Why should a rich man steal? [ Proverb ]

Good things should be praised. [ Shakespeare ]

Youth should be a savings-bank. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Loans should come laughing home. [ Proverb ]

No thought which ever stirred
A human breast should be untold. [ Robert Browning ]

What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief. [ William Shakespeare ]

A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death? [ Wordsworth ]

Talent should minister to genius. [ Robert Browning ]

What should a cow do with a nutmeg? [ Proverb ]

Ask your purse what you should buy. [ Proverb ]

A cursed curr should be short tied. [ Proverb ]

Love should not be all on one side. [ Proverb ]

Letters should be easy and natural. [ Chesterfield ]

Moderation should be used in joking. [ Cicero ]

O God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap! [ Hood ]

She is no better than she should be. [ Henry Fielding ]

Little boats should keep near shore. [ Franklin ]

We should count time by heartthrobs. [ James Martineau ]

Ask why God made the gem so small,
And why so huge the granite?
Because God meant mankind should set
The higher value on it. [ Burns ]

Suppose a neighbour should desire
To light a candle at your fire,
Would it deprive your flame of light
Because another profits by it. [ Lloyd ]

Education should be as broad as man. [ Emerson ]

Wit should be wit. but never satire. [ Madame La Rochejaquelein ]

O there are Voices of the Past,
Links of a broken chain.
Wings that can bear me back to times
Which cannot come again;
Yet God forbid that I should lose
The echoes that remain! [ Adelaide A. Procter ]

By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated. [ Gay ]

What should we speak of
When we are old as you?
When we shall hear
The rain and wind beat dark December. [ William Shakespeare ]

Misfortunes should always be expected. [ Johnson ]

A good horse should be seldom spurred. [ Proverb ]

If honesty cannot, knavery should not. [ Proverb ]

Blind men should not judge of colours. [ Proverb ]

Who spends more than he should,
Shall not have to spend when he would. [ Proverb ]

Maidens should be seen, and not heard. [ Proverb ]

Reason should direct and appetite obey. [ Cicero ]

Generosity should never exceed ability. [ Cicero ]

Great men should not have great faults. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

An ill cook should have a good cleaver. [ Proverb ]

No man should be judge in his own case. [ Law Maxim ]

A blind man should not judge of colours. [ Proverb ]

Man should be ever better than he seems. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]

A lame traveller should get out betimes. [ Proverb ]

Judges should have two ears, both alike. [ German Proverb ]

They only should own who can administer. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We frequently misplace esteem,
By judging men by what they seem,
To birth, wealth, power, we should allow
Precedence, and our lowest bow. [ Gay ]

Our life contains a thousand springs.
And dies if one be gone.
Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long. [ Watts ]

Little opportunities should be improved. [ Fenélon ]

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion. [ Plut ]

But through the heart
Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse
'Tis then delightful misery no more
But agony unmixed, incessant gall
Corroding every thought, and blasting all
Love's paradise. [ Thomson ]

An artist should have more than two eyes. [ Lamartine ]

Lord, help me through this warld o' care,
I'm weary sick o't late and air;
Not but I hae a richer share
Than mony ithers;
But why should ae man better fare,
And a' men brithers? [ Burns ]

A young trooper should have an old horse. [ Proverb ]

Had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell.
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth. [ William Shakespeare ]

We should play to live, not live to play. [ Proverb ]

We should know (a person) before we love. [ Martial D'Auvergne ]

It is solitude should teach us how to die. [ Byron ]

I am not mad; I would to heaven I were!
For then, 'tis like I should forget myself:
O, if I could, what grief should I forget! [ William Shakespeare ]

Little fishes should not spout like whales. [ Proverb ]

Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd,
Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd! [ Moore ]

Could I love less, I should be happier now. [ Bailey ]

We should eat to live, and not live to eat. [ Proverb ]

A six-foot suckling, mincing in its gait.
Affected, peevish, prim and delicate;
Fearful it seemed, tho' of athletic make,
Lest brutal breezes should so roughly shake
Its tender form, and savage motion spread
O'er its pale cheeks, the horrid manly red. [ Churchill ]

The dead, and only they, should do nothing. [ Proverb ]

Truth finds foes where it should find none. [ Proverb ]

It is not good that the man should be alone. [ Bible ]

Existence may be borne, and the deep root
Of life and sufferance make its firm abode
In bare and desolate bosoms: mute
The camel labors with the heaviest load.
And the wolf dies in silence: Not bestowed
In vain should such examples be; if they.
Things of ignoble or of savage mood,
Endure and shrink not, we of nobler clay
May temper it to bear - it is but for a day. [ Byron ]

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary. [ Zimmermann ]

One's filthy linen should be washed at home. [ French Proverb ]

No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grief should be the instructor of the wise;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. [ Byron ]

These should be hours for necessities.
Not for delights; times to repair our nature
With comforting repose, and not for us
To waste these times. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grief should be
Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate,
Conforming, cleansing, raising, making free. [ Aubrey de Vere (the younger) ]

The freedom of the press should be inviolate. [ J. Q. Adams ]

Government should direct poor men what to do. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [ Goethe ]

Why should the devil have all the good tunes? [ Rowland Hill ]

When he should work, every finger is a thumb. [ Proverb ]

But should you lure
From his dark haunt, beneath the tangled roots
Of pendent trees, the monarch of the brook,
Behooves you then to ply your finest art. [ Thomson ]

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. [ Shakspeare ]

'Tis the eternal law.
That first in beauty should be first in might. [ Keats ]

Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings.
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my God for worldly things. [ Wm. Blake ]

A prudent man should neglect no circumstances. [ Sophocles ]

Argument should be politic as well as logical. [ Lamartine ]

A book should be luminous, but not voluminous. [ Bovee ]

They say women and music should never be dated. [ Goldsmith ]

A servant and a cock should be kept but a year. [ Proverb ]

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself? [ William Shakespeare ]

