Not too much. [ Motto ]

Not too much zeal. [ Talleyrand ]

So much the worse. [ French ]

So much the better. [ French ]

Much of a muchness. [ Vanbrugh ]

Much coin much care. [ Proverb ]

Much wit much froth. [ Proverb ]

One enemy is too much. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Too much rest is rust. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Much meat, much malady. [ Proverb ]

Talk much and err much. [ Proverb ]

Too much wit
Makes the world rotten. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Too much breaks the bag. [ Proverb ]

Trust, but not too much. [ Proverb ]

Much meat, much disease. [ Proverb ]

Too much of a good thing. [ William Shakespeare ]

Where there is much light
There is much shade. [ Goethe ]

Much bruit, little fruit. [ Proverb ]

Too much zeal spoils all. [ French Proverb ]

Ask much to have a little. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Much praying but no piety. [ Proverb ]

Much bran and little flour. [ Proverb ]

Much rain wears the marble. [ William Shakespeare ]

Money often costs too much. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Much compliance much craft. [ Proverb ]

A little labor, much health. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Much law but little justice. [ Proverb ]

In much corn is some cockle. [ Proverb ]

The dignity of truth is lost
With much protesting. [ Jonson ]

Felicity lies much in fancy. [ Proverb ]

Bodily labour earns not much. [ Proverb ]

Too much taking heed is loss. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

More than enough is too much. [ Proverb ]

It is as much intemperance to [ weep too much as to laugh too much. [Proverb ]

Old sacks want much patching. [ Proverb ]

Much rust needs a rough file. [ Proverb ]

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

To no one is his own too much. [ German Proverb ]

Too much consulting confounds. [ Proverb ]

Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die;
Which in life did harbour give
To more virtue than doth live. [ Jonson, on Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland ]

Too much cordial will destroy. [ Proverb ]

Every one thinks he knows much. [ Proverb ]

To command many will cost much. [ Proverb ]

Much religion, but no goodness. [ Proverb ]

Too much mercy is want of mercy. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

An inch in a man's nose is much. [ Proverb ]

Rely not too much on frail hope. [ Seneca ]

He that travels much knows much. [ Proverb ]

He that lives long suffers much. [ Proverb ]

So much to win, so much to lose.
No marvel that I fear to choose. [ Miss Landon ]

He who knows much has many cares. [ Lessing ]

Meat is much, but malice is more. [ Proverb ]

The first blow is as much as two. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love that asketh love again
Finds the barter naught but pain;
Love that giveth in full store
Aye receives as much, and more.
Love exacting nothing back
Never knoweth any lack;
Love compelling Love to pay,
Sees him bankrupt every day. [ Dinah Muloch Craik ]

Even too much praise is a burden. [ Proverb ]

For what is worth in anything,
But so much money as twill bring? [ Butler ]

Much might be said on both sides. [ Addison ]

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To win or lose it all. [ Marquis of Montrose ]

Though much is taken, much abides. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small.
That dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all. [ Marquis Of Montrose ]

Who talks much, must talk in vain. [ Gay ]

Genius will reconcile men to much. [ Carlyle ]

Much in earth but little in heaven. [ Proverb ]

As much as York excels foul Sutton. [ Proverb ]

Much corn lies in the chaff unseen. [ Proverb ]

She that gazes much spins not much. [ Proverb ]

He does much that does a thing well. [ Proverb ]

Thy peace shall be in much patience. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

Love does much, but money does more. [ Proverb ]

In too much disputing truth is lost. [ French Proverb ]

Birth is much, but breeding is more. [ Proverb ]

A youth to whom was given
So much of earth, so much of heaven. [ Wordsworth ]

Too much rest itself becomes a pain. [ Homer ]

A jade eats as much as a good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Make not too much haste on a journey. [ Chilo ]

Forgive thyself nothing, others much. [ German Proverb ]

I would not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honour more. [ Lovelace ]

I had not so much of man in me,
And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears. [ William Shakespeare ]

Every one is worth as much as he has. [ German Proverb ]

As much love, so much mind, or heart. [ Latin Proverb ]

Hunting has as much pain as pleasure. [ Proverb ]

Too much familiarity breeds contempt. [ Proverb ]

Love can do much, but duty still more. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Prevention is much preferable to cure. [ Proverb ]

Enough is enough, and too much spoils. [ Italian Proverb ]

Valor is abased by too much loftiness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

In love, too much of it is not enough. [ Beaumarchais ]

Borrow not too much upon time to come. [ Proverb ]

Too much spoils, too little is nothing. [ Proverb ]

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. [ William Shakespeare ]

We forgive too little, forget too much. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Only so much do I know as I have lived. [ Emerson ]

Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. [ William Shakespeare ]

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. [ Lavater ]

A gift much expected is paid, not given. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Can one desire too much of a good thing? [ Cervantes ]

He that promises too much means nothing. [ Proverb ]

My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such perfect joy therein I find.
That it excels all other bliss
That God or Nature hath assign'd,
Though much I want that most would have.
Yet still my mind forbids to crave. [ Wm. Byrd ]

O, if so much beauty doth reveal
Itself in every vein of life and nature.
How beautiful must be the Source itself,
The Ever Bright One. [ Tegner ]

Love must be as much a light as a flame. [ Thoreau ]

Through every fibre of my brain,
Through every nerve, through every vein,
I feel the electric thrill, the touch
Of life, that seems almost too much. [ Henry W. Longfellow ]

Politeness costs little and yields much. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

Much food is in the tillage of the poor. [ Bible ]

Nobody hath too much prudence or virtue. [ Proverb ]

Not much talk, - a great, sweet silence. [ Henry James, Jr ]

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast. [ Quarles ]

He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much. [ Lavater ]

Nature needs little; opinion exacts much.

We promise much, that we may give little. [ Vauvenargues ]

Trust not too much to an enchanting face. [ Virgil ]

Praise none too much, for all are fickle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

They need much whom nothing will content. [ Proverb ]

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

How much an ill word may empoison liking! [ William Shakespeare ]

One doth not know
How much an ill word may empoison liking. [ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III. Sc.1 ]

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.
A grateful mind is a great mind. [ Seeker ]

Too much fear cuts all the nerves asunder. [ Proverb ]

Those who covet much suffer from the want. [ Horace ]

Character is very much a matter of health. [ Bovee ]

Talk much and err much, says the Spaniard. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Good words are worth much and cost little. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Much learning is a weariness of the flesh. [ Proverb ]

Bought wit is best, but may cost too much. [ Proverb ]

Nothing costs so much as what is given us. [ Proverb ]

How much of love lies buried dusty graves! [ F. A. Durivage ]

Fancy requires much, necessity but little. [ German Proverb ]

No man ever surfeited on too much honesty. [ Proverb ]

For good or evil must in our actions meet;
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. [ Donne ]

That which proves too much proves nothing. [ Proverb ]

