Quotations for others

Mad people think others mad. [ Proverb ]

Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me. [ Pope ]

Try to be of some use to others. [ Bishop Hall ]

Nothing begins, and nothing ends.
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in others' pain,
And perish in our own. [ Francis Thompson ]

A great man is made so for others. [ Thomas Wilson ]

Teaching others teacheth yourself. [ Proverb ]

Jeer not others upon any occasion. [ South ]

Our best thought came from others. [ Emerson ]

Others set carts before the horses. [ Rabelais ]

Our best thoughts come from others. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Pardon others often, thyself never. [ Publius Syrus ]

All came from and will go to others. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Who will not mercy unto others show,
How can he mercy ever hope to have? [ Edmund Spenser ]

He is good that does good to others. [ La Bruyere ]

Forgive thyself nothing, others much. [ German Proverb ]

Forgive others often, yourself never. [ Syrus ]

Whoso judges others condemns himself. [ Italian Proverb ]

Sensitive souls live more than others. [ Duclos ]

Credulity thinks others short-sighted. [ Abb6 Guerguil ]

They hurt themselves that wrong others. [ Proverb ]

We weep and laugh, as we see others do. [ Roscommon ]

Teaching of others teaches the teacher. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is a misery,
Unless our weakness apprehend it so:
We cannot be more faithful to ourselves,
In anything that's manly, than to make
Ill-fortune as contemptible to us
As it makes us to others. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Fame is a fancied life in others' breath. [ Pope ]

Envy shoots at others, and wounds herself. [ Proverb ]

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. [ Horace Mann ]

Proud men cannot bear with pride in others. [ Proverb ]

The truly generous is the truly wise;
And he who loves not others, lives unblest. [ Horace ]

What is it to be wise?
It is but to know how little can be known,
To see all others' faults, and feel our own. [ Pope ]

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppressed.
In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. [ Homer ]

Some wits can digest before others can chew. [ Proverb ]

He little merits bliss who others can annoy. [ Thomson ]

Let those teach others who themselves excel;
And censure freely, who have written well. [ Alexander Pope ]

I would help others, out of a fellowfeeling. [ Burton ]

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others. [ Rochefoucauld ]

What we admire we praise; and when we praise,
Advance it into notice, that its worth
Acknowledged, others may admire it too. [ Cowper ]

He benefits himself that does good to others. [ Proverb ]

The world maddens some, and brutifies others. [ De Finod ]

A man is rated by others as he rates himself. [ French Proverb ]

Others import yet nobler art from France,
Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. [ Pope ]

Some said, John, print it, others said. Not so;
Some said, it might do good, others said, No. [ Bunyan ]

If you are negligent, others will be so to you. [ Proverb ]

He was a man
Versed in the world as pilot in his compass;
The needle pointed ever to that interest
Which was his loadstar; and he spread his sails
With vantage to the gale of others' passions. [ Ben Jonson ]

Music is best enjoyed in the company of others. [ Hwuy Yung ]

The grateful tear that streams for others' woes. [ Akenside ]

Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel.
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]

The graceful tear that streams for others' woes. [ Akenside ]

Hug thou the shore, let others stand out to sea. [ Virgil ]

He is a fool who thinks that others don't think. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. [ Roscommon ]

If afflictions refine some, they consume others. [ Proverb ]

If I have enough for myself and family,
I am steward only for myself; if I have more,
I am but a steward of that abundance for others. [ George Herbert ]

Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so. [ William Shakespeare ]

Many see more with one eye than others with two. [ German Proverb ]

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams.
Unnatural and full of contradictions;
Yet others of our most romantic schemes
Are something more than fictions. [ Hood ]

As you do to others, expect others to do to you. [ Proverb ]

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune,
Must fall out with men too; what the declined is,
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others
As feel in his own fall. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

You cannot climb a ladder by pushing others down. [ Proverb ]

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others. [ W. R. Alger ]

He who begs for others is contriving for himself. [ Proverb ]

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 ]

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 ]

Who ever suffered for not speaking ill of others? [ Proverb ]

Interest blinds some people and enlightens others. [ La Roche ]

