In love matters, keep your pen from paper. [ Alfred de Musset ]
Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men
May read strange matters. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is ill mistaking in matters of importance. [ Proverb ]
It matters not what religion an ill man is of. [ Proverb ]
If the sun shines on me, what matters the moon? [ Proverb ]
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters. [ Horace ]
It is only in little matters that men are cowards. [ W. H. Herbert ]
She did not mince matters (make a small mouth about it). [ French Proverb ]
Where there is a mother in the house, matters speed well. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Happy is the man whose enemies have been in small matters. [ Proverb ]
In doubtful matters, courage may do much, in desperate, patience. [ Proverb ]
In essential matters, unity, in doubtful, liberty; in all, charity. [ Melanthon ]
The proof of obedience is found in small matters more than in great. [ Proverb ]
Ridicule often settles matters of importance better and more effectually than severity. [ Horace ]
A foolish superstition introduces the influences of the gods even in the smallest matters. [ Livy ]
Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form. [ Landor ]
It is the mark of a great man to treat trifles as trifles, and important matters as important. [ Lessing ]
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. [ Robert Hall ]
If a man can play the true logician, and have judgment as well as invention, he may do great matters. [ Lord Bacon ]
It is not the defects but the beauties which should form our criterion of judgment in all matters of art. [ Chapin ]
I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance. [ Paley ]
Having the will to win is not enough. Everyone has that. What matters is having the will to prepare to win. [ Bobby Knight, The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results ]
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. [ Moliere ]
To express the most difficult matters clearly, and everything intelligibly, is to strike coins out of pure gold. [ Geibel ]
In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution. [ Tillotson ]
It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in those matters which affect our welfare. [ Manutius ]
In matters of fact, they say there is some credit to be given to the testimony of men, but not in matters of judgment. [ Hooker ]
What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. [ Washington Irving ]
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know it when you find it. [ Steve Jobs ]
Love is everything; love is the great fact. What matters the lover? What matters the flagon, provided one has the intoxication? [ A. de Musset ]
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. [ Addison ]
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb. [ Beaconsfield ]
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters; it is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. [ V. Hugo ]
What matters it that a soldier has a sword of dazzling finish, of the keenest edge, and finest temper, if he has never learned the art of fence. [ William Matthews ]
The generality of men are wholly governed by names in matters of good and evil, so far as the qualities relate to and affect the actions of men. [ South ]
Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
There are few things more singular than the blindness which, in matters of the highest importance to ourselves, often hides the truth that is plain as noon to all other eyes. [ Rev. Dr. Croly ]
As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs. [ Plutarch ]
The era of Christianity - peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters - is yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure. [ Kossuth ]
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of it tallow-chandler. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials: when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things. [ Shenstone ]
A blushing young damsel of 109 has just died at Mallow, Ireland. She had been an ardent smoker of twist tobacco for 81 years, and finally died in the bloom of her youth. To make matters worse, she was an orphan. Those who do not wish to die young should make a note of this. [ Tobacco Jokes For Smoking Folks, 1888 ]
Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. [ Bishop Hall ]
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and laborious attentions to little objects which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz very sagaciously marked out Cardinal Chigi for a little mind, from the moment he told him that he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still. [ Chesterfield ]