Good wine needs no bush. [ Proverb ]
Good wine needs no brandy. [ Amer. Proverb ]
Your play needs no excuse. [ William Shakespeare ]
Kindness is wisdom.
There is none in life
But needs it and may learn. [ Bailey ]
A good face needs no paint. [ Proverb ]
Good right needs good help. [ Dutch Proverb ]
He must needs swim,
That is held up by the chin. [ Proverb ]
Faith needs her daily bread. [ Georgiana M. Craik ]
Much rust needs a rough file. [ Proverb ]
It needs the overflow of heart
To give the lips full speech.
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world's famine feed; [ Horatius Bonar ]
Good coral needs no colouring. [ Proverb ]
A crafty knave needs no broker. [ Proverb quoted in Hen. VI ]
Art needs no spur beyond itself. [ Victor Hugo ]
Needs must when the devil drives. [ Scotch Proverb ]
It needs brains to be a real fool. [ George MacDonald ]
A dull ass near home needs no spur. [ Proverb ]
I live for those who love me.
For those who know me true,
For the heavens that bend above me.
And await my spirit too;
For the cause that needs assistance.
For the wrongs that lack resistance,
For the future in the distance.
And the good that I can do. [ Thomas Guthrie ]
True coral needs no painter's brush. [ Proverb ]
A good conscience needs never sneak. [ Proverb ]
A guilty conscience needs no accuser. [ Proverb ]
He needs little advice that is lucky. [ Proverb ]
In a narrow circle the mind contracts,
Man grows with his expanded needs. [ Schiller ]
Honesty needs no disguise or ornament. [ Otway ]
Be sure they sleep not whom God needs. [ Robert Browning ]
He must needs go whom the devil drives. [ Proverb ]
A queen devoid of beauty is not queen;
She needs the royalty of beauty's mien. [ Victor Hugo ]
The effect speaks, the tongue needs not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Religion, if in heavenly truths attired,
Needs only to be seen to be admired. [ Cowper ]
Allow not nature more than nature needs. [ William Shakespeare ]
Honesty needs no pains to set itself off. [ Edward Moore ]
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. [ Alexander Pope ]
An old fox needs not to be taught tricks. [ Proverb ]
The soul needs few things, the body many. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Nature needs little; opinion exacts much.
He that needs five thousand pound to live,
Is full as poor as he that needs but five. [ George Herbert ]
He that will not be saved needs no sermon. [ Proverb ]
A little ship needs not but a little sail. [ Proverb ]
Her polished limbs,
Veiled in a simple robe, their best attire,
Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. [ Thomson ]
When better cherries are not to be had.
We needs must take the seeming best of bad. [ Daniel ]
Where no fault is there needs no punishment. [ Proverb ]
All life needs for life is possible to will. [ Tennyson ]
He that serves well needs not ask his wages. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that deals in the world needs four sieves. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that is carried down the stream needs not row. [ Proverb ]
Great actions crown themselves with lasting bays;
Who well deserves needs not another's praise. [ Heath ]
Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. [ James Thomson ]
There needs a long time to know the world's pulse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One trick needs a great many more to make it good. [ Proverb ]
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. [ Hawthorne ]
He needs no foil, but shines by his own proper light. [ John Dryden ]
Who hath a wolf for his mate, needs a dog for his man. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that would be well needs not go from his own house. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A gallant man needs no trumpets and drums to rouse him. [ Proverb ]
A good face needs no band, and a bad one deserves none. [ Proverb ]
He is rich enough that needs neither flatter nor borrow. [ Proverb ]
Justice needs not injury to assist it in getting its own. [ Proverb ]
He that gains well and spends well needs no account-book. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The human soul needs to be mated to develop all its value. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner. [ Hosea Ballou ]
The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Truth needs not many words; but a false tale, a large preamble. [ Proverb ]
A short man needs no stool to give a long lubber a box on the ear. [ Proverb ]
An innocent man needs no eloquence; his innocence is instead of it. [ Ben Jonson ]
He needs a long spoon who eats out of the same dish with the devil. [ Proverb ]
Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate?
What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely? [ Lowell ]
He that will have a cake of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. [ William Shakespeare ]
Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has for its first duty to forgive. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]
France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers. [ Napoleon I ]
The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it. [ Beecher ]
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry. [ Calderon ]
Style is the gossamer on which the needs of truth float through the world. [ Bancroft ]
Charity ever finds in the act reward, and needs no trumpet in the receiver. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone. [ Ouida ]
There needs a long apprenticeship, to understand the mystery of the world's trade. [ Proverb ]
He who has reason and good sense at his command needs few of the arts of the orator. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind find tide. [ Shakespeare ]
Some women need much adorning, as some meat needs much seasoning to incite appetite. [ Rochebrune ]
The true poetic soul needs but to be struck, and the sounds it yields will be music. [ Carlyle ]
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. [ Herbert ]
Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected. [ William Shakespeare ]
A soul only needs to see a smile in a white-crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams. [ Victor Hugo ]
He who loves, as well as he who dies, needs no other wing by which to soar from earth to heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors. [ Aaron Hill ]
Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the minds eye to read its oracles. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
What is really beautiful needs no adorning. We do not grind down the pearl upon a polishing stone. [ Sataka ]
When a great man strikes out into a sudden irregularity, he needs not question the respect of a retinue. [ Collier ]
To do good needs no consideration; it is doubt that makes good evil. Don't reflect; do good as you feel. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen. [ Jean Paul ]
There needs not strength to he added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
God alone is entirely exempt from all want: of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine. [ 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 ]
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Art needs solitude or misery or passion. Lukewarm zephyrs wilt it. It is a rock-flower flourishing by stormy blasts and in stony soil. [ Alex. Dumas ]
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition. [ Emerson ]
Fine speeches are the instruments of fools or knaves, who use them when they want good sense; but honesty needs no disguise or ornament. [ Otway ]
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
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 ]
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 ]
It is as absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music. [ Balzac ]
Is thy friend angry with thee? Then provide him an opportunity of showing thee a great favor. Over that his heart must needs melt, and he will love thee again. [ Richter ]
Those eyes, soft and capricious as a cloudless sky, whose azure depth their color emulates, must needs be conversant with upward looks - prayer's voiceless service. [ Wordsworth ]
That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do. [ John Ruskin ]
Truth is always consistent with itself and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. [ Tillotson ]
Nature has given to each one all that as a man he needs, which it is the business of education to develop, if, as most frequently happens, it does not develop better of itself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies. [ Beecher ]
When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom. [ Horace Mann ]
Let your sleep be necessary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time, beyond the needs and conveniences of nature; and sometimes be curious to see the preparation which the sun makes when he is coming forth from his chambers of the east. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial, but at least it is not so superficial as thought. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
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 ]
It is the nature of man to be proud, when man by nature hath nothing to be proud of. He more adorneth the creature than he adoreth the Creator; and makes not only his belly his god, but his body. I am ashamed of their glory whose glory is their shame. If nature will needs have me to be proud of something, I will be proud only of this, that I am proud of nothing. [ Arthur Warwick ]
The language of the heart - the language which comes from the heart
and goes to the heart
- is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language - difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied. [ Bovee ]
If I were to choose the people with whom I would spend my hours of conversation, they should be certainly such as labored no further than to make themselves readily and clearly apprehended, and would have patience and curiosity to understand me. To have good sense and ability to express it are the most essential and necessary qualities in companions. When thoughts rise in us fit to utter among familiar friends, there needs but very little care in clothing them. [ Steele ]