Of his own right. [ Law ]
The sense of right. [ Dr. Watson ]
Right wrongs no man. [ Proverb ]
God defend the right. [ William Shakespeare ]
Weigh right and sell dear. [ Proverb ]
By right ways and by wrong.
Good right needs good help. [ Dutch Proverb ]
Often might overcomes right. [ Proverb ]
The heart aye's the part aye
That makes us right or wrang. [ Burns ]
How forcible are right words! [ Bible ]
He's a hawk of the right nest. [ Proverb ]
None but a fool is always right. [ Hare ]
Right mixture makes good mortar. [ Proverb ]
Neither bribe nor lose thy right. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Right is right, since God is God. [ Faber ]
Let there be the liberty of right. [ Dupanloup ]
Right coral calls for no colouring. [ Proverb ]
Right reckoning makes long friends. [ Proverb ]
And might was the measure of right. [ Lucan ]
An heir by right of representation. [ Law ]
When once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right. [ Shakespeare ]
The soul's emphasis is always right. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Lay the saddle upon the right horse. [ Proverb ]
Right reason is stronger than force. [ James A. Garfield ]
Don't get me right, I'm just asking. [ Yogi Berra ]
Right, Roger, your sow's good mutton. [ Proverb ]
Action is the right outlet of emotion. [ Ward Beecher ]
Satire is the right hand of burlesque. [ Voltaire ]
He'll never do right, nor suffer wrong. [ Proverb ]
Diffidence is the right eye of prudence. [ Proverb ]
The beautiful seems right
By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness. [ E. B. Browning ]
I extend my right hand to a falling man. [ Motto ]
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. [ Alan Turing ]
By dint of going wrong all will go right. [ French Proverb ]
Do well and right, and let the world sink. [ Herbert ]
The right divine of kings to govern wrong. [ Pope ]
Beauty is everywhere a right welcome guest. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Obedience alone gives the right to command. [ Emerson ]
A fool may now and then be right by chance. [ Cowper ]
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace. [ Shakespeare ]
Reason and right give the quickest despatch. [ Feltham ]
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But why did you kick me down stairs? [ J. P. Kemble ]
My right eye itches, some good luck is near. [ Dryden ]
Narrow creeds of right and wrong, which fade
Before the unmeasured thirst for good. [ Robert Browning ]
Evil and good are God's right band and left. [ Bailey ]
Liberty is not the right of one, but of all. [ Herbert Spencer ]
Divine Philosophy, by whose pure light
We first distinguish, then pursue the right;
Thy power the breast from every error frees,
And weeds out all its vices by degrees. [ Juv ]
Life is probation: mortal man was made
To solve the solemn problem - right or wrong. [ John Quincy Adams ]
The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. [ Herbert ]
You can never by persistency make wrong right. [ Johnson ]
These eyes tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot.
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot.
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year.
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor have a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward. [ Milton ]
But wisdom, awful wisdom! which inspects,
Discerns, compares, weighs, separates, infers,
Seizes the right, and holds it to the last. [ Young ]
Love the sense of right and wrong confounds;
Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds. [ John Dryden ]
Right is with the strongest in love as in war,
And the woman we love will always be right. [ A. de Musset ]
Whoever is right, the persecutor must be wrong. [ William Penn ]
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. [ Pope ]
A miser does nothing right except when he dies. [ Proverb ]
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
But always think the last opinion right. [ Pope ]
The right of inheritance never lineally ascends. [ Law ]
His conduct still right with his argument wrong. [ Goldsmith ]
There are things
Which make revenge a virtue by reflection,
And not an impulse of mere anger; though
The laws sleep, justice wakes, and injured souls
Oft do a public right with private wrong. [ Byron ]
To woman, mildness is the best means to be right. [ Mme. de Fontaines ]
If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain. [ Young ]
So doth Thy right hand guide us through the world
Wherein we stumble. [ Robert Browning ]
God's in His Heaven - All's right with the world! [ Robert Browning ]
A basket-justice will do justice, right or wrong. [ Proverb ]
It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan. [ James A. Garfield ]
To take from the right hand and give to the left. [ Proverb ]
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain;
Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,
Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law. [ Joseph Story ]
There is a tendency in things to right themselves. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A right Englishman knows not when a thing is well. [ Proverb ]
Ignorance shuts its eyes and believes it is right. [ Punch ]
Excels in speech, but of a right hand slow to war. [ Virgil ]
It is not the armour, but the right placing of it. [ Proverb ]
We are sure to judge wrong if we do hot feel right. [ William Hazlitt ]
Better wrong with the many than right with the few. [ Portuguese Proverb ]
I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Nor actions, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood: I only speak right on. [ William Shakespeare ]
Reckon right, and February hath one and thirty days. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Twas a public feast and public day -
Quite full, right dull, guests hot, and dishes cold,
Great plenty, much formality, small cheer.