Too much of one thing is good for nothing. [ Proverb ]

The town bull is as much a bachelor as he. [ Proverb ]

It is tranquil people who accomplish much. [ Thoreau ]

Can gold calm passion or make reason shine?
Can we dig peace, or wisdom, from the mine?
Wisdom to gold prefer; for 'tis much less
To make our fortune, than our happiness. [ Young ]

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had:
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. [ Pope ]

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

Too much sadness hath congealed your blood. [ William Shakespeare ]

That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
And straight is cold again. [ Jul. Caes ]

Distrust him who talks much of his honesty. [ Dussaulx ]

How much the wife is dearer than the bride! [ Lord Lyttleton ]

You have too much respect upon the world:
They lose it that do buy it with much care. [ William Shakespeare ]

Too much is always bad; old proverbs call
Even too much honey nothing else than gall. [ Anon ]

That what he will he does, and does so much
That proof is called impossibility. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is enough where there is not too much. [ French Proverb ]

Do not insult calamity:
It is a barbarous grossness to lay on
The weight of scorn, where heavy misery
Too much already weighs men's fortunes down. [ Daniel ]

Nobody can stand in awe of himself too much. [ Proverb ]

Who think too little, and who talk roo much. [ Drydeu ]

But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much. [ Dryden ]

Maids make much of one; good men are scarce. [ Proverb ]

Love and madness judge of things much alike. [ Proverb ]

Good words cost nothing, but are worth much. [ Proverb ]

Can so much gall find access in devout souls? [ Boileau ]

Though absent, present in desires they be;
Our souls much further than our eyes can see. [ Drayton ]

We cannot enjoy a friend here.
If we are to meet it is beyond the grave.
How much of our soul a friend takes with him!
We half die in him. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute.
Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. [ Marston ]

Alas! how much better is your fate than mine! [ Ovid ]

Avoid extremes, and shun the fault of such
Who still are pleased too little or too much. [ Pope ]

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge. [ Thomas Hood ]

Sink not in spirit: who aimeth at the sky
Shoots higher much than he that means a tree. [ George Herbert ]

O, how much more doth Beauty beauteous seem.
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem,
For that sweet odor which doth in it live. [ William Shakespeare ]

A dog that barks much is never a good hunter. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree;
Love is a present for a mighty king,--
Much less make any one thine enemy.
As guns destroy, so may a little sling. [ George Herbert ]

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. [ Marston ]

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Half-witted fellows speak much and say little. [ Proverb ]

One may say too much even on the best subject. [ Proverb ]

They say, best men are moulded out of faults;
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad. [ William Shakespeare ]

All idle talk (so much the wind carries away). [ French Proverb ]

A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Men who have much to say use the fewest words. [ H. W. Shaw ]

A courtesy much entreated is half recompensed. [ Proverb ]

He that grasps at too much holds nothing fast. [ Proverb ]

He's a thief, for he has taken a cup too much. [ Proverb ]

It is pride, and not nature, that craves much. [ Proverb ]

All human history attests
That happiness for man - the hungry sinner —
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner! [ Byron ]

But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree,
That cannot so much as a blossom yield
In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry. [ William Shakespeare ]

Much spends the traveller more than the abider. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who tries to prove too much, proves nothing. [ Proverb ]

He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue. [ Proverb ]

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

He that desires but little has no need of much. [ Proverb ]

Some Grief shows much of Love;
But much of Grief shows still some want of Wit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Where there is much love there is much mistake. [ Proverb ]

Lip honour costs little, yet may bring in much. [ Proverb ]

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. [ William Cowper ]

Words are like leaves, and when they most abound
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. [ Alexander Pope ]

Much would have more, but often meets with less. [ Proverb ]

To whirl the eyes too much shows a kite's brain. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Giving much to the poor increases a man's store. [ Proverb ]

Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance. [ George Herbert ]

He that loves himself too much loves an ill man. [ Proverb ]

We gape, we grasp, we gripe, add store to store;
Enough requires too much; too much craves more. [ Quarles ]

Much corn lies under the straw that is not seen. [ Proverb ]

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood. [ Ward Beecher ]

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. [ Sir Roger l'Estrange ]

Honesty is a fine jewel, but much out of fashion. [ Proverb ]

Men love little and often, women much and rarely. [ Basta ]

The fox knows much, but more he that catches him. [ Proverb ]

Those that much covet are with gain so fond,
That what they have not, that which they possess,
They scatter and unloose it from their bond.
And so, by hoping more, they have but less. [ William Shakespeare ]

Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence. [ Francois Delsarte ]

Dead! God, how much there is in that little word! [ Byron ]

A man in distress or despair does as much as ten. [ Proverb ]

Have but a few friends, though much acquaintance; [ Proverb ]

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement. [ Amiel ]

Giving much to the poor doth enrich a man's store. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that talks much of his happiness summons grief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Why does man hunger so much after forbidden fruit? [ Ovid ]

Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely. [ Basta ]

He is not so much worth as his ears full of water. [ Proverb ]

Men that have much business must have much pardon. [ Proverb ]

As much wit as three folks, two fools and a madman. [ Proverb ]

The art of making much show with little substance.. [ Macaulay ]

A child may have too much of its mother's blessing. [ Proverb ]

What is much desired is not believed when it comes. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Avoid as much as possible multiplicity of business. [ Bishop Wilson ]

Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

These wickets of the soul are placed so high,
Because all sounds do highly move aloft;
And that they may not pierce too violently,
They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft.
For should the voice directly strike the brain,
It would astonish and confuse it much;
Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain,
That it the organ may more gently touch. [ Sir John Davies ]

No decking sets forth anything so much as affection. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

He that trusts much obliges much, says the Spaniard. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]

Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet. [ Proverb ]

Too much scratching pains, too much talking plagues. [ Proverb ]

Few things in the world will bear too much refining. [ Proverb ]

The lower millstone grinds as much as the upper one. [ Proverb ]

Twas a public feast and public day -
Quite full, right dull, guests hot, and dishes cold,
Great plenty, much formality, small cheer.
And everybody out of their own sphere. [ Byron ]

Too much asseveration is a good ground of suspicion. [ Proverb ]

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Too much care may be as bad as downright negligence. [ Proverb ]

A man may say too much even on the best of subjects. [ Proverb ]

There is little due to pleasure, but much to health. [ Proverb ]

As much of heaven is visible as we have eyes to see. [ William Winter ]

There are, whom heaven has blessed with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it;
For wit and judgment ever are at strife,
Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]

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

Living requires but little life; doing requires much. [ Joubert ]

My perception of a fact is as much a fact as the sun. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Nobody can find work easy if much work do lie in him. [ Carlyle ]

Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt. [ Rochefoucauld ]

A journeying woman speaks much of all and all of her. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every step of life shows how much caution is required. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Passion costs too much to bestow it upon every trifle. [ Rev. Thomas Adam ]

