great, unless he devour many. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Many can pack the cards better than they can play. [ Proverb ]

Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [ Phaedrus ]

Into the mouth of a bad dog falls many a good bone. [ Proverb ]

Better wrong with the many than right with the few. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

If you have many irons in the fire, some will burn. [ Proverb ]

Many are esteemed, only because they are not known.

The poet's pen is the true divining rod
Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling;
Bringing to light and use, else hid from all.
The many sweet clear sources which we have
Of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms;
And marks the variations of all mind
As does the needle. [ Bailey ]

The Bible contains many truths as yet undiscovered. [ Butler ]

Silence is learned by the many misfortunes of life. [ Seneca ]

A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. [ Bovee ]

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing. [ William Shakespeare ]

A little incense offered puts many things to rights.

You have sat your time, as many a good hen has done. [ Proverb ]

Where there are many laws there are many enormities. [ Proverb ]

Many a man has been undone by a ridiculous nickname. [ J. H. Moore ]

A man of many letters, (i.e. of extensive learning).

A proverb is the wit of one, and the wisdom of many. [ Lord John Russell ]

That we would do,
We should do when we would; for this "would" changes,
And hath abatements and delays as many
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
And then this "should" is like a spendthrift's sigh,
That hurts by easing. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

One enemy is too many, and a hundred friends too few. [ Proverb ]

Money makes not so many true friends as real enemies. [ Proverb ]

How many things hath he to repent of that lives long! [ Proverb ]

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. [ Proverb ]

Fortune gives to many too much, but to no one enough. [ German Proverb ]

Many get into a dispute well that cannot get out well. [ Proverb ]

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart. [ George Eliot ]

A poor man has not many marks for Fortune to shoot at. [ Proverb ]

When many strike on an anvil, they must observe order. [ Proverb ]

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions. [ Joubert ]

Many men's thoughts are not acorns, but merely pebbles. [ Charles Buxton ]

Like the wife with many daughters, the best comes last. [ Proverb ]

Consideration gets as many victories as rashness loses. [ Proverb ]

Drinking of wine maketh men to act like so many furies. [ N. Morton ]

There are many flowers from which no fruit is produced. [ Confucius ]

Many a lash in the dark doth conscience give the wicked. [ Boston ]

The luxurious want many things, the covetous all things. [ Proverb ]

Many make straight things crooked, but few the contrary. [ Proverb ]

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. [ Cowley ]

Idleness is both a great sin, and the cause of many more. [ South ]

Life is an art in which too many remain only dilettantes. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

The vulgar and the many are fit only to be led or driven. [ South ]

Vanity is the only intellectual enjoyment of many people.

Luxury is in want of many things; avarice, of everything. [ Publius Syrus ]

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. [ Publius Syrus ]

A parson and a ring would make many a poor outcast a lord. [ S. Lover ]

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Many weep for the sin, while they laugh over the pleasure. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Without big words, how could many people say small things? [ J. Petit-Senn ]

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb, and flow;
And many a beautiful pearl
Lies hid in its depths below. [ Heine ]

Oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip. [ Greene ]

How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [ Terence ]

Old men have one foot in the grave, and many young men too. [ Proverb ]

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 ]

Whosoever engages in many pursuits, rarely succeeds in one. [ Proverb ]

Many things grow in the garden that were never sowed there. [ Proverb ]

The spoil that is sought by many hands quickly accumulates. [ Ovid ]

There is many a good wife, that cannot sing and dance well. [ Proverb ]

There are as many pangs in love as shells on the sea-shore. [ Ovid ]

The company keeper has almost as many snares as companions. [ Proverb ]

To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues. [ Theognis ]

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith! [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Many would have been worse if their estates had been better. [ Proverb ]

A pot that belongs to many, is ill stirred and worse boiled. [ Proverb ]

Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. [ Bible ]

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion. [ Tillotson ]

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Drive not too many ploughs at once; some will make foul work. [ Proverb ]

He who is wanting but to one friend loses a great many by it. [ Proverb ]

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

Three are too many to keep a secret, and too few to be merry. [ Proverb ]

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn love. [ Ricard ]

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none. [ Fielding ]

Many people place virtue more in regretting than in amendment. [ Lichtenberg ]

For one virtue that makes us walk, how many vices make us run! [ Pichot ]

How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation! [ Montaigne ]

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

Wickedness is its own punishment, and many times its own cure. [ Proverb ]

The mistake of many women is to return sentiment for gallantry. [ Jouy ]

How many deaths must he die, that lives till he desires to die! [ Proverb ]

Truth needs not many words; but a false tale, a large preamble. [ Proverb ]

Anger is many times more hurtful than the injury that caused it. [ Proverb ]

Hang him that has no shifts, and hang him that has one too many. [ Proverb ]

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]

Many there be, that buy nothing with their money but repentance. [ Proverb ]

Many a man of fame hath been beholden to fortune for his laurel. [ Proverb ]

Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. [ Colley Cibber ]

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends. [ Dr. Johnson ]

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues hast thou. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Many rise under their burdens, more like camels than palm trees. [ Proverb ]

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

He that waits upon another's trencher makes many a little dinner. [ Proverb ]

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it. [ Lemontey ]

