The house shows the owner. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day. [ Milton ]
The fire in the flint
Shows not till it be struck. [ William Shakespeare ]
Grace is a plant, where'er it grows
Of pure and heavenly root;
But fairest in the youngest shows,
And yields the sweetest fruit. [ William Cowper ]
Water its living strength first shows.
When obstacles its course oppose. [ Goethe ]
Man shows his character best in trifles. [ Schopenhauer ]
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. [ Cowper ]
Oh, how this spring of life resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day.
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And, by and by, a cloud takes all away! [ William Shakespeare ]
Men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages:
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross. [ William Shakespeare ]
That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
And straight is cold again. [ Jul. Caes ]
To persevere
In obstinate condolement, is a course
Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief:
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Tasting so many dishes shows a dainty stomach. [ Seneca ]
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. [ Clarissa ]
At every trifle scorn to take offence;
That always shows great pride or little sense. [ Pope ]
It is not so with Him that all things knows
As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows:
But most it is presumption in us when
The help of heaven we count the act of men. [ William Shakespeare ]
Some Grief shows much of Love;
But much of Grief shows still some want of Wit. [ William Shakespeare ]
I wept when I was born, and every day shows why. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To whirl the eyes too much shows a kite's brain. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths. [ Philip J. Bailey ]
Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The evening shows the day, and death crowns life. [ Webster ]
The fire in the flint shows not till it's struck. [ Proverb ]
Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. [ Cowper ]
The night shows stars and women in a better light. [ Byron ]
This shows that liars ought to have good memories. [ Algernon Sidney ]
The higher the ape goes the more he shows his tail. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Tomorrow is a satire on today, and shows its weakness. [ Young ]
Every step of life shows how much caution is required. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Behavior is a mirror, in which everyone shows his image. [ Goethe ]
Behaviour is a mirror in which each one shows his image. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
A college education shows a man how little other people know. [ Haliburton ]
A proud man uever shows his pride so much as when he is civil. [ Lord Greville ]
Solitude shows us what we should be; society shows us what we are. [ Cecil ]
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. [ Chesterfield ]
It is but poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]
Love shows, even to the dullest, the possibilities of the human race. [ A. Helps ]
Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit. [ C. D. Warner ]
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. [ Carlyle ]
It is exactly in the treatment of trifles that a man shows what he is. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Truth does not do as much good in the world as the shows of it do of evil. [ La Roche ]
A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great to him. [ Madame de Girardin ]
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise. [ Novalis ]
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that reason is weak. [ Montaigne ]
The hypocrite shows well and says well, and himself is the worst thing he hath. [ Bishop Hall ]
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. [ Lavater ]
It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [ Cicero ]
Love of truth shows itself in being able everywhere to find and value what is good. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. [ J. M. Barrie ]
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. [ Young ]
A prude exhibits her virtue in word and manner; a virtuous woman shows hers in her conduct. [ La Bruyere ]
'Tis great - 'tis manly to disdain disguise. It shows our spirit, or it proves out strength. [ Young ]
It is the property of every hero to come back to reality; to stand upon things, not shows of things. [ Carlyle ]
A God speaks softly in our breast; softly, yet distinctly, shows us what to hold by and what to shun. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. [ Colton ]
A thin aerial veil is drawn over beauty's face, seeming to hide, more sweetly shows the blushing bride. [ Crashaw ]
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, that shows at the same time pearls and the soul. [ Victor Hugo ]
The most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character. [ Tuckerman ]
Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament. [ Sterne ]
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed. [ Joubert ]
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect. [ Hosea Ballou ]
The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand strength. [ Charles Buxton ]
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. [ Chesterfield ]
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality. [ T. W. Higginson ]
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. [ Charles Buxton ]
Gradual as the snow, at heaven's breath, melts off and shows the azure flowers beneath, her lids unclosed, and the bright eyes were seen. [ Moore ]
Not a flower but shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, of His unrivaled pencil. He inspires their balmy odors, and imparts their hues. [ Cowper ]
We believe that the dress that shows taste and sentiment is elevating to the home, and is one of the most feminine means of beautifying the world. [ Miss Oakey ]
He who kindly shows the way to one who has gone astray, acts as though he had lighted another's lamp from his own, which both gives light to the other and continues to shine for himself. [ Cicero ]
Government is a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing over-much kills the self-help and energy of the governed. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. [ Saadi ]
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 ]
No good book or good thing of any sort shows its best face at first; nay, the commonest quality in a true work of art, if its excellence have any depth and compass, is that at first sight it occasions a certain disappointment. [ Carlyle ]
Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who, though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular. [ Addison ]
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. [ Spurgeon ]
Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace. [ Cicero ]
Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light; takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice; and makes even folly and impertinence supportable. [ Addison ]
Great men, though far above us, are felt to be our brothers; and their elevation shows us what vast possibilities are wrapped up in our common humanity. They beckon us up the gleaming heights to whose summits they have climbed. Their deeds are the woof of this world's history. [ Moses Harvey ]
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order. A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness. [ Bacon ]
The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. [ William Shakespeare ]
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]