Mind moves matter. [ Virgil ]
In a similar matter.
More malice than matter. [ Proverb ]
Do good, no matter to whom. [ Italian Proverb ]
That's quite another matter. [ French ]
He has a mouth for every matter. [ Proverb ]
Happiness is no laughing matter. [ Whately ]
It is not the matter, but the mind. [ Proverb ]
The balance will decide the matter. [ Proverb ]
A small matter hurts one that is sore. [ Proverb ]
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth;
Nature is Christian, preaches to mankind;
And bids dead matter aid us in our creed. [ Young ]
Truth and matter of fact have no answers. [ Proverb ]
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. [ George William Curtis ]
In an easy matter any man may be eloquent. [ Ovid ]
Character is very much a matter of health. [ Bovee ]
Scorn'd, to be scorn'd by one that I scorn,
Is that a matter to make me fret?
That a calamity hard to be borne? [ Alfred Tennyson ]
No pleader can pervail
Who prays against the laws of Time or Fate,
No matter how we murmur and bewail.
The robins will not build in winter hail
Nor lilacs bloom in February. Wait. [ Elizabeth Akers ]
About goat's wool, (i.e. a worthless matter).
The stars shall fade away, the Sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. [ Joseph Addison ]
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return. [ Pope ]
If the council be good, no matter who gave it. [ Proverb ]
What matter though the scorn of fools be given,
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven! [ Mrs. Hale ]
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth. [ William Shakespeare ]
In the matter of courage we all have our limits. [ Mark Twain, from his speech Courage ]
No matter what religion a knave or a fool is of. [ Proverb ]
It is no easy matter to bear prosperity decently. [ Proverb ]
Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth. [ St. James ]
My name is Twyford; I know nothing of the matter. [ Proverb ]
Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence. [ Francois Delsarte ]
Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the grape,
And ivy berry, choose; and still depart
From death to death thro' life and life, and find
Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought
Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite,
But this main miracle, that thou art thou,
With power on thine own act and on the world. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Wranglers never want words though they may matter. [ Proverb ]
Counsel is irksome when the matter is past remedy. [ Proverb ]
No matter where you're from your dreams are valid. [ Lupita Nyong'o ]
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. [ William Shakespeare ]
The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices. [ Bovee ]
Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction. [ R. G. Ingersoll ]
Annihilation, as regards matter, is simply impossible. [ Hosea Ballou ]
No matter what the vessel is so the wine in it be good. [ Proverb ]
Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct. [ William Shakespeare ]
Haste turns usually on a matter of ten minutes too late. [ Bovee ]
The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Understanding is the most important matter in everything. [ Hans Andersen ]
So the miracle be wrought, what matter if the devil did it? [ Proverb ]
To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel. [ H. W. Beecher ]
Matter presses heavily on the noblest efforts of the spirit. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in "Faust." ]
Let me gain by you, and no matter whether you love me or not. [ Proverb ]
It is but a small matter to be good in the eye of the law only. [ Seneca ]
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter. [ Chesterfield ]
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability. [ Montesquieu ]
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition. [ Joubert ]
He that works after his own manner, his head aches not at the matter. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him. [ Fuller ]
There is a knack of shewing we understand the matter, when we hold our peace. [ Proverb ]
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. [ Bible ]
Imagination is but a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. [ Carlyle ]
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter. [ Joubert ]
Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact. [ Law Maxim ]
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial. [ Hood ]
A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. [ Ecclesiastes ]
Happiness is an interior matter, an attitude toward life, depending on the individual soul. [ George Hodges ]
Too much magnifying of man or matter doth irritate contradiction, and procure envy and scorn. [ Bacon ]
A friend that you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him, no matter what that may be. [ George D. Prentice ]
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. [ Tennyson ]
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium. [ Lavater ]
Had I not sinned, what had there been for thee to pardon? My fate has given thee the matter for mercy. [ Ovid ]
If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken. [ Plutarch ]
Nothing is annihilated, no, nothing; matter, like an ever-flowing stream, still rolls on undiminished. [ Boucher ]
Happiness is matter of opinion, of fancy, in fact, but it must amount to conviction, else it is nothing. [ Chamfort ]
To stumble on a level surface is matter of jest; by a false step on a height you are hurled to the ground. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Eloquence is like flame: it requires matter to feed on, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [ Tac ]
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish. [ Plutarch ]
It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior. [ Ruskin ]
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [ Tacitus ]
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men. [ Langford ]
All duties are matter of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one. [ L'Estrange ]
Nothing on earth is without significance, but the first and most essential in every matter is the place where and the hour when. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Man is composed of two parts, body and soul, of which the one is corporeal, the other separated from all combination with matter. [ Cicero ]
Sir Amyas Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, Stay awhile, that we may make an end the sooner.
[ Bacon ]
Words are good, But they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words; the spirit in which we act is the great matter. [ Goethe ]
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. [ Selden ]
Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
I confess I should be glad if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to me: in that case, I should often find matter for rejoicing. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Whatever you suffer deservedly should be borne with resignation; the penalty that comes upon us undeservedly comes as a matter of just complaint. [ Ovid ]
He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but none for his instruction. [ Bacon ]
Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force. [ Prof. Drummond ]
Being happy - being appreciative, being grateful - is not altogether a matter of temperament. Nor is it dependent upon outward circumstances. Not at all. [ Ossian Lang ]
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. [ Mark Twain ]
I do not believe in luck in war, any more than in luck in business. Luck is a small matter; may affect a battle or a movement, but not a campaign or a career. [ U. S. Grant ]
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it. [ Ben Jonson ]
No barriers, no masses of matter, however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind; the remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb, the very heaven itself is laid open. [ Manilius ]
Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of being ten minutes too early. [ Bovee ]
Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material. [ Yriarte ]
Food, improperly taken, not only produces originnl diseases, but affords those that are already engendered both matter and sustenance; so that, let the father of disease be what it may. In temperance is certainly its mother. [ Burton ]
Ideas are, like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down, so to speak, to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings the way is never ending, and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable. [ Bovee ]
A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. [ Tupper ]
In composing, think much more of your matter than your manner. To be sure, spirit, grace, and dignity of manner are of great importance, both to the speaker and writer; but of infinitely more importance is the weight and worth of matter. [ Wirt ]
An era is fast approaching when no writer will be rend by the majority, save and except those than can effect that for bales of manuscript that the hydrostatic screw performs for bales of cotton, by condensing that matter into a period that before occupied a page. [ Cottar ]
I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!
We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore. [ Melmoth ]
All are to be men of genius in their degree, - rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on. [ Ruskin ]
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 ]
You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. [ Bruyere ]
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, - the wise, the good, or the great man, - very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light. [ Joseph Addison ]
If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end. [ Tillotson ]
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their soul into ours. God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers; they give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. [ W. E. Channing ]
Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
No woman is a genius: women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. They represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the colored. The plain women are very useful. If you want to gain a reputation for respectability you have merely to take them down to supper. The other women are very charming. They commit one mistake, however. They paint in order to try to look young. Our grandmothers painted in order to try to talk brilliantly. Rouge and esprit used to go together. That has all gone out now. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]