The point of destination.
The due of honor in no point omit. [ William Shakespeare ]
The point from which anything starts.
The most essential point is lowliness. [ Fenelon ]
Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth. [ Pindar ]
Hold fast is the first point in hawking. [ Proverb ]
One may point at a star, but not pull at it. [ Proverb ]
He left a name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral or adorn a tale. [ Johnson ]
The thorn comes forth with the point forwards. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
An atheist has got one point beyond the devil. [ Swift ]
How oft, when men are at the point of death.
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death. [ William Shakespeare ]
To know the world, not love her, is thy point;
She give but little, nor that little long. [ Young ]
Point not at other's spots with a foul finger. [ Proverb ]
Their various cares in one great point combine
The business of their lives, that is - to dine. [ Young ]
What day, what hour, but knocks at human hearts,
To wake the soul to sense of future scenes?
Deaths stand like Mercurys, in every way,
And kindly point us to our journey's end. [ Dr. Young ]
It is in worldly accidents.
As in the world itself, where things most distant
Meet one another: Thus the east and west.
Upon the globe a mathematical point
Only divides: Thus happiness and misery.
And all extremes, are still contiguous. [ Denham ]
At the point of the pen is the focus of the mind. [ J. L. Basford ]
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 ]
Art and science have their meeting-point in method. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
To continue good amongst ill men, that is the point. [ Proverb ]
It is a great point of wisdom to find out one's own folly. [ Proverb ]
No man had ever a point of pride but was injurious to him. [ Burke ]
It is of no use running, to set out betimes is the main point. [ La Fontaine ]
He that will not stoop for a pin shall never be worth a point. [ Proverb ]
Between a woman's Yes
and No
you may insert the point of a needle. [ German Proverb ]
Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear it should get blunted. [ Cervantes ]
You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy. [ Roscommon ]
There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point. [ L'Estrange ]
Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words. [ J. G. Holland ]
Thou true magnetic pole, to which all hearts point duly north, like trembling needles! (Gold) [ Byron ]
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting-point for happiness and usefulness. [ Dean Stanley ]
Begin by regarding every thing from a moral point of view, and you will end by believing in God. [ Dr. Arnold ]
America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
The mind does not know what diet it can feed on until it has been brought to the starvation point. [ Holmes ]
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. [ Lactantius ]
War--the trade of barbarians, and the art of bringing the greatest physical force to bear on a single point. [ Napoleon ]
Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one and frost out of the other. [ Addison ]
There is no such thing as good influence. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
We do not know of how much a man is capable if he has the will, and to what point he will raise himself if he feels free. [ J. von Muller ]
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality. [ T. W. Higginson ]
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to what our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. [ Gibbon ]
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
[ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure. [ Chapin ]
That were but a sorry art which could be comprehended all at once; the last point of which could be seen by one just entering its precincts. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. [ Bacon ]
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet. [ Chapin ]
We are too fond of our own will; we want to be doing what we fancy mighty things: but the great point is to do small things, when called to them, in a right spirit. [ Cecil ]
Everything dies, and on this spring morning, if I lay my ear to the ground, I seem to hear from every point of the compass the heavy step of men who carry a corpse to its burial. [ Madame de Gasparin ]
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it. [ Ben Jonson ]
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire-steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars. [ Coleridge ]
Make a point never so clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. [ Bishop Berkeley ]
Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning glasses - to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination. [ Swift ]
In art there is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste. [ Bruyere ]
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move, as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest. [ Colton ]
Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven. [ Longfellow ]
'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 ]
Talk to the point, and stop when you have reached it. The faculty some possess of making one idea cover a quire of paper is not good for much. Be comprehensive in all you say or write. To fill a volume upon nothing is a credit to nobody; though Lord Chesterfield wrote a very clever poem upon nothing. [ John Neal ]
There are few thoughts likely to come across ordinary men which have not already been expressed by greater men in the best possible way; and it is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world. [ John Ruskin ]
It takes twenty years to bring man from the state of embryo, and from that of a mere animal, as he is in his first infancy, to the point when his reason begins to dawn. It has taken thirty centuries to know his structure; it would take eternity to know something of his soul; it takes but an instant to kill him. [ Voltaire ]
Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the bands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
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 ]
The loss of a mother is always severely felt; even though Her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn! It is like that lonely star before us; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends. [ Lamartine ]