Spend,
And God will send. [ Proverb ]
Send not a cat for lard. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Send not to market for trouble. [ Proverb ]
God send you more wit and me more money. [ Proverb ]
And send him many years of sunshine days! [ William Shakespeare ]
I will send him away with a flea in his ear. [ Proverb ]
Send a fool to market and a fool he'll return. [ Proverb ]
Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing.
Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
But Man alone has skill and power to send
The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
Ages remote, and nations yet to rise. [ Crabbe ]
Send not for an hatchet to break open an egg with. [ Proverb ]
God send me a friend that will tell me of my faults. [ Proverb ]
Oh! he thou blest with all that Heaven can send.
Long health, long youth, long pleasure - and a friend. [ Pope ]
Send a wise man on an errand and say nothing unto him. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Where the devil cannot come, he will send his messenger. [ German Proverb ]
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will buy. [ Proverb ]
It is a madness for a sheep to send a challenge to a wolf. [ Proverb ]
Even the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume. [ Addison ]
Music would not be unexpedient after meat to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction, and send their minds back to study in good tune. [ Milton ]
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 ]
For from the crushed flowers of gladness on the road of life a sweet perfume is wafted over to the present hour, as marching armies often send out from heaths the fragrance of trampled plants. [ Richter ]
People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it. [ Johnson ]
I put myself, my experiences, my observations, my heart and soul into my work. I press my soul upon the white paper. The writer who does this may have any style, he or she will find the hearts of their readers. Writing a book involves, not a waste, but a great expenditure of vital force. Yet I can assure you I have written the last lines of most of my stories with tears. The characters of my own creation had become dear to me. I could not bear to bid them good-bye and send them away from me into the wide world. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]