Ah! that deceit should steal such gentle shapes
And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known. [ Lyttelton ]

The heart of a statesman should be in his head. [ Napoleon I ]

When our thoughts are born
Though they be good and humble, one should mind
How they are reared, or some will go astray. [ Jean Ingelow ]

What hath this day deserved? what hath it done.
That it in golden letters should be set
Among the high tides in the calendar? [ William Shakespeare ]

Never give up! or the burden may sink you,
Providence wisely has mingled the cup;
And in all trials and troubles bethink you,
The watchword of life should be, Never give up! [ M. F. Tupper ]

Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. [ Sir John Denham ]

Quarrelling dogs should be kicked out of doors. [ Proverb ]

If it should rain porridge he would want a dish. [ Proverb ]

Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel.
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]

Thy will be done though the heavens should fall.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future. [ James Ellis ]

Brutus and Caesar: what should be in Caesar?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? [ William Shakespeare ]

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise. [ William Shakespeare ]

The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort.
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre and make wisdom smile. [ Cowper ]

I should think your tongue had broken its chain! [ Longfellow ]

Custom calls me to it -
What custom wills, in all things should we do it? [ William Shakespeare ]

What should be spoken here, where our fate,
Hid within an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us? [ William Shakespeare ]

Love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
Driving back shadows over lowering hills. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. [ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar ]

Charity begins at home, but should not end there. [ Proverb ]

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander. [ G. W. Curtis ]

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities. [ Cicero ]

Where you have friends you should not go to inns. [ George Eliot ]

Too curious man! why dost thou seek to know
Events, which, good or ill, foreknown, are woe!
The all-seeing power, that made thee mortal, gave
Thee every thing a mortal state should have. [ Dryden ]

Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The face should give leave to the tongue to speak. [ Proverb ]

Love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Sc. 5 ]

Nobody should be rich but those who understand it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Human hearts should be temples where angels dwell. [ T. L. Harris ]

I had rather my cake burn than you should turn it. [ Proverb ]

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [ Tacitus ]

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. [ Wm. Knox ]

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly. [ Dryden ]

Contradiction should awaken attention, not passion. [ Proverb ]

Love should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
Not ever be too curious for a boon,
Too prurient for a proof against the grain
Of him ye say ye love. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Rashness may conquer, but its not likely it should. [ Proverb ]

Government has been a fossil; it should be a plant. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear.
Your birthday as my own to me is dear.
Blest and distinguish'd days! which we should prize
The first, the kindest bounty of the skies.
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend,
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend. [ Martial ]

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Virtue, not pedigree, should characterise nobility. [ Motto ]

The small cart creaks, as the heavy wain should do. [ Proverb ]

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. [ Proverb ]

They that lie down for love should rise for hunger. [ Proverb ]

Yes - it was love - if thoughts of tenderness.
Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet - oh more than all! - untired by time.
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen were she near to smile,
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent;
Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part.
Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart;
Which nought removed, nor menaced to remove -
If there be love in mortals— this was love! [ Byron ]

Incredulity should make men advised, not irresolute. [ Proverb ]

While words of learned length, and thundering sound,
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head should carry all he knew. [ Goldsmith ]

An album is a garden, not for show
Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow. [ Charles Lamb ]

A prince should be slow to punish, prompt to reward. [ Ovid ]

We should publish our joys, and conceals our griefs. [ Proverb ]

These wickets of the soul are placed so high,
Because all sounds do highly move aloft;
And that they may not pierce too violently,
They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft.
For should the voice directly strike the brain,
It would astonish and confuse it much;
Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain,
That it the organ may more gently touch. [ Sir John Davies ]

Masters should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf. [ Proverb ]

That we would do,
We should do when we would; for this "would" changes,
And hath abatements and delays as many
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
And then this "should" is like a spendthrift's sigh,
That hurts by easing. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

The love of liberty should outrank the love of party. [ T. Tilton ]

Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece. [ Lessing ]

Women should despise slander, and fear to provoke it. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]

Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions. [ Smollett ]

We should speak as the populace, think as the learned. [ Coke ]

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. [ Philip J. Bailey ]

Young men should be learners, when old men are actors. [ Proverb ]

Let justice be done, though the heavens should fall in. [ Proverb ]

Oh, that deceit should dwell in sucb a gorgeous palace! [ William Shakespeare ]

A knavish confession should have a cane for absolution. [ Proverb ]

I know him not though I should meet him in my porridge. [ Proverb ]

Temper is so good a thing that we should never lose it.

Contempt should be the best concealed of our sentiments.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit,
He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

The acquirement of music should be made simple and easy. [ Guy Aretin ]

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. [ Publius Syrus ]

Still seems it strange that thou should'st live forever?
Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? [ Young ]

One should be slow in listening to criminal accusations. [ Publius Syrus ]

If fools should not fool it they shall lose their season. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that deserves nothing should be content with anything. [ Proverb ]

The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow. [ Shakespeare ]

On the stage man should stand a step higher than in life. [ Börne ]

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [ Juvenal ]

If you seek trouble, it is a pity but you should find it. [ Proverb ]

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. [ Confucius ]

If a wise man should never miscarry, the fool would burst. [ Proverb ]

The press should be the voice of the people, not of party. [ James Ellis ]

Friendship, love, and piety, should be treated in private. [ Novalis ]

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest. [ Bulwer ]

Servants should put on patience when they put on a livery. [ Proverb ]

Should we condemn ourselves to ignorance to preserve hope? [ E. Souvestre ]

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical. [ Beecher ]

We should all be perfect if we were neither men nor women.