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. [ Seneca ]

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. [ Proverb ]

To many a torrent flow of speech and their own eloquence is fatal. [ Juv ]

Man's grand fault is, and remains, that he has so many small ones. [ Jean Paul ]

He that sits to work in the market-place shall have many teachers. [ Proverb ]

If the bed could tell all it knows, it would put many to the blush. [ Proverb ]

There are no oaths that make so many perjurers as the vows of love. [ Rochebrune ]

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

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. [ Horace Mann ]

It has been a great misfortune to many a one that he lived too long. [ Proverb ]

Good-will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one. [ Jeffrey ]

How many honest words have buffered corruption since Chaucer's days! [ Thomas Middleton ]

There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Every fool can find faults, that a great many wise men cannot remedy. [ Proverb ]

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it. [ Dewey ]

Up start as many aches in his bones, as there are ouches in his skin. [ George Chapman ]

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. [ Sir Richard Cecil ]

Things are not always what they seem; first appearances deceive many. [ Phaedrus ]

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. [ Lowell ]

You must strike in measure when there are many to strike on one anvil. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Many have lived on a pedestal, who will never have a statue when dead. [ Beranger ]

Everybody exclaims against ingratitude. Are there so many benefactors? [ Alfred Bougeart ]

How many coward passions hide themselves under the mask of puritanism! [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

How many have died without having given even one kiss to their chimera! [ T. Gautier ]

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors. [ Shakespeare ]

Friendship is one soul in two bodies; he who has many friends has none. [ Aristotle ]

It has been very truly said that the mob has many beads, but no brains. [ Rivarol ]

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns! [ Thomas Brooks ]

The public! the public! How many fools does it take to make up a public. [ Chamfort ]

In courting women, many dry wood for a fire that will not burn for them. [ Balzac ]

As many suffer from too much as too little. A fat body makes a lean mind. [ Bovee ]

An individual helps not; only he who unites with many at the proper time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Many an honest man stands in need of help that has not the face to beg it. [ Proverb ]

The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? [ Chamfort ]

A small drop of ink makes many men honest, who would be rogues without it. [ W. Unsworth ]

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. [ Spurgeon ]

Many a college student only succeeds in mastering a disqualifying culture. [ Edward L. Youmans ]

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Sometimes death is a punishment; often a gift; it has been a favor to many. [ Seneca ]

One adversary may do us more harm than a great many friends can do us good. [ Proverb ]

Let us not make imaginary evils when we have so many real ones to encounter. [ Goldsmith ]

And yet you had the look of one that promised (threatened) many fine things. [ Horace ]

He that knows useful things, not he that knows many things, is the wise man. [ Proverb ]

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. [ La Roche ]

As the Greek said, Many men know how to flatter, few men know bow to praise. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Many masters, quoth the toad to the harrow, when every tine turned her over. [ Proverb ]

The world is a book, the language of which is unintelligible to many people. [ Mery ]

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources, - one pure, the other impure. [ Hare ]

He that will not sail till he have a full fair wind, will lose many a voyage. [ Proverb ]

The gods have attached almost as many misfortunes to liberty as to servitude. [ Montesquieu ]

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. [ Milton ]

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible. [ Balzac ]

Often the cockloft is empty in those whom nature hath built many stories high. [ Thomas Fuller ]

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

We meet in society many attractive women whom we would fear to make our wives. [ D'Harleville ]

Chance is a kind of god. for it preserves many things which we do not observe. [ Menander ]

The fox knows many shifts, the cat only one great one, viz., to run up a tree. [ Proverb ]

Tyranny is irresponsible power ... whether the power be lodged in one or many. [ Canning ]

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it. [ Hillard ]

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. [ Thoreau ]

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought. [ Dryden ]

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old! [ Stanislaus ]

Not he who has many ideas, but he who has one conviction may become a great man. [ Cötvös ]

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. [ Addison ]

There are many rare abilities in the world, which fortune never brings to light. [ Proverb ]

How many minds - almost all the great ones - were formed in secrecy and solitude! [ Matthew Arnold ]

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep. [ Ilosea Ballou ]

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable. [ Cervantes ]

How many sensations are attributed to the heart which have no connection with it! [ De Finod ]

If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols. [ Bacon ]

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. [ Holmes ]

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility. [ James Martineau ]

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

It is better to have one friend of great value, than many friends of little value. [ Anaxarchus ]

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

The father sighs more at the death of one son, than he smiles at the birth of many. [ Proverb ]

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone; there were too many people talking. [ Yogi Berra ]

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. [ Schiller ]

Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be said. [ Saint-Prosper ]

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear. [ George Eliot ]

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. [ Rousseau ]

Many persons carry about their character in their hands, not a few under their feet. [ Murillo ]

Fortune is like a market, where many times if you wait a little the price will fall. [ Bacon ]

The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcome. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water! [ J. Petit-Senn ]

The soft drops of rain pierce the hard marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest oak. [ Lyly ]

What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable. [ Bovee ]

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned. [ Chamfort ]

Be in possession, and thou hast the right, and sacred will the many guard it for thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. [ Juvenal ]

Two misfortunes are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time. [ Sterne ]