And everybody out of their own sphere. [ Byron ]
He that hath right, fears; he that hath wrong, hopes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He does not do right who unlearns what he has learnt. [ Plaut ]
The Alphabet Of Success
Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
The account is all right, but the money-bags are empty. [ Spanish Proverb ]
He that will enter paradise must come with a right key. [ Proverb ]
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit,
He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Nobody has a right to have opinions, but only knowledge. [ John Ruskin ]
Take advantage of the right mood, for it comes so seldom. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To a gentleman every woman is a lady in right of her sex.
Every man derives his right to life and liberty from God. [ H. Bingham ]
Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things. [ Jane Porter ]
Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer. [ Bible ]
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. [ Confucius ]
Industry is Fortune's right hand, and frugality her left. [ Proverb ]
A large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits. [ Paley ]
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. [ Schumann ]
He that would right understand a man must read his whole story. [ Proverb ]
The essential thing for all creatures is to be made to do right. [ John Ruskin ]
He that repents of a fault upon right grounds is almost innocent. [ Proverb ]
He who knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. [ Confucius ]
There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress. [ Emerson ]
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages. [ Carlyle ]
Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
The boy who uses vulgar words will be shunned by all right-minded boys.
You cannot have your work well done if the work be not of a right kind. [ Carlyle ]
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. [ Beecher ]
Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport the world knows. [ Theodore Roosevelt ]
If we have but the right mind, all things, even those which hurt, help us. [ Spalding ]
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. [ Claude Levi-Strauss ]
It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. [ Sir James Mackintosh ]
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart is at his left. [ Bible ]
What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. [ Emerson ]
The great art of superiority is getting hold of people by their right side. [ Mirabeau ]
There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn. [ Ruskin ]
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution. [ Seneca ]
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
If you sleep till noon, you have no right to complain that the days are short. [ Proverb ]
Where there is nothing to be had, even the king of France must lose his right. [ Proverb ]
And gazed around them to the left and right With the prophetic eye of appetite. [ Byron ]
Of the right that is born with us, of that unhappily there is never a question. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Mephisto in "Faust." ]
Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past. [ T. Edwards ]
There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong conduct appear right. [ Terence ]
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. [ Seneca ]
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [ Horace ]
Conscience is a sacred sanctuary, where God alone has the right to enter as judge. [ Lamennais ]
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. [ Rousseau ]
Women have the same desires as men, but do not have the same right to express them. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
I see the right, and I approve it too; condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. [ Ovid ]
Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic. [ Noah Webster ]
Every woman is in the wrong until she cries, and then she is in the right instantly. [ Haliburton ]
It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong. [ Spenser ]
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them. [ Emerson ]
Be in possession, and thou hast the right, and sacred will the many guard it for thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
[ Crabbe ]
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead: excessive grief the enemy to the living. [ William Shakespeare ]
Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Respect my independence! Lisette alone has the right to smile when I say: I am independent! [ Beranger ]
You will never miss the right way if you only act according to your feelings and conscience. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
O Eloquence! thou violated fair, how thou art wooed and won to either bed of right or wrong! [ Havard ]
When one writes of woman, he must reserve the right to laugh at his ideas of the day before. [ A. Ricard ]
Superior strength is found in the long-run to lie with those who had the right on their side. [ Froude ]
I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone. [ Gilpin ]
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. [ La Fontaine ]
Poetry is right royal. It puts the individual for the species, the one above the infinite many. [ Hazlitt ]
As to lawyers, - their profession is supported by the indiscriminate defence of right and wrong. [ Junius ]
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. [ Schiller ]
Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. [ Kant ]
People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them. [ Haliburton ]
Not by the law of force, but by the law of labour, has any man right to the possession of the land. [ John Ruskin ]
Let us have faith that right makes might; and, in that faith, let us to the end dare to do our duty. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Right ethics are central, and go from the soul outward. Gift is contrary to the law of the universe. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. [ Emerson ]
Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart. [ Leigh Hunt ]
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. [ Joubert ]
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. [ Lincoln ]
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends. [ Carlyle ]
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice. [ Sallust ]
Women are right to crave beauty at any price, since beauty is the only merit that men do not contest with them. [ A. Dupuy ]
If you resolve to do right, you will soon do wisely; but resolve only to do wisely, and you will never do right. [ John Ruskin ]
Ever take it for granted that man collectively wishes that which is right; but take care never to think so of one! [ Friedrich Schiller ]
There are several ways to speak: to speak well, to speak easily, to speak justly, and to speak at the right moment. [ La Bruyere ]
Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal rightlined circle must conclude and shut up all. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong. [ Schiller ]
There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually can become right merely by their multitude. [ Ruskin ]
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. [ Cicero ]
He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. [ Ben. Franklin ]
All the thinking in the world does not bring us to thought; we must be right by nature, so that good thoughts may come. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
One deviates to the right, another to the left; the error is the same with all, but it deceives them in different ways. [ Horace ]
God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Yet I argue not against heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer right onward. [ Milton ]
You have to go below the surface of words and actually feel them. This helps you choose the just-right word for your copy. [ Kathy Kleidermacher, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Copywriter's Words And Phrases ]
The people have the right to murmur, but they have also the right to be violent, and their silence is the lesson of kings. [ Jean de Beauvais ]
The freedom of a government does not depend upon the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them. [ Thaddeus Stevens ]
Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God. [ B. R. Haydon ]