He that eats well and drinks well should do his duty well. [ Proverb ]

He who proposes to be an author should first be a student. [ Dryden ]

Music, rather than poetry, should be called the happy art. [ Richter ]

You should not live one way in private, another in public. [ Syrus ]

Criticism should be written for the public, not the artist. [ Wm. Winter ]

Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear. [ Saurin ]

No one should be called happy before he is dead and buried. [ Ovid ]

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print. [ Moore ]

A covetous man does nothing that he should do, till he dies. [ Proverb ]

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

A gentleman should have more in his pocket than on his back. [ Proverb ]

Public instruction should be the first object of government. [ Napoleon I ]

We should be above jealousy when there is real cause for it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

There are some sorrows of which we should never be consoled. [ Mme. de Sevigni ]

None should expect to prosper who go out of the way of duty. [ Aughey ]

A general should make weakness appear strength to his enemy. [ Fabius ]

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known. [ Ruskin ]

No man should live in the world that has nothing to do in it. [ Proverb ]

That should be long considered which can be decided but once. [ Publius Syrus ]

It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. [ George Eliot ]

No one should so act as to take advantage of another's folly. [ Cicero ]

You should ask the world's leave before you commend yourself. [ Proverb ]

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Every day should be spent by us as if it were to be our last. [ Publius Syrus ]

He that doth what he should not shall feel what he would not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If all fools wore white caps we should seem a flock of geese. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Marriage is a treaty in which the conditions should be mutual. [ Balzac ]

Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. [ Bible ]

Without philosophy we should be little above the lower animals. [ Voltaire ]

Prayer should be the key of the day, and the lock of the night. [ Proverb ]

Strange an astrologer should die without one wonder in the sky. [ Swift ]

He briskly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time. [ Rabelais ]

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. [ Swift ]

He that has a mouth of his own should not say to another, Blow. [ Proverb ]

He that would have what he hath not should do what he doth not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day. [ Martial ]

All that's said in the parlour, should not be heard in the hall. [ Proverb ]

We should live each day as if it were the full term of our life. [ Source Unknown ]

No party should fear to go before the people for their decision. [ Robert Yates ]

Though we lose our fortune, yet we should not lose our patience. [ Proverb ]

Not fame, but that which it merits, is what a man should esteem. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety. [ Beaconsfield ]

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. [ Carlyle ]

He's drinking at the harrow when he should be driving his plough. [ Proverb ]

A book like a grape-vine should have good fruit among its leaves. [ E. P. Day ]

It is not with the living that we should live, but with the dead. [ Chamfort ]

An artist should be fit for the best society, and keep out of it. [ Ruskin ]

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. [ Balzac ]

As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [ Terence ]

I would applaud thee to the very echo, that should applaud again. [ William Shakespeare ]

O that men's ears should be to counsel deaf, but not to flattery! [ Shakespeare ]

To him that is afflicted, pity should be shewed from his friends. [ Bible ]

To the true teacher, Time's hourglass should still run gold-dust. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Solitude shows us what we should be; society shows us what we are. [ Cecil ]

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability. [ Montesquieu ]

Saying things that should be, and things that should not be, said. [ Horace ]

As the dawn precedes the sun, so acquaintance should precede love. [ Du Bosc ]

We should be careful what books we put into the hands of children. [ C. Buck ]

Our minds should be habituated to the contemplation of excellence. [ Joshua Reynolds ]

It is fair that he who begs to be forgiven should in turn forgive. [ Horace ]

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes. [ Proverb ]

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. [ Goethe ]

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask. [ Lamartine ]

He that has no silver in his purse should have silver on his tongue. [ Proverb ]

It is good to see in the misfortunes of others what we should avoid. [ Syrus ]

We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means. [ Cicero ]

The truly wise man should have no keeper of his secrets but himself. [ Guizot ]

'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious,
For tea +{Drink, Drunkenness} and coffee leave us much more serious. [ Byron ]

Things without remedy should be without regard; what is done is done. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself. [ Goethe ]

The personal pronoun I should be the coat of arms of some individuals. [ Rivarol ]

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them. [ Thomas Decker ]

Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear it should get blunted. [ Cervantes ]

Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Books, says my Lord Bacon, should have no patrons but truth and reason. [ Colton ]

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. [ Disraeli ]

Correction should not respect so much what is past, as what is to come. [ Proverb ]

What a woman says to her lover should be written on air or swift water. [ Catullus ]

No man should be afraid to die, who hath understood what it is to live. [ Proverb ]

In all affairs thou undertakest, a diligent preparation should be made. [ Cicero ]

If a poor man give you something, you should give him something better. [ Proverb ]

All things should be common between friends. Our friend is another self. [ Pythagoras ]

We should esteem a person according to his actions, not his nationality. [ Varenes ]

War is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings should not play at. [ William Cowper ]

One should always be in love: that is the reason one should never marry. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

There is one art of which man should be master, - the art of reflection. [ Coleridge ]

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned. [ Lady Montagu ]

This we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. [ Bible ]

Genius should be the child of genius, and every child should be inspired. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Friendship should be in the singular; it can be no more plural than love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

There should be such gladness and joy in life that all may partake of it. [ Lilian Whiting ]

He that speaks the thing he should not shall hear the thing he would not. [ Proverb ]

O friendship! thou divinest alchemist, that man should ever profane thee! [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Every day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of love. [ Lavater ]

Fathers, in reclaiming of a child, should outwit him, and seldom beat him. [ Proverb ]

One can be very happy without demanding that others should agree with one. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry. [ Calderon ]

Pity it is that no vanity should be put into the composition of women-kind. [ Proverb ]

In order to do great things, we should live as though we were never to die. [ Vauvenargues ]

Man should place himself above prejudices, and woman should submit to them. [ Mme. Necker ]

Travellers should correct the vice of one country by the virtue of another. [ Proverb ]

To render a marriage happy, the husband should be deaf and the woman blind. [ Proverb ]

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! [ William Shakespeare ]

War should be so undertaken that nothing but peace may seem to be aimed at. [ Cicero ]

He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. [ Montaigne ]

It is not other's apprehensions, but your own liking that should please you. [ Proverb ]

Rash combat oft immortalizes man. If he should fall, he is renowned in song. [ Goethe ]