He that plants trees loves others besides himself. [ Proverb ]

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. [ Franklin ]

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. [ Proverb ]

One thought cannot awake without awakening others. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

His life is paralleled
Even with the stroke and line of his great justice;
He doth with holy abstinence subdue
That in himself which he spurs on his power
To qualify in others. [ William Shakespeare ]

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. [ Dickens ]

No man is good but as he wishes the good of others. [ Johnson ]

A hog that is bemired, endeavours to bemire others. [ Proverb ]

Bells call others to church, but go not themselves. [ Proverb ]

Regulate your own passions and bear those of others. [ Proverb ]

Think not thy own shadow longer than that of others. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

When you are good to others you are best to yourself. [ Proverb ]

Generally we love ourselves more than we hate others. [ Proverb ]

When you give others ill words, you rail at yourself. [ Proverb ]

The more we give to others, the more we are increased. [ Lao-Tze ]

Solitude makes us love ourselves, conversation others. [ Proverb ]

If you steal for others, you shall be hanged yourself. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The more we give to others, the more are we increased. [ Lao-Tze ]

Who must account for himself and others must know both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. [ Syrus ]

A man that breaks his word bids others be false to him. [ Proverb ]

Who draws others into ill courses is the devil's factor. [ Proverb ]

When we are pleased ourselves we begin to please others. [ Proverb ]

Our own actions are our security, not others' judgments. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

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

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself. [ Sir T. Browne ]

What is my life if I am no longer to be of use to others? [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He has but bad food that feeds upon the faults of others. [ Proverb ]

As you do to others, you may expect another to do to you. [ Laber ]

I quote others only in order the better to express myself. [ Montaigne ]

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. [ Longfellow ]

We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves. [ Desmahis ]

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others. [ La Roche ]

The disgrace of others often deters tender minds from vice. [ Horace ]

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others. [ Proverb ]

None can think so well of others, as most do of themselves. [ Proverb ]

He drags his chain, and yet says it is others that are mad. [ Proverb ]

See me, how calm I am.
Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others. [ Goldsmith ]

Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices. [ Fuller ]

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the church. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Envy is blind, and can only disparage the virtues of others. [ Livy ]

We make others judgment our own by frequenting their society. [ Thomas Fuller ]

To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. [ Pope ]

He that bears a torch shadows himself to give light to others. [ Proverb ]

Witticisms never are agreeable, which are injurious to others. [ From the Latin ]

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. [ Tupper ]

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. [ Montaigne ]

It is the best thing for a stricken heart to be helping others. [ A. H. E ]

Aristotle said ... melancholy men of all others are most witty. [ Burton ]

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]

A covetous man is a dog in a wheel, that roasts meat for others. [ Proverb ]

Little wrongs done to others are great wrongs done to ourselves. [ Proverb ]

It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. [ Publius Syrius ]

Is there any one so wise as to learn by the experience of others? [ Voltaire ]

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. [ Goethe ]

Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others. [ Abel Stevens ]

Blaze not abroad to others what any one confides to you in secret. [ Claudius ]

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Be mild to others, to thyself severe, - So truth shall shield thee. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]

Some never think of what they say; others never say what they think. [ De Finod ]

It is good to see in the misfortunes of others what we should avoid. [ Syrus ]

Is then your knowledge to pass for nothing unless others know of it?

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

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation, as necessity is to others. [ Pliny ]

The true way of softening one's troubles is to solace those of others. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Duty is what one expects from others - it is not what one does oneself. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

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

Pride is the consciousness of what one is, without contempt for others. [ Senac de Meilhan ]

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

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

Here is the egotist's code: everything for himself, nothing for others. [ Sanial-Dubay ]

To try to conceal our own heart, is a bad means to read that of others. [ Rousseau ]

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. [ Rousseau ]

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. [ Holmes ]

It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it. [ H. W. Shaw ]

That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry on his work. [ Donn Piatt ]

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

We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

We often shed tears which deceive ourselves after having deceived others. [ Rochefoucauld ]

One can be very happy without demanding that others should agree with one. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others. [ La Roche ]

