Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's crown well won,
Now comes rest. [ President Garfield's Epitaph ]
Blind men must not run. [ Proverb ]
To run the wild goose chase. [ Proverb ]
Not poetry, but prose run mad. [ Pope ]
Good cheap is dear at long-run. [ Proverb ]
Feet that run on willing errands! [ Longfellow ]
Like a blind spinner in the sun,
I tread my days;
I know that all the threads will run
Appointed Ways. [ Helen Hunt ]
Sweet are the little brooks that run
O'er pebbles glancing in the sun.
Singing in soothing tones. [ Hood ]
Satires run faster than panegyricks. [ Proverb ]
A full purse makes the mouth run over. [ Proverb ]
You run like teague before your errand. [ Proverb ]
O lovely eyes of azure.
Clear as the waters of a brook that run
Limpid and laughing in the summer sun! [ Longfellow ]
Alas! our young affections run to waste,
Or water but the desert. [ Byron ]
A friend is worth all hazards we can run. [ Young ]
Full guts neither run away nor fight well. [ Proverb ]
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees;
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. [ Ovid ]
Keep together here, lest, running thither.
We unawares run into danger's mouth. [ Milton ]
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had:
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. [ Pope ]
To get out of one mire to run into another. [ Proverb ]
Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I cannot run and sit still at the same time. [ Proverb ]
What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid? [ Milton ]
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. [ Alexander Pope ]
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]
Ah me! for aught that ever I could read ...
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]
Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. [ Milton ]
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]
Let not your tongue run away with your brains. [ Proverb ]
I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts,
Each one of which down hurls me to the ground. [ Bailey ]
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully or standing still.
One leg, as if suspicious of his brother.
Desirous seems to run away from t' other. [ Churchill ]
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away. [ Young ]
To hold with the hare, and run with the hounds. [ Proverb ]
Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run. [ Herbert ]
The further you run, the further you are behind. [ Proverb ]
When the wine is run out you would stop the leak. [ Proverb ]
Valour would fight, but discretion would run away. [ Proverb ]
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. [ Proverb ]
As one who in some frightful dream would shun
His pressing foe, labors in vain to run
And his own slowness in his sleep bemoans.
In short thick sighs, weak cries, and tender groans. [ Dryden ]
If you could run as you drink you might catch a hare. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A thousand years hence, the river will run as it did. [ Proverb ]
An old fox does not run into the snare a second time. [ German Proverb ]
A good man will as soon run into a fire as a quarrel. [ Proverb ]
Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run. [ Sir William Davenant ]
Cowards run the greatest danger of any men in a battle. [ Proverb ]
To spare at a spigot, and let run out at the bung-hole. [ Proverb ]
He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light. [ Yogi Berra ]
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. [ George Henry Lewes ]
Mark how there still has run, inwoven from above,
Through thy life's darkest woof, the golden thread of love. [ R. C. Trench ]
Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. [ Bible ]
For one virtue that makes us walk, how many vices make us run! [ Pichot ]
Passionate men like fleet hounds are apt to over-run the scent. [ Proverb ]
To the true teacher, Time's hourglass should still run gold-dust. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
It is easier to run from virtue to vice, than from vice to virtue. [ Proverb ]
Some have been thought brave, because they were afraid to run away. [ Proverb ]
When a pig is given you, run presently for a string to lead it home. [ Proverb ]
As birds are made to fly and rivers to run, so the soul to follow duty. [ Ramayana ]
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. [ Ouida ]
Let us not run out of the path of duty, lest we run into the way of danger. [ Rowland Hill ]
The fox knows many shifts, the cat only one great one, viz., to run up a tree. [ Proverb ]
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you. [ H. W. Shaw ]
We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at and lose by overrunning. [ William Shakespeare ]
Women of society, as well as Hottentots, run naturally to ornaments and gewgaws. [ Pere Dumas ]
His wit run him out of his money, and now his poverty has run him out of his wits. [ Congreve ]
There are few husbands whom the I wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
Superior strength is found in the long-run to lie with those who had the right on their side. [ Froude ]
It is wiser to run away when there is no remedy, than to stay and die in the field foolishly. [ Proverb ]
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. [ Macaulay ]
Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rush to it, it may soon run itself out of breath. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. [ Byron ]
In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character. [ Addison ]
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. [ Mrs. Oliphant ]
God save the fools, and don't let them run out; for, without them, wise men couldn't get a living. [ Amer. Proverb ]
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
What seems generosity is often disguised ambition, that despises small to run after greater interests. [ Rochefoucauld ]
So long as people are subject to disease and death, they will run after physicians, however much they may deride them. [ La Bruyere ]
The history of persecution is a history of endeavor to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. [ Emerson ]
The sound of fresh rain run-off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people are satisfied with ornament. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms. [ Swift ]
Our minds are like certain vehicles, - when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly. [ Elihu Burritt ]
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it doth singe yourself. We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose by overrunning. [ William Shakespeare ]
Exact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. [ Lowell ]
More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
I never listen to calumnies, because, if they are untrue, I run the risk of being deceived, and if they are true, of hating persons not worth thinking about. [ Montesquieu ]
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 ]
When you hear that your neighbour has picked up a purse of gold in the street, never run out into the same street, looking about you, in order to pick up such another. [ Goldsmith ]
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? Ay Sir! And the creature run from the cur? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office. [ William Shakespeare ]
To divert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy books; they presently fix thee to them, and drive the other out of thy thoughts. They always receive thee with the same kindness. [ Fuller ]
The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the conquering that gives a hero his title to renown. [ E. L. Magoon ]
I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. [ Whipple ]
If there remains an eternity to us after the short revolution of time we so swiftly run over here, it is clear that all the happiness that can be imagined in this fleeting state is not valuable in respect of the future. [ Locke ]
The essence of humour is sensibility, warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence; and unless seasoned and purified by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild, will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood, or, in one word, sentimentality. [ Carlyle ]
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move, as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest. [ Colton ]
There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom: and it may be said, that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom: so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life, is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain. [ Saville ]
Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light - instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremeties of the earth. [ Lamartine ]
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Oh, my dear friends, - you who are letting miserable misunderstandings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day, - if you only could know and see and feel that the time is short, how it would break the spell! How you would go instantly and do the thing which you might never have another chance to do! [ Phillips Brooks ]
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 ]
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 ]
Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes. [ Chesterfield ]
Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness. [ Johnson ]
It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result, by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence. [ G. H. Lewes ]