It is a part of good-breeding, that a man should be polite, even to himself. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul. [ Cicero ]

We must laugh before we are happy, lest we should die without having laughed. [ La Bruyere ]

Feeling should be stirred only when it can be sent to labour for worthy ends. [ Brooke ]

Grace is a light superior to Nature, which should direct and preside over it. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

The master should not be graced by the mansion, but the mansion by the master. [ Cicero ]

If there is a virtue in the world which we should always aim, it cheerfulness. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity. [ Cervantes ]

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say one should always be quite candid. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

What woman says to her fond lover should be written in air or the swift water. [ Catullus ]

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. [ Emerson ]

Fictions meant to please should have as much resemblance as possible to truth. [ Horace ]

He who has less than he desires should know that he has more than he deserves. [ Lichtenberg ]

One should absorb the color of life, but one should never remember its details. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Men should allow others excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of their own. [ Barrow ]

I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. [ Thoreau ]

Good purposes should be the directors of good actions, not the apology for bad. [ Proverb ]

It is absurd that he should govern others, who knows not how to govern himself. [ Law Max ]

Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none! [ William Shakespeare ]

The young writer should remember that bigness is not greatness, nor fury force. [ George William Curtis ]

I have a very poor opinion of a man who talks to men what women should not hear. [ Richardson ]

Two things a man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot. [ Proverb ]

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [ Bible ]

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. [ Emerson ]

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

One's past is what one is. It is the only thing by which people should be judged. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Why should we complain, since we are so little moved by the complaints of others? [ Alfred Bougeart ]

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The beauty of a young girl should speak to the imagination, and not to the senses. [ A. Karr ]

Land should be given to those who can use it, and tools to those who can use them. [ John Ruskin ]

The aim of education should be rather to teach us how to think, than what to think. [ James Beattie ]

Conjugal Love should never put on or take off his bandage but at an opportune time. [ Balzac ]

Sure those who have neither strength nor weapons to fight at least should be civil. [ Goldsmith ]

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all. [ Euripides ]

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom. [ Gibbon ]

Were we perfectly acquainted with our idol, we should never passionately desire it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

We should always forgive, - the penitent for their sake, the impenitent for our own. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Great thoughts and a pure heart are the things we should beg for ourselves from God. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Women, like roses, should wear only their own colors, and emit no borrowed perfumes. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

That one man should die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy. [ Carlyle ]

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed. [ Goethe ]

Rose of the desert! thus should woman be Shining uncourted, lone and safe, like thee. [ Moore ]

Wars should be undertaken in order that we may live in peace without suffering wrong. [ Cicero ]

In such a time as this it is not meet that every nice offence should bear its comment. [ William Shakespeare ]

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people. [ Grover Cleveland ]

In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. [ Horace Walpole ]

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. [ Beethoven ]

The higher character a person supports, the more he should regard his minutest actions. [ Not traceable ]

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies. [ Addison ]

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there. [ Cowper ]

Were we as eloquent as angels, we should please some more by listening than by talking. [ Colton ]

Had we not faults of our own we should take less pleasure in observing those of others. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Should all despair that have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind would hang themselves. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can. [ Joubert ]

It is not enough merely to possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practised. [ Cicero ]

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. [ Dryden ]

A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need. [ Plutarch ]

If we had no defects, we should not take so much pleasure in discovering those of others. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Nature does not like to be observed, and likes that we should be her fools and playmates. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Nor, as a faithful translator, should you be careful to render the original word for word. [ Horace ]

If happiness could be prolonged from love into marriage, we should have paradise on earth. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

I am little inclined to practice on others, and as little that they should practice on me. [ Sir W. Temple ]

We should not pass from the earth without leaving traces to carry our memory to posterity. [ Napoleon I ]

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. [ Joubert ]

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever. [ Beaconsfield ]

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. [ Voltaire ]

The temperament of artists is such that they should be judged differently from the vulgar. [ De Finod ]

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another. [ Cicero ]

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. [ Helvetius ]

We should distinguish between laughter inspired by joy, and that which arises from mockery. [ Goldsmith ]

I have made as much of myself as could be made of the stuff and no man should require more. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [ Ovid ]

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! [ Barry Cornwall ]

A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is often an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief. [ Hare ]

A litigant at law should have three bags: one of papers, one of money, and one of patience. [ Proverb ]

Laws should be clear, uniform, precise: to interpret them is nearly always to corrupt them. [ Voltaire ]

By robbing Peter he paid Paul ... and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall. [ Rabelais ]

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic. [ Addison ]

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. [ Carlyle ]

He that would relish success to purpose should keep his passion cool and his expectation low. [ Collier ]

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire. [ William Shakespeare ]

He who receives a good turn should never forget it, he who does one should never remember it. [ Charron ]

We should often be ashamed of our best actions if the world saw the motives which inspire us. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Marriage should combat without respite or mercy that monster which devours everything, habit. [ Balzac ]

If we should leave out of conversation scandal, gossip, commonplaces, fatuity - what silence! [ Mme. Bachi ]

We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best books. [ Sydney Smith ]

Women have become so highly educated that nothing should surprise them except happy marriages. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

One's duty as a gentleman should never interfere with one's pleasures in the slightest degree. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. [ Montaigne ]

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. [ Johnson ]

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first, - to be intelligently simple. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pin-heads. [ Holmes ]

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man. [ Joubert ]

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. [ Richter ]

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind. [ Swift ]

He who cannot govern his passions should kill them, as we kill a horse when we cannot master it. [ Chamfort ]

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate. [ Beecher ]

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Before promising a woman to love only her, one should have seen them all, or should see only her. [ A. Dupuy ]

That a country may be truly free, the people should be all philosophers, and the rulers all gods. [ Napoleon I ]

However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

We must be patient; but I cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him in the cold ground. [ Shakespeare ]

It is the common wonder of all men how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Women should be careful of their conduct, for appearances sometimes injure them as much as faults. [ Abbi Girard ]