As we are born to work, so others are born to watch over us while working. [ Goldsmith ]

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. [ S. Smiles ]

She turned to him and smiled, but in that sort which makes not others smile. [ Byron ]

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. [ Colton ]

It is some relief to the unfortunate to see there are others more miserable. [ Proverb ]

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

If we would not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could not harm us. [ Rochefoucauld ]

It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. [ Emerson ]

It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. [ Madame Necker ]

Can you expect that the mother will teach good morals or others than her own. [ Juv ]

Learning in the hand of some is a sceptre, in that of others a fool's bauble. [ Proverb ]

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. [ Colton ]

Only in the loves we have for others than ourselves, can we truly live or die. [ Phillips Brooks ]

He will always lack what is best who does not give credit to what others know. [ Rückert ]

The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than others. [ Charron ]

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The surest way to please is to forget one's self, and to think only of others. [ Moncrif ]

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is absurd that he should govern others, who knows not how to govern himself. [ Law Max ]

Men should allow others excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of their own. [ Barrow ]

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [ Horace ]

By forgetting ourselves in thinking of the feelings of others we gain happiness. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

It is having in some measure a sort at wit, to know how to use the wit of others. [ Stanislaus ]

He that is too busy in mending and judging of others, will never be good himself. [ Proverb ]

Why should we complain, since we are so little moved by the complaints of others? [ Alfred Bougeart ]

Fame only reflects the estimate in which a man is held in comparison with others. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. [ La Bruyère ]

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others. [ Lord Greville ]

It requires less character to discover the faults of others than to tolerate them. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [ Kousseau ]

If some men died and others did not, death would indeed be a most mortifying evil. [ Bruyere ]

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others. [ Madame Swetchine ]

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. [ Ward Beecher ]

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. [ Glanville ]

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. [ Beaconsfield ]

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. [ Hazlitt ]

He is best served who has no need to put the hands of others at the end of his arms. [ Rousseau ]

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

What renders the vanity of others unbearable to us is the wound it inflicts on ours. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Without content, we shall find it almost as difficult to please others as ourselves. [ Greville ]

First keep thyself in peace, and then thou shalt be able to keep peace among others. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. [ Pasquier Quesnel ]

Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them. [ Daudet ]

Most people who ask advice of others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. [ Knigge ]

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. [ Lew Wallace ]

In her first passion, woman loves her lover; in all the others, all she loves is love. [ Byron ]

It is a species of slander, to lessen the merits or exaggerate the failings of others. [ W. Gilpin ]

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. [ Colton ]

Had we not faults of our own we should take less pleasure in observing those of others. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to thyself or to others: this is true morality. [ Chamfort ]

Let no man presume to give advice to others, that has not first given counsel to himself. [ Seneca ]

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

Some oblige as others insult. One is tempted to ask reparation of them for their services. [ Napoleon I ]

Being myself no stranger to suffering, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others. [ Virgil ]

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others. [ Landor ]

Beauties, whether male or female, are generally the most untractable people of all others. [ Steele ]

Two sorts of writers possess genius; those who think, and those who cause others to think. [ J. Roux ]

I am little inclined to practice on others, and as little that they should practice on me. [ Sir W. Temple ]

If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see the heart which others bleed for bleed for me. [ Congreve ]

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. [ Swift ]

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. [ Charlotte Cushman ]

No man who is wretched in his own heart and feeble in his own work can rightly help others. [ John Ruskin ]

Whosoever entertains you with the faults of others, deserves to serve you in the same kind. [ Proverb ]

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. [ Lord Bacon ]

When we think that we are experimenting on others, we are really experimenting on ourselves. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The belief and hope of heaven, is a sufficient encouragement to virtue, when all others fail. [ Proverb ]

I pack my troubles in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others. [ Southey ]

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer-bought. [ Hosea Ballou ]

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. [ Cicero ]

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. [ Hare ]

A fool is happier in thinking well of himself, than a wise man in others thinking well of him. [ Proverb ]

There is a greater distance between some men and others, than between some men and the beasts. [ Montaigne ]

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. [ T. Jefferson ]