That which we may live without we need not covet much. [ Proverb ]

So much depends on habit in the tender years of youth. [ Virgil ]

It is much like a blacksmith with a white silk apron.. [ Proverb ]

No one is so much alone in the universe as an athiest. [ Richter ]

Rich men and fortunate men have need of much prudence. [ Proverb ]

Give not St. Peter so much, to leave St. Paul nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Man has only too much reason to guard himself from man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The way to live much, is to begin to live well betimes. [ Proverb ]

Nothing so much contents us as that which confounds us. [ Goldsmith ]

Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination. [ Bacon ]

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little. [ Fuller ]

Wisdom consists not so much in seeing as in foreseeing. [ Hosea Ballou ]

A fool demands much, but he is a greater that gives it. [ Proverb ]

A house ready built never sells for so much as it cost. [ Proverb ]

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much. [ Fontanelle ]

You are like fig-tree fuel, much smoke and little fire. [ Proverb ]

The fool asks much, but he is more fool that grants it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion. [ Lady Morgan ]

A woman, and by so much nearer heaven as that makes one. [ Beecher ]

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands. [ Chamfort ]

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains. [ Hume ]

There is much more learning than knowledge in the world. [ Proverb ]

Love requires not so much proofs as expressions of love. [ Jean Paul ]

He is a worthy person who is much respected by good men. [ Hitopadesa ]

When all men have what belongs to them it cannot be much. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself. [ Johnson ]

He is as much out of his element as an eel in a sand-bag. [ Proverb ]

Out of breath for nothing, making much ado about nothing. [ Phaed ]

So much is mine as I enjoy, and give away for God's sake. [ Proverb ]

How much one must have suffered to be weary even of hope! [ Pauline ]

He did me as much good as if he had pissed in my pottage. [ Proverb ]

The envious hurt others something, but himself very much. [ Proverb ]

In courtesy, rather pay a penny too much than too little. [ Proverb ]

Earnestness is needed in this world as much as any virtue. [ James Ellis ]

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. [ Jean Paul ]

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. [ Lord Greville ]

A good word for a bad one is worth much, and costs little. [ Proverb ]

He sins as much who holds the sack as he who puts into it. [ French Proverb ]

Much better never to catch a rogue, than let him go again. [ Proverb ]

The virtuous woman who falls in love is much to be pitied. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Too much and too little occasions the troubles of mankind. [ Proverb ]

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good. [ Aristotle ]

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long. [ Madame de Sevigne ]

He is not poor that hath little, but he that desireth much. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Solitude dulls the thought, too much company dissipates it. [ Proverb ]

Obedience is much more seen in little things than in great. [ Proverb ]

There is much proud humility and humble pride in the world. [ J. L. Basford ]

Like a mill-horse, that goes much, but performs no journey. [ Proverb ]

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much. [ Proverb ]

Women are too imaginative and sensitive to have much logic. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress. [ Spenser ]

There is as much hold of his words, as of a wet eel's tail. [ Proverb ]

Death is bitter to a man in prosperity, or in much business. [ Proverb ]

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping! [ Jane Porter ]

Wheresoever you see your kindred, make much of your friends. [ Proverb ]

It takes much from the account to which his sin doth amount. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment. [ Roscommon ]

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. [ Pope ]

Pedantry proceeds from much reading and little understanding. [ Steele ]

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways. [ Lessing ]

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain to feel much anger. [ George Eliot ]

Much is set to music that is not even worthy of being spoken. [ Beaumarchais ]

There is much more pleasure in loving, than in being beloved. [ Proverb ]

Give only so much to one that you may have to give to another. [ Danish Proverb ]

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. [ Ruffini ]

Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food. [ Joubert ]

Alas! what does man here below? A little noise in much shadow. [ Victor Hugo ]

How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened!

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace. [ James Hamilton ]

Man seems to be deficient in nothing so much as he is in time. [ Zeno ]

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little. [ Roger Ascham ]

In order to love mankind, we must not expect too much of them. [ Helvetius ]

He has a head as big as a horse, and brains as much as an ass. [ Proverb ]

A proud man uever shows his pride so much as when he is civil. [ Lord Greville ]

Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter,
To what shall their rarity be likened?
What price shall count their worth?
Perfect and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches,
No lovely thing on earth can picture all their beauty. [ Tupper ]

The generous man pays for nothing so much as what is given him. [ Proverb ]

Dogs wag their tails, not so much in love to you as your bread. [ Proverb ]

Suspicion is as great an enemy to wisdom as too much credulity. [ Thomas Fuller ]

As much by Mars as by Minerva; as much by courage as by wisdom. [ Proverb ]

Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There are cases where little can be said and much must be done. [ Johnson ]

One man may as much miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. [ Proverb ]

It is one thing to speak much, and another to speak pertinently. [ Proverb ]

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfections? [ Mme. de Sévigné ]

Industry will never do much, unless there be natural parts also. [ Proverb ]

Some had rather guess at much, than take pains to hear a little. [ Proverb ]

There's not so much danger in a known foe as a suspected friend. [ Nabb ]

If you love yourself too much, nobody else will love you at all. [ Proverb ]

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration. [ Pindar ]

To be happy is not to possess much, but to hope and to love much. [ Lamennais ]

In doubtful matters, courage may do much, in desperate, patience. [ Proverb ]

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A world this in which much is to be done, and little to be known. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

One may surfeit with too much, as well as starve with too little. [ Proverb ]

When a lover gives, he demands - and much more than he has given. [ Parny ]

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy to you than to conquer him. [ Proverb ]

Without labor there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. [ Carlyle ]

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. [ Fuller ]

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it. [ Hazlitt ]

The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [ Syrus ]

A man may be happy here and hereafter, without much fame or wealth. [ Proverb ]

It is not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise, man. [ Proverb ]

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Our time is very short, but the time of doing good is much shorter. [ Proverb ]

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded. [ Hannah More ]

Bear and endure; you have borne much heavier misfortunes than these. [ Ovid ]

He does bounty an injury, who shews her so much as to be laughed at. [ Proverb ]

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

We are by no means aware how much we are influenced by our passions. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Too much effort to increase our happiness transforms it into misery. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious,
For tea +{Drink, Drunkenness} and coffee leave us much more serious. [ Byron ]

Nature takes as much pains in the forming of a beggar as an emperor. [ Proverb ]

He's so much a thief, that he will steal away even the commandments. [ Proverb ]

You will be of as much value to others as you have been to yourself. [ Cicero ]

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good. [ Michelet ]

Hang constancy! you know too much of the world to be constant, sure. [ Fielding ]

Much exists under our very noses which has no name, and can get none. [ Carlyle ]

Women distrust men too much in general, and not enough in particular. [ Commerson ]

If you make not much of three-pence, you will never be worth a groat. [ Proverb ]