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things. [ Madame Swetchine ]
What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions. [ William Penn ]
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less. [ Whately ]
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal? [ Milton ]
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing. [ Chapin ]
If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
Suspicions are nothing when a man is really true, and every one should persevere in acting honestly, for all will be made right in time. [ Hans Andersen ]
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. [ Addison ]
To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice. [ David Dudley Field ]
Natural liberty is the right of common upon a waste: civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmolested enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure. [ Paley ]
Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. [ 0. A. Sala ]
The divine right of beauty is the only divine right a man can acknowledge, and a pretty woman the only tyrant he is not authorized to resist. [ Junius ]
Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance. [ Jeremy Collier ]
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. [ Cato ]
Things will always right themselves in time, if only those who know what they want to do, and can do, persevere unremittingly in work and action. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
I am glad to think that I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints. [ Jean Ingelow ]
He who has done the best he can, has a right to be as happy in the hope of ultimate triumph as though he was already enthroned amidst that triumph. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. [ Sterne ]
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong. [ Bob Hagel ]
If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. [ Mark Twain ]
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. [ Ward Beecher ]
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. [ Lavater ]
The art of putting the right men in the right places is first in the science of government; but, that of finding places for the discontented is the most difficult. [ Talleyrand ]
We are too fond of our own will; we want to be doing what we fancy mighty things: but the great point is to do small things, when called to them, in a right spirit. [ Cecil ]
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right. [ Dr. Johnson ]
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. [ Cervantes ]
We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. [ Spurgeon ]
The female heart is just like a new india-rubber shoe; you may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long; and then let go, and it will fly right back to its old shape. [ Judge Haliburton ]
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason. [ Dryden ]
Charity commandeth us, where we know no ill, to think well of all; but friendship, that always goes a step higher, gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend. [ R. South ]
A good name is properly that reputation of virtue that every man may challenge as his right and due in the opinions of others, till he has made forfeit of it by the viciousness of his actions. [ South ]
Common fame is the only liar that deserveth to have some respect still reserved to it: though she telleth many an untruth, she often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men. [ Saville ]
Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine. [ Abraham Coles ]
A people that studies its own past, and rejoices in the nation's proud memories, is likely to be a patriotic people, the bulwark of law, and the courageous champion of right in the hour of need. [ Joseph Anderson ]
The nightingale, if she should sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection! [ Shakespeare ]
Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal. [ Henry Giles ]
Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection. [ Mark Twain, The Babies ]
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. Character is like bells which ring out sweet music, and which, when touched accidentally even, resound with sweet music. [ Phillips Brooks ]
It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin, - and then we all die so soon. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best. [ Plutarch ]
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. [ Colton ]
The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who is calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering. [ Channing ]
Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it. [ Madame de Sevigne ]
No good or lovely thing exists in this world without its correspondent darkness; and the universe presents itself continually to mankind under the stern aspect of warning, or of choice, the good and the evil set on the right hand and the left. [ John Ruskin ]
The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right. [ Henry George ]
The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering. [ William Ellery Channing ]
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird, - all is there for itself. Only because we think that all things have a relation to us, do they appear justifiable or otherwise. [ Auerbach ]
Without some strong motive to the contrary, men united by the pursuit of a clearly defined common aim of irresistible attractiveness naturally coalesce; and since they coalesce naturally, they are clearly right in coalescing and find their advantage in it. [ Matthew Arnold ]
Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. [ Chapin ]
I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. [ Beecher ]
As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite - variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite - energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not. [ Ruskin ]
The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. [ Hiram Powers ]
The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so. [ Ruskin ]
Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
O poets! what injury you have done us, and how right Plato was to banish you from his republic! How your ambrosia has rendered more bitter our absinth! How have we found our lives more barren and more desolate, after having turned our eyes toward the sublime perspectives which your dreams have opened in the infinite! [ T. Gautier ]
Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. [ Dean Alford ]
Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book, they buy with it the right to abuse the author. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
In Goethe's drama, Iphigenia defends her chastity, ascribing her firmness to the gods. No god hath said this: thine own heart hath spoken,
answered Thoas, the king. They only speak to us through our heart,
she replies. Have not I the right to hear them too?
he rejoins. Thy storm of passion drowns the gentle whisper,
adds the maiden, and closes all debate. [ Bartol ]
The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object - this is eloquence, or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence - it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. [ Webster ]
It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]
Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]
I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times my steriously in each of these books: thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right. [ Richard Cecil ]
As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may more properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame. [ Sterne ]
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanketmaking and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace. [ Ruskin ]
Good taste is essentially a moral quality. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the only morality. The first, last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, What do you like?
- and the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy the right things. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]
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 ]
If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron!
and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.
Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together;
and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]
This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]