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies. [ Aughey ]

What we wish we readily believe, and what we think ourselves we imagine that others think also. [ Caesar ]

There are some places that we admire; others that attract us, and where we would like to dwell. [ La Bruyere ]

It is better to live by begging one's bread than to gratify the mouth at the expense of others. [ Hitopadesa ]

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. [ Klopstock ]

Books, while they teach us to respect the interest of others, often make us unmindful of our own. [ Goldsmith ]

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms. [ Rousseau ]

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad. [ Joubert ]

Uprightness, judgment, and sympathy with others will profit thee at every time and in every place. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity. [ Mason ]

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. [ Dante ]

When a man is conscious that he does no good himself, the next thing is to cause others to do some. [ Pope ]

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. [ Colton ]

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others. [ Auerbach ]

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself. [ Dr. Johnson ]

How many people would be mute if they were forbidden to speak well of themselves, and evil of others! [ Mme. de Fontaines ]

The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others. [ Syrus ]

Looking where others looked, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavouring to think so ourselves. [ Confucius ]

Let others seek security. My most wretched fortune is secure; for there is no fear of worse to follow. [ Ovid ]

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. [ Duncan ]

Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness - that is, suffering in the bosom of others. [ Benthem ]

Plagiarists are purloiners who filch the fruit that others have gathered, and then throw away the basket. [ Chatfield ]

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, not do they long deceive. [ La Bruyere ]

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. [ Sterne ]

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

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

Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. [ Zimmermann ]

He who has published an injurious book sins in his very grave, corrupts others while he is rotting himself. [ South ]

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship. [ Thoreau ]

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

To be careless of what others think of us, not only indicates an arrogant, but an utterly abandoned character. [ Cicero ]

He is incapable of a truly good action who knows not the pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. [ Lavater ]

We lose some friends for whom we regret more than we grieve; and others for whom we grieve, yet do not regret. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others. [ Fielding ]

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads. [ Otway ]

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others? [ Franklin ]

He who will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor frozen churl. [ Joanna Baillie ]

It is often shorter and better to yield to others than to endeavor to compel others to adjust themselves to us. [ La Bruyere ]

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. [ Voltaire ]

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others. [ Dewey ]

It is never the opinions of others that displease us, but the pertinacity they display in obtruding them upon us. [ Joubert ]

A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man, himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others. [ Herder ]

We wish others to possess, or to acquire, all the qualities and virtues that can serve our pleasures or interests. [ De Finod ]

A man's happiness consists infinitely more in admiration of the faculties of others than in confidence in his own. [ John Ruskin ]

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

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are the perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. [ Immanuel Kant ]

Books are loved by some merely as elegant combinations of thought; by others as a means of exercising the intellect. [ Lord Dudley ]

Every person has two educations - one which he receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. [ Burke ]

What are the aims which are at the same time duties in life? The perfecting of ourselves and the happiness of others. [ Jean Paul ]

Thou hast not what others have, and others want what has been given thee; out of such defect springs good-fellowship. [ Gellert ]

Be not angry that you cannot make others what you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. [ Washington Irving ]

He that, by often arguing against his own sense, imposes falsehoods on others, is not far from believing them himself. [ Locke ]

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

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. [ Edward Herbert ]

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 ]

No man can become largely rich by his personal toil, but only by discovery of some method of taxing the labour of others. [ John Ruskin ]

If you would succeed in the world, it is necessary that, when entering a salon, your vanity should bow to that of others. [ Mme. de Genlis ]

The great uses of study to a woman are to enable her to regulate her own mind, and be instrumental to the good of others. [ Hannah More ]

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

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. [ Hazlitt ]

It is a wretched thing to lean on the reputation of others, lest the pillars being withdrawn the roof should fall in ruins. [ Juvenal ]

Bring yourself up. Only you can do that. Don't bring others down. This does not improve you. This does not improve anything.

