Vice rules where gold reigns. [ Proverb ]
The king reigns, but does not govern. [ Jan Zamoiski ]
Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart. [ Otway ]
The love of praise, however concealed by art,
Reigns more or less and glows in every heart. [ Young ]
The love of praise, however concealed by art
Reigns, more or less, and glows, in every heart:
The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure;
The modest shun it, but to make it sure. [ Young ]
The chief disease that reigns this year is folly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Where vain-glory reigns, folly is prime counsellor. [ Proverb ]
Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains. [ Pope ]
Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains. [ Hannah More ]
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. [ Grattan ]
The heart of a loving woman is a golden sanctuary, where often there reigns an idol of clay. [ Limayrac ]
There's some ill planet reigns; I must be patient till the heavens look with an aspect favorable. [ William Shakespeare ]
Now-a-days friends are no longer found; good faith is dead, envy reigns supreme; and evil habits are ever more extending. [ Sannazaro ]
Everything falls and is effaced. A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet, so much tumult on the surface! [ Victor Hugo ]
Youth is like those verdant forests tormented by winds: it agitates on every side the abundant gifts of nature, and some profound murmur always reigns in its foliage. [ M. de Guerin ]
It may be remarked for the comfort of honest poverty that avarice reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to recommend them. This is a weed that will grow in a barren soil. [ Hughes ]