He that makes a fire of straw hath much smoke, and but little warmth. [ Proverb ]

Much reading is like much eating, - wholly useless without digestion. [ South ]

The way to fame, is like the way to heaven, through much tribulation. [ Sterne ]

There I'll rest, as after much turmoil a blessed soul doth in Elysium. [ William Shakespeare ]

My tongue within my lips I rein. For who talks much must talk in vain. [ Gay ]

I esteem the world as much as I can, and still I esteem it but little. [ Chamfort ]

Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule. [ Spenser ]

Correction should not respect so much what is past, as what is to come. [ Proverb ]

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention as attention is of memory. [ Whately ]

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good. [ Sophocles ]

Those that too much reverence the ancients, are a scorn to the moderns. [ Proverb ]

He that remembers his virtues too much, bids others think of his vices. [ Proverb ]

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves. [ H. W. Shaw ]

I have come to the conclusion that mankind consume twice too much food. [ Sydney Smith ]

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, serves also to moderate it. [ Rochefoucauld ]

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so much as brain. [ Lowell ]

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous. [ Chamfort ]

She has less beauty than her picture hath, and truly not much more wit. [ Proverb ]

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three. [ Howell ]

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Nobody can think much to bear that, which is the common fate of all men. [ Proverb ]

There is as much greatness in owning a good turn, as in the doing of it. [ Proverb ]

Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it. [ Proverb ]

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. [ Montaigne ]

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. [ Landor ]

Temperance is the love of health - or the inability to eat or drink much. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Too much painstaking speaks disease in one's mind, as much as too little. [ Carlyle ]

He who gives of his wealth before dying, prepares himself to suffer much. [ Italian Proverb ]

France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers. [ Napoleon I ]

Much lies among us convulsively, nay, desperately, struggling to be born. [ Carlyle ]

Little shame, little conscience, and much industry, will make a man rich. [ Proverb ]

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

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

One can not imagine how much cleverness is necessary not to be ridiculous. [ Chamfort ]

A man of wit would often be much embarrassed without the company of fools. [ La Roche ]

How much easier do we find it to commend a good action than to imitate it. [ Anon ]

The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on. (Tears) [ Albert Smith ]

Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on everything. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Truth does not do as much good in the world as the shows of it do of evil. [ La Roche ]

As much for Mars as for Mercury; as well qualified for war as for business.

Nothing so much prevents one from being natural as the desire to appear so. [ La Roche ]

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. [ William Shakespeare ]

Character is a fact, and that is much in a world of pretence and concession. [ A. B. Alcott ]

Wealth lost, something lost; honour lost, much lost; courage lost, all lost. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

No chair is so much wanted (in our colleges) as that of a professor of books. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always. [ Joubert ]

The miser is as much in want of that which he has as of that which he has not. [ Publius Syrus ]

One had better forgive a debt, where he cannot recover so much as his charges. [ Proverb ]

Fictions meant to please should have as much resemblance as possible to truth. [ Horace ]

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends. [ Lavater ]

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. [ Colton ]

Truth does not do so much good in the world as the appearance of it does evil. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]

What we need most is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. [ F. H. Hedge ]

The world is not so much knave, that it holds honesty to be a vice and a folly. [ Proverb ]

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness; too much insensibility creates crime. [ Talleyrand ]

The favour of great men, and praise of the world, are not much to be relied on. [ Proverb ]

Except in obedience to the heaven-chosen is freedom not so much as conceivable. [ Carlyle ]

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A man's opinions, look you, are generally of much more value than his arguments. [ Holmes ]

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it. [ Goethe ]

Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science' as to suffer it to stagnate. [ Burke ]

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much. [ Michelet ]

In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. [ Bible ]

Nothing in nature, much less conscious being, was ever created solely for itself. [ Young ]

Who fails to grieve when just occasion calls.
Or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest: Inhuman, or effeminate, his heart. [ Young ]

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power. [ Tillotson ]

Nature takes as much pains in the womb for the forming of a beggar as an emperor. [ Proverb ]

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. [ Pope ]

Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The dew of heaven is as much needed for the flowers as for the crops of the field. [ Lady Fullerton ]

We need not be much concerned about those faults which we have the courage to own. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

O you much partial gods! why gave ye men affections, and not power to govern them? [ Ludovic Barry ]

The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much. [ Dryden ]

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! and the little less, and what worlds away! [ Browning ]

In argument similes are like songs in love; they much describe; they nothing prove. [ Prior ]

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity. [ Burke ]

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections. [ Chamfort ]

Some women need much adorning, as some meat needs much seasoning to incite appetite. [ Rochebrune ]

Few men are much worth loving in whom there is not something well worth laughing at. [ Hair ]

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures. [ Cicero ]

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. [ Landor ]

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little enjoyed. [ Johnson ]

I have often maintained that fiction may be much more instructive than real history. [ John Foster ]

A man of wit would often be much embarrassed if it were not for the company of fools. [ La Roche ]

Let the people take back their praise again, I will do as much as I can without that. [ Proverb ]

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done, as the fear of consequences. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

If a man read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. [ Bacon ]

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty, by how little. [ W. K, Alger ]

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity. [ Swift ]

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise and thinks too much to be beautiful. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

It is better to pay and have but little left, than to have much and be always in debt. [ Proverb ]

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as those of the sword need swiftness. [ Julia W. Howe ]

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us. [ Abraham Coles ]

A real friend is somewhat like a ghost or apparition; much talked of, but rarely seen. [ C. Buck ]

Take any subject of sorrowful regret, and see with how much pleasure it is associated. [ Dickens ]

I take it to be a principal rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. [ Terence ]

Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and drinking. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

There is in hypocrisy as much folly as vice: it is as easy to be honest as to appear so. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Who borrow much, then fairly make it known, and damn it with improvements not their own. [ Young ]

I have hope that society may be reformed, when I see how much education may be reformed. [ Leibnitz ]

Ceremony and great professing renders friendships as much suspected as it does religion. [ Wycherley ]

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. [ H. L. F. Helmholtz ]

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy if I could say how much. [ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing ]

There is no monarch's signet ring that is typical of as much duty as the wedding-ring is. [ J. Powell ]

A woman whose size in gloves is seven and three quarters never knows much about anything. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. [ Lamartine ]

If we had no defects, we should not take so much pleasure in discovering those of others. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage. [ Wendell Phillips ]

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. [ Emerson ]

In running their race, men of birth look back too much, which is the mark of a bad runner. [ Bacon ]

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. [ Young ]

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, by that sweet ornament which truth doth give! [ Shakespeare ]

I have made as much of myself as could be made of the stuff and no man should require more. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Hatred is nearly always honest - rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day. [ Seneca ]

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic. [ Addison ]

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise; it is in order to show how much he can spare. [ Johnson ]

It is not so much for love of the world that we seek it, as to escape our own companionship.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much. [ Horace Mann ]

