Rank imposes obligation. [ Motto ]
Rank is a great beautifier. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
A lovely girl is above all rank. [ Charles Buxton ]
In every rank, or great or small,
It is industry supports us all. [ Gay ]
Man's rank is his power to uplift. [ George Macdonald ]
The rank is but the guinea's stamp.
The man's the gowd for a' that. [ Burns ]
Sirs, adulation is a fatal thing -
Rank poison for a subject, or a king. [ Dr. Wolcot ]
Study thyself; what rank or what degree
The wise Creator hath ordained for thee. [ John Dryden ]
Oh, my offence is rank; it smells to heaven. [ William Shakespeare ]
The honey-bee that wanders all day long
The field, the woodland, and the garden over.
To gather in his fragrant winter store.
Humming in calm content his winter song,
Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,
The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips.
But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips
The single drop of sweetness closely pressed
Within the poison chalice. [ Anne C. Lynch Botta ]
Privileged souls rank on a level with princes. [ Frederick the Great ]
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. [ Ruffini ]
The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. [ Ovid ]
His exalted rank weighs heavy on him as a grievous burden. [ Seneca ]
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. [ Voltaire ]
For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty. [ Massinger ]
In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all. [ Gay ]
Some who are eclipsed in the first rank may shine in the second. [ Voltaire ]
Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them. [ William Shakespeare ]
To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose that one is below it. [ Stanislaus ]
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count never made a man. [ Southern ]
If thou modestly enjoy thy fame, thou art not unworthy to rank with the holy. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is a rank courtesy, when a man is forced to give thanks for what is his own. [ Proverb ]
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. [ Cardinal de Retz ]
'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul: I think the Romans call it stoicism. [ Addison ]
I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp can make the metal better. [ Wycherley ]
Constant and exclusive devotion to mere physical necessities, degrades man to the rank of an animal. [ Lamennais ]
Rank exists in the moral world also. Commoner natures pay with what they do: nobler, with what they are. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]
High rank and discernment are two different things, and love for virtue and for virtuous people is a third thing. [ La Bruyère ]
Every error of the mind is the more conspicuous and culpable in proportion to the rank of the person who commits it. [ Juvenal ]
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men. [ Langford ]
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. [ J. R. MacCulloch ]
If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revery is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. [ Tupper ]
The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt. [ L'Estrange ]
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. [ Barton ]
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all. [ Burke ]
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. [ Montaigne ]
The pride of the heart is the attribute of honest men; pride of manners is that of fools; the pride of birth and rank is often the pride of dupes. [ Duclos ]
The best ground, untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds; a man of knowledge that is either negligent or uncorrected cannot but grow wild and godless. [ Bishop Hall ]
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse. [ Tuckerman ]
The generality of princes, if they were stripped of their purple and cast naked on the world, would immediately sink to the lowest rank of society, without a hope of emerging from their obscurity. [ Gibbon ]
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of it tallow-chandler. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits. [ Chamfort ]
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 ]
There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford. [ Shenstone ]
Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best invidious; and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy. [ Shenstone ]
It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke. [ Colton ]
It is averse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds or inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed, nor calls out his powers, if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke. [ Colton ]
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and commonsense now assign to it. [ Arago ]
Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe. to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals. [ Goldsmith ]
Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; they wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! [ Emerson ]
If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]