Truths that wake,
To perish never. [ Wordsworth ]
An old nought
Will never be ought. [ Proverb ]
The king never dies. [ Law ]
Alms never make poor. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A cracked bell
Can never sound well. [ Proverb ]
Never to old to learn. [ Proverb ]
Law dies; books never. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Truth never grows old. [ Proverb ]
A good man never dies. [ Callimachus ]
Offenders never pardon. [ Proverb ]
Virtue never grows old. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Two cats and one mouse,
Two wives in one house,
Two dogs at one bone,
Can never agree in one. [ Proverb ]
Better once than never. [ Italian Proverb ]
A lover is never wrong. [ Balzac ]
A bad thing never dies. [ Proverb ]
Better late than never. [ Proverb ]
Success is never blamed. [ Proverb ]
The soul never grows old [ Longfellow ]
A coward never forgives. [ Sterne ]
Ill ware is never cheap. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Never was bad woman fair. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Persevere and never fear. [ Proverb ]
A man can never thrive
Who hath a wasteful wife. [ Proverb ]
Hunger is never delicate. [ Dr. John ]
Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her. [ Wordsworth ]
Almost never killed a fly. [ German Proverb ]
Naught is never in danger. [ Proverb ]
The imagination never dies. [ Stedman ]
Men meet; mountains, never. [ Lewis Cass ]
The highway is never about. [ Proverb ]
A dumb man never gets land. [ Proverb ]
Women's work is never done. [ Proverb ]
True blue will never stain. [ Proverb ]
The heart is never neutral. [ Shaftesbury ]
March grass never did good. [ Proverb ]
Beauty is never a delusion. [ Hawthorne ]
The offender never pardons. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He runs far who never turns. [ Italian Proverb ]
Esteem never makes ingrates. [ Rochefoucauld ]
A womans work is never done. [ Proverb ]
Long jesting was never good. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A wilful man never wants wo. [ Proverb ]
Divine grace was never slow. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A lie never lives to be old. [ Sophocles ]
Who will not lay up a penny,
Shall never have many. [ Proverb ]
Drought never brought dearth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Love never desires a partner. [ Proverb ]
Love too late can never glow. [ Keble ]
Higher than the perfect song,
For which love longeth,
Is the tender fear of wrong,
That never wrongeth. [ Bayard Taylor ]
True wit never made us laugh. [ Emerson ]
Early up, and never the near. [ Proverb ]
A bad dog never sees the wolf. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
We can never replace a friend. [ Schleiermacher ]
Sentiment is never lascivious. [ Mirabeau ]
He who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.
But he who is in battle slain,
Can never rise to fight again. [ Goldsmith ]
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent. [ William Shakespeare ]
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt, I love. [ William Shakespeare ]
Evil tongues never want a whet. [ Le Sage ]
Beggars can never be bankrupts. [ Proverb ]
An old wrinkle never wears out. [ Proverb ]
Two of a trade can never agree. [ Gay ]
Revolutions never go backwards. [ Emerson ]
The lion's skin is never cheap. [ Proverb ]
Ill natures never want a tutor. [ Proverb ]
Good bees never turn to drones. [ Proverb ]
Our own opinion is never wrong. [ Proverb ]
Far shooting never killed bird. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Never trade certainty for hope. [ Proverb ]
Lost time is never found again. [ Proverb ]
Genius can never despise labor. [ Abel Stevens ]
Good counsel never comes amiss. [ Proverb ]
And still be doing, never done. [ Butler ]
Oh, no! we never mention her;
Her name is never heard;
My lips are now forbid to speak
That once familiar word. [ T. H. Bayly ]
Never does a wilder song
Steal the breezy lyre along,
When the wind in odors dying,
Wooes it with enamored sighing. [ Moore ]
A fool's head never grows grey. [ Proverb ]
An ape is never so like an ape,
As when he wears a doctor's cap. [ Proverb ]
Revenge never repairs an injury. [ Proverb ]
The rich never want for kindred. [ Proverb ]
The never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]
Here lies the body of John Mound
Lost at sea and never found. [ Epitaph ]
Envy never yet enriched any man. [ Proverb ]
Faint heart never won fair lady. [ Proverb ]
General Taylor never surrenders. [ Thos. L. Crittenden ]
My pen was never dipped in gall. [ Crébillon ]
Never the rose without the thorn. [ Robert Herrick ]
Round the world, but never in it. [ Proverb of sailors ]
Of idleness never comes any good. [ Proverb ]
Courage never to submit or yield. [ Milton ]
Impatience never gets preferment. [ Proverb ]
Never had ill workman good tools. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
They always talk who never think. [ Prior ]
Had we never loved sae kindly,
Had we never loved sae blindly,
Never met or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted! [ Burns ]
Silence never makes any blunders. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Wounds given to honor never heal. [ Corneille ]
Fair words never break a bone,
Foul words have broke many a one. [ Proverb ]
The beautiful is never plentiful. [ Emerson ]
Busy-bodies never want a bad day. [ Proverb ]
Cap in hand never harmed any one. [ Italian Proverb ]
Never answer an anonymous letter. [ Yogi Berra ]
Nature never writes a blind hand. [ T. Starr King ]
Man's work lasts till set of sun;
Woman's work is never done. [ Proverb ]
Borrowed garments never sit well. [ Proverb ]
The comforter's head never aches. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The choleric man never wants woe. [ 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 ]
Wranglers are never in the wrong. [ Proverb ]
Never a barrel the better herring. [ Proverb ]
No man can lose what he never had. [ Izaak Walton ]
The morning sun never lasts a day. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The poetry of earth is never dead. [ Keats ]
Thought is deeper than all speech.
Feeling deeper than all thought;
Souls to souls can never teach
What unto themselves was taught. [ C. P. Cranch ]
They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think. [ Prior ]
Insist on yourself. Never imitate. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A constant guest is never welcome. [ Proverb ]
Chare-folks are never paid enough. [ Proverb ]
Dark eyes - eternal soul of pride!
Deep life in all that's true!
Away, away to other skies!
Away over seas and sands!
Such eyes as those were never made
To shine in other lands. [ Leland ]
I never saw an eye so bright,
And yet so soft as hers;
It sometimes swam in liquid light.
And sometimes swam in tears;
It seemed a beauty set apart
For softness and for signs. [ Mrs. Welby ]
Ill-gotten wealth is never stable. [ Euripides ]
It is the empiric who never fails. [ Willmott ]
Clever tyrants are never punished. [ Voltaire ]
Oh, may I with myself agree,
And never covet what I see.
Content me with an humble shade,
My passions tamed, my wishes laid;
For, while our wishes wildly roll.
We banish quiet from the soul.
It is thus the busy beat the air,
And misers gather wealth and care. [ Dyer ]
A tale never loses in the telling. [ Proverb ]
He that on pilgrimages goeth ever,
Becometh holy late or never. [ Proverb ]
So obliging that he never obliged. [ Pope ]
Be our joy three-parts pain!
Strive, and hold cheap the strain;
Learn, nor account the pang;
Dare, never grudge the throe! [ Browning ]
The unspoken word never does harm. [ Kossuth ]
There is never any cake,
But there is some of the same make. [ Proverb ]
Ignorance never settles a question. [ Beaconsfield ]
One can never outlive one's vanity. [ Lady Montagu ]
He that grows worse was never good. [ Proverb ]
I will never keep a dog to bite me. [ Proverb ]
Pension never enriched a young man. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Great men never require experience. [ Beaconsfield ]
It is a long lane that never turns. [ Proverb ]
He that seeks trouble never misses. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that pays last never pays twice. [ Proverb ]
Beggars never are out of their way. [ Proverb ]
Fools are stubborn in their way,
As coins are hardened by the allay;
And obstinacy's never so stiff
As when 'tis in a wrong belief. [ Butler ]
Into contradicting
Be thou never led away;
When with the ignorant they strive,
The wise to folly fall away. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more!
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. [ Percy ]
Constant complaints never get pity. [ Proverb ]
A lost good name is never retrieved [ Gay ]
For those that fly may fight again.
Which he can never do that's slain. [ Butler ]
Vice must never plead prescription. [ Proverb ]
Alas! the praise given to the ear
Never was nor never can be sincere. [ Miss Landon ]
It is ever thus with happiness;
It is the gay tomorrow of the mind,
That never comes. [ Proctor ]
You have found what was never lost. [ Proverb ]
Babbling curs never want sore ears. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Pardon others often, thyself never. [ Publius Syrus ]
Brave actions never want a trumpet. [ Proverb ]
Fine cloth is never out of fashion. [ Proverb ]
Sluggards are never great scholars. [ Proverb ]
Never morning wore
To evening but some heart did break. [ Tennyson ]
A friend is never known till needed. [ Proverb ]
Oh, no! My heart can never be
Again in lightest hopes the same;
The love that lingers there for thee
Hath more of ashes than of flame. [ Miss Landon ]
Home is home, be it never so homely. [ Proverb ]
The guard dies but never surrenders. [ Rougemont ]
A good conscience needs never sneak. [ Proverb ]
Never too old to learn what is good. [ Proverb ]
Bad is never good till worse befall. [ Danish Proverb ]
Wit should be wit. but never satire. [ Madame La Rochejaquelein ]
A mewing cat is never a good mouser. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Necessity never made a good bargain. [ Franklin ]
A crafty fellow never has any peace. [ Proverb ]
How blest the humble cotter's fate!
He woos his simple dearie;
The silly bogles, wealth, and state,
Can never make them eerie. [ Burns ]
And the Raven, never flitting.
Still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas
Just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming
Of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamplight over him streaming
Throws his shadow on the floor.
And my soul from out that shadow,
That lies floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted - nevermore. [ Poe ]
An ill paymaster never wants excuse. [ Proverb ]
And better had they never been born.
