A good tree is a good shelter. [ Proverb ]
As the wind blows, seek your shelter . [ Proverb ]
A thin bush is better than no shelter. [ Proverb ]
An old ox will find a shelter for himself. [ Proverb ]
Drip, drip, the rain comes falling,
Rain in the woods, rain on the sea;
Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling
As if to find shelter here with me. [ James Herbert Morse ]
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. [ Wm. Pitt ]
Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly
When consternation turns the good man pale? [ Young ]
The tender flower that lifts its head, elate,
Helpless must fall before the blasts of fate,
Sunk on the earth, defaced its lovely form,
Unless your shelter ward th' impending storm. [ Burns ]
The best shelter for a girl is her mother's wing.
Better shelter under an old hedge than a young furzbush. [ Proverb ]
He found shelter among books, which insult not, and studies that ask no questions of a youth's finances. [ Lamb ]
Music is the fourth great material want of our natures, - first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music. [ Bovee ]
Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits the lowlier droop their boughs. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do storms. But the thunder-clouds break upon them, and they thus form a shelter for the plains around. [ Jean Paul ]
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 ]
The virtuous delight in the virtuous; but he who is destitute of the practice of virtue delighteth not in the virtuous. The bee retireth from the forest to the lotus, whilst the frog is destitute of shelter. [ Hitopadesa ]
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 ]