Fame - next grandest word to God! [ Alexander Smith ]
Taste is the next gift to genius. [ Lowell ]
Next, with a long interval between. [ Virgil ]
Always you are to be rich next year. [ Proverb ]
Next to no wife a good wife is best. [ Proverb ]
What is glory? what is fame?
The echo of a long-lost name;
A breath, an idle hour's brief talk;
The shadow of an arrant naught;
A flower that blossoms for a day.
Dying next morrow;
A stream that hurries on its way.
Singing of sorrow. [ Motherwell ]
Hail! Independence, hail!
Heaven's next best gift,
To that of life and an immortal soul! [ Thomson ]
Danger is next neighbour to security. [ Proverb ]
Want supplieth itself of what is next. [ Bacon ]
The egotist is next door to a fanatic. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Certainly this is a duty, not a sin,
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. [ John Wesley ]
She thought our good-night kiss was given.
And like a lily her life did close;
Angels uncurtain'd that repose,
And the next waking dawn'd in heaven. [ Gerald Massey ]
Be wise to-day! 'tis madness to defer;
Next day, the fatal precedent will plead;
Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life.
Procrastination is the thief of time. [ Edward Young ]
He that dies this year is quit for the next. [ William Shakespeare ]
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 ]
Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remained
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way.
And giv'st access, though secret she retire. [ Milton ]
The horse next the mill carries all the grist. [ Proverb ]
Sweet, good night!
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. [ William Shakespeare ]
Lying and stealing live next door to each other. [ Proverb ]
Next, over his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole.
How here he sipped, how there he plundered snug,
And sucked all over, like an industrious bug. [ Pope ]
Sleep, next to death, is the best thing in life. [ T. Gautier ]
Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next. [ Dr. Young ]
Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene;
Resumes them, to prepare us for the next. [ Young ]
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next. [ Priestley ]
Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe. [ Byron ]
He that defends an injury is next to him that commits it. [ Proverb ]
The next dreadful thing to a battle lost, is a battle won. [ Duke Of Wellington ]
The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. [ Addison ]
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels. [ Claudian ]
The philosophy of one century is the commonsense of the next. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. [ Tac ]
I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. [ Saadi ]
The great rule of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time. [ Lavater ]
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises. [ Ouida ]
When the next house is on fire, it is high time to look to your own. [ Proverb ]
Next to the originator of a good sentence, is the first quoter of it. [ Emerson ]
After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear. [ Lamartine ]
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. [ Colton ]
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]
The first step to a good name is a good life; and the next is good behaviour. [ Proverb ]
Next to ye both I love the palm, with his leaves of beauty, his fruit of balm. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day. [ Sir T. Overbury ]
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. [ James Freeman Clarke ]
Next to a good conscience, a clear reputation is the clearest thing in the world. [ Proverb ]
All our life goeth like Penelope's web, - what one hour effects the next destroys. [ St. Augustine ]
As hasty as Hopkins, that came to jail over-night, and was hanged the next morning. [ Proverb ]
Here's talk of the Turk and Pope, but it is my next neighbour that does me the harm. [ Proverb ]
The rarest things in world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [ La Bruyere ]
When an old man will not drink, you may safely promise him a visit in the next world. [ Proverb ]
That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less. [ Pope ]
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. [ William Shakespeare ]
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. [ Izaak Walton ]
Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next. [ Ovid ]
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience. [ Izaak Walton ]
After the spirit of discernment, the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls. [ La Bruyère ]
The two best rules for a system of rhetoric are: first, have something to say; and next, say it. [ George Emmons ]
I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]
My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next age. [ Bacon ]
When a man is conscious that he does no good himself, the next thing is to cause others to do some. [ Pope ]
Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth without plan, and are ever at the end of their line. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope, but my next neighbor doth me more harm than either of them both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty, the power of appreciating beauty. [ Margaret Fuller Ossoli ]
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. [ Beaconsfield ]
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. [ Ruskin ]
Some men are so covetous, as if they were to live forever; and others so profuse, as if they were to die the next moment. [ Aristotle ]
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. [ Young ]
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 ]
Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, and cheerful mind, and active habits, I place early rising, as a means of health and happiness. [ Timothy Flint ]
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained. [ James A. Garfield ]
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. [ Thoreau ]
Some folks say it was a miracle. Saint Francis suddenly appeared and knocked the next pitch clean over the fence. But I think it was just a lucky swing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Talking with a host is next best to talking with one's self.... He is wiser than to contradict his guest in any case; he lets him go on, he lets him travel. [ Thoreau ]
The blessings of fortune are the lowest: the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind. [ L'Estrange ]
Education, indeed, has made the fondness for fine things next to natural; the corals and bells teach infants on the breasts to be delighted with sound and glitter. [ H. Brooke ]
It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one. [ Chesterfield ]
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. [ B. R. Haydon ]
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition allies itself to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vitality of earthly desires we become superstitious, and by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious. [ Mme. de Staël ]
There are few souls who are so vigorously organized as to be able to maintain themselves in the calm of a strong resolve: all honest consciences are capable of the generosity of a day, but almost all succumb the next morning under the effort of the sacrifice. [ George Sand ]
There is a Russian proverb which says that misfortune is next door to stupidity; and it will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, improvidence, or want of application. [ Samuel Smiles ]
In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin. [ Lytton ]
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it. [ Bishop Porteus ]
The devil does not stay long where music is performed. Music is the best balsam for a distressed heart; it refreshes and quickens the soul. Music is a governess which makes people milder, meeker, more modest and discreet. Yes, my friends, music is a beautiful, glorious gift of God, and next to theology, I give it the highest place and the highest honor. [ Martin Luther ]
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of the public. [ Addison ]
Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, Think again, bat man.
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
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 ]
Take the title of nobility which thou hast received by birth, but endeavor to add to it another, that both may form a true nobility. There is between the nobility of thy father and thine own the same difference which exists between the nourishment of the evening and of the morrow. The food of yesterday will not serve three for today, and will not give thee strength for the next. [ Jamakchari ]
Mutability is the badge of infirmity; it is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike; now he is for marrying, and now a mistress is preferred to a wife; now he is ambitious and aspiring, presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he; this hour he squanders his money away, the next he turns miser; sometimes he is frugal and serious, at other times profuse, airy, and gay. [ Charron ]