Gather roses while they bloom,
Tomorrow is yet far away.
Moments lost have no room,
In tomorrow or today. [ Gleim ]
A man's gift makes room for him. [ Proverb ]
Infinite riches in a little room. [ Marlowe ]
Better your room than your company. [ Simon Forman ]
In blissful dream, in silent night.
There came to me, with magic might,
With magic might, my own sweet love,
Into my little room above. [ Heine ]
There is room for more introductions. [ Horace ]
I have a heart with room for every joy. [ Bailey ]
All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim. [ Barry Cornwall ]
Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge. [ C. A. Bartol ]
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me;
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garment with his form. [ William Shakespeare ]
Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one. [ Herrick ]
The soul shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward
To the world's open view. [ John Dryden ]
Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom,
A shadow on those features fair and thin;
And softly, from that hushed and darkened room,
Two angels issued, where but one went in. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
He thought he thought, and yet he did not think,
But only echoed still the common talk,
As might an empty room. [ Walter C. Smith ]
A great acacia, with its slender trunk
And overpoise of multitudinous leaves,
(In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
Stood reconciling all the place with green. [ E. B. Browning ]
O very gloomy is the House of Woe,
Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling.
With all the dark solemnities which show
That Death is in the dwelling!
O, very, very dreary is the room
Where Love, domestic Love, no longer nestles.
But smitten by the common stroke of doom.
The corpse lies on the trestles! [ Hood ]
The great consulting-room of a wise man is a library. [ George Dawson ]
The soul pays soundly for the house-room in the body. [ Proverb ]
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room. [ Fredrika Bremer ]
A heart once poisoned by suspicion has no longer room for love. [ Kotzebue ]
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality. [ Spurgeon ]
Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine. [ George Herbert ]
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Where there is room in the heart, there is always room in the house. [ Moore ]
Drunkenness turns a man out of himself, and leaves a beast in his room. [ Proverb ]
When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
When the dog is beaten out of the room, where will they lay their stink? [ Proverb ]
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. [ Landor ]
The man who enters his wife's dressing-room is either a philosopher, or a fool. [ Balzac ]
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. [ Emerson ]
The loves that meet in paradise shall cast out fear; and paradise hath room for you and me and all. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]
Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house. [ Babcock ]
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart. [ James Martineau ]
All men are fools: to escape seeing one, one would be compelled to shut himself in his room, and break his mirror. [ De Sade ]
General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room. [ Locke ]
There are heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit, sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room. [ Fuller ]
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world; and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room. [ George Eliot ]
There are pictures by Titian so steeped in golden splendors, that they look as if they would light up a dark room like a solar lamp. [ Hillard ]
Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged of from glimpses got in the press of affairs or a few occasions. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
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 ]
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out; a house without books is like a room without windows. It is a man's duty to have books. [ H. W. Beecher ]
Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. [ Johnson ]
Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force. [ Prof. Drummond ]
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality. [ Joubert ]
Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty, that Vice can obtain a lodging. When he knocks at your door, be able to say, No room for your lordship, pass on!
[ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]
What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? and is there any harmony of tints that has such stirrings of delight as the sweet modulations of her voice? [ George Eliot ]
If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking. [ Frances Power Cobbe ]
The present is withered by our wishes for the future; we ask for more air, more light, more space, more fields, a larger home. Ah! does one need so much room to love a day, and then to die? [ E. Souvestre ]
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining. [ Adam Clarke ]
Good dressing includes a suggestion of poetry. One nowhere more quickly detects sentiment than in dress. A well-dressed woman in a room should fill it with poetic sense, like the perfume of flowers. [ Miss Oakey ]
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. [ Hume ]
You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room - their motions, their looks and their words - and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer. [ Chesterfield ]
There is nothing like youth. The middle aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile, like most kings. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent; we cannot kill and not kill at the same moment; but a moment is room enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outflash of a murderous thought, and the sharp backward stroke of repentance. [ George Eliot ]
Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousv, it is the (sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every tower in America. [ Talmage ]
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. [ Hume ]
Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there. [ Rutherford ]
As Plato entertained some friends in a room where there was a couch richly ornamented, Diogenes came in very dirty, as usual, and getting upon the couch, and trampling on it, said, I trample upon the pride of Plato.
Plato mildly answered, But with greater pride, Diogenes!
[ Erasmus ]
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one. [ Lowell ]
Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there; but as Mr. Dick justly observed to me, sitting down on the foot of the bed, nursing his leg, You know, Trotwood, I don't want to swing a cat. I never do swing a cat. Therefore what does that signify to me!
[ Charles Dickens ]
I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room I should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me. You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do. [ Mark Twain, from his speech Courage ]
The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion, - Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, - of Immortality! [ Charles Dickens ]
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. [ Johnson ]