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. [ Scott ]
One never loses by doing good turns. [ Proverb ]
Live, live today; tomorrow never yet
On any human being rose or set. [ Marsden ]
A bad workman never gets a good tool. [ Proverb ]
Fools never understand people of wit. [ Vauvenargues ]
A man of courage never wants weapons. [ Proverb ]
A good paymaster never wants workmen. [ Proverb ]
You never do it without overdoing it. [ Proverb ]
Vain-glory blossoms, but never bears. [ Proverb ]
An upbraided morsel never choked any. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Forgive others often, yourself never. [ Syrus ]
Drought never bred dearth in England. [ Proverb ]
Gold - the picklock that never fails. [ Massinger ]
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook
Unless the deed go with it. [ Shakespeare ]
Alas by some degree of woe,
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can never a transport know,
That never feels a pain. [ Lord Lyttleton ]
It is never permissible to say I say
. [ Mme. Necker ]
He never is crowned
With immortality, who fears to follow
Where airy voices lead. [ Keats ]
The envious will die, but envy never. [ Moliere ]
The coward never on himself relies,
But to an equal for assistance flies. [ Crabbe ]
The poetry of earth is ceasing never. [ Keats ]
Except wind stands as it never stood
It is an ill wind turns none to good. [ Thomas Tusser ]
He who is born a fool is never cured. [ Proverb ]
For never, never wicked man was wise. [ Homer ]
Nature never gives everything at once. [ Johnson ]
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise,
Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. [ William Congreve ]
The fox may grow grey, but never good. [ Proverb ]
Friends may meet, but mountains never. [ Proverb ]
Grandfather's servants are never good. [ Proverb ]
Borrowed garments never keep one warm. [ Lowell ]
Honest men marry soon, wise men never. [ Scotch ]
You cackle often but never lay an egg. [ Proverb ]
He runs far indeed that never returns. [ Proverb ]
He stands not surely that never slips. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
An ill conscience can never hope well. [ Proverb ]
And let us mind, faint heart never wan
A lady fair. [ Burns ]
Here lies the body of Jonathan Ground,
Who was lost at sea and never found. [ Epitaph ]
Our necessities never equal our wants. [ Franklin ]
Then never less alone than when alone. [ Samuel Rogers ]
God never forsakes the stout of heart. [ Körner ]
An old man never wants a tale to tell. [ Proverb ]
Sour grapes can never make sweet wine. [ Proverb ]
Love is the bond which never corrodes. [ Dr. Parker ]
Who never climbed high never fell low. [ Proverb ]
An hypocrite never thoroughly repents. [ Proverb ]
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure,
It is good to marry late or never. [ Proverb ]
A good bone never falls to a good dog. [ French Proverb ]
Nature and wisdom never are at strife. [ Juvenal ]
I'll never keep a dog and bark myself. [ Proverb ]
He alone is blessed who never was born. [ Prior ]
He that never thinks never can be wise. [ Johnson ]
The deeds of men never escape the gods. [ Ovid ]
Reproof never does a wise man any harm. [ Proverb ]
Generosity should never exceed ability. [ Cicero ]
He that never thinks can never be wise. [ Johnson ]
He'll never do right, nor suffer wrong. [ Proverb ]
Riches are often abused, never refused. [ Danish Proverb ]
Never rub your eye but with your elbow. [ Proverb ]
Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him never make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe. [ Schiller ]
Never tell your resolution before hand. [ John Selden ]
Two whores in a house will never agree. [ Proverb ]
An ass was never cut out for a lap-dog. [ Proverb ]
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. [ Lowell ]
A book is a friend that never deceives. [ Pixerecourt ]
By time and counsel do the best we can:
The event is never in the power of man. [ Herrick ]
There never was night that had no morn. [ D. M. Mulock ]
Never anger made good guard for itself. [ William Shakespeare ]
You are never pleased, full nor fasting. [ Proverb ]
Folly is never long pleased with itself. [ Proverb ]
You are afraid of the dog you never saw. [ Proverb ]
He only is secret who never was trusted. [ Congreve ]
Listeners never hear good of themselves. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Land was never lost for want of an heir. [ Proverb ]
The wise for cure on exercise depend:
God never made His work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]
That bolt never came out of your quiver. [ Proverb ]
The laws sometimes sleep, but never die. [ Law Maxim ]
Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers
Will never make grow againe. [ Thos. Percy ]
True happiness never entered at an eye;
True happiness resides in things unseen. [ Young ]
Music is like the spirit; it never dies. [ W. Shield ]
Dogs that bark at a distance never bite. [ Proverb ]
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. [ J. Roux ]
Prayer flies where the eagle never flew. [ Thomas Guthrie ]
He makes no friend who never made a foe. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
God never made His work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]
What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield. [ Milton ]
He never was good, neither egg nor bird. [ Proverb ]
One crow never pulls out another's eyes. [ Proverb ]
Taste may change, but inclination never. [ La Roche ]
When a man's life is under debate,
The judge can never too long deliberate. [ Dryden ]
Oh! never breathe a dead one's name,
When those who loved that one are nigh;
It pours a lava through the frame
That chokes the breast and fills the eye. [ Eliza Cook ]
To me at least was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day. [ Robert Browning ]
His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home. [ William Cowper ]
A mediocre speech can never be too short. [ Mme. de Lambert ]
Personal force never goes out of fashion.
Virtue's office never breaks men's troth. [ William Shakespeare ]
The face that cannot smile is never fair. [ Martial ]
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own, my native land?" [ Scott ]
He that always complains is never pitied. [ Proverb ]
Weep no more, lady, weep no more.
Thy sorrow is in vain;
For violets plucked, the sweetest showers
Will never make grow again. [ Percy ]
Courtesy on one side can never last long. [ Proverb ]
Oh, only a free soul will never grow old! [ Jean Paul Richter ]
The golden age never was the present age. [ Proverb ]
I'll never brew drink to treat drunkards. [ Proverb ]
God never sends mouths but he sends meat. [ Proverb ]
Oh, say! what is that thing called light,
Which I must never enjoy?
What are the blessings of the sight?
Oh, tell your poor blind boy! [ Colley Cibber ]
The tongue of idle persons is never idle. [ Proverb ]
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives;
But, though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives. [ George Herbert ]
He who was never sick dies the first fit. [ Proverb ]
Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere;
'Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere;
'Tis never to be bought, but always free. [ Pope ]
A merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal,
His eye begets occasion for his wit;
For every object that the one doth catch,
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. [ William Shakespeare ]
Truth may languish, but can never perish. [ Proverb ]
Carrion kites will never make good hawks. [ Proverb ]
Always be in haste, but never in a hurry. [ J. Wesley ]
I am never merry when I hear sweet music. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that seeks trouble never misses of it. [ Proverb ]
Ill will never speaks well nor does well. [ Proverb ]
Better never begin than never make an end. [ Proverb ]
Envy and covetousness are never satisfied. [ Proverb ]
There never was a good war or a bad peace. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
This blustering can never untile my house. [ Proverb ]
A foe to God was never true friend to man;
Some sinister intent taints all he does. [ Young ]
Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder. [ Bentham ]
As good never a whit, as never the better. [ Proverb ]
War never leaves, where it found a nation. [ Burke ]
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. [ William Shakespeare ]
The way to be safe, is never to be secure. [ Proverb ]
The early sower never borrows of the late. [ Proverb ]
Gamesters and race-horses never last long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
How wretched is the man who never mourned! [ Young ]
He who does all he can do never does well. [ Italian Proverb ]
Never was a scornful person well received. [ Proverb ]
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor. [ William Shakespeare ]
Thou art a plant sprung up to wither never
But like a laurel, to grow green forever. [ Herrick ]
I have never occupied myself with trifles. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Never spend your money before you have it.
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees!
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play! [ Whittier ]
Never show your teeth unless you can bite. [ Proverb ]
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearfuL [ William Shakespeare ]
Honest men never have the love of a rogue. [ Proverb ]
Beauty loses its relish; the graces never. [ Henry Home ]
You can never plan the future by the past. [ Burke ]
Mystery of waters, - never slumbering sea! [ Montgomery ]
He had never kindly heart
Nor ever cared to better his own kind,
Who first wrote satire with no pity in it. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
He jests at scars that never felt a wound. [ Shakespeare ]
Lips never err when wisdom keeps the door. [ Delaune ]
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. [ William M. Thackeray ]
The black ox never yet trod upon your feet. [ Proverb ]
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back. [ Ben Jonson ]
Silence is a friend that will never betray. [ Confucius ]
For never yet one hour in his bed
Have I enjoyed the golden dew of sleep,
But have been waked by his timorous dreams. [ William Shakespeare ]
Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves;
Britons never shall be slaves. [ Thomson ]
More strange than true, I never may believe
These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. [ William Shakespeare ]
Perfect love never settled in a light head. [ Proverb ]
Bliss in possession will not last;
Remember'd joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea.
They were, - they are, - they yet shall be. [ Montgomery ]
He never yet stood sure that stands secure. [ Quarles ]
Characters are developed, and never change. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Never the grave gives back what it has won! [ Schiller ]
Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done. [ William Shakespeare ]
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, however contented, never know. [ Cowper ]
Tears may be dried up, but the heart never. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
She is as constant as the stars
That never vary, and more chaste than they. [ Proctor ]
Tomorrow; never yet was born
In earth's dull atmosphere a thing so fair
Never tripped, with footsteps light as air,
So glad a vision over the hills of morn. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]
Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive. [ Lamartine ]
We are never deceived we deceive ourselves. [ Goethe ]
I was never less alone than when by myself. [ Edward Gibbon ]
Silence is a true friend who never betrays. [ Confucius ]
Man makes a death, which nature never made. [ Young ]
But words once spoke can never be recalled. [ Wentworth Dillon ]
The night is long that never finds the day. [ Macbeth ]
A carrion kite will never make a good hawk. [ Proverb ]
You can never speech courage into a coward. [ Proverb ]
Nature never made us for play and pleasure. [ Proverb ]
Reason deceives us often; conscience never. [ Rousseau ]
Deeply regretted by all who never knew him. [ Miscellaneous epitaph ]
Be you never so high, the law is above you. [ Proverb ]
Never choose linen or women by candle-light. [ Proverb ]
Wisdom and Goodness are twin born, one heart
Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. [ Cowper ]
The voice of an ass will never reach heaven. [ Proverb ]
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;
Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
The absurd man is the man who never changes. [ Belmontet ]
You are like a hog, never good while living. [ Proverb ]
The sun has stood still, but time never did. [ Proverb ]
Your belly will never let your back be warm. [ Proverb ]
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm in the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek. [ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 4 ]
It is a fortunate head that was never broke. [ Proverb ]
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. [ William Shakespeare ]
Reason has never mastered an ardent passion. [ Regnier ]
Here lies the body of Sarah Sexton,
Who as a wife did never vex one.
We can't say that for her at the next stone. [ Epitaph ]
We never forget what we learn with pleasure. [ Alfred Mercier ]
Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
Nothing so hard but search will find it out. [ Herrick ]
Would, no, I thank you, had never been made. [ Proverb ]
We never forget, though there we are forgot. [ Byron ]
Beard was never the true standard of brains. [ Fuller ]
Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold. [ Pope ]
A dog that barks much is never a good hunter. [ Portuguese Proverb ]
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly. [ Montesquieu ]
Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet
Could rule them both without ten women's wit. [ William Shakespeare ]
He, who would free from malice pass his days,
Must live obscure, and never merit praise. [ Gay ]
Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news; give to a gracious message
An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt. [ William Shakespeare ]
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. [ John Webster ]
Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one. [ Herrick ]
Genius must be born, and never can be taught. [ John Dryden ]
Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved. [ Lamb ]
You seek the needle where you never stuck it. [ Proverb ]
Friday night's dreams on Saturday told
Are sure to come true - be they never so old. [ Old Sayings ]
The sluggard's convenient season never comes. [ Proverb ]
The beast that goes always never wants blows. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
In prayer the lips never act the winning part
Without the sweet concurrence of the heart. [ Herrick ]
Ambition is a lust that's never quenched,
Grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment. [ Otway ]
Taste has never been corrupted bj simplicity. [ Joubert ]
Flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone, thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. [ Milton ]
The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. [ Pope ]
Better to hunt in fields for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise for cure on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]
Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]
A guilty conscience never thinks itself safe. [ Proverb ]
He who is the offender is never the forgiver. [ Proverb ]
Zounds! I was never so be thumped with words
Since I first called my brother's father dad. [ William Shakespeare, King John, Act II. Sc.1 ]
Ah me! for aught that ever I could read ...
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]
Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteemed;
But honesty once pawned is never redeemed. [ Middleton ]
The heart that once truly loves never forgets. [ Proverb ]
Women, priests, and poultry have never enough. [ Proverb ]
Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind;
His soul proud science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way;
Yet simple nature to his hope has given,
Behind the cloud-topt hills, a humbler heaven. [ Pope ]
The wise man changes his mind, the fool never. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Who waits until the winds shall silent keep,
Will never have the ready hour to sow;
Who watcheth clouds will have no time to reap. [ Helen Hunt Jackson ]
Who ceases to be a friend, never was a friend.