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

The aim of all intellectual training for the mass of the people should be to cultivate commonsense. [ J. Stuart Mill ]

In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should automatically disqualify you. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Resolved: Never to do any thing which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. [ JONATHAN EDWARDS ]

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only. [ Napoleon ]

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence. [ Cicero ]

Instead of seeking happiness by going out of our place, our skill should be to find it where we are. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions. [ Richard Steele ]

The style of letters should not be too highly polished. It ought to be neat and correct, but no more. [ Blair ]

Laws should never be in contradiction to usages; for, if the usages are good, the laws are valueless. [ Voltaire ]

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends, has never had one. [ Coleridge ]

Even business should have a picturesque background. With a proper back-ground a woman can do anything. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it. [ Simms ]

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. [ Theophile Gautier ]

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill. [ Cicero ]

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie. [ John Ruskin ]

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Envy sets the stronger seal on desert; if he have no enemies, I should esteem his fortune most wretched. [ Ben Jonson ]

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. Time is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits. [ Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) ]

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty. [ W. G. Clark ]

It is not the defects but the beauties which should form our criterion of judgment in all matters of art. [ Chapin ]

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. [ Colton ]

To judge of the real importance of an individual, one should think of the effect his death would produce. [ Levis ]

A man that is desirous to excel should endeavor it in those things that are in themselves most excellent. [ Epictetus ]

Before we passionately wish for anything, we should carefully examine into the happiness of its possessor. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [ Propertius ]

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell that would tell anything. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any. [ Confucius ]

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. [ Joubert ]

The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals. [ Bryant ]

For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, dear, that I only can love thee. [ E. B. Browning ]

One should never make one's debut with a scandal, one should reserve that to give interest to one's old age. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Better that people should laugh at one while they instruct, than that they should praise without benefiting. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures by furnishing them means of innocent ones. [ Channing ]

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. [ H. W. Shaw ]

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned. [ Niebuhr ]

Women should be doubly careful of their conduct, since appearances often injure them as much as real faults. [ Abbe Girard ]

A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods. [ Burke ]

Man's conviction should be strong, and so well timed that worldly advantages may seem to have no share in it. [ Addison ]

Why should not a scientific convention harmonize the letters of the alphabet with the sounds of the languages? [ J. A. Weisse ]

In perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense. [ Rückert ]

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty. [ Chesterfield ]

One should sympathize with the joy, the beauty, the color of life - the less said about life's sores the better. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

All mankind is one of these two cowards - either to wish to die when he should live, or live when he should die. [ Sir Robert Howard ]

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. [ Bovee ]

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him. [ Seed ]

What blockheads are those wise persons who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads! [ Southey ]

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

That which we truly call honourable is praiseworthy in its own nature, even though it should be praised by no one. [ Cicero ]

We should have all our communications with men as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men. [ Colton ]

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. [ Carlyle ]

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us. [ Robert Hall ]

Woe for my vine-clad home, that it should ever be so dark to me, with its bright threshold and its whispering tree! [ N. P. Willis ]

It is strange that all great men should have some little grain of madness mingled with whatever genius they possess. [ Moliere ]

The tale-bearer and the tale-hearer should be both hanged up, back to back, one by the tongue, the other by the ear. [ South ]

Changing hands without changing measures is as if a drunkard in a dropsy should change his doctors, and not his diet. [ Saville ]

A man should never blush in confessing his errors, for he proves by his avowal that he is wiser today than yesterday. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. [ Lavater ]

An elegant writer has observed, that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. [ Colton ]

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate. [ Stedman ]

If life be a pleasure, yet, since death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us. [ Michael Angelo ]

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream. [ Landor ]

Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. [ Bible ]

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune. [ La Bruyere ]

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. [ Stanislaus ]

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

Ignorance, says Ajax, is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]

If you would succeed in the world, it is necessary that, when entering a salon, your vanity should bow to that of others. [ Mme. de Genlis ]

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness. [ Hamerton ]

It is very strange and very melancholy that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us to call hunting one of them. [ Dr. Johnson ]

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions. [ Goethe ]

A Bellerophon's letter, (i.e. a letter requesting that the bearer should be dealt with in some summary way for an offence).

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison. [ J. F. Boyes ]

It is a wretched thing to lean on the reputation of others, lest the pillars being withdrawn the roof should fall in ruins. [ Juvenal ]

The last day must always be awaited by man, and no man should be pronounced happy before his death and his final obsequies. [ Ovid ]

Life, upon the whole, is much more pleasurable than painful, otherwise we should not feel pain so impatiently when it comes. [ Leigh Hunt ]

There should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric; and pure invention is but the talent of a deceiver. [ Byron ]

The extreme pleasure we take in talking of ourselves should make us fear that we give very little to those who listen to us. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Were wisdom given me with this reservation, that I should keep it shut up within myself and not impart it, I would spurn it. [ Seneca ]

To nil married men be this caution, which they should duly tender as their life: Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife. [ Massinger ]

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. [ Pascal ]

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. [ Sheridan ]

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire, - not too near, lest he burn: nor too far off, lest he freeze. [ Diogenes ]

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves. [ Bishop Whately ]

With poetry, as with going to sea, we should push from the shore and reach a certain elevation before we unfurl all our sails. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law. It is so demoralizing to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. [ Ulysses S. Grant ]

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good. [ Atterbury ]

Man should be ever better than he seems; and shape his acts, and discipline his mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances. [ J. F. Boyes ]

Having sown the seed of secrecy, it should be properly guarded and not in the least broken; for being broken, it will not prosper. [ Hitopadesa ]

We should often have reason to be ashamed of our most brilliant actions if the world could see the motives from which they spring. [ Rochefoucauld ]

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way. [ Thackeray ]

If judges would make their decisions just, they should behold neither plaintiff, defendant, nor pleader, but only the cause itself. [ Livingston ]

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The prayer of Lahire: God! do unto Lahire what thou wouldst Lahire should do unto Thee, if Thou were Lahire, and if Lahire were Thee!

