Eat at pleasure,
Drink in measure. [ Proverb ]
Bread at pleasure,
Drink by measure. [ Proverb ]
Measure twice, cut once. [ Proverb ]
Measure thrice and cut once. [ Proverb ]
And might was the measure of right. [ Lucan ]
God does not measure men by inches. [ Scotch Proverb ]
Weight and measure take away strife. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Quality, not quantity, is my measure. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Justice always whirls in equal measure. [ William Shakespeare ]
Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him never make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe. [ Schiller ]
The greatest vessel hath but its measure. [ Proverb ]
Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. [ Johnson ]
Wise is the man prepared for either end,
Who in due measure can both spare and spend. [ Lucian ]
Measure not other's corn by your own bushel. [ Proverb ]
Weight, measure, and tale, take away strife. [ Proverb ]
You measure every man's honesty by your own. [ Proverb ]
Good weight and measure is heaven's treasure. [ Proverb ]
We measure genius by quality, not by quantity. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. [ Browning ]
Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]
Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence. [ Lavater ]
It is not a sin to sell dear, but it is to make ill measure. [ Proverb ]
God gives his wrath by weight, but his mercy without measure. [ Proverb ]
A man is helpless and unsafe up to the measure of his ignorance. [ M. F. Tupper ]
When we commend good actions we make them in some measure our own. [ Proverb ]
God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
You must strike in measure when there are many to strike on one anvil. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. [ Lamb ]
The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman. [ Elizabeth Oakes Smith ]
To give a reason for fancy, were to weigh the fire and measure the wind. [ Proverb ]
He that tempts me to drink beyond my measure, civilly invites me to a fever. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Consideration for woman is the measure of a nation's progress in social life. [ Gregoire ]
It is having in some measure a sort at wit, to know how to use the wit of others. [ Stanislaus ]
It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we must measure a great man. [ George Henry Lewes ]
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty. [ Joubert ]
Each excellent thing, once well learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Fortune's wings are made of Time's feathers, which stay not whilst one may measure them. [ Lilly ]
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. [ Greville ]
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. [ South ]
All worldly profit, all pleasure is correspondent to a like measure of anxiety or wearisomeness. [ Proverb ]
Let no man measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality in this poor world of ours. [ Schiller ]
The test or measure of poetic genius is to read the poetry of affairs, to fuse the circumstance of today. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The mind profits by the wreck of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrow we have undergone. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for all freedom without this must be merely nominal. [ Chatfield ]
O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure? [ William Shakespeare ]
To a close shorn sheep God gives wind by measure. (This is probably the origin of God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Ah! the youngest heart has the same waves within it as the oldest, but without the plummet which can measure their depths. [ Richter ]
Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world; no heart was ever cast in the same mould, as that which we bear within us. [ F. Berni ]
Music is the medicine of an afflicted mind, a sweet sad measure is the balm of a wounded spirit; and joy is heightened by exultant strains. [ Henry Giles ]
We cannot abolish fate, but we can in a measure utilise it. The projectile force of the bullet does not annul or suspend gravity; it uses it. [ John Burroughs ]
People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to our Laplanders, who measure a man's worth by the number of his reindeer. [ Fredrika Bremer ]
Measure not thyself by thy morning shadow, but by the extent of thy grave; and reckon thyself above the earth by the line thou must be contented with under it. [ Sir T. Browne ]
It is, in a great measure, by raising up and endowing great minds that God secures the advance of human affairs, and the accomplishment of His own plans on earth. [ Albert Barnes ]
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment. [ Amiel ]
He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations. [ La Bruyere ]
We should carry up our affections to the mansions prepared for us above, where eternity is the measure, felicity the state, angels the company, the Lamb the light, and God the inheritance and portion of His people forever. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
It is not ease, but effort - not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence, probity, and grace, to wear out life with, - persons with whom we can speak a few reasonable words every day, by whom we can measure ourselves, and who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure; but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account. [ Bruyere ]
Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light; takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice; and makes even folly and impertinence supportable. [ Addison ]
Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know that the morning and spring of your life are past. [ Thoreau ]
Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them, - that it was a vain endeavor? [ Thoreau ]
If I might venture to appeal to what is so much out of fashion at Paris, I mean to experience, I should tell you that in my course I have known and, according to my measure, have cooperated with great men; and I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. [ Burke ]
Gratitude is a link between justice and love. It discharges by means of affections those debts which the affections only can discharge, and which are so much the more sacred for this reason. Gratitude never springs up in the soil of selfishness, for self-interest in its eagerness to appropriate is unable to understand the impulses of generosity or to measure the true value of the gift. And, when we do understand it, we must love much to be willing to accept, we refuse when we love but little. Gratitude is the justice of the heart. [ Degerando ]