He hath never a cross to bless himself withal. [ Proverb ]
You shall never clap a padlock upon my tongue. [ Proverb ]
You will never get your revenge of a rich man. [ Proverb ]
Who never doubted never half believed,
Where doubt, there truth is - 'tis her shadow. [ Bailey ]
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. [ Chapman ]
Reason deceives us often, - conscience, never.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [ Jean J. Rousseau ]
Sweet letters of the angel tongue,
I've loved ye long and well.
And never have failed in your fragrance sweet
To find some secret spell -
A charm that has bound me with witching power,
For mine is the old belief,
That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,
There's a soul in every leaf! [ M. M. Ballou ]
You can never be wise unless you love reading. [ Johnson ]
You can never by persistency make wrong right. [ Johnson ]
The surest road to health, say what they will,
Is never to suppose we shall be ill. [ Churchill ]
Never durst poet touch a pen to write
Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV. Sc. 3 ]
Dogs never go into mourning when a horse dies. [ Proverb ]
God never shuts one door but He opens another. [ Irish Proverb ]
Let those love now who never loved before,
Let those that always loved now love the more. [ Parnell ]
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoken can never be recalled. [ Roscommon ]
Happiness never lays its fingers on its pulse. [ A. Smith ]
Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. [ Sir J. Harrington ]
Type of the wise who soar, but never roam,
True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home. [ Wordsworth ]
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. [ Thoreau ]
Men may become old, but they never become good. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
If you are wise, and prize your peace of mind,
Believe me true, nor listen to your Jealousy,
Let not that devil which undoes your sex,
That cursed curiosity seduce you
To hunt for needless secrets, which, neglected,
Shall never hurt your quiet, but once known
Shall sit upon your heart, pinch it with pain,
And banish sweet sleep forever from you. [ Rowe ]
My people too were scared with eerie sounds,
A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls,
A noise of falling weights that never fell.
Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand.
Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door.
And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;
And one betwixt the dark and light had seen
Her, bending by the cradle of her babe. [ Tennyson ]
To die is landing on some silent shore.
Where billows never break nor tempests roar;
Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis over. [ Sir Samuel Garth ]
That anxious torture may I never feel,
Which doubtful, watches over a wandering heart.
O, who that bitter torment can reveal.
Or tell the pining anguish of that smart! [ Byron ]
He lies there who never feared the face of man. [ The Earl of Morton at John Knox's grave ]
He that follows Nature is never out of his way. [ Proverb ]
The heavenly powers never go out of their road. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A wise man is never less alone than when alone. [ Proverb ]
That evil can never be great which is the last. [ Cornelius Nepos ]
Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought. [ William Shakespeare ]
They say women and music should never be dated. [ Goldsmith ]
We are never like angels till our passion dies. [ Thomas Dekker ]
Never give up! or the burden may sink you,
Providence wisely has mingled the cup;
And in all trials and troubles bethink you,
The watchword of life should be, Never give up! [ M. F. Tupper ]
Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]
I have a passion for the name of Mary,
For once it was a magic sound to me,
And still it half calls up the realms of fairy.
Where I beheld what never was to be. [ Byron ]
Honest water, which never left man in the mire. [ William Shakespeare ]
The wages of a good workman are never too high. [ French Proverb ]
And genius hath electric power,
Which earth can never tame;
Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower -
Its flash is still the same. [ Lydia M. Child ]
Love strikes one hour - love. Those never loved
Who dream that they loved once. [ Elizabeth B. Browning ]
He who rises late never does a good day's work. [ Proverb ]
Take heart of grace, younger you shall never be. [ Proverb ]
The right of inheritance never lineally ascends. [ Law ]
Do you never think what wondrous beings these?
Do you never think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man ever caught! [ Longfellow ]
Innocence and mystery never dwell long together. [ Madame Necker ]
There is nothing can equal the tender hours
When life is first in bloom,
When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
Finds everywhere perfume;
When the present is all and it questions not
If those flowers shall pass away,
But pleased with its own delightful lot,
Dreams never of decay. [ Bohn ]
Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady never could win. [ Spenser ]
New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous.
Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are followed. [ William Shakespeare ]
The soul, immortal as its sire, shall never die. [ Montgomery ]
You will never be mad, you are of so many minds. [ Proverb ]
You can never make a good shaft of a pig's tail. [ Proverb ]
Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. [ Proverb ]
So wise, so young, they say, do never live long. [ William Shakespeare ]
Those dreams, that on the silent night intrude,
And with false flitting shades our minds delude,
Jove never sends us downward from the skies;
Nor can they from infernal mansions rise;
But are all mere productions of the brain,
And fools consult interpreters in vain. [ Swift ]
A wolf will never make war against another wolf. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run. [ Herbert ]
Dignity and love were never yet boon companions. [ Fielding ]
Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray,
Like the divining rods of Magi old,
Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,
But love - strong love, that never can decay! [ Park Benjamin ]
The stream can never rise above the spring-head. [ Proverb ]
Joy is an exchange.
Joy flies monopolies; it calls for two:
Rich fruit, heaven-planted, never plucked by one. [ Edward Young ]
Gardener, for telling me these news of woe.
Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. [ Shakespeare ]
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch
Is God's fair bride, and maidens' souls are such. [ Decker ]
Joy is an import; joy is an exchange;
Joy flies monopolists: it calls for two;
Rich fruit! Heaven planted! never plucked by one. [ Young ]
He that fears every bush must never go a birding. [ Proverb ]
Here lies Dame Dorothy Peg,
Who never had issue except in her leg,
So great was her art, so deep was her cunning,
That while one leg stood, the other kept running. [ Epitaph ]
Never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. [ Milton ]
Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. [ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar ]
An advantageous religion never wanted proselytes. [ Proverb ]
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. [ Thomas C. Haliburton ]
You will never repent of being patient and sober. [ Proverb ]
He that casts all doubts shall never be resolved. [ Proverb ]
Science seldom renders men amiable; women, never. [ Beauchene ]
Our generosity never should exceed our abilities. [ Cicero ]
You may be godly, but you would never be cleanly. [ Proverb ]
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
Thinks what never was, nor is, nor ever shall be. [ Pope ]
I see thou art implacable, more deaf
To prayers than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
Are reconciled at length, and sea to shore:
Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
Eternal tempest never to be calmed. [ Milton ]
And where we love is home.
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
The chain may lengthen, but it never parts. [ Holmes ]
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. [ Thoreau ]
His eloquence is classic in its style,
Not brilliant with explosive coruscations
Of heterogeneous thoughts, at random caught.
And scattered like a shower of shooting stars,
That end in darkness: no; - his noble mind
Is clear, and full, and stately, and serene.
His earnest and undazzled eye he keeps
Fixed on the sun of Truth, and breathes his words
As easily as eagles cleave the air,
And never pauses till the height is won;
And all who listen follow where he leads. [ Mrs. Hale ]
Foxes never fare better than when they are curst. [ Proverb ]
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream -
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere. [ Victor Hugo ]
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. [ Ruskin ]
I never could tread a single pleasure under foot. [ Browning ]
I never fared worse than when I wished for supper. [ Proverb ]
A dinner warmed up again was never worth anything. [ Boileau ]
You will never see anything worse than yourselves. [ Anon ]
Wranglers never want words though they may matter. [ Proverb ]
So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face. [ Yogi Berra ]
A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated. [ Lowell ]
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes.
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches never touched earthly faces. [ William Shakespeare ]
Be it never so humble, there's no place like home. [ J. H. Payne ]
Ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never located. [ Madame Sevigne ]
Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. [ Quarles ]
Oh, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!
To prison, eyes, never look on liberty!
Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;
And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier! [ William Shakespeare ]
Knavery may serve a turn, but honesty never fails. [ Proverb ]
The civilities of the great are never thrown away. [ Johnson ]
Crows are never the whiter for washing themselves. [ Proverb ]
He is the truly courageous man who never desponds. [ Confucius ]
Ever let the fancy roam; pleasure never is at home. [ Keats ]
Be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech. [ William Shakespeare ]
But words are words; I never yet did hear
That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear. [ William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I. Sc. 3 ]
The sea is flowing ever; the land retains it never. [ Goethe ]
He that banquets every day never makes a good meal. [ Proverb ]
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. [ John Wesley ]
He that ceases to be a friend never was a good one. [ Proverb ]
Never to use a long word when a short word will do. [ Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, English novelist and early feminist, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
A wise traveller never depreciates his own country. [ Goldoni ]
We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The death of a young wolf doth never come too soon. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
The wolf never wants for a pretense against a lamb. [ Proverb ]
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.
There never was a hero who did not have his bounds. [ Mark Twain, from his speech Courage ]
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
Love is never lasting which flames before it burns. [ Feltham ]
The age of divine fantasy is gone, never to return. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
We are never as happy, nor as unhappy, as we fancy. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
He that gets an estate will probably never spend it. [ Proverb ]
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. [ Sophocles ]
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. [ Proverb ]
When you see a snake, never mind where he came from. [ Proverb ]
I never asked you for wood to heat my own oven with. [ Proverb ]
It is an ill guest that never drinks to his hostess. [ Proverb ]
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
No! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved;
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [ William Shakespeare ]
And he that lives to live forever never fears dying. [ William Penn ]
His tongue goes always of errands, but never speeds. [ Proverb ]
A belly full of gluttony will never study willingly. [ Proverb ]
Never seek a wife till you know what to do with her. [ Proverb ]
He never knew pain who never felt the pangs of love. [ Platen ]
Truth dwells not in the clouds; the bow that's there
Doth often aim at, never hit the sphere. [ George Herbert ]
Things will never be bettered by an excess of haste. [ Proverb ]
An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow. [ Metastasio ]
Play may be good, but folly can never be of any use. [ Proverb ]
Gratitude once refused can never after be recovered. [ Goldsmith ]
Good kings never make war but for the sake of peace. [ Proverb ]
Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself. [ Sophocles ]
Who breathes must suffer; and who thinks, must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd, who never was born. [ Prior ]
Women sometimes deceive the lover - never the friend. [ L. S. Mercier ]
A man who makes no enemies is never a positive force. [ Simon Cameron ]
Never marry a widow, unless her first man was hanged. [ Proverb ]
The heart that had never loved was the first atheist. [ L. S. Mercier ]
A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can. [ Proverb ]
One is never criminal in obeying the voice of Nature. [ Balzac ]
One can never pay too high a price for any sensation. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
An old goat is never the more reverend for his beard. [ Proverb ]
Time past may be repented, but can never be recalled. [ Proverb ]
Wisdom never contemplates what will make a happy man. [ Aristotle ]
He that will not live a saint can never die a martyr. [ Proverb ]
The fire that does not warm me shall never scorch me. [ Proverb ]
Begone, old Care, and I prithee begone from me;
For in faith, old Care, thee and I shall never agree. [ Playford ]
The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill. [ Proverb ]
It is easy to keep a castle that was never assaulted. [ Proverb ]
Charity may be mistaken, but shall never be rewarded. [ Proverb ]
A deadly hatred, and a wound that can never be healed. [ Juv., on the effects of religious contention between neighbours ]
He that always makes God's will his, is never crossed. [ Proverb ]
The Alphabet Of Success
Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. [ John Keats, Endymion ]
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
We never live: we are always in expectation of living. [ Voltaire ]
He that looks too nicely into things never lives easy. [ Proverb ]
Wealth and honour can never cure a wounded conscience. [ Proverb ]
Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will. [ Whittier ]
The mill will never grind with the water that is past. [ Sarah Dowdney ]
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
Wherever an ass falls, there will he never fall again. [ Proverb ]
The fox's wiles will never enter into the lion's head. [ Proverb ]
A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful. [ George Eliot ]
We never can willingly offend where we sincerely love. [ Rowland Hill ]
The present is never a happy state to any human being; [ Dr. Johnson ]
The way to Babylon, will never bring you to Jerusalem. [ Proverb ]
Thank God, men that are greatly guilty are never wise. [ Burke ]
Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions. [ Joubert ]
A man is a man though he have never a cap to his crown. [ Proverb ]
The only impeccable authors are those that never wrote. [ Hazlitt ]
Temper is so good a thing that we should never lose it.
