That which proves too much proves nothing. [ Proverb ]
The thirst for the infinite proves infinity. [ Victor Hugo ]
There are times when patience proves at fault. [ Robert Browning ]
He who tries to prove too much, proves nothing. [ Proverb ]
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
In every bosom where her nest is made.
Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. [ Cowper ]
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. [ Tertullian ]
Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste:
For valour, is not love a Hercules? [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act. IV. Sc. 3 ]
All the wicked are water-drinkers; this the deluge proves.
He that doubts the existence of mind, by doubting, proves it. [ Milton in his Old Age ]
He who pretends to know everything proves that he knows nothing. [ Le Bailly ]
Diversity of opinion proves that things are only what we think them. [ Montaigne ]
'Tis great - 'tis manly to disdain disguise. It shows our spirit, or it proves out strength. [ Young ]
Nothing proves better the necessity of an indissoluble marriage than the instability of passion. [ Balzac ]
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not. [ Pascal ]
Perfect life is ever in one's acts to deal with innocence, which proves itself in doing wrong to no one but itself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A man should never blush in confessing his errors, for he proves by his avowal that he is wiser today than yesterday. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
When we imagine that we love, it is the presence of the loved one that deceives us: when we truly love, it is absence that proves it. [ Lingrie ]
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation. [ Johnson ]
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. [ George Eliot ]
The only pleasure of fame is that it proves the way to pleasure; and the more intellectual our pleasure, the better for the pleasure and for us too. [ Byron ]
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]
The shortest and surest way to prove a work possible is strenuously to set about it; and no wonder if that proves it possible that for the most part makes it so. [ South ]
To protect one's self against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman, it proves a tempest in the harbor. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor. [ Feltham ]
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 ]
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank. [ Colton ]
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receives. [ Colton ]
It is very singular, how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betray its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]