Those are poets who write thoughts as fragrant as flowers, and in as many colored words. [ Mme. de Krudener ]

The heart is like an instrument whose strings steal nobler music from life's many frets. [ Gerald Massey ]

Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]

Leisure for men of business, and business for men of leisure, would cure many complaints. [ Mrs. Thrale ]

Men drop so fast, ere life's mid stage we tread, Few know so many friends alive, as dead. [ Young ]

Many consent to be virtuous, only on condition that everybody will give them credit for it. [ De Finod ]

There are very many things that men, when their cloaks have got holes in them, dare not say. [ Juv ]

Time restores all things. Wrong! Time restores many things, but eternity alone restores all. [ Joseph Roux ]

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one. [ Horatius Bonar ]

In no time or epoch can the Highest be spoken of in words - not in many words, I think, ever. [ Carlyle ]

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. [ Montaigne ]

There are many women who never have had one intrigue; but there are few who have had only one. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of echo, - babbling gossips of the air. [ H. W. Shaw ]

He that cannot be the servant of many will never be master, true guide, and deliverer of many. [ Carlyle ]

Intelligent people make many blunders, because they never believe the world as stupid as it is. [ Chamfort ]

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

Poetry is right royal. It puts the individual for the species, the one above the infinite many. [ Hazlitt ]

We can but ill endure, among so many sad realities, to rob anticipation of its pleasant visions. [ Henry Giles ]

If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [ Metastasio ]

How many women would laugh at the funerals of their husbands, if it were not the custom to weep!

Superstitions would soon die out if so many old women would not act as nurses to keep them alive. [ Punch ]

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind, than in the one where they sprung up. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, in smiles that least befit those who wear them most. [ Byron ]

How many things have we esteemed that we despise, and how many joys have resulted in afflictions!

It is the common wonder of all men how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not. [ Chamfort ]

While you are prosperous, you can number many friends; but when the storm comes, you are left alone. [ Ovid ]

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. [ Bacon ]

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

How many people would be mute if they were forbidden to speak well of themselves, and evil of others! [ Mme. de Fontaines ]

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field. [ Lowell ]

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. [ Alexander Pope ]

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it. [ Bishop Hall ]

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy. [ Seneca ]

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them; and if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. [ William Shakespeare ]

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. [ Juvenal ]

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers. [ Colton ]

One who uses many periods is a philosopher; many interrogations, a student; many exclamations, a fanatic. [ J. L. Basford ]

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived by others because we first deceive ourselves.

Friendship is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. [ La Bruyere ]

The words of men are like the leaves of trees; when they are too many they hinder the growth of the fruit. [ Steiger ]

As long as you are fortunate you will have many friends, but if the times become cloudy you will be alone. [ Ovid ]

O, polished perturbation! golden care that keepest the ports of slumber open wide to many a watchful night! [ William Shakespeare ]

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. [ Saadi ]

The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen. [ Jean Paul ]

Life is to be fortified by many friendships; to love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. [ S. Smith ]

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times. [ F. A. Durivage ]

Many-colored, sunshine-loving, spring-betokening bee! yellow bee, so mad for love of early-blooming flowers! [ Professor Wilson ]

The greatest satisfaction a woman can feel is to know that a man whom many other women love loves her alone.

Examine your soul and its emotions, and thoughts will be to you so many glorious revelations of the Godhead. [ Nourisson ]

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause. [ Lord Karnes ]

How many languish in obscurity, who would become great if emulation and encouragement incited them to exertion! [ Fenelon ]

Every day is a rampart breach which many men are storming; fall in it who may, no pile is forming of the slain. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Amongst so many borrowed things , I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. [ Montaigne ]

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. [ Voltaire ]

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity! [ Montaigne ]

Many benefit by the caresses they have not inspired; many a vulgar reality serves as a pedestal to an ideal idol. [ T. Gautier ]

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised until personal experience has brought it home. [ J. S. Mill ]

Many have gone in quest of light and fallen into deeper darkness; whereas childhood walks on secure in the twilight. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

One futile person, that maketh it his glory to tell, will do more hurt than many that know it their duty to conceal. [ Bacon ]

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. [ Bulwer ]

To please, one must make up his mind to be taught many things which he already knows, by people who do not know them. [ Chamfort ]

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 ]

For one Orpheus who went to Hell to seek his wife, how many widowers who would not even go to Paradise to find theirs! [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Thou canst withstand fate, but many a time it gives blows. Will it not go out of thy way, why then, go thou out of its. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Lips become compressed and drawn with anxious thought, and eyes the brightest are quenched of their fires by many tears. [ S. Lover ]

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature but what he was forced to ascribe it to many inconsistencies. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Dictionaries have come to be, in too many cases, the pernicious record of unreasonable, unwarranted, and fleeting usage. [ R. G. White ]

The old proverb about having too many irons in the fire is an abominable old lie. Have all in, shovel, tongs, and poker. [ Adam Clarke ]

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. [ George Henry Lewes ]

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him. [ Sterne ]

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them. [ Izaak Walton ]

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

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom. [ Jeremy Bentham ]

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him. [ Addison ]

Hence (from the ambition of Caesar) arise devouring usury, grasping interest, shaken credit, and war of advantage to many. [ Lucan ]