It is a strange wood that has never a dead bough in it. [ Proverb ]
You have good manners, but never carry them about you . [ Proverb ]
Hypocrites are a sort of creatures that God never made. [ Proverb ]
Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust. [ Madame Necker ]
Crooked by nature is never made straight by education.. [ Proverb ]
There never wants a ragged one, for one that is ripped. [ Proverb ]
He that knows what may be gained in a day never steals. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The wicked heart never fears God, but when it thunders. [ Proverb ]
We never know the worth of water, till the well is dry. [ Proverb ]
A house ready built never sells for so much as it cost. [ Proverb ]
I have never advocated war, except as a means of peace. [ U. S. Grant ]
Clever people never listen and stupid people never talk. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Women are never disarmed by compliments, men always are. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles. [ Burke ]
He that does you a very ill turn will never forgive you. [ Proverb ]
The hand never tires of writing when the heart dictates. [ De Finod ]
A man who can love deeply is never utterly contemptible. [ Balzac ]
He'll never have enough till his mouth is full of mould. [ Proverb ]
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
God, and parents, and our master, can never be requited. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his profession. [ Thackeray ]
Dead he is not, but departed - for the artist never dies. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]
This and better may do, but this and worse will never do. [ Proverb ]
He rode sure indeed that never caught a fall in his life. [ Proverb ]
Hearts with equal love combined kindle never-dying fires. [ Carew ]
Assassination has never changed the history of the world. [ Beaconsfield ]
Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers. [ Emerson ]
She that marries ill never wants something to say for it. [ Proverb ]
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. [ Washington Irving ]
He can never be God's martyr that is the devil's servant. [ Proverb ]
Freethinkers are generally those that never think at all. [ Laurence Sterne ]
Passion and deliberation never set their horses together. [ Proverb ]
Probably he who never made a mistake never made anything. [ Samuel Smiles ]
I will never stoop so low to take up just nothing at all. [ Proverb ]
Since you wronged me, you never had a good thought of me. [ Proverb ]
He is never alone who is accompanied with noble thoughts. [ Proverb ]
I never whisper'd a private affair
Within the hearing of cat or mouse,
No, not to myself in the closet alone,
But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house;
Everything came to be known. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
A wound never heals so well that the scar cannot be seen. [ Danish Proverb ]
Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool. [ Tennyson ]
A servant never yet miscarried through excess of respect. [ Proverb ]
Much better never to catch a rogue, than let him go again. [ Proverb ]
He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill. [ Proverb ]
Honest men are soon bound, but you can never bind a knave. [ Proverb ]
Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. [ Longfellow ]
Love extinguished can be rekindled: love worn out - never.
So light a foot will never wear out the everlasting flint. [ William Shakespeare ]
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. [ Lowell ]
They never saw great dainties that think a haggis a feast. [ Proverb ]
And never shall the sons of Columbia be slaves.
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. [ Robert Treat Paine ]
God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it. [ Ruskin ]
If a wise man should never miscarry, the fool would burst. [ Proverb ]
He that is disposed for mischief will never want occasion. [ Proverb ]
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [ Tacitus ]
An emmet may work its heart out, but can never make honey. [ Proverb ]
He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says Adieu.
[ J. G. Saxe ]
Many things grow in the garden that were never sowed there. [ Proverb ]
He'll never get a pennyworth that is afraid to ask a price. [ Proverb ]
The mind alone is in fault which can never fly from itself. [ Horace ]
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. [ William Penn ]
I never knew any man grow poor by keeping an orderly table. [ Lord Burleigh ]
Flesh never stands so high but a dog will venture his legs. [ Proverb ]
A bad woman is the sort of woman a man never gets tired of. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
The conquered is never called wise, nor the conqueror rash. [ Proverb ]
A joke never gains over an enemy, but often loses a friend. [ Proverb ]
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. [ Ward Beecher ]
Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection is never our lot. [ J. C. Weber ]
The devil is never nearer, than when we are talking of him. [ Proverb ]
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a death-bed. [ Pope ]
Never was cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore. [ Proverb ]
Trust not the world, for it never payeth that it promiseth. [ St. Augustine ]
You will never be master of gold enough to break your back. [ Proverb ]
We are ever young enough to sin, never old enough to repent. [ Proverb ]
The hog never looks up to him that threshes down the acorns. [ Proverb ]
Craft borders upon knavery; wisdom never uses, nor wants it. [ Proverb ]
There are some sorrows of which we should never be consoled. [ Mme. de Sevigni ]
God's power never produces what His goodness cannot embrace. [ South ]
Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person? [ Plautus ]
A fool may sometimes have talent, but he never has judgment. [ La Roche ]
Those that complain of every thing, never want the headache. [ Proverb ]
Never do an act of which you doubt the justice or propriety. [ Latin ]
Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps. [ Alexander Smith ]
He that will not suffer evil must never think of preferment. [ Proverb ]
We are never so happy, or unfortunate, as we think ourselves. [ Proverb ]
He will never get to heaven that desires to go thither alone. [ Proverb ]
I shall never turn my ninepence into a noble by this bargain. [ Proverb ]
A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound. [ Proverb ]
They are never alone who are accompanied with noble thoughts. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. [ Zimmermann ]
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike.
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. [ Balzac ]
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. [ Emerson ]
Let a man be never so wise, he may be caught with sober lies. [ Swift ]
Unpleasing errors are never so welcome as pleasing falsehoods. [ Proverb ]
That falls out sometimes in a day which never fell out before. [ Proverb ]
There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous. [ Confucius ]
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God will never. [ Cowper ]
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. [ Colton ]
Man never comprehends how anthropomorphic his conceptions are. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Apes are never more beasts, than when they wear men's clothes. [ Proverb ]
Witticisms never are agreeable, which are injurious to others. [ From the Latin ]
Plant the crab tree where you will it will never bear pippins. [ Proverb ]
The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many. [ Washington Allston ]
We are never happy: we can only remember that we were so once. [ Alexander Smith ]
Women never weep more bitterly than when they weep with spite. [ A. Ricard ]
How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened!
Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone. [ Hamerton ]
People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
He that will not stoop for a pin shall never be worth a point. [ Proverb ]
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. [ Schiller ]
He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. [ Proverb ]
He who is master of all opinions tan never be the bigot of any. [ W. R. Alger ]
Better never have been handsome when young, than ugly when old. [ Proverb ]
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Honesty may be dear bought, but can never be a dear pennyworth. [ Proverb ]
Call your husband cuckold in jest, and he'll never suspect you. [ Proverb ]
Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never. [ Pascal ]
Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. [ Suckling ]
Opposition, may inflame the enthusiast, but never converts him. [ Schiller ]
He's like a bagpipe, you never hear him till his belly is full. [ Proverb ]
He that gives to be seen would never relieve a man in the dark. [ Proverb ]
No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger. [ La Roche ]
Tie a dog to a crab-tree, and he will never love verjuice more. [ Proverb ]
All the passions die with the years; self-love alone never dies. [ Voltaire ]
Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward. [ Lowell ]
He never wrought a good day's work that went grumbling about it. [ Proverb ]
Time divided, is never long, and regularity abridges all things. [ Mme. De Stael ]
To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise. [ Goldsmith ]
Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it. [ William Shakespeare ]
Brain is always to be bought, but passion never comes to market. [ Lowell ]
He who is never guilty of follies is not so wise as he imagines. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Spaniels that fawn when beaten will never forsake their masters. [ Proverb ]
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him. [ Bayard Taylor ]
A husband is always a sensible man: he never thinks of marrying. [ A. Dumas pere ]
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. [ Hazlitt ]
That which is bred in the bone will never come out in the flesh. [ Proverb ]
I will never pretend esteem for a man whose principles I detest. [ Gustavus III. of Sweden ]
Industry will never do much, unless there be natural parts also. [ Proverb ]
He that works journey-work with the devil shall never want work. [ Proverb ]
Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason. [ Hazlitt ]
It is the flash that murders; the poor thunder never harm'd head. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. [ Burke ]
I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent. [ Publius Syrus ]
I never desired you to stumble at the stone that lies at my door. [ Proverb ]
He who cannot counterfeit a friend can never be a very bad enemy. [ Proverb ]
Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands. [ Lowell ]
Accident ever varies; substance can never suffer change or decay. [ Wm. Blake ]
The best work never was, nor ever will be, done for money at all. [ John Ruskin ]
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money. [ Proverb ]
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
That fire that does not warm me, I will never permit to scorch me. [ Proverb ]
I never saw a man die of hunger, but thousands die of overfeeding. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Ill-fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. [ Ben Jonson ]
Beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes plainest. [ Sterne ]
Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind. [ W. Allston ]
By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never." [ Cervantes ]
Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate. [ Waller ]
He that is uneasy at every little pain is never without some ache. [ Proverb ]
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. [ Wm. Ellery Channing ]
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. [ William Penn ]
Men never think their fortune too great, nor their wit too little. [ Proverb ]
The tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me. [ Tennyson ]
You will never have a friend if you must have one without failings. [ Proverb ]
We'll never know the worth of the water till the well has gone dry. [ Proverb ]
Since sorrow never comes too late. And happiness too swiftly flies. [ Gray ]
A real grief I never can find till thou provest perjured or unkind. [ Prior ]
Men never play the fool more, than by endeavouring to be otherwise. [ Proverb ]
The man who has never been in danger cannot answer for his courage. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Be a man!
Bear thine own burden; never think to thrust thy fate upon another. [ Robert Browning ]
A man with a running head never wants wherewith to trouble himself. [ Proverb ]
There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel. [ Henry W. Shaw ]
Master, master! news, old news, and such news as you never heard of. [ William Shakespeare ]
Wherever the devil makes a purchase, he never fails to set his mark. [ Goldsmith ]
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. [ Tennyson ]
Learning by study must be won 'Twas never entailed from sire to son. [ Gay ]
Some never think of what they say; others never say what they think. [ De Finod ]
Loquacity is the fistula of the soul, ever running, and never cured. [ Proverb ]
We never love heartily but once, and that is the first time we love. [ La Bruyere ]
Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error. [ Cyprian ]
He that minds not his own business shall never be trusted with mine. [ Proverb ]
When I wanted an honest man, I never thought to go to court for him. [ Proverb ]
He that listens after what people say of him shall never have peace. [ Proverb ]
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. [ St. Paul ]
The only way to be sure of not losing a child, is never to have any. [ Proverb ]
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Base natures,, if they find themselves suspected, will never be true. [ Proverb ]
By ever taking out and never putting in, one soon reaches the bottom. [ Spanish Proverb ]
You shall never beat the fly from the candle, though she burn for it. [ Proverb ]
Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned. [ Schiller ]
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest. [ Theophile Gautier ]
If you make not much of three-pence, you will never be worth a groat. [ Proverb ]
He that never took oar in his hand must not think scorn to be taught. [ Proverb ]
We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault. [ Proverb ]
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
For violets plucked, the sweetest showers will never make grow again. [ Byron ]
They that value not praise, will never do any thing worthy of praise. [ Proverb ]
Late repentance is seldom true, but true repentance is never too late. [ R. Venning ]
Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
A prison is never narrow when the imagination can range in it at will.