No one is qualified to entertain, or receive entertainment from others, who cannot entertain himself alone with satisfaction. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

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 who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well. [ Montesquieu ]

The art of conversation consists less in showing one's own wit than in giving opportunity for the display of the wit of others. [ La Bruyere ]

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid of ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasures takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Many people take no care of their money till they have come nearly to an end of it, and others do just the same with their time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all others. [ T. Fuller ]

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses. [ Wycherley ]

Employ your time in improving yourselves by other men's documents: so shall you come easily by what others have labored hard for. [ Socrates ]

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves. [ Addison ]

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two give us most trouble. [ Goethe ]

'Twas but a dream - let it pass - let it vanish like so many others! What I thought was a flower is only a weed, and is worthless. [ Longfellow ]

We instinctively abhor calumny as we do a snake, for fear of its venom; but, is our aversion to it so great when it attacks others? [ De Finod ]

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

Those who injure one party to benefit another are quite as unjust as if they converted the property of others to their own benefit. [ Cicero ]

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

We are ordinarily more easily satisfied with reasons that we have discovered ourselves, than by those which have occurred to others. [ Pascal ]

If wisdom were conferred with this proviso, that I must keep it to myself and not communicate it to others, I would have none of it. [ Seneca ]

Be this the first law established in friendship, that we neither ask of others what is dishonourable, nor ourselves do it when asked. [ Cicero ]

We must love our friends as true amateurs love paintings; they have their eyes perpetually fixed on the fine parts, and see no others. [ Mme. d'Epinay ]

Happiness is in taste and not in things; and it is by having what we love that we are happy, not by having what others find agreeable. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

One faithful friend is enough for a man's self; it is much to meet with such a one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others. [ De Bruyere ]

That Mirabeau understood how to act with others, and by others--this was his genius, this was his originality, this was his greatness. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Some books we should keep in our hands, and on our hearts; the best way we could dispose of others would be, to throw them in the fire. [ Acton ]

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

You may fail to shine, in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them. [ Greville ]

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, I think the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like. [ Addison ]

We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [ Melmoth ]

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

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. [ John Ruskin ]

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

The disesteem and contempt of others is inseparable from pride. It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our neighbors. [ Clarendon ]

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 ]

We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others. [ Bruyere ]

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement. [ Mrs. E. Carter ]

The best way to come to truth is to examine things as they really are, and not to conclude they are, as we have been taught by others to imagine. [ Locke ]

I struggle against an opposing current; the torrent which sweeps away others does not overpower me, and I make head against the on-rushing stream. [ Ovid ]

Gruel men are the greatest lovers of mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in others, not in themselves. [ Colton ]

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

There is no vice or crime that does not originate in self-love; and there is no virtue that does not grow from the love of others out of and beyond self. [ Anon ]

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life. [ Swift ]

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 ]

A man or a woman may be highly irritable, and yet be sweet, tender, gentle, loving, sociable, kind, charitable, thoughtful for others, unselfish, generous. [ Charles Buxton ]

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither the one nor the other. [ Epictetus ]

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others. [ Sir W. Temple ]

No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. [ Colton ]

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 ]

There is perhaps no time at which we are disposed to think so highly of a friend, as when we find him standing higher than we expected in the esteem of others. [ Sir W. Scott ]

The prodigality of women has reached such proportions that one must be wealthy to have one for himself: we have no other resource than to love the wives of others. [ A. Karr ]

Who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. [ Lavater ]

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom. [ Alexander von Humboldt ]

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others. [ Bruyere ]

Taught by experience to know my own blindness, shall I speak as if I could not err, and as if others might not in some disputed points be more enlightened than myself? [ Channing ]

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants. [ Johnson ]

Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes. [ Emerson ]

The imputation of being a fool is a thing which mankind, of all others, is the most impatient of, it being a blot upon the prime and specific perfection of human nature. [ South ]

It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others. [ Hoadley ]

The diamond is more valuable than any other stone, and vastly superior to all others in lustre and beauty; as also in hardness, which renders it more durable and lasting. [ Woodward ]

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so. [ Pope ]

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones, - others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs. [ Hawthorne ]

Sincerity is an openness of heart; it is found in a very few people, and that which we see. commonly is not it, but a subtle dissimulation, to gain the confidence of others. [ Rochefoucauld ]