Too much magnifying of man or matter doth irritate contradiction, and procure envy and scorn. [ Bacon ]

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. [ Gregory ]

No knowledge is lost, but perfected, and changed for much nobler, sweeter, greater knowledge. [ Baxter ]

True magnanimity does not consist so much in undertaking difficult things, as enduring evils. [ Proverb ]

We are hampered, alas! in our course of life quite as much by what we do as by what we suffer. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy - by consulting the oracular dead. [ Hare ]

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. [ Holmes ]

Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all, and are not even hurt. [ La Roche ]

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them. [ Lamartine ]

How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest. [ Junius ]

As surfeit is the father of much fast, so every scope by the immoderate use turns to restraint. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. [ Theodore Parker ]

Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it. [ Rückert ]

There is not so much comfort in the having of children, as there is sorrow in parting with them. [ Proverb ]

Take note of what you see, give heed to what you hear, and be silent. Judge little, inquire much. [ Platen ]

Man can make himself master over much, hardly can necessity and length of time subdue his spirit. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of Nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. [ Herve ]

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires. [ Franklin ]

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

He that has too little wants wings to fly, he that has too much is encumbered with his large tail. [ Proverb ]

The race is won as much by the dexterity of the rider as by the vigor and fleetness of the animal. [ Earl of Bath ]

Nothing so much convinces me of the boundlessness of the human mind as its operations in dreaming. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Those who bestow too much application on trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Women should be careful of their conduct, for appearances sometimes injure them as much as faults. [ Abbi Girard ]

We ought to allow the affections of the mind to be neither too much elated nor abjectly depressed. [ Cicero ]

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

The art of painting does not proceed so much by intelligence as by sight and feeling and invention. [ Hamerton ]

Nothing so effectively baffles the schemes of evil men so much as the calm composure of great souls. [ Mirabeau ]

A small inkling of philosophy leads man to despise learning; much philosophy leads man to esteem it. [ Chamfort ]

Lyrical poetry is much the same in every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. [ Heine ]

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. [ Talleyrand ]

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. [ Joubert ]

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. [ Johnson ]

This day which thou fearest so much, and which thou callest thy last, is the birthday of an eternity. [ Seneca ]

I have been too much occupied with things themselves to think either of their beginning or their end. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. [ Seneca ]

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it. [ Landor ]

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken. [ Plutarch ]

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life. [ Wordsworth ]

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

We have sometimes loved so much that there is nothing left in our hearts that enables us to love again. [ Rochebrune ]

A body may as well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better. [ L'Estrange ]

Greece, so much praised for her wisdom, never produced but seven wise men: judge of the number of fools! [ Grecourt ]

Persevering mediocrity is much more respectable, and unspeakably more useful, than talented inconstancy. [ Dr. James Hamilton ]

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as the having overcome them, that is an advantage to us. [ Alexander Pope ]

As much virtue as there is, so much appears; as much goodness as there is, so much reverence it commands. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Much of the good or evil that befalls persons arises from the well or ill managing of their conversation. [ Judge Hale ]

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. [ Colton ]

Hypocrites are wicked: they hide their defects with so much care, that their hearts are poisoned by them. [ Marguerite de Valais ]

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

It is base to say one thing and to think another; how much more base to write one thing and think another! [ Seneca ]

He who laughs too much hath the nature of a fool, he that laughs not at all hath the nature of an old cat. [ Proverb ]

It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart; it is so much more sensitive. [ Thoreau ]

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. [ W. Cobbett ]

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

Women are shy of nothing so much as the little word Yes, at least they say it only after they have said No. [ Jean Paul ]

No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty. [ Froude ]

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. [ Tillotson ]

In this advanced century, a girl of sixteen knows as much as her mother, and enjoys her knowledge much more.

Women should be doubly careful of their conduct, since appearances often injure them as much as real faults. [ Abbe Girard ]

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works as by his patience. [ Horace Bushnell ]

He who loses wealth, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses more; but he that loses his courage, loses all. [ Cervantes ]

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, is not much better than tedious disease. [ G. D. Prentice ]

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it. [ Emerson ]

Madame X. is a woman of too much wit and cleverness to be ever despised as much as some women less despicable. [ Chamfort ]

There are some women who require much dressing, as some meats must be highly seasoned to make them palatable. [ Rochebrune ]

Much in the world may be done by severity, more by love, but most of all by discernment and impartial justice. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The little (achieved) is soon forgotten by him who looks before him and sees how much still remains to be done. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. [ H. W. Shaw ]

It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion. [ Bacon ]

Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him. [ Seed ]

Much of the pleasure, and all the benefit of conversation, depends upon our own opinion of the speaker's veracity. [ Paley ]

Leave it better than you found it. If we all did that, even in small ways, the world would be a much better place.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves; and perhaps that is the reason of it. [ William Penn ]

The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living, in a little, much beneath them. [ Addison ]

It is quite as much of a trade to make a book as to make a clock. It requires more than mere genius to be an author. [ Bruyere ]

There is so much of the glare and grief of life connected with the stage that it fills me with most solemn thoughts. [ Henry Giles ]

Comedies acted on life's stage, behind the scenes, are much more spirited than those acted in sight of the audience. [ De Finod ]

It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world. [ Johnson ]

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. [ Cicero ]

A beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it. [ Clarendon ]

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension. [ Plutarch ]

Much wishes man for himself, and yet needs he but little; for the days are short, and limited is the fate of mortals. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness. [ Tupper ]

I have tried merely to express what I had to say with as much simplicity and as little affectation as I could command. [ James A. Froude, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

So long as people are subject to disease and death, they will run after physicians, however much they may deride them. [ La Bruyere ]

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance. [ J. G. Holland ]

Since love teaches how to trick the tricksters, how much reason have we to fear it - we who are poor simple creatures! [ Marguerite de Valois ]

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown. [ Arthur Helps ]

If we did but know how little some enjoy the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. [ Young ]

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. [ Hume ]

You pity a man who is lame or blind; but you never pity him for being a fool, which is often a much greater misfortune. [ Sydney Smith ]

In our age of down-pulling and disbelief, the very devil has been pulled down; you cannot so much as believe in a devil. [ Carlyle ]

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much and say nothing. [ Rochefoucauld ]

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly. [ Addison ]

There is as much eloquence in the tone of the voice, in the eyes, and in the air of a speaker as in his choice of words. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Liberty is quite as much a moral as a political growth, - the result of free individual action, energy, and independence. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Truthfulness is not so much a branch as a blossom of moral, manly strength. The weak, whether they will or not, must lie. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

We do not know of how much a man is capable if he has the will, and to what point he will raise himself if he feels free. [ J. von Muller ]

He in whom there is much to be developed will be later than others in acquiring true perceptions of himself and the world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape. [ Paxton Hood ]