Who hath not known ill-fortune, never knew Himself, or his own virtue. [ Mallet ]
A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience. [ Horne ]
We never deceive for a good purpose; knavery adds malice to falsehood. [ Bruyere ]
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man. [ William M. Thackeray ]
I never hear of a great man, that I do not inquire who was his mother. [ J. Adams ]
Good conscience is sometimes sold for money, but never bought with it. [ Aughey ]
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. [ Proverb ]
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. [ Swift ]
Lovers are never tired of each other; they always speak of themselves. [ La Roche ]
Many have lived on a pedestal, who will never have a statue when dead. [ Beranger ]
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. [ Spurgeon ]
Weep for love, but not for anger; a cold rain will never bring flowers. [ Duncan ]
Death never happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives. [ La Bruyere ]
Even if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover. [ Lamennais ]
In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so much as brain. [ Lowell ]
The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone. [ Addison ]
Christ's gospel could never have been delivered by one who was diseased. [ John McC. Holmes ]
Good works will never save you, but you can never be saved without them. [ Proverb ]
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. [ Samuel Johnson ]
Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny. [ Fisher Ames ]
The spaniel that fawns when he is beaten, will never forsake his master. [ Proverb ]
One should always be in love: that is the reason one should never marry. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
It never rains roses; when we want more roses, we must plant more trees. [ George Eliot ]
It is a good friend that is always giving, though it be never so little. [ Proverb ]
Be the day short, or never so long,At length it ringeth to evening song. [ Heywood's Proverbs ]
Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow. [ Hippocrates ]
Never use a hammer to break an egg, when you can do it with a pen-knife. [ Proverb ]
Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself. [ Pascal ]
It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. [ Goethe ]
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. [ Lamartine ]
Marriage communicates to women the vices of men, but never their virtues. [ Fourier ]
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place. [ Landor ]
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. [ Gesser ]
Characters never change. Opinions alter, - characters are only developed. [ Disraeli ]
Great minds erect their never-failing trophies on the firm base of mercy. [ Massinger ]
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. [ Carlyle ]
Fortune never seems so blind as to those upon whom she confers no favors. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose. [ Southey ]
Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays. [ Roscommon ]
It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. [ Sir James Mackintosh ]
Though your water be never so muddy, do not say, I will never drink of it. [ Proverb ]
There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [ Goethe ]
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed. [ Goldsmith ]
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. [ Longfellow ]
You will never find
time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. [ Charles Buxton ]
Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought. [ Beecher ]
Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [ Horace ]
There never was so great a thought labouring in the breasts of men as now. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
In delicate souls, love never presents itself but under the veil of esteem. [ Mme. Roland ]
The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
In order to do great things, we should live as though we were never to die. [ Vauvenargues ]
In a tête-à-tête we are never more interrupted than when we say nothing. [ Mlle. de Lespinasse ]
The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion. [ Emerson ]
Still it is a fine sight to see a man who has never changed his principles. [ Jules Favre ]
He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. [ Montaigne ]
Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. [ Mme. du Deffand ]
It is true that friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship never. [ Colton ]
It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seem beautiful. [ Ouida ]
Nature never hurries; atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. [ J. C. Ryle ]
I pray God that I may never find my will again.
Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet. [ Rutherford ]
If you oblige those that can never pay you, you make providence your debtor. [ Proverb ]
Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count never made a man. [ Southern ]
Away! we know that tears are vain, that death never heeds nor hears distress. [ Byron ]
Time is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise. [ Lady Montagu ]
I never was on the dull, tame shore, but I loved the great sea more and more. [ Barry Cornwall ]
Never be afraid of what is good; the good is always the road to what is true. [ Hamerton ]
It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it. [ J. F. Boyes ]
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. [ Swift ]
River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same. [ Barton Holyday ]
Such eyes as may have looked from heaven, but never were raised to it before! [ Moore ]
You may beat the devil into your wife, but you would never bang him out again. [ Proverb ]
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends. [ Lavater ]
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. [ Thoreau ]
God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength. [ Fenelon ]
He that was born under a three-halfpenny planet shall never be worth twopence. [ Proverb ]
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. [ Arthur Helps ]
David's pen never wrote more sweetly than when dipped in the ink of affliction. [ G. Mason ]
I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother. [ Lacretelle ]
A slip of the foot may be soon recovered; but that of the tongue perhaps never. [ Proverb ]
One should absorb the color of life, but one should never remember its details. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
So let them ease their hearts with prate of equal rights, which man never knew. [ Byron ]
It is with the mind that we amuse ourselves, but with the heart we never weary. [ A. Dumas pere ]
It's never happened in the World Series history - and it hasn't happened since. [ Yogi Berra ]
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. [ Mme. Du Deffand ]
Of the right that is born with us, of that unhappily there is never a question. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Mephisto in "Faust." ]
Wise men never sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail. [ William Shakespeare ]
In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die. [ Vauvenargues ]
God, who repented of having created man, never repented of having created woman. [ Malherbe ]
Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness. [ Scott ]
When the eye sees what it never saw, the heart will think what it never thought. [ Proverb ]
Two things a man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot. [ Proverb ]
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. [ Cyrus ]
If the mother had not been in the oven, she had never sought her daughter there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with exercise. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The time never comes when a reconstruction does not imperil some great interest. [ Heber Newton ]
Better to have never loved, than to have loved unhappily, or to have half loved. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
There are many rare abilities in the world, which fortune never brings to light. [ Proverb ]
Great men or men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A lie is like a vizard, that may cover the face indeed, but can never become it. [ South ]
Resolved: Never to speak evil of any one, so that it shall tend to his dishonor. [ JONATHAN EDWARDS ]
Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman. [ Herbert Spencer ]
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste. [ De La Bruyere ]
He that is too busy in mending and judging of others, will never be good himself. [ Proverb ]
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. [ Joubert ]
Triumph not, O Time! strong towers decay, but a great name shall never pass away. [ Park Benjamin ]
Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
I was never so bethumped with words since first I called my brother's father dad. [ William Shakespeare ]
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honours are withdrawn. [ Massinger ]
There are some people whose morals are only in the piece: they never make a coat. [ Joubert ]
Jack was embarrassed - never hero more. And as he knew not what to say, he swore. [ Byron ]
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise. [ Crabbe ]
Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Love may be found in the heart of an anchorite: never in the heart of a libertine. [ E. Legouve ]
A man who lives in indifference is one who has never seen the woman he could love. [ La Bruyere ]
No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. [ Thomas Jefferson ]
I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best. [ Keats ]
Never speak disrespectfully of society. Only people who can't get into it do that. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those we affect to have. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich. [ Seneca ]
Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest. [ Goethe ]
History tells us of illustrious villains, but there never was an illustrious miser. [ St. Evremond ]
Conjugal Love should never put on or take off his bandage but at an opportune time. [ Balzac ]
Beware what earth calls happiness; beware all joys but joys that never can expire. [ Young ]
There was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
They praise my rustling show, and never see my heart is breaking for a little love. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]
Were we perfectly acquainted with our idol, we should never passionately desire it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. [ Ward Beecher ]
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they never pardon, who commit the wrong. [ Dryden ]
Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked. [ Joanna Baillie ]
He whom fortune has never deceived rarely considers the uncertainty of human events. [ Livy ]
Though a coat be never so fine that a fool wears, yet it is still but a fool's coat. [ Proverb ]
Women, like men, may be persuaded to confess their faults; but their follies, never. [ Alfred de Musset ]
The ancients (i.e. the Greeks and Romans) are the only ancients that never grow old. [ C. J. Weber ]
Respect your wife. Heap earth around that flower, but never drop any in the chalice. [ A. de Musset ]
Kick a barking dog and he will bark the more. Never notice him, and he will shut up.
Never let a god interfere unless a difficulty arise worthy of a god's interposition. [ Horace ]
The weakness of woman gives to some men a victory that their merit would never gain.
Our greatest glory consists, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]
We always live prospectively, never retrospectively, and there is no abiding moment. [ Jacobi ]
Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults. [ Haliburton ]
Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them. [ Daudet ]
The soul's armour is never well set to the heart unless a woman's hand has braced it. [ John Ruskin ]
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble. [ Lavater ]
After all, our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. [ Balzac ]
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. [ H. W. Shaw ]
A man can never be a true gentleman in manner, until he is a true gentleman at heart. [ Charles Dickens ]
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. [ Colton ]
The most finished man of the world is he who is never irresolute and never in a hurry. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall. [ Goethe ]
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. [ Burke ]
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [ Thoreau ]
The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last. [ Fielding ]
Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time. [ Wordsworth ]
The heart of woman never grows old; when it has ceased to love, it has ceased to live. [ Rochepedre ]
I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
He is never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when he is alone. [ Cicero ]
Oh, poor hearts of poets, eager for the infinite in love, will you never be understood. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
Whoever thinks a perfect work to see, thinks what never was, nor is, nor ever shall be. [ Pope ]
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human; the latter is divine. [ Hosea Ballou ]
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it. [ Bacon ]
Some women are so just and discerning that they never see an opportunity to be generous.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial. [ Hood ]
Thou hast made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee. [ St. Augustine ]
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. [ Louis XIV ]
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit. [ Johnson ]
Whose wit in the combat, gentle as bright, never carried a heart-stain away on its blade. [ Moore ]
The laws of nature never vary; in their application they never hesitate, nor are wanting. [ Draper ]
The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses please less than red. [ Holmes ]
We are valued either too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Resolved: Never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way. [ JONATHAN EDWARDS ]
A woman whose size in gloves is seven and three quarters never knows much about anything. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after. [ William Shakespeare ]
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. [ Jean Paul ]
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
One may be better than his reputation or his conduct, but never better than his principles. [ Latena ]
Tell me, when shall these weary woes have end? or shall their ruthless torment never cease? [ Spenser ]
A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
You will never miss the right way if you only act according to your feelings and conscience. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Never argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience [ Mark Twain ]
Be not simply good. Be good for something. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]
Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns. [ Feltham ]
Cold in the dust this perished heart may lie, but that which warmed it once shall never die. [ Campbell ]
I pack my troubles in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others. [ Southey ]
Women never lie more astutely than when they tell the truth to those who do not believe them.