By reasoning we satisfy ourselves: by rhetoric we satisfy others. Most modern orators and rhetoricians content themselves with fulfilling the first part of this proposition. [ P. B. Randolph ]

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

Labour is the ornament of the citizen; the reward of toil is when you confer blessings on others; his high dignity confers honour on the king; be ours the glory of our hands. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin. [ Lowell ]

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow. [ Seneca ]

Women always show more taste in adorning others than themselves; and the reason is that their persons are like their hearts - they read another's better that they can their own. [ Richter ]

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 ]

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment. [ H. T. Tuckerman ]

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. [ Colton ]

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

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail. It is even heightened by sufferings. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind. [ Montaigne ]

There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with ourselves. [ Joubert ]

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. [ Zeno ]

Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others. [ Henry Drummond ]

A good name is properly that reputation of virtue that every man may challenge as his right and due in the opinions of others, till he has made forfeit of it by the viciousness of his actions. [ South ]

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect. [ Hazlitt ]

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others. [ Colton ]

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. This appears from the quarrels to which indiscreet reports occasionally give rise. [ Pascal ]

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. [ Colton ]

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. [ Frederic Saunders ]

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself. [ Hazlitt ]

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. [ Emerson ]

Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenhoeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer. [ Colton ]

To give pleasure to others and take it ourselves, we have to begin by removing the ego, which is hateful, and then keep it in chains as long as the diversions last. There is no worse killjoy than the ego. [ Charles Wagner ]

The great moments of life are but moments like others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into. [ Emerson ]

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

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous. [ Johnson ]

Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back: but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself. [ Burkitt ]

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

Logic is the art of convincing us of some truth; and eloquence a gift of the mind, which makes us master of the heart and spirit of others; which enables us to inspire them with, or persuade them of whatever we please. [ Bruyere ]

It is the law of fate that we shall live in part by our own efforts, but in the greater part by the help of others; and that we shall also die in part for our own faults, but in the greater part for the faults of others. [ John Ruskin ]

As for drinking, I have no rule about that. When the others drink I like to help; otherwise I remain dry, by habit and preference. This dryness does not hurt me, but it could easily hurt you, because you are different. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it,, or have it not equal to their deserts. [ Milton ]

A woman whose great beauty eclipses all others is seen with as many different eyes as there are people who look at her. Pretty women gaze with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport. [ D'Argens ]

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 ]

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only, to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice. [ L'Estrange ]

The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked. [ Bishop Horne ]

When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others. [ Colton ]

He that has complex ideas, without particular names for them, would be in no better case than a book-seller who had volumes that lay unbound and without titles, which he could make known to others only by showing the loose sheets. [ Locke ]

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 ]

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

There are jilts in friendship, as well as in love; and by the behavior of some men in both, one would almost imagine that they industriously sought to gain the affections of others with the view only of making the parties miserable. [ Fielding ]

Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage. [ Feltham ]

No man can judge another, because no man knows himself; for we censure others but as they disagree with that humour which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us. [ Colton ]

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate. [ Bryant ]

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several - from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy. [ La Bruyere ]

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

Avarice often produces opposite effects; there is an infinite number of people who sacrifice all their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others despise great future advantages to obtain present interests of a trifling nature. [ Kochefoucauld ]

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot. [ W. E. Channing ]

Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. [ Jeremy Collier ]

He that has no resources of mind, is more to be pitied than he who is in want of necessaries for the body; and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. [ Colton ]

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

There is before the eyes of men, on the brink of dissolution, a glassy film, which death appears to impart, that they may have a brief prospect of eternity when some behold the angels of light, while others have the demons of darkness before them. [ Cockton ]

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right. [ Henry George ]

To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love. [ Hazlitt ]

The tragedy of Hamlet is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of Hamlet is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater. [ G. A. Sala ]

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality. [ William Penn ]

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such excess that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. [ Emerson ]

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. [ Anna Katharine Green ]

Be cheerful, and seek not external help, nor the tranquillity which others give. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others; and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring. [ Bentham ]

