So sweetly she bade me adieu,
I thought that she bade me return. [ Shenstone ]
And kind the voice and glad the eyes
That welcome my return at night. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
Is no return due from a grateful breast? [ Dryden ]
O, call back yesterday, bid time return. [ William Shakespeare ]
Send a fool to market and a fool he'll return. [ Proverb ]
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return. [ Pope ]
Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteemed;
But honesty once pawned is never redeemed. [ Middleton ]
Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar
In one bright flame, and then return no more. [ John Dryden ]
As this auspicious day began the race
Of every virtue join'd with every grace;
May you, who own them, welcome its return,
Till excellence, like yours, again is born.
The years we wish, will half your charms impair;
The years we wish the better half will spare;
The victims of your eyes will bleed no more,
But all the beauties of your mind adore. [ Jeffrey ]
The stranger's greeting thou shouldst aye return! [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
You came for wool but shall return shorn yourself. [ Proverb ]
The age of divine fantasy is gone, never to return. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Great minds, like Heaven, are pleased in doing good,
Though the ungrateful subjects of their favours
Are barren in return. [ Rowe ]
We both expect this privilege, and give it in return. [ Horace ]
He receives most favours who knows how to return them. [ Publius Syrus ]
Love without return is like a question without an answer. [ German Proverb ]
A too quick return of an obligation is a sort of ingratitude. [ Proverb ]
The mistake of many women is to return sentiment for gallantry. [ Jouy ]
I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it. [ Yogi Berra, when asked what he would do if he found a million dollars ]
You may turn nature out of doors with violence, but she will return. [ Horace ]
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. [ Lowell ]
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy - a vice which yields no return? [ Balzac ]
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. [ Bible ]
Economy is a savings bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
The only love which on this teeming earth asks no return for passion's wayward birth. [ Mrs. Norton ]
When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may the better return to thought, and to itself. [ Phaedrus ]
To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The greatest misfortune one can wish his enemy is that he may love without being loved in return. [ Labouisse ]
Neither can the wave which has passed by be again recalled, nor can the hour which has passed ever return. [ Ovid ]
It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not return to the bow; nor a word to the lips. [ Abdel-Kader ]
She felt his flame; but deep within her breast, in bashful coyness or in maiden pride, the soft return concealed. [ Thomson ]
Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain. [ George MacDonald ]
Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. [ Bible ]
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. [ Emerson ]
If eminent men whose history has been written could return to life, how they would laugh at what has been said of them. [ De Finod ]
The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear, and not disgrace, his apotheosis of him. [ Thoreau ]
When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives. [ Fredrika Bremer ]
Where much is given, much shall be required. There are never privileges to enjoy without corresponding duties to fulfil in return. [ Phiiups Brooks ]
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist, and do not die, but only retire a little from sight, and afterwards return again. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
An old Spanish writer says, To return evil for good is devilish; to return good for good is human; but to return good for evil is godlike.
[ Whately ]
Always driven toward new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age, cast anchor for even a day! [ Lamartine ]
He is ungrateful who denies a benefit; he is ungrateful who hides it; he is ungrateful who does not return it; he, most of all, who has forgotten it. [ Seneca ]
To smell a fresh turf of earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.
[ Fuller ]
Simple gratitude, untinctured with love, is all the return an ingenuous mind can bestow for former benefits. Love for love is all the reward we expect or desire. [ Goldsmith ]
When I cast my bread to the birds on the shores, the waves seemed to say: Hope! for, when thou comest to want, God will return thy bread! God still owes it to me. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]
Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which can never return. [ Johnson ]
Madness is consistent, which is more than can be said for poor reason. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason. [ Sterne ]
Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ever lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return. [ Hillard ]
A good deal depends upon luck as well as care, and sometimes a writer must wait, or even leave off and return to work again, before he can hit upon the turn of words required. [ Richard D. Blackmore, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Superstition is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars in the sky; but the stars are there, and will re-appear. [ Carlyle ]
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]
Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. [ Carlyle ]
It is hard to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or another. [ Tillotson ]
A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself. [ Andrew Lang ]
If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect. [ Hazlitt ]
A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily processiona of love and duty. [ Chapin ]
Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world, - to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second. [ Swift ]
If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her case is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex. [ Colton ]
Patron or Customer? These nouns are generally used indiscriminately. A patron is a virtual benefactor; one who countenances, aids, or supports. A customer is a purchaser, or buyer, who expects in return for his money full value received. Hence it is erroneous for a merchant to say, He is a patron of mine,
when he means simply a customer. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army. [ Napoleon I ]
In former days various superstitious rites were used to exorcise evil spirits, but in our times the same object is attained, and beyond comparison more effectually, by the press; before this talisman, ghosts, vampires, witches, and all their kindred tribes are driven from the land, never to return again; the touch of holy water is not so intolerable to them as the smell of printing ink. [ J. Bentham ]
Your invitation honors me, and pleases me because you still keep me in your remembrance, but I am seventy; seventy, and would nestle in the chimney-corner, and smoke my pipe, and read my book, and take my rest, wishing you well in all affection; and that when you in your return shall arrive at pier No. 70 you may step aboard your waiting ship with a reconciled spirit, and lay your course toward the sinking sun with a contented heart. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost.
Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it.
[ John Flavel ]
A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbors sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing. [ Martial ]