You think much too well of me as a man. No author can be as moral as his works, as no preacher is as pious as his sermons. [ Richter ]

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality. [ George Eliot ]

There are heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit, sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room. [ Fuller ]

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite. [ Hall ]

Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence. [ Ruffini ]

Life, upon the whole, is much more pleasurable than painful, otherwise we should not feel pain so impatiently when it comes. [ Leigh Hunt ]

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one. [ Hazlitt ]

Have you so much leisure from your own business that you can take care of other people's that does not at all belong to you? [ Terence ]

To nil married men be this caution, which they should duly tender as their life: Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife. [ Massinger ]

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it. [ George Henry Lewes ]

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. [ Macaulay ]

Were we as eloquent as angels, we would please some men, some women, and some children much more by listening than by talking. [ Colton ]

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than their head, and think to play the fool with reason. [ Terence ]

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

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we bad never offended. [ Blair ]

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it in poetry or painting must produce a much greater. [ Dryden ]

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases. [ Diogenes ]

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude. [ Colton ]

Love requires not so much proofs, as expressions, of love. Love demands little else than the power to feel and to requite love. [ Richter ]

Let us not disdain glory too much - nothing is finer except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. [ Chateaubriand ]

Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it. [ George Eliot ]

On the greatest and most useful of all human inventions, that of alphabetical writing, Plato did not look with much complacency. [ T. B. Macaulay ]

In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, but much grievance. [ Carnot ]

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird. [ Balzac ]

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly. [ Bovee ]

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much but wants more. [ Colton ]

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop. [ Hare ]

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances. [ J. F. Boyes ]

Everything falls and is effaced. A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet, so much tumult on the surface! [ Victor Hugo ]

Where much is given, much shall be required. There are never privileges to enjoy without corresponding duties to fulfil in return. [ Phiiups Brooks ]

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 ]

A gentleman is always a gentleman; but the butterflies of society differ as much in their moods as does that insect in its colors. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]

Persons of fine manners make behaviour the first sign of force,--behaviour, and not performance, or talent, or, much less, wealth. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

I am above being injured by fortune; though she snatch away much, more will remain to me. The blessings I now enjoy transcend fear. [ Ov ]

Although it is dangerous to have too much knowledge of certain subjects, it is still more dangerous to be totally ignorant of them. [ Colombat ]

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much. [ Robert Leighton ]

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed or damps our efforts. [ Hazlitt ]

Ah! would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way, from the eye, through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! [ Lessing ]

What has become of those personages who made so much noise in the world? Time has made one step, and the face of the earth is renewed. [ Chateaubriand ]

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. [ Hume ]

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 ]

Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. [ Pope ]

A man who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. [ Frederick the Great ]

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. [ Johnson ]

I'll give thrice so much land. To any well deserving friend; But in the way of bargain, mark me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. [ William Shakespeare ]

No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again. [ John Ruskin ]

The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned to their owners is, that it is much easier to retain the books than what is in them. [ Montaigne ]

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. [ Hazlitt ]

I have thought that in all women's deepest loves, be they ever so full of reverence, there enters sometimes much of the motherly element. [ Miss Muloch ]

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one. [ Feltham ]

We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer. Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best. [ Burton ]

Those who go to Heaven will be very much surprised at the people they find there, and much more surprised at those they do not find there. [ Samuel Rogers ]

Nature gives healthy children much; how much! Wise education is a wise unfolding of this; often it unfolds itself better of its own accord. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Husband and wife, - so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together! [ Ruffini ]

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]

He is worthy of honor, who willeth the good of every man; and he is much unworthy thereof, who seeketh his own profit, and oppresseth others. [ Cicero ]

The happiest lot for a man as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it. [ Whately ]

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discover who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man. [ Cato ]

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded. [ Montesquieu ]

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil. [ James A. Garfield ]

Our minds are like certain vehicles, - when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly. [ Elihu Burritt ]

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. [ La Bruyere ]

It is to teach us early in life how to think, and to excite our infantile imagination, that prudent Nature has given to women so much chit-chat. [ La Bruyere ]

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with them hereafter. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

When you have got so much true knowledge as is worth fighting for, you are bound to fight or to die for it, but not to debate about it any more. [ John Ruskin ]

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. [ Talleyrand ]

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine! [ Jeremy Taylor ]

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

With some life is exactly like a sleigh-drive, showy and tinkling, but affording just as little for the heart as it offers much to eyes and ears. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position. [ Plutarch ]

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato. [ Swift ]

The world will be to each one of us very much what we make it. The cheerful are its real possessors, for the world belongs to those who enjoy it. [ Samuel Smiles ]

I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. [ Holmes ]

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. [ Sir W. Temple ]

When a mother, as fond mothers will, vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much. [ Thackeray ]

Much complaining I often hear raised against the proud bearing of the great. The pride of the great will disappear as soon as we cease our cringing. [ Körner ]

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants - both know too much of him. [ Colton ]

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs. [ Lowell ]

Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. [ Paxton Hood ]

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever. [ Burke ]

Patience is very good, but perseverance is much better; while the former stands as a stoic under difficulties, the latter whips them out of the ring. [ Elizabeth Appleton ]

If the Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at how much glow-in-the-dark stuff we have, and how we take so much of it for granted. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humor and so little wit in their literature. [ Coleridge ]

Libraries are the wardrobes of our literature, whence men, properly informed, might bring something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. [ J. Dyer ]

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability. [ Bovee ]

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage, that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over. [ Emerson ]

Talking is like playing the harp. There is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out the music. [ Holmes ]

Two things should always be aimed at in our apparel - neatness and decency; but we should avoid an effeminate spruceness, as much as a fantastic disorder. [ J. Beaumont ]

The destiny of women is to please, to be amiable, and to be loved. Those who do not love them are still more in the wrong than those who love them too much. [ Rochebrune ]

I believe one reason why women are generally so much more cheerful than men is because they can work with the needle, and so endlessly vary their employment. [ Sydney Smith ]

My notions about life are much the same as they are about travelling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road, but, after all, one wants to be at rest. [ Southey ]

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men. [ Tillotson ]

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 ]

To be able simply to say of a man he has character, is not only saying much of him, but extolling him; for this is a rarity which excites respect and wonder. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much; but what in these dull, unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the liver! [ Carlyle ]

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. [ Johnson ]

The make-weight! The make-weight! which fate throws into the balance for us at every happiness! It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in this world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There may be as much courage displayed in enduring with resignation the sufferings of the soul, as in remaining firm under the showers of shot from a battery. [ Napoleon I ]

Women live only in the emotion that love gives. An old lady confessed that she had loved much,when young: Ah! she exclaimed, the exquisite pain of those days! [ A. Houssaye ]

It is a revered thing to see an ancient castle not in decay; how much more to behold an ancient family which have stood against the waves and weathers of time! [ Bacon ]