Peacefully and reasonably to contemplate is at no time hurtful, and while we use ourselves to think of the advantages of others, our own mind comes insensibly to imitate them; and every false activity to which our fancy was alluring us is then willingly abandoned. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small. [ Goethe ]

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them? [ Haliburton ]

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels, - teaching high living, high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and the world's good. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Socrates was pronounced by the oracle of Delphos to be the wisest man in Greece, which he would turn from himself ironically, saying there could be nothing in him to verify the oracle, except this, that he was not wise and knew it, and others were not wise and knew it not. [ Bacon ]

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself, is also a friend to mankind; even in my studies the greatest delight I take is that of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner. [ Seneca ]

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others would also read the man. [ Disraeli ]

'Tis, in fact, utter folly to ask whether a person has anything from himself, or whether he has it from others, whether he operates by himself, or operates by means of others. The main point is to have a great will, and skill and perseverance to carry it out. All else is indifferent. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Some are so close and reserved that they will not show their wares but by a dark light, and seem always to keep back somewhat; and when they know within themselves they speak of that which they do not well know, would nevertheless seem to others to know of that which they may not well speak. [ Bacon ]

Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is not the aim of any life. Do not think that your life means a mere searching in gutters for fallen creatures to wipe and set up.... In our life there is no meaning at all except the work we have done. [ Carlyle ]

Few have borrowed more freely than Gray and Milton; but with a princely prodigality, they have repaid the obscure thoughts of others, with far brighter of their own - like the ocean, which drinks up the muddy water of the rivers from the flood, but replenishes them with the clearest from the shower. [ Colton ]

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man - a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object - the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress. [ Carlyle ]

It is in the time of trouble, when some to whom we may have looked for consolation and encouragement regard us with coldness, and others, perhaps, treat us with hostility, that the warmth of the friendly heart and the support of the friendly hand acquire increased value and demand additional gratitude. [ Bishop Mant ]

One is more honest in youth, and to the age of thirty years, than when one has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are dispelled. Until then, one resembles the dog that defends the dinner of his master against other dogs: after this period, he takes his share of it with the others. [ Chamfort ]

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. [ Goldsmith ]

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]

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 ]

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health. [ Beecher ]

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

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle; and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hardworking, and intent men - their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion. [ Fielding ]

Partake or Eat? Partake, meaning to take a part of in common with others, to participate, is often affectedly used as a synonym of eat. It is correct to say that two or more persons partake of dinner, as they may partake of anything else. But, for the individual who eats alone, to say he partook of refreshments is an egregious blunder. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

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

You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults; still less of others faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it ; as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. [ Ruskin ]

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

Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. What, said the hero in reply, have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart? He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own. [ E. L. Magoon ]

A wise man will select his books, for he would not wish to class them all under the sacred name of friends. Some can be accepted only as acquaintances. The best books of all kinds are taken to the heart, and cherished as his most precious possessions. Others to be chatted with for a time, to spend a few pleasant hours with, and laid aside, but not forgotten. [ Langford ]

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. [ Swift ]

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change - that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centers of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes. [ Chesterfield ]

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 ]

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

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 ]

Superstition is the fear of a spirit whose passions and acts are those of a man, who is present in some places, and not in others; who makes some places holy, and not others; who is kind to one person, and unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrificing a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. [ John Ruskin ]

The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

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 ]

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful. [ Montaigne ]

Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere. . . . We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, this receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know. [ Dialogues, Theaetetus ]

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation. [ Washington Irving ]

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. [ Colton ]

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 ]

others in Scrabble®

The word others is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

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others in Words With Friends™

The word others is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters others:

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OTHERS
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Words containing the sequence others

Words that start with others (1 word)

Words with others in them (5 words)

Word Growth involving others

Shorter words in others

he her hers

he her other

he the other

Longer words containing others

bothers bothersome

brothers brothersinlaw

brothers stepbrothers

frothers

mothers birthmothers

mothers godmothers

mothers grandmothers greatgrandmothers

mothers mothership

mothers mothersinlaw

mothers nonmothers

mothers smothers

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