He who receives a good turn should never forget it, he who does one should never remember it. [ Charron ]
Ingersoll's atheism can never become an institution; it can never be more than a destitution. [ Robert Collyer ]
He that lets his fish escape into the water, may cast his net often yet never catch it again. [ Proverb ]
To fight with its neighbours never was, and is now less than ever, the real trade of England. [ Carlyle ]
It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows common-place, as to the rest of us. [ Lowell ]
Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart. [ Colton ]
It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge, that what it gains it never loses. [ Daniel Webster ]
One's duty as a gentleman should never interfere with one's pleasures in the slightest degree. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
There are many women who never have had one intrigue; but there are few who have had only one. [ Rochefoucauld ]
There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate. [ South ]
He that cannot be the servant of many will never be master, true guide, and deliverer of many. [ Carlyle ]
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it! [ Hawthorne ]
We never know a great character until something congenial to it has grown up within ourselves. [ William Ellery Channing ]
To swear to love always is to affirm that two beings essentially changeable will never change.
It is a misfortune for a woman never to be loved, but it is a humiliation to be loved no more. [ Montesquieu ]
Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided. [ Lord Collingwood ]
That caressing and exquisite grace - never bold, ever present - which just a few women possess. [ Owen Meredith ]
I have made it a rule never to be with a person ten minutes without trying to make him happier. [ Dr. Raffler ]
Covetousness, like jealousy, when it has once taken root, never leaves a man but with his life. [ Thomas Hughes ]
Intelligent people make many blunders, because they never believe the world as stupid as it is. [ Chamfort ]
May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers. [ Themistocles ]
Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. [ Plato ]
Truth is never learned, in any department of industry, by arguing, but by working and observing. [ John Ruskin ]
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. [ Colton ]
There never was any party, faction, or sect in which the most ignorant was not the most violent. [ Pope ]
Never trust anybody not of sound religion, for he that is false to God can never be true to man. [ Lord Burleigh ]
Good-sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. [ John Dryden ]
The devil never assails a man except he finds him either void of knowledge or of the fear of God. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. [ Lavater ]
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness. [ Dr. Watts ]
Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another. [ Richter ]
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. [ Burke ]
A soul, - a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]
It is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all, unless you are parachuting. [ Danny ]
I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came. [ Lincoln ]
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on! hold fast! hold out! Patience is genius. [ Count de Buffon ]
Free people, remember this rule: you may acquire liberty, but never regain it if you once lose it. [ Rousseau ]
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Resolved: Never to do any thing which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. [ JONATHAN EDWARDS ]
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him that makes it. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labor Lost ]
If you love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours. If not, it was never meant to be. [ Source unknown ]
The old woman would never have looked for her daughter in the oven, had she not been there herself. [ Proverb ]
If you would make a pair of good shoes, take for the sole the tongue of a woman: it never wears out. [ Alsatian Proverb ]
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth. [ Dryden ]
The reason why lovers never weary of each other's company is because they speak always of themselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Laws should never be in contradiction to usages; for, if the usages are good, the laws are valueless. [ Voltaire ]
It is characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone. [ Alexander Smith ]
The moment past is no longer: the future may never be: the present is all of which man is the master. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Suns may set and rise; we, when our short day is closed, must sleep on during one never-ending night. [ Catullus ]
If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. [ Cecil ]
Never apologize for showing feeling. My friend, remember that when you do so you apologize for truth. [ Beaconsfield ]
There are three things that I have always loved and have never understood: Painting, Music, and Woman. [ Fontanelle ]
I have never known a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other. [ Coleridge ]
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends, has never had one. [ Coleridge ]
Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame. [ Skobeleff ]
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. [ Lowell ]
Strong as man and tender as woman, they welcome you in every mood, and never turn from you in distress. [ J. A. Langford ]
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him. [ Buddha ]
Very learned women are to be met with, just as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors. [ Voltaire ]
A state is never greater than when all its superfluous hands are employed in the service of the public. [ Hume ]
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury. [ E. H. Chapin ]
Nature never made an unkind creature; ill-usage and bad habits have deformed a fair and lovely creation. [ Sterne ]
Greece, so much praised for her wisdom, never produced but seven wise men: judge of the number of fools! [ Grecourt ]
The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. [ J. G. Holland ]
Nature and truth, though never so low or vulgar, are yet pleasing when openly and artlessly represented. [ Pope ]
Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. [ Lessing ]
Love is eternally awake, never tired with labour, nor oppressed with affliction, nor discouraged by fear. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. [ Bancroft ]
Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, who never to himself hath saith, This is my own, my native land!
[ Sir Walter Scott ]
By the long practice of caricature I have lost the enjoyment of beauty: I never see a face but distorted. [ Hogarth to a lady who wished to learn caricature ]
I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty. [ W. G. Clark ]
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain; the lazy man never. [ Ben. Franklin ]
It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies. [ Cicero ]
Troops would never be deficient in courage if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were. [ Duke Of Wellington ]
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell that would tell anything. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man. [ Tillotson ]
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness, gathers love. [ Basil ]
The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted. [ Dryden ]
One should never make one's debut with a scandal, one should reserve that to give interest to one's old age. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never either be, or know, or have. [ Italian Proverb ]
In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never comes until after the disorder is cured. [ Mme. de la Tour ]
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. [ Alexander Smith ]
Some women boast of having never accorded anything; perhaps it is because they have never been asked anything.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous, but I believe never the sweet. [ J. C. Hare ]
Arms, ye men, bring me arms! their last day summons the vanquished. We shall never all die unavenged this day. [ Virgil ]
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. [ Charles Dudley Warner ]
Truth is to be costly to you - of labour and patience; and you are never to sell it, but to guard and to give. [ John Ruskin ]
Oh, never will I trust to speeches penned! * * * taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, three-piled hyperboles. [ William Shakespeare ]
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die. [ Cicero ]
Beautiful are the roses of your youth; but time destroys them; only talents, only virtue age not and never die. [ Pfeffel ]
Youth will never live to age unless they keep themselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
You never will be saved by works; but let us tell you most solemnly that you never will be saved without works. [ T. L. Cuyler ]
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data. [ Beaconsfield ]
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself. [ Montesquieu ]
They have no other doctor but sun and the fresh air, and that such an one as never sends them to the apothecary. [ South ]
If you resolve to do right, you will soon do wisely; but resolve only to do wisely, and you will never do right. [ John Ruskin ]
Real friendship is a slow grower; and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit. [ Chesterfield ]
One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die. [ C. N. Bovee ]
It is never the opinions of others that displease us, but the pertinacity they display in obtruding them upon us. [ Joubert ]
In eternal cares we spend our years, ever agitated by new desires: we look forward to living, and yet never live. [ Fontanelle ]
You will never live to my age, without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Life was never a May-game for men; not play at all, but hard work, that makes the sinews sore and the heart sore. [ Carlyle ]
Riches are like bad servants, whose shoes are made of running leather, and will never tarry long with one master. [ Brooks ]
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Never add artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice until thou findest that time hath decayed thy natural heat. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
Ever take it for granted that man collectively wishes that which is right; but take care never to think so of one! [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors, but they are seldom or never inventors. [ Voltaire ]
It is a law of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us. [ Corneille ]
To wait for what never comes, to lie abed and not sleep, to serve and not be advanced, are three things to die of. [ Italian Proverb ]
He who is always inquiring what people will say, will never give them opportunity to say anything great about him. [ Blanco White ]
What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. [ George Eliot ]
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites. [ Fenelon ]
Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercyseat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys. [ T. L. Cuyler ]
The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not remain a little corner for flattery and love. [ Marivaux ]
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great. [ Bulwer ]
A man should never blush in confessing his errors, for he proves by his avowal that he is wiser today than yesterday. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. [ St. Jerome ]
The heart is, perhaps, never so sensible of happiness, as after a short separation from the object of its affections. [ Miss May Hamilton ]
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. [ Phillips Brooks ]
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. [ Charles Dickens ]
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [ Seneca ]
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. [ Washington Irving ]
Never write except when you have something to say, and then say it simply - as Addison, Goldsmith, and Franklin wrote. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Profane eloquence is transferred from the bar, where it formerly reigned, to the pulpit, where it never ought to come. [ Bruyere ]
Well does Agathon say: Of this alone is even God deprived - the power of making that which is past never to have been.
[ Aristotle ]
Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, and even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ingrates. [ Rochefoucauld ]
I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness. [ Tupper ]
The cancer of jealousy on the breast can never wholly be cut out, if I am to believe great masters of the healing art. [ Jean Paul ]
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 ]
The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Man may go from aversion to love; but, when he has begun by loving, and has reached aversion, he never returns to love. [ Balzac ]
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us. [ Clarendon ]
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure; emotion is easily propagated from the writer to the reader. [ Joubert ]
Do not weep, my dear lady! Your tears are too precious to shed for me; bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. [ Sterne ]
A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
Genius in poverty is never feared, because Nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another. [ B. R. Haydon ]
Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a woman more contemptible and more dangerous than a courtesan who never lies. [ De Varennes ]
The charm of the past is that it is past, but women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves. Fear, desire, and hope are still pushing us on towards the future. [ Montaigne ]
Lessons of wisdom have never such power over us as when they are wrought into the heart through the groundwork of a story. [ Sterne ]
Never trust a woman who wears mauve or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. It means they have a history. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Let Fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. [ Pope ]
Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The life of the imagination, as of the body, disappears when we pursue it. [ Willmott ]
Named or Mentioned? In such expressions as, I have never named the subject to him,
named is improperly used for mentioned. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Love sees what no eye sees; hears what no ear hears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object. [ Lavater ]
Never argue. In society nothing must be: give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. [ Beaconsfield ]
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. [ Simms ]
I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. [ Boerhaave ]
Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery; enough hath never caused misery but often quickened happiness. [ Tupper ]
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never. [ Coleridge ]
I never knew the old gentleman with the scythe and hour-glass bring anything but gray hairs, thin cheeks, and loss of teeth. [ Dryden ]
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
The fragrance of the flower is never borne against the breeze; but the fragrance of human virtues diffuses itself everywhere. [ Ramayana ]
A woman is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred: it is so many more triumphs for her. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed upon as when they have lost their edge. [ Swift ]
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders - these are the masters of victory. [ Burke ]
What we have pleases us if we do not compare it with what others have; he never will be happy to whom a happier is a torture. [ Seneca ]
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest. [ Benjamin F. Butler ]
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye, that we may always advance towards it. though we know it can never be reached. [ Dr. Johnson ]
A mind full of knowledge is a mind that never fails. Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. [ Emerson ]
I am a man of peace. God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace. [ Kossuth ]
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all. [ Cervantes ]
Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. [ J. G. Holland ]
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk, and truth the root. [ Colton ]
One can never know at the first moment what may, at a future time, separate itself from the rough experience as true substance. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
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 ]
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which Nature never pardons. [ Emerson ]
Never did poesy appear so full of heaven to me as when I saw how it pierced through pride and fear to the lives of coarsest men. [ Lowell ]
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. [ Montaigne ]
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. [ Barrow ]
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them. [ Swift ]
The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of. [ Cicero ]
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never learn anything. [ I. Disraeli ]
A library is a precious catacomb, wherein are embalmed and preserved imperishably the great minds of the dead who will never die. [ Chatfield ]
He that is not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, wise at forty, rich at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, wise, or rich. [ Proverb ]
It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. [ Chapin ]
Never be discouraged because good things go on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. [ Charles Dickens ]
There never was a talent, even for real literature, but was primarily a talent for something infinitely better of the silent kind. [ Carlyle ]
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less. [ Whately ]
Where much is given, much shall be required. There are never privileges to enjoy without corresponding duties to fulfil in return. [ Phiiups Brooks ]
Never hunt trouble. However dead a shot one may be, the gun he carries on such expeditions is sure to kick, or go off half-cocked. [ Artemus Ward ]
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it. [ Chapin ]
Something of a person's character may be discovered by observing when and how he smiles. Some people never smile; they merely grin. [ Bovee ]
Though thou art disappointed in a hope, never let hope fail thee; though one door is shut, there are thousands still open for thee. [ Rückert ]
I wish it were never one's duty to quarrel with anybody; I do so hate it: but not to do it sometimes is to smile in the devils face. [ George MacDonald ]
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. [ Amiel ]
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself: for every guilty person is his own hangman. [ Seneca ]
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. [ Dryden ]
Love never reasons, but profusely gives--gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little. [ Hannah More ]
I am persuaded that he who is capable of being a bitter enemy can never possess the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend. [ Fitzosborne ]
It is dangerous to discover the faults or weaknesses of certain persons: they never forgive us the knowledge of these secret ulcers. [ De Finod ]
Man is an eternal mystery, even to himself. His own person is a house which he never enters, and of which he studies but the outside. [ E. Souvestre ]
In love we never think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. [ Hazlitt ]
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth. [ John Ford ]
Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven. [ Feltham ]
Aspirations after the holy, - the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment. [ Maria McIntosh ]
Books are true friends that will never flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself, . . . and you shall need no other comfort. [ Bacon ]
Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
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 ]
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. [ Bailey ]
Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The good writer never chooses a word at hazard, or without noting its harmony in sound as well as sense with what precedes and follows. [ Sir Edwin Arnold, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean. [ Alan Turing ]
Vanity is the fruit of ignorance. It thieves most in subterranean places, never reached by the air of heaven, and the light of the sun. [ Hoss ]
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature an impossibility. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul. [ Miguel Molinos ]
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit. [ Seneca ]
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call of novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. [ Samuel Johnson ]
A homely man of merit is never repulsive: as soon as he is named, his physique is forgotten; the mind passes through it to see the soul. [ Romainville ]
You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration. [ Ouida ]
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. [ Addison ]
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy. [ Moliere ]
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. [ Lord Brougham ]
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. [ Horace ]
Death, of all estimated evils, is the only one whose presence never incommoded anybody, and which only causes concern during its absence. [ Arcesilaus ]
One must have a heart to know how to love; senses do not suffice. Temperament led by the mind leads to voluptuousness, but never to love. [ De Bernis ]
Mere intelligence without corresponding energy of the will is a polished sword in its scabbard, contemptible, if it is never drawn forth. [ Lindner ]
Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder. [ Milton ]
Little joys refresh us constantly, like house-bread, and never bring disgust; and great ones, like sugar-bread, briefly, and then satiety. [ Richter ]
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. [ Ben. Franklin ]
Marriage is a romance until the book is open. True, the preface is sometimes amusing, but it never lasts long, and it is always deceptive. [ Poincelot ]
Always driven toward new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age, cast anchor for even a day! [ Lamartine ]
If a woman says to you, I will never see you again!