Trifles we should not let plague us only, but also gratify us; we should seize not their poison-bags only, but their honey-bags also. [ Richter ]

It is strange that thought should depend upon the stomach, and still that men with the best stomachs are not always the best thinkers. [ Voltaire ]

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. [ Fielding ]

Some books we should keep in our hands, and on our hearts; the best way we could dispose of others would be, to throw them in the fire. [ Acton ]

In goodness, rich men should transcend the poor, as clouds the earth; raised by the comfort of the sun to water dry and barren grounds. [ Tourneur ]

If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Why should I start at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know he is no idle husbandman; he purposeth a crop. [ Rutherford ]

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but toot into our affections. [ Charron ]

Suspicions are nothing when a man is really true, and every one should persevere in acting honestly, for all will be made right in time. [ Hans Andersen ]

We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. [ Colton ]

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay. [ Boyle ]

There grows In my most ill-compos'd affection such A stanchless avarice, that, were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands. [ William Shakespeare ]

We should give as we receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. [ Seneca ]

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. [ Longfellow ]

If my heart were as poor as my understanding, I should be happy; for I am thoroughly persuaded that such poverty is a means of salvation. [ Pascal ]

Before wondering at the degradation of a soul, one should know what blows it has received, and what it has suffered from its own grandeur. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence - as a compliment from God. [ Beecher ]

It is the saddest of all things that even one human soul should dimly perceive the beauty that is ever around us, a perpetual benediction. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one. [ Addison ]

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalkstones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. [ George Eliot ]

When my time on Earth is gone, and my activities here are past, I want that they should bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass. [ Bobby Knight ]

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours. [ Swift ]

We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [ Melmoth ]

The happiest lot for a man as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it. [ Whately ]

I confess I should be glad if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to me: in that case, I should often find matter for rejoicing. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent. [ Colton ]

Truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic. [ Chapin ]

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs then neither study nor labor. [ Bruyere ]

Hannah More said to Horace Walpole: If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody. [ John Bate ]

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours. [ Tillotson ]

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the meekest of husbands can bear: women should mercifully choose between the two. [ La Bruyere ]

Psychical pain is more easily borne than physical: and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former. [ Heinrich Heine ]

We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. [ Colton ]

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none; and then they endeavor to persuade themselves so. [ Tillotson ]

Whatever you suffer deservedly should be borne with resignation; the penalty that comes upon us undeservedly comes as a matter of just complaint. [ Ovid ]

We should love our friends as true amateurs love pictures: they keep their eyes perpetually fixed on the fine points, and do not see the defects. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]

The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing. [ Beecher ]

You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong. [ Bob Hagel ]

You begin in error when you suggest that we should regard the opinion of the many about just and unjust, good and evil, honourable and dishonourable. [ Plato ]

No lover should have the insolence to think of being accepted at once, nor should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at once, without severe reasons. [ John Ruskin ]

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. [ Swift ]

Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? That parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? [ William Shakespeare ]

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change. [ Pope ]

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day. [ Fenelon ]

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls. [ Massillon ]

Instead of having answers on a math test, they should just call them impressions and it you got a different impression so what, can't we all be brothers? [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly. [ Diderot ]

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality. [ Joubert ]

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, - they have torn me, and I bleed: I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. [ Byron ]

When a man gives proof that his heart is sound and that his life is sound, there is no divergence of opinion that should keep us from fellowship with him. [ Ward Beecher ]

Two things should always be aimed at in our apparel - neatness and decency; but we should avoid an effeminate spruceness, as much as a fantastic disorder. [ J. Beaumont ]

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual. [ Fontenelle ]

That plenty should produce either Covetousness or prodigality is a perversion of providence; and yet the generality of men are the worse for their riches. [ William Penn ]

We should manage our fortune like our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity. [ La Roche ]

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes. [ Herodotus ]

In getting of your riches, and in using of them, you should always have three things in your heart, that is to say, our Lord God, Conscience, and good Name. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]

The men who convey and those who listen to calumnies should, if I could have my way, all hang, the talebearers by their tongues, the listeners by their ears. [ Plautus ]

Love of power, merely to make flunkeys come and go for you, is a love, I should think, which enters only into the minds of persons in a very infantine state. [ Carlyle ]

These men (chronic fault-finders) should consider that it is their envy which deforms everything, and that the ugliness is not in the object, but in the eye. [ Steele ]

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it. [ Colton ]

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. [ Lytton ]

In order that a love-letter may be what it should be, one should begin it without knowing what he is going to say, and end it without knowing what he has said. [ Raison ]

One should never take sides in anything - taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly after, and the human being becomes a bore. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly - should still be new. [ Goldsmith ]

He is a wise man who knoweth that his words should be suited to the occasion, his love to the worthiness of the object, and his anger according to his strength. [ Hitopadesa ]

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The attempt to make one false impression on the mind of a friend respecting ourselves is of the nature of perfidy. Sincerity should be observed most scrupulously. [ William Ellery Channing ]

We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves. [ Colton ]

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

In times of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid. [ Hitopadesa ]

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind and see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible. [ Goethe ]

He that would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

No man's credit can fall so low but that, if he bear his shame as he should do, and profit by it as he ought to do, it is in his own power to redeem his reputation. [ Lord Nottingham ]

Nature and art are too grand to go forth in pursuit of aims; nor is it necessary that they should, for there are relations everywhere, and relations constitute life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If you make a law against dancing-masters imitating the fine gentleman, you should with as much reason enact, that no fine gentleman shall imitate the dancing-master. [ Goldsmith ]

Paradise, as described by the theologians, seems to me too musical: I confess that I should be incapable of listening to a cantata that would last ten thousand years. [ T. Gautier ]

