Make hay while the sun shines. [ Proverb ]
He that burns most shines most. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
She shines like a dry cow turd. [ Proverb ]
A tiny spark shines in the dark. [ French Proverb ]
He shines with unspotted honours. [ Motto ]
Gold hath no lustre of its own.
It shines by temperate use alone. [ Francis ]
The sun shines even on the wicked. [ Seneca ]
Amiability shines by its own light. [ Horace ]
To hide true worth from public view,
Is burying diamonds in their mine,
All is not gold that shines, 'tis true;
But all that is gold ought to shine. [ Bishop ]
Though the sun shines, take your cloak. [ Proverb ]
The light upon her face
Shines from the windows of another world
Saints only have such faces. [ Longfellow ]
He is only bright that shines by himself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. [ Pope ]
The style of St. Jerome shines like ebony. [ Joubert ]
Gold glitters most when virtue shines no more. [ Young ]
If the sun shines on me, what matters the moon? [ Proverb ]
Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? [ Beattie ]
If the sun shines on me, I care not for the moon. [ Italian Proverb ]
Something beyond! The immortal morning stands
Above the night, clear shines her prescient brow;
The pendulous star in her transfigured hands
Lights up the Now. [ Mary Clemmer ]
How is night's sable mantle labored over.
How richly wrought with attributes divine!
What wisdom shines! what love! this midnight pomp.
This gorgeous arch, with golden worlds inlaid!
Built with divine ambition. [ Young ]
Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast.
And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;
At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,
Troop home to churchyards. [ William Shakespeare ]
Although the sun shines, leave not thy cloak at home. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He needs no foil, but shines by his own proper light. [ John Dryden ]
Fortune is like glass; when she shines, she is broken. [ Syrus ]
We may say his wit shines at the expense of his memory. [ Le Sage ]
Believe that each day which shines upon you is the last. [ Horace ]
The hermit thinks the sun shines no where but in his cell. [ Proverb ]
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. [ Voltaire ]
A substitute shines brightly as a king, until a king be by. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
Age too, shines out, and garrulous recounts the feats of youth. [ Thomson ]
And one may say that his wit shines at the expense of his memory. [ Alain Rene Le Sage ]
And though the sun still shines so brightly, in the end it must go down. [ Heine ]
Of all the lights you carry in your face, joy shines farthest out to sea.
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. [ Whipple ]
When the sun shines nobody minds it, but when it is eclipsed all consider him. [ Proverb ]
So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm. [ Dr. Watts ]
O how portentous is prosperity! How, comet-like, it threatens, while it shines! [ Young ]
How far that little candle throws his beams! so shines a good deed in a naughty world. [ William Shakespeare ]
A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there. [ Cowper ]
His worth shines forth the brightest who in hope always confides; the abject soul despairs. [ Euripides ]
Gold glitters most where virtue shines no more, as stars from absent suns have leave to shine. [ Young ]
Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
True goodness is like the glow-worm; it shines most when no eyes, except those of heaven are upon it. [ Anonymous ]
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. [ Cervantes ]
It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. [ Chesterfield ]
Truth shines with its own light; it is not by the flames of funeral piles that the minds of men are illuminated. [ Belisarius ]
True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it. [ J. C. Hare ]
A good heart is the sun and moon, or, rather, the sun. and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly. [ William Shakespeare ]
'Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence. Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it. [ Joanna Baillie ]
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. Holmes disposed of a bigot at once, when he compared his mind to the pupil of the eye - the more light you let into it the more it contracts. [ Whipple ]
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death. [ Martial ]
Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. [ James A. Garfield ]