Honour and profit lie not in one sack. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Riches profit not in the day of wrath. [ Bible ]
If you mean to profit, learn to praise. [ Churchill ]
No profit to honor, no honor to religion. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Poets wish either to profit or to please. [ Horace ]
I know
The past and thence I will essay to glean
A warning for the future, so that man
May profit by his errors, and derive
Experience from his folly;
For, when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, the human soul
Requires no other heaven. [ Shelley ]
Little pains
In a due hour employ'd great profit yields. [ John Philips ]
Root away
The noisome weeds, which without profit suck
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. [ Rich. II ]
Honour without profit is a ring on the finger. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. [ Publius Syrus ]
Let him that receives the profit repair the inn. [ Proverb ]
These earthly god-fathers of heaven's lights
That give a name to every fixed star
Have no more profit of their shining nights
Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. [ William Shakespeare ]
Common people hang more after praise than profit. [ Proverb ]
Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round,
And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?
No: the dead know it not, nor profit gain;
It only serves to prove the living vain. [ Gay ]
If pains be a pleasure to you, profit will follow. [ Proverb ]
Praise without profit puts but little into the pot. [ Proverb ]
Honor and profit do not always lie in the same sack. [ George Herbert ]
What is none of your profit need be none of your peril. [ Proverb ]
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. [ La Roche ]
I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere. [ Tennyson ]
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but justice delivers from death. [ Bible ]
No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure. [ Noah Porter ]
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with profit. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is hoarded up, what profit is in them both? [ Ecclus ]
You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but you know not how to profit by your victory. [ Maharbal in Livy ]
Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it. [ Caleb C. Colton ]
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. [ Fenelon ]
All worldly profit, all pleasure is correspondent to a like measure of anxiety or wearisomeness. [ Proverb ]
Uprightness, judgment, and sympathy with others will profit thee at every time and in every place. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The term of man's life is half wasted before he has done with his mistakes and begins to profit by his lessons. [ Jane Taylor ]
If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith: and seek not at any time the fame of being learned. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
Knowledge is not a shop for profit or sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate. [ Bacon ]
There are men who dwell on the defects of their enemies. I always have regard to the merits of mine, and derive profit therefrom. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well established authors. [ Whately ]
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 ]
We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess. [ Zimmermann ]
No man's credit can fall so low but that, if he bear his shame as he should do, and profit by it as he ought to do, it is in his own power to redeem his reputation. [ Lord Nottingham ]
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. [ Emerson ]
Flowers of rhetoric, in sermons or serious discourses, are like the red and blue flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap the profit. [ Swift ]
The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read a book so bad but he drew some profit from it [ Sterne ]
What with the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or pleasure. It gives one position and prevents one from keeping it up. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. [ George Washington ]
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. [ Quarles ]
You will get more profit from trying to find where beauty is, than in anxiously inquiring what it is. Once for all, it remains undemonstrable; it appears to us, as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters; and in short, of all feeling artists; it is a hovering, shining, shadowy form, the outline of which no definition holds. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]