Quick believers need broad shoulders. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Often try what weight you can support.
And what your shoulders are too weak to bear. [ Roscommon ]

An angel face! its sunny wealth of hair,
In radiant ripples, bathed the graceful throat
And dimpled shoulders. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens! [ Joubert ]

Weigh well what your shoulders can and cannot bear. [ Horace ]

He has more wit in his head than Sampson had in both his shoulders. [ Proverb ]

Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders. [ Danish Proverb ]

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders, [ Bovee ]

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one. [ Montaigne ]

A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. [ Coleridge ]

We carry our neighbour's failings in sight, we throw our own crimes over our own shoulders. [ Proverb ]

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it, when living. [ Beranger ]

The great are only great because we carry them on our shoulders; when we throw them off they sprawl on the ground. [ Montandre ]

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters. [ Emerson ]