In life, we shall find many men that are great, and some men that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. [ Colton ]

Adversity is a great schoolmistress, as many a poor fellow knows that has whimpered over his lesson before her awful chair. [ Thackeray ]

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. [ Dickens ]

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth. [ Seneca ]

Plunge boldly into the thick of life! each lives it, not to many is it known; and seize it where you will, it is interesting. [ Goethe ]

A woman is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred: it is so many more triumphs for her. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

The highest conceptions of the sages, who, in order to arrive at them, had to live many days, have become the milk for babes. [ Ballanche ]

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many. [ Swift ]

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. [ J. G. Holland ]

Duty speaks with the lawful authority of many voices; pleasure has no strength except in the longing desire of the hungry unit. [ Edith Simcox ]

There is hardly a person in the House of Commons worth painting, though many of them would be better for a little whitewashing. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Many people take no care of their money till they have come nearly to an end of it, and others do just the same with their time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If you could throw as an alms to those who would use it well the time that you fritter away, how many beggars would become rich! [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

Walk this world with no friend in it but God and St. Edmund, and you will either fall into the ditch or learn a good many things. [ Carlyle ]

It has always struck me that there is a far greater distinction between man and man than between many men and most other animals. [ Basil Hall ]

Men are so accustomed to lie, that one can not take too many precautions before trusting them - if they are to be trusted at all. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Many believe the article of remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance or the fruits of holy life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Of many imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot. [ Dr. Johnson ]

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation! [ Stanislaus ]

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. [ Dr. Watts ]

Not to resolve is to resolve; and many times it breeds as many necessities, and engageth as far in some other sort, as to resolve. [ Bacon ]

'Twas but a dream - let it pass - let it vanish like so many others! What I thought was a flower is only a weed, and is worthless. [ Longfellow ]

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure. [ Addison ]

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 ]

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say, nothing. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Simple diet is best; for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other. [ Pliny ]

If time inflicts on thee many a wound, many a joy brings it too in its course; and one short hour of bliss outweighs a year of pains. [ Geibel ]

One faithful friend is enough for a man's self; it is much to meet with such a one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others. [ De Bruyere ]

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 ]

So many of our dreams first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. [ Christopher Reeve ]

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples. [ O. W. Holmes ]

The life of many a man and woman is so filled with overmuch of good things that they have no time to enjoy the least of their treasures. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

Jails and state prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former. [ Horace Mann ]

On the beaten road there is tolerable travelling; but it is sore work, and many have to perish, fashioning a way through the impassable. [ Carlyle ]

If the wave could speak in any other language than that of its own harsh thunder, how many tales of agony and suffering might it unfold. [ Selkirk ]

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. [ Burke ]

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation. [ Sheridan ]

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best talents. It supplies the place of many talents. [ Simms ]

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection, - they have many friends and few enemies. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, but have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold, the mind and the power to enjoy it. [ Tupper ]

It is the vain endeavour to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough. [ Lowell ]

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of Necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men. [ Socrates ]

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means. [ Tupper ]

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell a man at once and straightforward the purpose of any object, he fancies there's nothing in it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable. [ Thomas Sprat ]

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. Eloquence is speaking out - a quality few esteem, and fewer aim at. [ Hare ]

There are many people who would give all their wealth to be dispossessed of the nicknames they have, or to stamp some new imprimatur upon them. [ Acton ]

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies. [ Burton ]

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture. [ Colton ]

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! [ Scott ]

You begin in error when you suggest that we should regard the opinion of the many about just and unjust, good and evil, honourable and dishonourable. [ Plato ]

Under the veil of these curious sentences are hid those germs of morals which the masters of philosophy have afterwards developed into so many volumes. [ Plutarch ]

With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen nor never shall be. [ Bishop Hall ]

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals. [ Colton ]

Many people think of knowledge as of money. They would like knowledge, but cannot face the perseverance and self-denial that go to the acquisition of it. [ John Morley ]

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the little great. [ Zimmermann ]

The true strength of every human soul is to be dependent on as many nobler as it can discern, and to be depended upon by as many inferior as it can reach. [ John Ruskin ]

Music is a source of surpassing delight to many minds. From its power to soothe the feelings and modify the passions, it seems desirable to understand it. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner: it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many. [ Seneca ]

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 ]

Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many. [ Lowell ]

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. [ Swift ]

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. [ T. W. Higginson ]

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered, from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action. [ Macaulay ]

How many of us have been attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. [ Lord Lytton ]

Many a man lives a burden upon the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life. [ Milton ]

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts; the difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. [ A. W. Hare ]

Who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. [ Lavater ]

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride. [ Emerson ]

Literature consists of all the books--and they are not many--where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form. [ John Morley ]

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others. [ Bruyere ]

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. [ Rev. T. Jones ]

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which can never return. [ Johnson ]

When a woman is deliberating with herself whom she shall choose of many near each other in other pretensions, certainly he of the best understanding is to be preferred. [ Steele ]

The Grecian's maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy, many a speech to a sentence, and many a folio to a primer. [ Colton ]

Many men build as cathedrals were built, - the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. [ Beecher ]

