Our rocks are rough, but smiling there
The acacia waves her yellow hair,
Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less
For flow'ring in a wilderness. [ Moore ]
Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains;
They crown'd him long ago
On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,
With a diadem of snow. [ Byron ]
No vernal blooms their tropid rocks array
But winter lingering chills the lap of May. [ Goldsmith ]
Reason the hoary dotard's dull directress,
That loses all, because she hazards nothing;
Reason! the timorous pilot, that, to shun
The rocks of life, forever flies the port. [ Dr. Johnson ]
No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast.
But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. [ Goldsmith ]
To escape the rocks, and perish in the sands. [ Proverb ]
Ah many a storm love can safely outride,
But a secret at home is like rocks under tide. [ Dinah Muloch Craik ]
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. [ Congreve ]
Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great.
Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint. [ William Shakespeare ]
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. [ Milton ]
He who will not answer to the rudder, must answer to the rocks. [ Herve ]
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. [ Petrarch ]
A mariner must have his eye upon rocks and sands as well as upon the north star. [ Proverb ]
And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. [ Coleridge ]
Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there. [ Madame Necker ]
Even the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume. [ Addison ]
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. [ Pope ]
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. [ Webster ]
High positions are like the summit of high, steep rocks: eagles and reptiles alone can reach them. [ Mme. Necker ]
Death is a silent, peaceful genius, who rocks our second childhood to sleep in the cradle of the coffin. [ Chatfield ]
Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity. [ Watts ]
What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may? [ Thackeray ]
There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
The good pilot knows the whereabouts of every sunken rock in the harbor; how much of joy there would be in the world if all men knew the sunken rocks in the harbor of life. [ Catherine A. Atmould ]
As the cautious pilot steers the ship clear of the breakers, and brings the vessel safe to port, so should we steer our life-ship clear of the rocks and shoals of sin to the port of everlasting life. [ James Ellis ]
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked. [ Bishop Horne ]