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. [ Johnson ]

Teeth, hair, nails, and the human species, prosper not when separated from their place. A wise man, being informed of this, should not totally forsake his native home. [ Hitopadesa ]

Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be. [ Colton ]

Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes. [ Emerson ]

Who can look down upon the grave of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb that he should have warred with the poor handful of dust that lies mouldering before him? [ Washington Irving ]

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. [ De Sales ]

A beginner should study the raciest, strongest, best spoken speech, and let the printed speech alone. Write straight from the thought, without bothering about the manner. [ William D. Howells, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Eccentricity is not a proof of genius, and even an artist should remember that originality consists not only in doing things differently, but also in doing things better. [ Stedman ]

To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor. [ Pope ]

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer. [ Feltham ]

Friends should not be chosen to flatter. The quality we should prize is that rectitude which will shrink from no truth. Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and should do their duty. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots, and each thinks his own fire a sun in presence of which all other fires should go out. [ J. M. Barrie ]

A young woman should regard that propriety of attire which insures the strictest neatness, and modestly conform to those unobjectionable points which are the freaks of custom. [ C. Butler ]

The last word is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bombshell. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. [ Talfourd ]

I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science? [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, - as though that time should be of another make from this, which has already come and is ours. [ Fuller ]

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof, and obtain access for himself and family to some social library. Almost any luxury should be sacrificed to this. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Oh, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues, would be seen reposing there! [ Richter ]

Plutarch would rather we should applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge, and would rather leave us with an appetite to read more than glutted with that we have already read. [ Montaigne ]

We should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it; and those sweets she herself improves and concocts into honey. [ C. C. Cotton ]

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. [ Macaulay ]

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word effrontery comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall. [ Leigh Hunt ]

The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first [ Joubert ]

If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between them and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both. [ Addison ]

I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. [ Emerson ]

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being. [ Goldsmith ]

Have something to tell, and tell it clearly, simply, without a trace of affectation or conscious effort at fine writing. I should advise the study of examples in this perfection of art. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived. [ Shenstone ]

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under jour cudgel; but; should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. [ Jane Porter ]

It is too generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful what they owe to God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often enough and regularly enough. [ Bishop Whately ]

We may deserve grief; but why should women be unhappy? - except that we know heaven chastens those whom it loves best, being pleased by repeated trials to make these pure spirits more pure. [ Thackeray ]

Ought or Should? Both of these words, though implying obligation, have different shades of meaning. Ought is the stronger term. Thus a man ought to be honest; he should be neat in his dress. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others. [ Colton ]

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 ]

Good dressing includes a suggestion of poetry. One nowhere more quickly detects sentiment than in dress. A well-dressed woman in a room should fill it with poetic sense, like the perfume of flowers. [ Miss Oakey ]

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. [ Demosthenes ]

As the cautious pilot steers the ship clear of the breakers, and brings the vessel safe to port, so should we steer our life-ship clear of the rocks and shoals of sin to the port of everlasting life. [ James Ellis ]

No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be. so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources. [ Horace Greeley ]

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish. [ Cicero ]

There is a species of ferocity in rejecting indiscriminately all kinds of praises; we should be accessible to those which are given to us by good people, who praise in us sincerely praiseworthy things. [ Bruyere ]

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. [ Colton ]

The same conditions should be made in marriage that are made in the case of houses that one rents for a term of three, six, or nine years, with the privilege of becoming the purchaser if the house suits. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity or classical works with gross and trivial recollections. [ Wordsworth ]

I should have been a French atheist were it not for the recollection of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hand in hers, and make me say, on my bended knees, Our Father who art in heaven! [ John Randolph ]

The nightingale, if she should sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection! [ Shakespeare ]

If I were a writer of books, I would compile a register, with the comment of the various deaths of men; and it could not but be useful, for who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live. [ Montaigne ]

There should be no fear. We are protected, and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be protected by god. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must. [ L'Estrange ]

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. [ Diogenes ]

One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]

Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one. [ Chesterfield ]

Rely on principles; walk erect and free, not trusting to bulk of body, like a wrestler, for one should not be unconquerable in the sense that an ass is. Who then is unconquerable? He whom the inevitable cannot overcome. [ Epictetus ]

The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read a book so bad but he drew some profit from it [ Sterne ]

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. [ Tillotson ]

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward. [ Beecher ]

Thou tell'st me there is murder in my eye: 'tis pretty, sure, and very probable that eyes - that are the frailest and softest things, who shut their coward gates on atomies - should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! [ William Shakespeare ]

We should carry up our affections to the mansions prepared for us above, where eternity is the measure, felicity the state, angels the company, the Lamb the light, and God the inheritance and portion of His people forever. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Persuasion, Sect, or Denomination? Persuasion, the definition of which should be plain to every one who speaks English, is often ludicrously used in the sense of sect or denomination; as, He is of the Methodist persuasion. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin, - and then we all die so soon. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. [ Colton ]

As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies. [ Beecher ]

It has been shrewdly said, that when men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do. [ Colton ]

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty. [ Lamartine ]

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot. [ W. E. Channing ]

He said - and his observation was just - that a man on whom heaven hath bestowed a beautiful wife should be as cautious of the men he brings home to his house as careful of observing the female friends with whom his spouse converses abroad. [ Cervantes ]

You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room - their motions, their looks and their words - and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer. [ Chesterfield ]

Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers. [ Joubert ]

Secrets from other people's wives are a necessary luxury in modern life, but no man should have a secret from his own wife. She invariably finds out. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the era of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtime of their hopes! [ C. Bingham ]

Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns. [ Chapin ]

He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names, For those have served other men, haply may injure by their evils; Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself. To win for his individual name some clear praise. [ Tupper ]

I may grieve with the smart of an evil as soon as I feel it, but I will not smart with the grief of an evil as soon as I hear of it. My evil, when it Cometh, may make my grief too great; why, then, should my grief, before it comes, make my evil greater? [ Arthur Warwick ]