hope; but, if she says, Notwithstanding, I shall always see you with pleasure
- travel.
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. [ George Eliot ]
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces. [ Seneca ]
Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. [ Sterne ]
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to brood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui. [ Hazlitt ]
A good heart is the sun and moon, or, rather, the sun. and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly. [ William Shakespeare ]
That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours. [ Burke ]
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token that they would never again be needed. [ T. W. Higginson ]
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep! [ J. Petit-Senn ]
There has never been a great or beautiful character which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed by God. [ Horace Bushnell ]
High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs then neither study nor labor. [ Bruyere ]
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it never can be trusted after. [ Landor ]
Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best, may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all, will never hit it. [ Owen Feltham ]
We never know the true value of friends. While they live we are too sensitive of their faults: when we have lost them we only see their virtues. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb. [ Johnson ]
Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him. [ Drew ]
In Nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it, and over it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue. [ Chesterfield ]
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their heart but by giving his own. [ Thomas Wilson ]
What matters it that a soldier has a sword of dazzling finish, of the keenest edge, and finest temper, if he has never learned the art of fence. [ William Matthews ]
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must never undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. [ Washington ]
Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud. [ Bovee ]
How can we learn to know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Essay to do thy duty, and thou knowest at once what is in thee. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The one advantage of playing with fire is that one never even gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it that get burned up. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often succumbs and goes into a decline. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]
Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to bit ourselves at last. [ William Penn ]
Science cannot grapple with the problem of women. It can never grapple with the irrational. That is why there is no future before it in this world. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
I make little account of genealogical trees. Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fate. [ General Skobeleff ]
Mr. Fearing had, I think, a slough of despond in his mind, a slough that he carried everywhere with him, or else he could never have been as he was. [ John Bunyan ]
Stories first heard at a mother's knee are never wholly forgotten - a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years. [ Ruffini ]
We always make our friend appear awkward and ridiculous by giving him a laced suit of tawdry qualifications, which nature never intended him to wear. [ Junius ]
The world never forgives our talents, our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]
Putting thoughts in writing. It resembles a tradesman taking stock, without which he never knows either what he possesses, or in what he is deficient. [ John Hunter ]
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular, - that slides along like an eel and never rises to what one can call an inequality. [ Shenstone ]
Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. [ Latimer ]
I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more. As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired. [ Bailey ]
Love is life's end - an end, but never ending.... Love is life's wealth; ne'er spent, but ever spending.... Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding. [ Spenser ]
No woman, plain or pretty, has any commonsense at all. Common-sense is the privilege of our sex and we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. [ Beecher ]
There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals. [ Colton ]
There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen nor never shall be. [ Bishop Hall ]
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses, - the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all. [ Thackeray ]
Who shoots at the midday sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is that he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess. [ Zimmermann ]
There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in a character which was a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial. [ Scott ]
Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. [ Kett ]
No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself. [ C. Kingsley ]
Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual. [ Fontenelle ]
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food. [ Dr. I. Watts ]
God has made an unerring law for His whole creation, upon principles which, so far as we now know, can never he understood without the aid of mathematics. [ E. D. Mansfield ]
God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will. [ Richard Baxter ]
Rejected lovers need never despair! There are four and twenty hours in a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may not change her mind. [ De Finod ]
We should manage our fortune like our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity. [ La Roche ]
Mother! The holy thoughts and chastened memories that cluster around this name, can never be so well expressed as in the calm utterance of the name itself. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never his inborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes all the more fragrant. [ Sataka ]
You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there. [ Bobby Knight ]
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes. [ Herodotus ]
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. [ Macaulay ]
I never listen to calumnies, because, if they are untrue, I run the risk of being deceived, and if they are true, of hating persons not worth thinking about. [ Montesquieu ]
Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. [ Lytton ]
Oh, but books are such safe company! They keep your secrets well; they never boast that they made your eyes glisten, or your cheek flush, or your heart throb. [ Mrs. S. P. Parton ]
A human heart can never grow old, if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]
There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently, however they have writ the style of gods, and make a pish at chance and sufferance. [ William Shakespeare ]
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. Beauteous soul! when a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. [ Richter ]
Mountains never shake hands.
Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected. [ Bishop Whately ]
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men.... Everybody knows that Government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Never give a moment to complaint, but utilize the time that would otherwise be spent in this way, in looking forward and actualizing the conditions you desire. [ Trine ]
One should never take sides in anything - taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly after, and the human being becomes a bore. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it. [ Plutarch ]
I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into this world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. [ Richard Rumbold ]
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. [ Chesterfield ]
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced: never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind. [ Theodore Parker ]
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric. [ Bovee ]
Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and tomorrow we may never see. [ Victor Hugo ]
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
It is a high, solemn, almost awful thought for every individual man, that his earthly influence, which has a commencement, will never, through all ages, have an end. [ Aughey ]
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. [ Burton ]
There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. [ Pope ]
When you hear that your neighbour has picked up a purse of gold in the street, never run out into the same street, looking about you, in order to pick up such another. [ Goldsmith ]
He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the grave shall never prevail against him to do him mischief. [ Jeremv Taylor ]
Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk. [ Count de Maistre ]
Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which can never return. [ Johnson ]
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are; they have no time, they are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. [ De Sales ]
The fool maintains an error with the assurance of a man who can never be mistaken: the sensible man defends a truth with the circumspection of a man who may be mistaken. [ De Bruix ]
Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael. [ Goethe ]
Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit rule of life, is never to be a man. [ Chatfield ]
Affectation in any part of our carriage is lighting up a candle to our defects, and never fails to make us be taken notice of either as wanting sense or wanting sincerity. [ Locke ]
The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. [ Chesterfield ]
God never pardons: the laws of His universe are irrevocable. God always pardons: sense of condemnation is but another word for penitence, and penitence is already new life. [ William Smith ]
Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
He who does not respect confidence, will never find happiness in his path. The belief in virtue vanishes from his heart, the source of nobler actions becomes extinct in him. [ Auffenberg ]
I have never believed that friendship supposed the obligation of hating those whom your friends did not love, and I believe rather it obliges me to love those whom they love. [ Morellet ]
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 ]
Surprise is so essential an ingredient of wit that no wit will bear repetition; - at least, the original electrical feeling produced by any piece of wit can never be renewed. [ Sydney Smith ]
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 ]
High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of. [ Bishop Warburton ]
The instructions received at the mother's knee and the maternal lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the soul. [ Lamennais ]
Many a man who has never been able to manage his own fortune, nor his wife, nor his children, has the stupidity to imagine himself capable of managing the affairs of a nation.
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of our Freethinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned. [ Carlyle ]
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. [ George Eliot ]
The domestic man who loves no music so well as his own kitchen clock and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of. [ Woodworth ]
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 ]
There is something in meanness? which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred. [ Thomas Paine ]
Poetry incorporates those spirits which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; and sheds the perfume of those flowers which spring up but never bear any seed. [ Jean Paul ]
A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longer to be retained, and, indeed, never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Monkeys, as soon as they have brought forth their young, keep their eyes fastened on them, and never weary of admiring their beauty; so amorous is Nature of whatever she produces. [ John Dryden ]
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason. [ Dryden ]
Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. [ Sterne ]
Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always - this is duty. [ Amiel ]
Gratitude is never conferred but where there have been previous endeavours to excite it; we consider it as a debt, and our spirits wear a load till we have discharged the obligation. [ Goldsmith ]
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing in that from which within a few days I might dissent myself. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
I have strictly adhered to the rule of never copying. I write at once as I intend the words to stand. This leads to great precision of thought, and makes the style fresh and vigorous. [ Louisa Molesworth, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Genius never grows old - young today, mature yesterday, vigorous tomorrow, always immortal. It is peculiar to no sex or condition, and is the divine gift to woman no less than to man. [ Juan Lewis ]
A true friend will appear such in leaving us to act according to our intimate conviction, will cherish this nobleness of sentiment, will never wish to substitute his power for our own. [ William Ellery Channing ]
With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. [ Macaulay ]
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 ]
The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns. [ Robert Herrick ]
Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep company some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men. [ Hare ]
Stick to your aim; the mongrel's hold will slip. But only crow-bars loose the bull-dog's lip; Small as he looks, the jaw that never yields, Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields. [ O. W. Holmes ]
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? [ Yogi Berra ]
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked. [ Burke ]
Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes, but death chiefly; and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. [ Epictetus ]
Women of the world never use harsh expressions when condemning their rivals. Like the savage, they hurl elegant arrows, ornamented with feathers of purple and azure, but with poisoned points.
