Friendship requires deeds. [ Richter ]
Giving requires good sense. [ Ovid ]
He who buys requires an hundred eyes. [ Italian Proverb ]
The poorest meat requires some dress. [ Proverb ]
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 ]
Fancy requires much, necessity but little. [ German Proverb ]
Love requires boldness and scorns bashfulness. [ Proverb ]
We gape, we grasp, we gripe, add store to store;
Enough requires too much; too much craves more. [ Quarles ]
Living requires but little life; doing requires much. [ Joubert ]
Love requires not so much proofs as expressions of love. [ Jean Paul ]
Pride requires very costly food - its keeper's happiness. [ Colton ]
That sort of tympani which requires nine months for cure. [ Proverb ]
Nothing deters a good man from what honour requires of him. [ Seneca ]
Give time to the Evil One, and you give him all he requires. [ Gladstone ]
Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man. [ Michael Angelo ]
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time. [ Voltaire ]
It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous. [ Chamfort ]
Real worth requires no interpreter; Its everyday deeds form its blazonry. [ Chamfort ]
Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [ Lucan ]
Wealth is an imperious mistress; she requires the whole heart and life of man. [ Laboulaye ]
It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. [ J. L. Basford ]
It requires less character to discover the faults of others than to tolerate them. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation. [ Hosea Ballou ]
There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity. [ Swift ]
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence. [ Langford ]
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out. [ Lessing ]
When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven. [ Shelley ]
It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone. [ Aime-Martin ]
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires. [ Franklin ]
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. [ Joubert ]
Duty is one and invariable: it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity. [ Thoreau ]
Eloquence is like flame: it requires matter to feed on, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [ Tac ]
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy. [ Plutarch ]
The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. [ Hosea Ballou ]
If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal. [ Quarles ]
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [ Tacitus ]
True art, which requires free and healthy faculties, is opposed to pedantry, which crushes the soul under a burden. [ Hamerton ]
It is quite as much of a trade to make a book as to make a clock. It requires more than mere genius to be an author. [ Bruyere ]
The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study. [ Ruffini ]
Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting. [ Joubert ]
The art requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. [ Hazlitt ]
Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite. [ Hall ]
Love requires not so much proofs, as expressions, of love. Love demands little else than the power to feel and to requite love. [ Richter ]
When the commander-in-chief is not with the army, that is sooner done which need not to be done than that which requires to be done. [ Plaut ]
It is safer to believe evil of everyone until people are found out to be good, but that requires a great deal of investigation nowadays. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Logic is the art of thinking well; the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way. [ Kames ]
It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well. [ Sydney Dobell ]
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life. [ Sarah Ellis ]
The make-weight! The make-weight! which fate throws into the balance for us at every happiness! It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in this world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it. [ Ben Jonson ]
Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears. [ Lamb ]
Truth contradicts our nature, error does not, and for a very simple reason: truth requires us to regard ourselves as limited, error flatters us to think of ourselves as in one or other way unlimited. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make. [ Whipple ]
Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence, probity, and grace, to wear out life with, - persons with whom we can speak a few reasonable words every day, by whom we can measure ourselves, and who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct - that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to learn, to reason, nor to know, which binds the strong will of man, dominates his sovereign reason, and pales our little scientific tapers.
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good ; exercise ; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but, my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
To continue love in marriage is a science. It requires so little to kill those sweet emotions, those precious illusions, which form the charm of life; and it is so difficult to maintain a man at the height on which an exalted passion has placed him, especially when that man is one's husband! [ Mme. Reybaud ]
The difference between a parable and an apologue is that the former, being drawn from human life, requires probability in the narration, whereas the apologue, being taken from inanimate things or the inferior animals, is not confined strictly to probability. The fables of Aesop are apologues. [ Fleming ]
Occasion or Opportunity? The occasion is that which determines our conduct, and amounts to a degree of necessity; the opportunity is that which invites to action. We do things as the occasion requires, or as the opportunity offers. We may have occasion to write a letter without having the opportunity. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counterproof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology. [ Abraham Coles ]
We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose. [ Balzac ]
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. [ Helps ]