Small profits and quick returns. [ Proverb ]

He runs far indeed that never returns. [ Proverb ]

Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year. [ Shelley ]

The little bee returns with evening's gloom,
To join her comrades in the braided hive,
Where, housed beside their mighty honeycomb,
They dream their polity shall long survive. [ Charles (Tennyson) Turner ]

The day
For whose returns, and many, all these pray;
And so do I. [ B. Jonson ]

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who
Before us passed the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the road
Which to discover we must travel too. [ Omar Khayyam ]

And here where your praise might yield returns,
And a handsome word or two give help. [ Robert Browning ]

What comes from God to us, returns from us to God.

He that returns a good for evil obtains the victory. [ Proverb ]

Lord, shall we grumble, when thy flames do scourge us?
Our sins breathe fire; that fire returns to purge us.
Lord, what an alchemist art thou, whose skill
Transmutes to perfect good from perfect ill! [ Francis Quarles ]

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns. [ La Fontaine ]

Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop. [ P. N. Destouches ]

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. [ Publius Syrus ]

All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more. [ Waller ]

A good season for courtship is, when the widow returns from the funeral. [ Proverb ]

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. [ Longfellow ]

Who now travels that dark path to the bourne from which they say no one returns. [ Catullus ]

We frequently pass from love to ambition, but one seldom returns from ambition to love. [ Rochefoucauld ]

For no falsehood can endure touch of celestial temper, but returns of force to its own likeness. [ Milton ]

Man may go from aversion to love; but, when he has begun by loving, and has reached aversion, he never returns to love. [ Balzac ]

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever. [ Chamfort ]

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours; and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves, - the creature of habits and infirmities. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems. [ Coleridge ]