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage. [ Shenstone ]

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in few words. [ Johnson ]

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves. [ Colton ]

There is the same difference between their tongues as between the hour and the minute-hand; one goes ten times as fast, and the other signifies ten times as much. [ Sydney Smith ]

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst ; the last is a real tragedy! [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. [ Fuller ]

Equality is the life of conversation; and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another, as he who considers himself below the rest of the society. [ Steele ]

Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order. [ Hare ]

Our happiness as human beings, generally speaking, will be found to be very much in proportion to the number of things we love, and the number of things that love us. [ Samuel Smiles ]

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 ]

Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men, therefore they speak much of it; but one syllable of woman's speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can hold. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

How much more mothers love their children than their husbands; the latter are often selfish and cruel; but children cannot separate their mother's from their affection. [ Mme. Paterson Bonaparte ]

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom - the very fashion of which passeth away. [ Fenelon ]

When a man puts on a character he is a stranger to, there is as much difference between what he appears and what he is in reality as there is between a visor and a face. [ Bruyere ]

To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor. [ Pope ]

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. [ Lowell ]

When the foot of the mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us. [ Auerbach ]

I wish scientists would come up with a way to make dogs a lot bigger, but with a smaller head. That way, they'd still be good as watchdogs, but they wouldn't eat as much. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The good pilot knows the whereabouts of every sunken rock in the harbor; how much of joy there would be in the world if all men knew the sunken rocks in the harbor of life. [ Catherine A. Atmould ]

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 ]

Let me have men about me that are fat; sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights; yonder Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [ William Shakespeare ]

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

A man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person, which accounts for so much in women that their husbands never appreciate in them. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry. [ Fielding ]

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. [ Coleridge ]

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. [ Sir T. F. Buxton ]

Twenty people can gain money for one who can use it; and the vital question for individuals and for nations, is never how much do they make, but to what purpose do they spend. [ John Ruskin ]

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. [ Swift ]

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasurable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris. [ Talfourd ]

Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. [ Washington Irving ]

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. [ Bacon ]

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The amount of honey which we accumulate from the years as they pass, depends not so much upon the number of flower-gardens through which we rove, as upon our powers of extraction. [ Henry Wood ]

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Music, if only listened to, and not scientifically cultivated, gives too much play to the feelings and fancy; the difficulties of the art draw forth the whole energies of the soul. [ Richter ]

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 ]

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. [ Carlyle ]

All the good things of this world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and whatever we may heap up to give to others, we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more. [ De Foe ]

Amiable people, while they are more liable to imposition in casual contact with the world, yet radiate so much of mental sunshine that they are reflected in all appreciative hearts. [ Madame Deluzy ]

Extreme avarice is nearly always mistaken; there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Nothing makes so much impression on the heart of man as the voice of friendship when it is really known to be such; for we are aware that it never speaks to us except for our advantage. [ Rousseau ]

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. [ Dickens ]

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 ]

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 ]

Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard. [ Macaulay ]

We rarely repent of having spoken too little, very often of having spoken too much: a maxim this which is old and trivial, and which every one knows, but which every one does not practise. [ La Bruyère ]

The present is withered by our wishes for the future; we ask for more air, more light, more space, more fields, a larger home. Ah! does one need so much room to love a day, and then to die? [ E. Souvestre ]

If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of the two does not make one reasonable being. [ Balzac ]

Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser is the same to him as if it were another's. But when it is said of a man "he hath so much," it is with difficulty he can be induced to part with it. [ Hitopadesa ]

A fop who admires his person in a glass soon enters into a resolution of making his fortune by it, not questioning that every woman who falls in his way will do him as much justice as himself. [ Thomas Hughes ]

Neither the naked hand nor the understanding, left to itself, can do much; the work is accomplished by instruments and helps, of which the need is not less for the understanding than the hand. [ Bacon ]

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world. [ Goethe ]

He who allows his happiness to depend too much on reason, who submits his pleasures to examination, and desires enjoyments only of the most refined nature, too often ends by not having any at all. [ Chamfort ]

Government is a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing over-much kills the self-help and energy of the governed. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm that of individuals: the former grows inveterate by time: the latter is cured by it. [ Robert Hall ]

We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects. [ Pascal ]

Misery is so little appertaining to our nature, and happiness so much so, that we in the same degree of illusion only lament over that which has pained us, but leave unnoticed that which has rejoiced us. [ Richter ]

It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when there was nothing else to do, would issue the order to scour the anchor. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Gold is called the bait of sin, the snare of souls, and the hook of death; which being aptly applied may be compared to a fire, whereof a little is good to warm one, but too much will burn him altogether. [ Sir R. Filmer ]

Were a whole nation to start upon a new career of education, with mature faculties and minds free from prepossession or prejudice, how much would be quickly abandoned that is now most stubbornly cherished! [ Chatfield ]

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it. [ Lowell ]

A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little - always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature. [ Frederic Saunders ]

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life. [ Franklin ]

It is quite as easy to give our children musical and pleasing names as those that are harsh and difficult; and it will be found by the owners, when they have grown to knowledge, that there is much in a name. [ Locke ]

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists. [ Rousseau ]

O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves! [ Dickens ]

What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make. [ Whipple ]

If your name is to live at all, it is so much more to have it live in people's hearts than only in their brains. I don't know that one's eyes fill with tears when he thinks of the famous inventor of logarithms. [ Holmes ]

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as they are overrated by others. [ Whately ]

Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength; there is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage. [ Hazlitt ]

If as much care were taken to perpetuate a race of fine men as is done to prevent the mixture of ignoble blood in horses and dogs, the genealogy of every one would be written on his face and displayed in his manners. [ Voltaire ]

The capacity of apprehending what is high is very rare; and therefore, in common life a man does well to keep such things for himself, and only to give out so much as is needful to have some advantage against others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal. [ Emerson ]

Diligence is the mistress of learning, without which nothing can either be spoken or done in this life with commendation, and without which it is altogether impossible to prove learned, much less excellent in any science. [ Madeleine Guerchois ]

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons? [ Lamb ]

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 ]

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars. [ Macaulay ]

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world! [ Hosea Ballou ]

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. [ Chesterfield ]

I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts. [ W. B. Clulow ]

The idea you have once spoken, if even it were an idea, is no longer yours; it is gone from you, so much life and virtue is gone, and the vital circulations of yourself and your destiny and activity are henceforth deprived of it. [ Carlyle ]

I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature. [ Jane Porter ]

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. [ Richard Cecil ]

Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness. [ J. S. Mill ]

Another underlying condition of contentment is not to take one's self, or even the affairs of life, too seriously. In looking back, every one can see how much unhappiness has been derived from an over-weening sense of one's importance. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as you please, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. [ Franklin ]

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 ]

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and hollyhock. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof if carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung. [ Greville ]

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away. Enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what tomorrow may produce. [ Horace ]