The ways to enrich are many, and rfiost of thom foul. Parsimony is one of the best, and yet is not innocent; for it withholdeth men from works of liberality and charity. [ Bacon ]

Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him. [ Richter ]

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtues to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them. [ Beecher ]

Many are not able to suffer and endure prosperity; it is like the light of the sun to a weak eye, - glorious indeed in itself, but not proportioned to such an instrument. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

I have ventured like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, this many summers in a sea of glory, but far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride at length broke under me. [ Shakespeare ]

The useful encourages itself; for the multitude produce it, and no one can dispense with it: the beautiful must be encouraged; for few can set it forth, and many need it. [ Goethe ]

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael. [ Goethe ]

Generosity is catching: and if so many escape it, it is somewhat for the same reason that countrymen escape the smallpox - because they meet with no one to give it to them. [ Lord Greville ]

With vivid words your just conceptions grace. Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain. [ Pindar ]

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it; and with this I begin and end. [ John Newton ]

Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them. [ Prince de Ligne ]

That, of course, they are many in number, or that, after all, they are, other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. [ Burke ]

Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of managing the affairs of a nation.

The passage of Providence lies through many crooked ways; a despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of fortune, but not break them. [ Quarles ]

Oh, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues, would be seen reposing there! [ Richter ]

The old pool shooter has won many a game in his life. But now it was time to hang up the cue. When he did all the other cues came crashing to the floor. Sorry, he said with a smile. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation. [ Colton ]

Everybody takes pleasure in returning small obligations; many go so far as to acknowledge moderate ones; but there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with ingratitude. [ Rochefoucauld ]

He that hath so many causes of joy, and so great, is very much in love with sorrow and peevishness, who loses all these pleasures, and chooses to sit down on his little handful of thorns. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory. [ Landor ]

Many favors which God giveth us, ravel out for want of hemming, through our own unthankfulness, for through prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Society, that distills so many poisons, resembles that serpent of India whose abode is the leaf of the plant that cures its bite: society usually offers a remedy for the sufferings it causes. [ A. de Musset ]

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Common fame is the only liar that deserveth to have some respect still reserved to it: though she telleth many an untruth, she often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men. [ Saville ]

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid - too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority. [ George Eliot ]

No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc. [ Emerson ]

Such a noise arose as the shroud? make at sea in a stiff tempest, as loud and to as many tunes, - hats, cloaks, doublets, I think, flew up; and had their faces been loose, this day they had been lost. [ William Shakespeare ]

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct. [ Cicero ]

Men are tatooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea islanders; but a real human heart, with divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

People or Persons? The meaning of people is a body of persons regarded collectively, a nation; hence the obvious inaccuracy of the expression, Many people think so. Persons is preferable in any such sense. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

The celebrated Boerhaave, who had many enemies, used to say that he never thought it necessary to repeat their calumnies. They are sparks, said he, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. [ Disraeli ]

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it. [ Carlyle ]

The nightingale, if she should sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection! [ Shakespeare ]

How many of these minds are there to whom scarcely any good can be done! They have no excitability. You are attempting to kindle a fire of stone. You must leave them as you find them, in permanent mediocrity. [ John Foster ]

Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary. [ Hamilton W. Mabie ]

An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. [ Addison ]

If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader. [ Thackeray ]

If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously. [ Tupper ]

Many shiver from want of defence against the cold; but there is vastly more suffering among the rich from absurd and criminal modes of dress, which fashion has sanctioned, than among the poor from deficiency of raiment. [ Channing ]

A woman whose great beauty eclipses all others is seen with as many different eyes as there are people who look at her. Pretty women gaze with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport. [ D'Argens ]

Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]

When I heard that trees grow a new ring for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that: we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all our skin layers. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone. [ Saadi ]

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing. [ Addison ]

Very few people know how to enjoy life. Some say to themselves: I do this or that, therefore I am amused: I have paid so many pieces of gold, hence I feel so much pleasure; and they wear away their lives on that grindstone. [ A. de Musset ]

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings, - as some savage tribes determine the power of their muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it. [ Seneca ]

The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action. [ Macaulay ]

Many men want wealth, - not a competence alone, but a five-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath. [ Beecher ]

The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked. [ Bishop Horne ]

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down. [ Chapin ]

Some new books it is necessary to read, - part for the information they contain, and others in order to acquaint one's self with the state of literature in the age in which one lives: but I would rather read too few than too many. [ Lord Dudley ]

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us; he has inscribed his thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand. [ T. Parker ]

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand one cannon ball than a volley of bullets. [ Colton ]

Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more. He asks of thee works first and words after. [ Charles Kingsley ]

With a pretty face and the freshness of twenty, a woman, however shallow she may be, makes many conquests, but does not retain them: with cleverness, thirty years, and a little beauty, a woman makes fewer conquests but more durable ones. [ A. Dupuy ]

There are many arts among men, the knowledge of which is acquired bit by bit by experience. For it is experience that causes our life to move forward by the skill we acquire, while want of experience subjects us to the effects of chance. [ Plato ]

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. [ Beecher ]