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator. [ Colton ]

Beauty in dress, as in other things, is largely relative. To admit this is to admit that a dress which is beautiful upon one woman may be hideous worn by another. Each should understand her own style, accept it, and let the fashion of her dress be built upon it. [ Miss Oakey ]

There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover. [ Shenstone ]

The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions. [ Burke ]

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them? [ Haliburton ]

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke. [ Pope ]

A blushing young damsel of 109 has just died at Mallow, Ireland. She had been an ardent smoker of twist tobacco for 81 years, and finally died in the bloom of her youth. To make matters worse, she was an orphan. Those who do not wish to die young should make a note of this. [ Tobacco Jokes For Smoking Folks, 1888 ]

Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven. [ Longfellow ]

The contemplation of night should lead to elevating, rather than depressing, ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe? [ Richter ]

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear. [ Hare ]

If all fools had baubles* we should want fuel. (*The fool or jester carried in his hand a wooden sceptre called a bauble. It was a short stick ornamented at the end with the figure of a fool's head, or with that of a puppet or doll. Jesters were still retained in Herbert's day.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning. [ Burritt ]

There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend; but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please. [ Lord Greville ]

My May of life is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. [ Emerson ]

If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. [ Sir John Herschel ]

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician - I should like to be also something of a man. [ Theodore Parker ]

We have often thought it strange that moralists should have written and spoken of the mutability of human life as if it were a thing to be dreaded and mourned over; to our mind, mutability is the soul of poetry, and the source of nearly all the most delightful and sacred pleasures of life. [ Stubbs ]

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work. [ Theodore Parker ]

Observe or Say? While the dictionaries authorize the common use of these words, it is in better taste to restrict the employment of observe to its primitive signification; namely, to notice. Hence such an expression as, What did you observe? is objectionable, and should be, What did you say? [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, I knew he was mortal. So we in all casualties of life should say I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man. Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected. [ Plutarch ]

It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life. [ Geo. S. Hillard ]

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. [ Goldsmith ]

Wherein is it possible for us, wicked and impious creatures, to be justified, except in the only Son of God? O sweet reconciliation! O untraceable ministry! O unlooked-for blessing! that the wickedness of many should be hidden in one godly and righteous man, and the righteousness of one justify a host of sinners! [ Justin Martyr ]

Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune. [ Rev. T. Adams ]

The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure employment. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot. [ Montaigne ]

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them, and which, if you do otherwise, emit what is unpleasant and noxious, so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsatisfactory and unsafe. [ Landor ]

Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant? [ Colton ]

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly; for then they would satiate us, and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent. [ Ruskin ]

I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they have occasion. [ J. Locke ]

The contemplation of night should lead to elevating rather than to depressing ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe, composed of countless suns and worlds, all full of light and life and motion? [ Richter ]

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of the public. [ Addison ]

It is a mathematical demonstration, that these twenty-six letters admit of so many changes in their order, and make such a long roll of differently-ranged alphabets, not two of which are alike, that they could not all be exhausted though a million millions of writers should each write above a thousand alphabets a day for the space of a million millions of years. [ R. Bentley ]

I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room I should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me. You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do. [ Mark Twain, from his speech Courage ]

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business. [ Seneca ]

If there were no readers there certainly would be no writers. Clearly, therefore, the existence of writers depends upon the existence of readers; and, of course, as the cause must be antecedent to the effect, readers existed before writers. Yet, on the other hand, if there were no writers there could be no readers, so it should appear that writers must be antecedent to readers. [ Paul Chatfield, M.D ]

If I might venture to appeal to what is so much out of fashion at Paris, I mean to experience, I should tell you that in my course I have known and, according to my measure, have cooperated with great men; and I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. [ Burke ]

The habit of exaggeration in language should be guarded against; it misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive; it imposes on us the society of a balloon, when a moderately-sized skull would fill the place much better; it begets much evil in promising what it cannot perform, and we have often found the most glowing declarations of intended good services end in mere Irish vows. [ Eliza Cook ]

If I am allowed to give a metaphorical allusion to the future state of the blessed, I should imagine it by the orange-grove in that sheltered glen on which the sun is now beginning to shine, and of which the trees are, at the same time, loaded with sweet golden fruit and balmy silver flowers. Such objects may well portray a state in which hope and fruition become one eternal feeling. [ Sir H. Davy ]

Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. [ Johnson ]

The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. [ Chesterfield ]

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings, - a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate. [ Hannah More ]

The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but educated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimulate his curiosity, and awaken his mind. [ E. B. Ramsay ]

Posture or Attitude? Each of these words has its appropriate place, and one should not be misapplied for the other. Posture is the mode of placing the body, and may be either natural or assumed. Attitude is always assumed, and is intended to display some grace of the body, or some affection or purpose of the mind. Postures, when natural, accommodate themselves to the convenience of the body; when assumed they may be either serious or ridiculous. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

If I were to choose the people with whom I would spend my hours of conversation, they should be certainly such as labored no further than to make themselves readily and clearly apprehended, and would have patience and curiosity to understand me. To have good sense and ability to express it are the most essential and necessary qualities in companions. When thoughts rise in us fit to utter among familiar friends, there needs but very little care in clothing them. [ Steele ]

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb; all these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage; they should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection; they should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end. [ Tillotson ]

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. [ Colton ]

The first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor, in his heart's difficulty, is his mother; she clings to his memory and affection in the midst of all the f orgetf ulness and hardihood induced by a roving life; the last message he leaves is for her; his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lessons of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not in vain. She may drop into the grave, but she has left behind her influences that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its ofiice. [ A. H. Motte ]

I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself, it is not confined to partial views, or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself, its own integrity and worth. Hope awakens courage, while despondency is the last of all evils, it is the abandonment of good, the giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingness. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. [ Von Knebel (German), Translated by Mrs. Austin ]

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]