To make much of little, to find reasons of interest in common things, to develop a sensibility to mild enjoyments, to inspire the imagination, to throw a charm upon homely and familiar things, will constitute a man master of his own happiness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers; he that desires to give more than he can hath equaled his gift to his desire, and hath given more than he hath. [ Quarles ]

No doubt every person is entitled to make and to think as much of himself as possible, only he ought not to worry others about this, for they have enough to do with and in themselves, if they too are to be of some account, both now and hereafter. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

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 ]

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys. [ Pascal ]

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust. [ Chapin ]

A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. [ Richter ]

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death. [ Mackenzie ]

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 ]

Much debating goes on about the good that has been done and the harm by the free circulation of the Bible. To me this is clear: it will do harm, as it has done, if used dogmatically and fancifully; and do good, as it has done, if used didactically and feelingly. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Nature's noblemen are everywhere, - in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman. [ Willis ]

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receives. [ Colton ]

Flowers are esteemed by us, not so much on account of their extrinsic beauty - their glowing hues and genial fragrance - as because they have long been regarded as emblems of mortality - because they are associated in our minds with the ideas of mutation and decay. [ Bovee ]

Ask men of genius how much they owe to their mothers, and you will find that they attribute almost all to them and their influence; and if we could only guage the mental capacity of the wives of great men, we might perhaps learn why genius is so seldom hereditary. [ Lord Kames ]

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. [ Chesterfield ]

That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out. [ Addison ]

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. [ Ruskin ]

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable. [ Zimmermann ]

He that can keep handsomely within rules, and support the carriage of a companion to his mistress, is much more likely to prevail than he who lets her see the whole relish of his life depends upon her. If possible, therefore, divert your mistress rather than sigh for her. [ Steele ]

There is no action so slight, nor so mean, but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled therefore; nor is any purpose so great but that slight actions may help it, and may be so done as to help it much, most especially that chief of all purposes, the pleasing of God. [ Ruskin ]

We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament. [ Beecher ]

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 ]

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]

Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us. [ Pilpay ]

How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten. [ Washington Irving ]

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! [ Thackeray ]

To act with commonsense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is, and despise affectation. [ Horace Walpole ]

There is a sort of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in exaggeration; their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame. [ Hume ]

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 ]

The education which has, however, made me a writer has been a living one. I have not only read much, I have seen much, and enjoyed much, and, above all, I have sorrowed much. God has put into my hands every cup of life, sweet and bitter, and the bitter has often become sweet, and the sweet bitter. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is no such flatterer as a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Bacon ]

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it. [ Beecher ]

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold, a woman adds to it her sympathy. A small sum in the hands of a woman does more good than a hundred times as much in the hands of a man. Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a multitude with a few loaves and fishes. [ E. Legouve ]

Talk to the point, and stop when you have reached it. The faculty some possess of making one idea cover a quire of paper is not good for much. Be comprehensive in all you say or write. To fill a volume upon nothing is a credit to nobody; though Lord Chesterfield wrote a very clever poem upon nothing. [ John Neal ]

It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life. [ Geo. S. Hillard ]

Style! style, why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of his pulse, - in short, as any part of his being which is at least subjected to the action of the will. [ Fenelon ]

To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails. [ Humboldt ]

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late. [ Goethe ]

If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you. But I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself; it puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company, and takes up a great deal of time which might be much better employed. [ Chesterfield ]

As well might a lovely woman look daily in her mirror, yet not be aware of her beauty, as a great soul be unconscious of the powers with which Heaven has gifted him; not so much for himself, as to enlighten others - a messenger from God Himself, with a high and glorious mission to perform. Woe unto him who abuses that mission! [ Chambers ]

Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective. [ Chesterfield ]

As the health and strength or weakness of our bodies is very much owing to their methods of treating us when we were young, so the soundness or folly of our minds is not less owing to those first tempers and ways of thinking which we eagerly received from the love, tenderness, authority, and constant conversation of our mothers. [ E. Law ]

The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure employment. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot. [ Montaigne ]

Most people give up before they start because they think it is too hard, there is too much against me here, I can’t do this on my own, I don’t have the resources. I was on the back to work scheme when I applied. I didn’t have resources... It never occurred to me to fail. I always knew it was part of my destiny to do that thing. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show ]

It unfortunately happens that no man believes that he is likely to die soon. So every one is much disposed to defer the consideration of what ought to be done on the supposition of such an emergency; and while nothing is so uncertain as human life, so nothing is so certain as our assurance that we shall survive most of our neighbors. [ Aughey ]

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

I will not much commend others to themselves, I will not at all commend myself to others. So to praise any to their faces is a kind of flattery, but to praise myself to any is the height of folly. He that boasts his own praises speaks ill of himself, and much derogates from his true deserts. It is worthy of blame to affect commendation. [ Arthur Warwick ]

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, Dust to dust, some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, I'll be waiting for you in heaven - with a gun. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman. Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings. [ Colton ]

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint. [ Fielding ]

After having said, read, and written what we have of women, what is the fact? In good faith, it is this: they are handsomer, more amiable, more essential, more worthy, and have more sensibility than we. All the faults that we reproach in them do not cause as much evil as one of ours. And, then, are their faults not due to our despotism, injustice, and self-love? [ Prince de Ligne ]

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and little, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes. [ Montaigne ]

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain. Their happiness consists entirely in present enjoyment. [ Chalmers ]

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace. [ Quarles ]

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 ]

The habit of exaggeration in language should be guarded against; it misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive; it imposes on us the society of a balloon, when a moderately-sized skull would fill the place much better; it begets much evil in promising what it cannot perform, and we have often found the most glowing declarations of intended good services end in mere Irish vows. [ Eliza Cook ]

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 ]

It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion. [ Ruskin ]

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. [ Johnson ]

The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. [ Chesterfield ]

It is the saying of an old divine, Two things in ray apparel I will chiefly aim at - commodiousness and decency; more than these is not commendable, yet I hate an effeminate spruceness as much as a fantastic disorder. A neglected comeliness is the best ornament. It is said of the celebrated Mr. Whitfield that he always was very clean and neat, and often said pleasantly that a minister of the gospel ought to be without a spot. [ J. Beaumont ]

I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. [ Chesterfield ]

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 ]

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]

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 ]

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

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 ]

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 ]

The Christian cemetery is a memorial and a record. It is not a mere field in which the dead are stowed away unknown; it is a touching and beautiful history, written in family burial plots, in mounded graves, in sculptured and inscribed monuments. It tells the story of the past, - not of its institutions, or its wars, or its ideas, but of its individual lives, - of its men and women and children, and of its household. It is silent, but eloquent; it is common, but it is unique. We find no such history elsewhere; there are no records in all the wide world in which we can discover so much that is suggestive, so much that is pathetic and impressive. [ Joseph Anderson ]

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 ]