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. That which was a weed in one intelligence becomes a flower in the other, and a flower again dwindles down to a mere weed by the same change. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Thinkers who trace systems of philosophy are merely impelled by an innate instinct; they know that their precepts, however excellent, are not suitable to the majority: the wisdom may be admired by many, but few will follow the principles. [ De Finod ]

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. [ Colton ]

Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries. [ Hawthorne ]

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 ]

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it. [ Fielding ]

Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the era of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtime of their hopes! [ C. Bingham ]

Ordinary or Common? A distinction may be thus drawn between these terms; what is common is done by many persons; what is ordinary is repeated many times. Ordinary has to do with the repetition of the act; common, with the persons who perform it. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Much of what is great, and to all men beneficial, has been wrought by those who neither intended nor knew the good they did; and many mighty harmonies have been discoursed by instruments that had been dumb and discordant but that God knew their stops. [ John Ruskin ]

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance; than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. [ Colton ]

Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses to reflect on itself or its deeds. Many are sincere without being simple; they do not wish to be taken for other than they are, but they are always afraid of being taken for what they are not. [ Fénelon ]

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time. [ Richard Baxter ]

God creates out of the dry, dull earth so many flowers of such beautiful colors, and such sweet perfume, such as no painter nor apothecary can rival. From the common ground God is ever bringing forth flowers, golden, crimson, blue, brown, and of all colors. [ M. Luther ]

How many who, after having achieved fame and fortune, recall with regret the time when - ascending the hills of life in the sun of their twentieth year - they had nothing but courage, which is the virtue of the young, and hope, which is the treasure of the poor! [ H. Murger ]

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 ]

Never to speak by superlatives is a sign of a wise man; for that way of speaking wounds either truth or prudence. Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation; because they discover the weakness of understanding, and the bad discerning of him that speaks. [ J. Earle ]

A man who knows the world, will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know; and will gain more credit by the dexterity he displays in hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. [ Sir R. B. Cotton ]

Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications. [ Colton ]

It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion. [ Thomas Paine ]

The tending of flowers has ever appeared to me a fitting care for the young and beautiful; they then dwell, as it were, among their own emblems, and many a voice of wisdom breathes on their ear from those brief blossoms, to which they apportion the dew and the sunbeam. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness. [ Lady Morgan ]

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 birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man! [ Quarles ]

Oh! woe to him who first had the cruelty to ridicule the name of old maid, a name which recalls so many sorrowful deceptions, so many sufferings, so much destitution! Woe to him who finds a target for his sarcasm in an involuntary misfortune, and who crowns white hair with thorns! [ E. Souvestre ]

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning. [ Burritt ]

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world is their finding so little there. Generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason the countrymen escape the smallpox, - because they meet no one to give it to them. [ Greville ]

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise - the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

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 ]

Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt. [ Wayland ]

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. [ Colton ]

Much that is published as a novel is only anonymous biography. Many a man who is a bore in conversation may have qualities which give indescribable charms to narrative; and the egotist, if he only have the art to conceal his identity, can then hold the reader by the powerful grasp of sympathy. [ R. S. Mackenzie ]

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause. Many of its conclusions, more ingenious than sound, are like the recommendations of a people to keep full bottles, because a good many have been found dead with empty ones by them. [ Bovee ]

Sudden blaze of kindness may, by a single blast of coldness, be extinguished; but that fondness which length of time has connected with many circumstances and occasions, though it may for a while be suppressed by disgust or resentment, with or without cause, is hourly revived by accidental recollection. [ Johnson ]

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Wherein is it possible for us, wicked and impious creatures, to be justified, except in the only Son of God? O sweet reconciliation! O untraceable ministry! O unlooked-for blessing! that the wickedness of many should be hidden in one godly and righteous man, and the righteousness of one justify a host of sinners! [ Justin Martyr ]

From extensive acquaintance with many lands, I unhesitatingly affirm that everywhere God has provided pure water for man, and that the wines drunk are often miserable and dirty. I have found water everywhere that I have traveled, in China and India, Palestine and Egypt, - and everywhere water has been my beverage. [ Thomas Cook, the Tourist ]

A phlegmatic insensibility is as different from patience as a pool from a harbor; into the one, indolence naturally sinks us; but if we arrive at the other, it is by encountering many an adverse wind and rough wave, with a more skillful pilot at the helm than self, and a company under better command than the passions. [ L. W. Dilwyn ]

Anxiety is the poison of human life. It is the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, where you may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, what means this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events? [ Blair ]

It is wonderful indeed to consider how many objects the eye is fitted to take in at once, and successively in an instant, and at the same time to make a judgment of their position, figure, and color. It watches against our dangers, guides our steps, and lets in all the visible objects, whose beauty and variety instruct and delight. [ Steele ]

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. [ Rousseau ]

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book, they buy with it the right to abuse the author. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, - that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers. [ Richter ]

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 ]

Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons he had left them gold buried somewhere in his vineyard; where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould, about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiments to light. [ Bacon ]

Surely you will not calculate any essential difference from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool! [ Chapin ]

It is a mathematical demonstration, that these twenty-six letters admit of so many changes in their order, and make such a long roll of differently-ranged alphabets, not two of which are alike, that they could not all be exhausted though a million millions of writers should each write above a thousand alphabets a day for the space of a million millions of years. [ R. Bentley ]

