Order, thou eye of action. [ Aaron Hill ]
Order gave each thing view. [ Shakespeare ]
Order is heaven's first law. [ Pope ]
A good recorder sets all in order. [ Proverb ]
Observe degree, priority, and place. [ William Shakespeare ]
The gods love those of ordered soul. [ Sophocles ]
Accident is simply unforeseen order. [ Novalis ]
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once. [ William Shakespeare ]
The rising winds
And falling springs,
Birds, beasts, all things
Adore him in their kinds.
Thus all is hurled
In sacred hymns and order, the great chime
And symphony of nature. [ Henry Vaughan ]
Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state.
Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate. [ Pope ]
Let all things be done decently and in order. [ Bible ]
Order and system are nobler things than power. [ Ruskin ]
Liberty must be limited in order to be enjoyed. [ Burke ]
In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels men rebel;
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against the Eternal cause. [ Pope ]
You can't order remembrance out of a man's mind. [ Thackeray ]
Good order is the foundation of all good things. [ Burke ]
So work the honey-bees;
Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home.
To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum.
Delivering over to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. [ William Shakespeare ]
Many dressers put the bride's dress out of order. [ Proverb ]
The friend of order has made half his way to virtue. [ Lavater ]
I will it, I so order, let my will stand for a reason. [ Juvenal ]
When many strike on an anvil, they must observe order. [ Proverb ]
Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being. [ Amiel ]
Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions. [ J. Q. Saxe ]
In order to estimate a man, one must know how to test him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. [ Montaigne ]
There is a grace in wild variety surpassing rule and order. [ William Mason ]
High station has to be resigned in order to be appreciated. [ Pascal ]
You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order. [ William Shakespeare ]
In order to love mankind, we must not expect too much of them. [ Helvetius ]
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak. [ Fenelon ]
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it. [ Joubert ]
In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour. [ Mirabeau ]
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. [ Saadi ]
Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. [ Jeremy Collier ]
We must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is. [ Chapin ]
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death! [ Martial ]
We are charmed by neatness of person; let not thy hair be out of order. [ Ovid ]
We confess small faults in order to insinuate that we have no great ones. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Character is moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature. [ Emerson ]
In order to do great things, we should live as though we were never to die. [ Vauvenargues ]
Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. [ Father Andre ]
Where order in variety we see; and where, though all things differ, all agree. [ Pope ]
In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die. [ Vauvenargues ]
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter. [ Joubert ]
Make the most of time, it glides away so fast; but order teaches you to gain time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order. [ Blair ]
Good fortune and bad are alike necessary to man in order to develop his capability. [ French ]
The path which good order prescribes is the direct one, even though it has windings. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
In the elevated order of ideas, the life of man is glory; the life of woman is love. [ Balzac ]
Wars should be undertaken in order that we may live in peace without suffering wrong. [ Cicero ]
Heaven has refused genius to woman, in order to concentrate all the fire in her heart. [ Rivarol ]
Set all things in their own peculiar place, And know that order is the greatest grace. [ Dryden ]
In retailing slander, we name the originator, in order to enjoy a pleasure without danger. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. [ Emerson ]
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise; it is in order to show how much he can spare. [ Johnson ]
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power. [ Amiel ]
The training of children is a profession where we must know to lose time in order to gain it. [ Rousseau ]
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception, is really according to order. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is,
prose = words in their best order;
poetry = the best words in the best order. [ Coleridge ]
A soul only needs to see a smile in a white-crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams. [ Victor Hugo ]
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. [ Colton ]
So work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. [ William Shakespeare ]
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. [ Colton ]
Men have made of Fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order to be made responsible for all their blunders. [ Mme. de Stael ]
The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order. [ Beecher ]
As the first order of wisdom is to know thyself, so the first order of charity is to be sufficient for thyself. [ John Ruskin ]
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunders. [ Mme. de Stael ]
It is necessary to repent for years in order to efface a fault in the eyes of men; a single tear suffices with God. [ Chateaubriand ]
Everything ought to lead to good sense; but in order to attain to it, the road is slippery and difficult to walk in. [ Boileau ]
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom. [ Macaulay ]
When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. [ Henry Taylor ]
He who has no taste for order will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions. [ Lavater ]
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid. [ Mme. Necker ]
Literature is representative of intellect, which is progressive; government is representative of order, which is stationary. [ Buckle ]
The highest conceptions of the sages, who, in order to arrive at them, had to live many days, have become the milk for babes. [ Ballanche ]
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of every thing. [ Sydney Smith ]
Her golden locks she roundly did uptie in braided trammels, that no looser hairs did out of order stray about her dainty ears. [ Spenser ]
God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. [ T. L. Cuyller ]
There are principles excellent for certain firm and energetic characters, which would be worth nothing for those of an inferior order. [ Chamfort ]
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners; she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. [ Luther ]
Life is as a slate where all our sins are written: from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it, in order to begin to sin anew.
Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light. [ Dr. Watts ]
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 ]
To abstain from pleasure for a time, in order the better to enjoy in the future, is the philosophy of the sage; it is the epicureanism of reason. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
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 ]
The soul moralises the past in order not to be demoralised by it, and finds in the crucible of experience only the gold that she herself has poured into it. [ Amiel ]
One man pursues power in order to possess wealth, and another pursues wealth in order to possess power; which last is the safer way, and generally followed. [ South ]
Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or small change. [ Chamfort ]
In order that a love-letter may be what it should be, one should begin it without knowing what he is going to say, and end it without knowing what he has said. [ Raison ]
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. [ Lavater ]
Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business. [ Duke of Wellington ]
Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order. [ Hare ]
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 ]
Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace: and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest. [ Landor ]
Talent for literature, thou hast such a talent? Believe it not, be slow to believe it! To speak or to write, Nature did not peremptorily order thee; but to work she did. [ Carlyle ]
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies. [ Heine ]
Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity. [ George D. Prentice ]
We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. [ Spurgeon ]
The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first [ Joubert ]
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits. [ Chamfort ]
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 ]
Tribulation worketh patience: and patience, experience; and experience, hope.
That is the order. You can not put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation. [ Alexander Maclaren ]
The secret of happiness lies in the health of the whole mind, and in giving to each faculty due occupation, and in the natural order of their superiorities, the Divine first, the human second, the material last. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it Axes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. [ Pascal ]
For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor. [ Napoleon I ]
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: Mankind
. Basically, it's made up of two separate words - mank
and ind
. What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom - from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Some new books it is necessary to read, - part for the information they contain, and others in order to acquaint one's self with the state of literature in the age in which one lives: but I would rather read too few than too many. [ Lord Dudley ]
A taste for flowers and a love for the beautiful, as exhibited in the wonders of creative power, are evidences of a refined and sensitive nature, and peculiar traits of character which distinguish man from the lower order of animals. [ Celestia R. Colby ]
By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to appear without. [ Adam Smith ]
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle. [ Burke ]
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. [ Aristotle ]
To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere. [ Bovee ]
Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever found and in whatsoever form and accompaniment. [ Carlyle ]
There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover. [ Shenstone ]
There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero. [ Fielding ]
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force. [ Colton ]
The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations. [ Henry Giles ]
Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man. [ Ruskin ]
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. [ Carlyle ]
It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles. [ Senancour ]
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order. A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness. [ Bacon ]
What delight will it afford to renew the sweet counsel we have taken together, to recount the toils, the combats, and the labor of the way, and to approach, not the house, but the throne of God, in company, in order to join in the symphonies of heavenly voices, and lose ourselves amidst the splendor and fruitions of the beatific vision. [ Robert Hall ]
It is a mathematical demonstration, that these twenty-six letters admit of so many changes in their order, and make such a long roll of differently-ranged alphabets, not two of which are alike, that they could not all be exhausted though a million millions of writers should each write above a thousand alphabets a day for the space of a million millions of years. [ R. Bentley ]
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height. [ Bruyere ]
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]
As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside. [ Massinger ]
A newspaper, like a theatre, must mainly owe its continuance in life to the fact that it pleases many persons; and in order to please many persons it will, unconsciously perhaps, respond to their several tastes, reflect their various qualities, and reproduce their views. In a certain sense it is evolved out of the community that absorbs it, and, therefore, partaking of the character of the community, while it may retain many merits and virtues, it will display itself, as in some respects ignorant, trivial, narrow, and vulgar. [ William Winter ]
The love of flowers seems a naturally implanted passion, without any alloy or debasing object in its motive; we cherish them in youth, we admire them in declining years; but perhaps it is the early flowers of spring that always bring with them the greatest degree of pleasure; and our affections seem to expand at the sight of the first blossom under the sunny wall, or sheltered bank, however humble its race may be. With summer flowers we seem to live, as with our neighbors, in harmony and good order; but spring flowers are cherished as private friendships. [ G. A. Sola ]
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 ]