Two may keep counsel, putting one away. [ Proverb ]

They say...
That, putting all his words together,
Tis three blue beans in one blue bladder. [ Prior ]

The entreaty of a great man, is putting of a force upon us. [ Proverb ]

By ever taking out and never putting in, one soon reaches the bottom. [ Spanish Proverb ]

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place. [ Johnson ]

The saddest failures in life are those that come from the not putting forth of power and will to succeed. [ Whipple ]

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. [ Saadi ]

The art of putting well into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than true merit achieves. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Putting thoughts in writing. It resembles a tradesman taking stock, without which he never knows either what he possesses, or in what he is deficient. [ John Hunter ]

The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but, that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult. [ Talleyrand ]

The want of a more copious diction, to borrow a figure from Locke, is caused by our supposing that the mind is like Fortunatus's purse, and will always supply our wants, with out our ever putting anything into it. [ Bovee ]

Grief, like night, is salutary. It cools down the soul by putting out its feverish fires; and if it oppresses her, it also compresses her energies. The load once gone, she will go forth with greater buoyancy to new pleasures. [ Dr. Pulsford ]

The poets fabulously fancied that the giants scaled heaven by heaping mountain upon mountain. What was their fancy is the gospel truth. If you would get to heaven you must climb thither by putting Mount Sion upon Mount Sinai. [ Bishop Hopkins ]