There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. The casual deliration of a few becomes, by this mysterious reverberation, the frenzy of many; men lose the use, not only of their understandings, but of their bodily senses; while the most obdurate unbelieving hearts melt like the rest in the furnace where all are cast as victims and as fuel. [ Carlyle ]

Living authors, therefore, are usually bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen - for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. [ Colton ]

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. [ Colton ]

When the great Kepler had at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God Himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself. [ Macaulay ]

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 ]

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak? [ Beecher ]

It is like the Greek fire used in ancient warfare, which burnt unquenched beneath the water; or like the weeds which, when you have extirpated them in one place, are sprouting forth vigorously in another spot, at the distance of many hundred yards; or, to use the metaphor of St. James, it is like the wheel which catches fire as it goes, and burns with fiercer conflagration as its own speed increases. [ F. W. Robertson ]

O God, whom the world misjudges, and whom everything declares! listen to the last words that my lips pronounce! If I have wandered, it was in seeking Thy law. My heart may go astray, but it is full of Thee! I see, without alarm, eternity appear; and I can not think that a God who has given me life, that a God who has poured so many blessings on my days, will, now that my days are done, torment me for ever! [ The last prayer of Voltaire ]

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously; who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them. [ Washington Irving ]

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge! [ Beecher ]

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud - and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Whatever we may say against such collections which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem, to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of the mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant quotations." [ Goethe ]

A newspaper, like a theatre, must mainly owe its continuance in life to the fact that it pleases many persons; and in order to please many persons it will, unconsciously perhaps, respond to their several tastes, reflect their various qualities, and reproduce their views. In a certain sense it is evolved out of the community that absorbs it, and, therefore, partaking of the character of the community, while it may retain many merits and virtues, it will display itself, as in some respects ignorant, trivial, narrow, and vulgar. [ William Winter ]

Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost. Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it. [ John Flavel ]

Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]

many in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters many:

MANY
(39)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word many

MANY
(39)
MANY
(36)
MANY
(27)
MANY
(27)
MANY
(27)
MANY
(27)
MANY
(26)
MANY
(24)
MANY
(18)
MANY
(18)
MANY
(18)
MANY
(18)
MANY
(17)
MANY
(15)
MANY
(14)
MANY
(13)
MANY
(13)
MANY
(12)
MANY
(11)
MANY
(11)
MANY
(10)
MANY
(10)
MANY
(9)

The 170 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In many

MANY
(39)
MANY
(36)
MYNA
(36)
MYNA
(30)
MANY
(27)
MYNA
(27)
MANY
(27)
MANY
(27)
MYNA
(27)
MYNA
(27)
MYNA
(27)
MANY
(27)
MANY
(26)
MYNA
(24)
MAY
(24)
MAY
(24)
MAY
(24)
YAM
(24)
MANY
(24)
YAM
(24)
YAM
(24)
MY
(21)
MY
(21)
MYNA
(20)
MANY
(18)
MYNA
(18)
ANY
(18)
NAY
(18)
MANY
(18)
NAY
(18)
MANY
(18)
NAY
(18)
MANY
(18)
ANY
(18)
MYNA
(18)
MYNA
(18)
ANY
(18)
MYNA
(18)
MANY
(17)
MYNA
(17)
YAM
(16)
YAM
(16)
MAY
(16)
YAM
(16)
YAM
(16)
MAY
(16)
MAY
(16)
MAY
(16)
MAN
(15)
MANY
(15)
MAN
(15)
MAN
(15)
MYNA
(15)
YAM
(15)
MAY
(15)
AY
(15)
MY
(15)
AY
(15)
YA
(15)
YA
(15)
MAY
(14)
MY
(14)
NAY
(14)
MY
(14)
MYNA
(14)
ANY
(14)
MANY
(14)
YAM
(14)
MANY
(13)
MYNA
(13)
MANY
(13)
YA
(13)
MY
(13)
AY
(13)
MYNA
(13)
ANY
(12)
YAM
(12)
ANY
(12)
AM
(12)
MA
(12)
NAY
(12)
MYNA
(12)
MA
(12)
MAY
(12)
AM
(12)
ANY
(12)
NAY
(12)
NAY
(12)
MANY
(12)
MAN
(11)
MYNA
(11)
MY
(11)
MANY
(11)
MYNA
(11)
MAY
(11)
ANY
(11)
YAM
(11)
MANY
(11)
NAY
(11)
MANY
(10)
YAM
(10)
ANY
(10)
MYNA
(10)
MAN
(10)
MANY
(10)
MYNA
(10)
NAY
(10)
MY
(10)
AY
(10)
AM
(10)
MAY
(10)
MAN
(10)
MAN
(10)
YA
(10)
MA
(10)
AY
(10)
YA
(10)
YA
(9)
AY
(9)
MAN
(9)
MANY
(9)
MYNA
(9)
MAY
(9)
YAM
(9)
NAY
(8)
NAY
(8)
YAM
(8)
AM
(8)
MA
(8)
MA
(8)
MAY
(8)
ANY
(8)
AM
(8)
ANY
(8)
MAN
(8)
MAN
(7)
MA
(7)
AY
(7)
NAY
(7)
NAY
(7)
MAN
(7)
YA
(7)
ANY
(7)
AM
(7)
ANY
(7)
MY
(7)
AY
(6)
MA
(6)
AM
(6)
AN
(6)
YA
(6)
MAN
(6)
MAN
(6)
ANY
(6)
AN
(6)
NAY
(6)
YA
(5)
MA
(5)
AY
(5)
AM
(5)
MAN
(5)
AN
(4)
AN
(4)
AN
(4)
AN
(4)
MA
(4)
AM
(4)
AN
(3)
AN
(3)
AN
(2)

many in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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