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. [ Ruskin ]
As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. [ Beecher ]
It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity. [ M. M. Brewster ]
He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met with to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind. [ Montaigne ]
There never has been a nation that has not looked upon woman as the companion or the consolation of man, or as the sacred instrument of his life, and that has not honored her in those characters. [ A. de Musset ]
There is a certain majesty in plainness; as the proclamation of a prince never frisks in its tropes or fine conceits, in numerous and well-turned periods, but commands in sober, natural expressions. [ South ]
The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray. [ Willmott ]
It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected. [ Fielding ]
We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish. [ Cicero ]
I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest high catch, and he never walked off the field. [ Yogi Berra ]
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 ]
The prayers of a mother do not die when she dies, and the real heart and its sinless sympathies are never buried in the tomb; her love is purer and warmer now, for it comes from the sainted spirit shore. [ A. W. Mangum ]
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it: but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. [ Burke ]
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 ]
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.' [ Willmott ]
Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making. [ Sydney Smith ]
Beautiful it is to understand and know that a thought did never yet die; that as thou, the originator thereof, hast gathered it and created it from the whole past, so thou wilt transmit to the whole future. [ Carlyle ]
The celebrated Boerhaave, who had many enemies, used to say that he never thought it necessary to repeat their calumnies. They are sparks,
said he, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.
[ Disraeli ]
He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. [ William Shakespeare ]
No possession can surpass, or even equal, a good library to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures which never cloy. [ John Alfred Langford ]
Make a point never so clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. [ Bishop Berkeley ]
Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it. [ Lowell ]
The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves. [ Shenstone ]
As flowers never put on their best clothes for Sunday, but wear their spotless raiment and exhale their odor every day, so let your righteous life, free from stain, ever give forth the fragrance of the love of God. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors. [ Johnson ]
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus. [ Spurgeon ]
We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder. [ Emerson ]
There is no such thing as Liberty in the universe: there can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment. [ John Ruskin ]
To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. [ Tillotson ]
The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read a book so bad but he drew some profit from it [ Sterne ]
Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]
Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything - morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance. [ Mme. Necker ]
Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Those people who are always improving never become great Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps. [ Hazlitt ]
Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself. [ W. Warburton ]
The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour - never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other. [ Sismondi ]
A poet of superior merit, whose vein is of no vulgar kind, who never winds off anything trite, nor coins a trivial poem at the public mint, I cannot describe, but only recognise as a man whose soul is free from all anxiety. [ Juv ]
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. Or, as the Chinese better say, The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.
[ Bovee ]
Nature builds upon a false bottom, seeks herself what she values in others, and is oftentimes deceived and disappointed. Grace reposes her whole hope and love in God, and is never mistaken, never deluded by false expectations. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has. [ Hannah More ]
Ideas are, like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down, so to speak, to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings the way is never ending, and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable. [ Bovee ]
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. [ Colton ]
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. [ Colton ]
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
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 ]
I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inviting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution. [ F. W. Robertson ]
Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds, - epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it. [ Emerson ]
We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;
and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. [ Izaak Walton ]
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. [ Matthew Henry ]
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
There is nothing so sure of succeeding as not to be over brilliant, as to be entirely wrapped up in one's self, and endowed with a perseverance which, in spite of all the rebuffs it may meet with, never relaxes in the pursuit of its object. [ Baron de Grimm ]
Music once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies; it wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. [ Bulwer ]
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. [ Spurgeon ]
Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities. [ S. W. Temple ]
Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. [ Burke ]
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do: therefore never go abroad in search of your wants. If they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
Genius has privileges of its own; it selects an orbit for itself; and be this never so eccentric, if it is indeed a celestial orbit, we mere star-gazers must at last compose ourselves, must cease to cavil at it, and begin to observe it and calculate its laws. [ Carlyle ]
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired. But let another person try my way, and see where he will come out. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
We are born for a higher destiny than earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Never to speak by superlatives is a sign of a wise man; for that way of speaking wounds either truth or prudence. Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation; because they discover the weakness of understanding, and the bad discerning of him that speaks. [ J. Earle ]
Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. [ Chapin ]
No man is more miserable than he that hath no adversity. That man is not tried, whether he be good or bad, and God never crowns those virtues which are only faculties and dispositions, but every act of virtue is an ingredient into reward - God so dresses us for heaven. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; it is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation; from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief. [ Sydney Smith ]
Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best invidious; and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy. [ Shenstone ]
Wit throws a single ray, separated from the rest, - red, yellow, blue, or any intermediate shade, - upon an object; never white light; that is the province of wisdom. We get beautiful effects from wit, - all the prismatic colors, - but never the object as it is in fair daylight. [ Holmes ]
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 ]
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. [ James Parton ]
Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and aminated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy. [ Quintilian ]
Resistance ought never to be thought of but when an utter subversion of the laws of the realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution, and no redress can otherwise be hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the law as the highest offence. [ Walpole ]
A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty. [ Goldsmith ]
Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me!
[ Charles Dickens ]
Why doth Fate, that often bestows thousands of souls on a conqueror or tyrant, to be the sport of his passions, so often deny to the tenderest and most feeling hearts one kindred one on which to lavish their affections? Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? [ Richter ]
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of Nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the underworkman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master. [ Hume ]
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment. [ Rochefoucauld ]
His eloquent tongue so well seconds his fertile invention that no one speaks better when suddenly called forth. His attention never languishes; his mind is always before his words; his memory has all its stock so turned into ready money that, without hesitation or delay, it supplies whatever the occasion may require. [ Erasmus ]
Oh, my dear friends, - you who are letting miserable misunderstandings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day, - if you only could know and see and feel that the time is short, how it would break the spell! How you would go instantly and do the thing which you might never have another chance to do! [ Phillips Brooks ]
Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers, - they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners and things that never have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding or perverting history and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. [ Mary Wortley Montagu ]
First, girls, don't smoke--that is, don't smoke to excess. I am seventy-three and a half years old, and have been smoking seventy-three of them. But I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. Second, don't drink - that is, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry - I mean, to excess. [ Mark Twain, "Advice To Girls", 1909 ]
At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day. [ Hawthorne ]
Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the bands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
Perpetually or Continually? Perpetual means never ceasing, continuing without interruption; continual, of frequent recurrence, etc., with occasional interruptions. Indolent pupils are perpetually failing in the tasks assigned them.
Here the proper word is continually. Time is perpetual; frequent disregard of our duties is continual. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
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 ]
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. [ Rousseau ]
Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]
Never teach false modesty. How exquisitely absurd to teach a girl that beauty is of no value, dress of no use! Beauty is of value; her whole prospects and happiness in life may often depend upon a new gown or a becoming bonnet; if she has five grains of commonsense she will find this out. The great thing is to teach her their proper value. [ Sydney Smith ]
Method, we are aware, is an essential ingredient in every discourse designed for the instruction of mankind; but it ought never to force itself on the attention as an object - never appear to be an end instead of an instrument; or beget a suspicion of the sentiments being introduced for the sake of the method, not the method for the sentiments. [ Robert Hall ]
Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of aesthetic beauty concur in maintaining that the real truthfulness of all works of imagination - sculpture, painting, written fiction - is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent the positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, - that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers. [ Richter ]
Oceans of ink, reams of paper, and disputes infinite, might have been spared, if wranglers had avoided lighting the torch of strife at the wrong end; since a tenth part of the pains expended in attempting to prove the why, the where, and the when, certain events have happened, would have been more than sufficient to prove that they never happened at all. [ Colton ]
It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world. [ Novalis ]
Cheeriness is a thing to be more profoundly grateful for than all that genius ever inspired or talent ever accomplished. Next best to natural, spontaneous cheeriness is deliberate, intended and persistent cheeriness, which we can create, can cultivate and can so foster and cherish that after a few years the world will never suspect that it was not an hereditary gift. [ Helen Hunt Jackson ]
When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still; then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life; it is only needful to place yourself so that it may come, and then it comes of itself; and then everything turns and changes itself for the best. [ Frederika Bremer ]
I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room I should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me. You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do. [ Mark Twain, from his speech Courage ]
Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the past or the future. We scarcely think at all of the present; or if we do, it is only to borrow the light which it gives, for regulating the future. The present is never our object; the past and the present we use as means; the future only is our end. Thus, we never live, we only hope to live. [ Pascal ]
There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I believe it is better to support schools than jails. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]
It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]
Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. [ Feltham ]
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 ]
That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called time,
rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not - this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. [ Carlyle ]
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 ]
If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the Wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on. [ Charlotte M. Yonge ]
In former days various superstitious rites were used to exorcise evil spirits, but in our times the same object is attained, and beyond comparison more effectually, by the press; before this talisman, ghosts, vampires, witches, and all their kindred tribes are driven from the land, never to return again; the touch of holy water is not so intolerable to them as the smell of printing ink. [ J. Bentham ]
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. [ Colton ]
It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]
Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]
Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. [ Ruskin ]
Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. It has been by that means,
said he to a boy at our house one day, that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk.
[ Mrs. Piozzi ]
How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending, - the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Weakness can never be beautiful, either morally or physically: and though the feminine type may possess greater softness and more feeling, it must be active, firm, and healthy, or it cannot be beautiful; the weak mind, distracted by alternations of feeling, and constant craving for help and sympathy from others, cannot at the same time possess that tenderness and unselfish devotion which is the loveliest trait of the female character. [ M. Martell ]
Columbus died in utter ignorance of the true nature of his discovery. He supposed he had found India, but never knew how strangely God had used him. So God piloted the fleet. The great discoverer, with all his heroic virtues, did not know whither he went. He sailed for the back door of Asia, and landed at the front door of America, and knew it not.
He never settled the continent. Thus far and no farther, said the Lord. His providence was over all. [ David James Burrell ]
A town, before it can be plundered and deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. [ Colton ]
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 ]
Consistent characters are those which in social intercourse are easy, sure, and gentle. We do not clash with them, and they are never wanting nor contradictory to themselves; their stability incites confidence, their frankness induces self-surrendering openness. We feel at ease with them, we are not offended at their superiority, doubtless we admire them less, but we also hardly dream of feeling envious of them, and they seem almost to disdain malignity by the peaceful influence of their presence. [ Degerando ]
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]
Who can fathom the depth of a mother's love! No friendship so pure, so devoted; the wild storm of adversity and the bright sunshine of prosperity are all alike to her; however unworthy we may be of that affection, a mother never ceases to love her erring child. Often, when alone, as we gaze up to the starry heaven, can we in imagination catch a glimpse of the angels around the great white throne,
and among the brightest and fairest of them all is our sweet mother, ever beckoning us onward and upward to her celestial home. [ R. Smith ]
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 ]
If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end. [ Tillotson ]
Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]
I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and - not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]
I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me,
I said. I'm off the team, aren't I?
Well,
said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times.
It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
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 ]
He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had. [ Beecher ]
No woman is a genius: women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. They represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the colored. The plain women are very useful. If you want to gain a reputation for respectability you have merely to take them down to supper. The other women are very charming. They commit one mistake, however. They paint in order to try to look young. Our grandmothers painted in order to try to talk brilliantly. Rouge and esprit used to go together. That has all gone out now. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she is perfectly satisfied. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother.
The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother,
stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother.
I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]
In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]