Like seeks like. [ French Proverb ]
Ability seeks ability. [ German Proverb ]
Truth seeks no corners. [ Proverb ]
He that is at ease seeks dainties. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that seeks trouble never misses. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that seeks trouble never misses of it. [ Proverb ]
That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,
And follows but for form,
Will pack, when it begins to rain,
And leave thee in a storm. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that attends to his interior self,
That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind
That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks
A social, not a dissipated life,
Has business. [ Cowper ]
Brook! whose society the poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious painter doth pursue
Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks.
And tracks thee dancing down thy waterbreaks. [ Wordsworth ]
The honey-bee that wanders all day long
The field, the woodland, and the garden over.
To gather in his fragrant winter store.
Humming in calm content his winter song,
Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,
The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips.
But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips
The single drop of sweetness closely pressed
Within the poison chalice. [ Anne C. Lynch Botta ]
Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found. [ Salis ]
He who seeks for gain must be at some expense. [ Plautus ]
He that seeks danger perishes therein unpitied. [ Proverb ]
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Luck seeks those who flee, and flees those who seek it. [ German Proverb ]
One seeks new friends only when too well known by old ones. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]
The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise. [ Goethe ]
Every man seeks for truth; but God only knows who has found it. [ Chesterfield ]
What man seeks in love is woman; what woman seeks in man is love. [ A. Houssaye ]
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
A constrained will seeks every opportunity to slip its head out of the collar. [ Proverb ]
A coquette has no heart, she has only vanity: it is adorers she seeks, not love. [ Poincelot ]
The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. [ De Tocqueville ]
Whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. [ Cyrus ]
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason. [ Epes Sargent ]
Care seeks out wrinkled brows and hollow eyes, and builds himself caves to abide in them. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it! [ Hawthorne ]
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. [ William Penn ]
God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. [ Luther ]
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. [ St. Augustine ]
A bachelor seeks a wife to avoid solitude; a married man seeks society to avoid the tête-à-tête. [ De Varennes ]
A valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to preserve one citizen than to destroy a thousand enemies. [ Scipio ]
Love is a malicious blind boy, who seeks to blind the eyes of his guide, that both may go astray together.
The heart which truly loves puts not its love aside ... but grows stronger for that which seeks to thwart it. [ Lewis Morris ]
Beware of him who meets you with a friendly mien, and, in the midst of a cordial salutation, seeks to avoid your glance. [ Lavater ]
When one seeks the cause of the successes of great generals, one is astonished to find that they did everything necessary to insure them. [ Napoleon I ]
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair. [ Pascal ]
Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good. [ Schiller ]
Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the prospect. Age looks back on the happiness of youth, and, instead of hopes, seeks its enjoyment in the recollection of hope. [ Coleridge ]
The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood. [ Simms ]
But the grave is not deep; it is the shining tread of an angel that seeks us. When the unknown hand throws the fatal dart at the end of man, then boweth he his head and the dart only lifts the crown of thorns from his wounds. [ Richter ]
Nature builds upon a false bottom, seeks herself what she values in others, and is oftentimes deceived and disappointed. Grace reposes her whole hope and love in God, and is never mistaken, never deluded by false expectations. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. [ Emerson ]
Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of aesthetic beauty concur in maintaining that the real truthfulness of all works of imagination - sculpture, painting, written fiction - is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent the positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion. [ Ruskin ]