MYNA
(54)
MANY
(54)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word many

MANY
(54)
MANY
(48)
MANY
(30)
MANY
(30)
MANY
(30)
MANY
(30)
MANY
(28)
MANY
(26)
MANY
(22)
MANY
(20)
MANY
(20)
MANY
(20)
MANY
(20)
MANY
(18)
MANY
(18)
MANY
(17)
MANY
(16)
MANY
(16)
MANY
(14)
MANY
(14)
MANY
(14)
MANY
(13)
MANY
(12)
MANY
(12)
MANY
(11)
MANY
(10)

The 181 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In many

MYNA
(54)
MANY
(54)
MANY
(48)
MYNA
(36)
MANY
(30)
MYNA
(30)
MANY
(30)
MANY
(30)
MYNA
(30)
MYNA
(30)
MYNA
(30)
MANY
(30)
MYNA
(28)
MANY
(28)
MANY
(26)
MAY
(24)
MAY
(24)
MAY
(24)
YAM
(24)
YAM
(24)
YAM
(24)
MANY
(22)
YAM
(22)
MYNA
(22)
MAY
(22)
MYNA
(22)
MY
(21)
MAN
(21)
MAN
(21)
MY
(21)
MAN
(21)
MYNA
(20)
MYNA
(20)
MYNA
(20)
MANY
(20)
MANY
(20)
MYNA
(20)
MANY
(20)
MANY
(20)
MAN
(19)
MYNA
(18)
ANY
(18)
ANY
(18)
MANY
(18)
MANY
(18)
ANY
(18)
NAY
(18)
NAY
(18)
MYNA
(18)
NAY
(18)
MANY
(17)
MYNA
(16)
YAM
(16)
MAY
(16)
MANY
(16)
YAM
(16)
MYNA
(16)
MAY
(16)
MANY
(16)
NAY
(16)
YAM
(16)
MAY
(16)
MAY
(16)
YAM
(16)
MY
(15)
MAY
(15)
MAN
(15)
AM
(15)
MA
(15)
AM
(15)
MA
(15)
YAM
(15)
MYNA
(15)
MY
(14)
MAN
(14)
ANY
(14)
MANY
(14)
MYNA
(14)
MAN
(14)
MY
(14)
MANY
(14)
MYNA
(14)
MYNA
(14)
MANY
(14)
MAN
(14)
YAM
(14)
MAY
(14)
AM
(13)
MY
(13)
MANY
(13)
MYNA
(13)
MA
(13)
MAN
(13)
NAY
(12)
MYNA
(12)
YA
(12)
YA
(12)
NAY
(12)
YAM
(12)
NAY
(12)
NAY
(12)
MYNA
(12)
ANY
(12)
MAY
(12)
MANY
(12)
ANY
(12)
AY
(12)
ANY
(12)
MANY
(12)
ANY
(12)
AY
(12)
MANY
(11)
MAN
(11)
YAM
(11)
MYNA
(11)
MAN
(11)
NAY
(11)
MY
(11)
MAY
(11)
YAM
(10)
MA
(10)
MA
(10)
AM
(10)
NAY
(10)
AM
(10)
AY
(10)
MANY
(10)
MAY
(10)
YA
(10)
ANY
(10)
MY
(10)
ANY
(10)
MYNA
(10)
ANY
(9)
MAY
(9)
AN
(9)
AM
(9)
NAY
(9)
YAM
(9)
MA
(9)
MAN
(9)
MAN
(9)
AN
(9)
ANY
(8)
AY
(8)
YA
(8)
YAM
(8)
MAN
(8)
MAY
(8)
NAY
(8)
AY
(8)
ANY
(8)
NAY
(8)
YA
(8)
NAY
(7)
MA
(7)
MY
(7)
AY
(7)
AM
(7)
AN
(7)
MAN
(7)
ANY
(7)
YA
(7)
AN
(6)
NAY
(6)
YA
(6)
AY
(6)
MA
(6)
AM
(6)
ANY
(6)
AN
(6)
YA
(5)
AY
(5)
MA
(5)
AN
(5)
AN
(5)
AM
(5)
YA
(4)
AY
(4)
AN
(4)
AN
(3)

Words within the letters of many

2 letter words in many (6 words)

3 letter words in many (5 words)

4 letter words in many (Anagrams) (2 words)

many + 1 blank (7 words)

Words containing the sequence many

Words with many in them (1 word)

Words that end with many (1 word)

Word Growth involving many

Shorter words in many

an any

an man

ma man

Longer words containing many

manycolored

manyfold

manyheaded

manyhued

manyjointed

manyshaped

manysided