A mad world, my masters. [ Middleton ]
Money masters all things. [ Proverb ]
All men cannot be masters. [ Proverb ]
No man can serve two masters. [ Jesus ]
Ideals are the world's masters. [ J. G. Holland ]
Methods are the masters of masters. [ Talleyrand ]
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken feels her present God again
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away. [ John Keble ]
Habit is the most imperious of all masters. [ Goethe ]
Without real masters you cannot have servants. [ Carlyle ]
He that builds by the wayside has many masters. [ Proverb ]
Whoso serves two masters must lie to one of them. [ Italian Proverb ]
Afflictions clarify the soul,
And like hard masters, give more hard directions,
Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. [ Quarles ]
Fire and water are good servants but bad masters. [ Proverb ]
One good mother is worth a hundred school masters. [ George Herbert ]
Masters should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf. [ Proverb ]
Masters are mostly the greatest servants in the house. [ Proverb ]
To wilful men. The injuries that they themselves procure
Must be their school-masters. [ William Shakespeare ]
To serve the people, is worse than to serve two masters. [ Proverb ]
The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters. [ Diogenes ]
Spaniels that fawn when beaten will never forsake their masters. [ Proverb ]
All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. [ Goethe ]
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
The passions are like fire and water; good servants, but bad masters. [ Proverb ]
Time, patience, and industry are the three great masters of the world. [ Proverb ]
Many masters, quoth the toad to the harrow, when every tine turned her over. [ Proverb ]
All passions are good when one masters them; all are bad when one is a slave to them. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
The mind hath not reason to remember that passions ought to be her vassals, not her masters. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, - pain and pleasure. [ Jeremy Bentham ]
There are in the world circumstances which give us for masters men of whom we would not make our valets. [ Mme. Roland ]
The cancer of jealousy on the breast can never wholly be cut out, if I am to believe great masters of the healing art. [ Jean Paul ]
The compliments of the season to my worthy masters, and a merry first of April to us all. We have all a speck of the motley. [ Lamb ]
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave. [ Colton ]
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders - these are the masters of victory. [ Burke ]
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 ]
The direct relation of music is not to ideas, but emotions. Music, in the works of its greatest masters, is more marvellous, more mysterious, than poetry. [ Henry Giles ]
If you make a law against dancing-masters imitating the fine gentleman, you should with as much reason enact, that no fine gentleman shall imitate the dancing-master. [ Goldsmith ]
The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers. [ Emerson ]