Smooth-polished and rounded. [ Horace ]
O flattery!
How soon thy smooth insinuating oil
Supples the toughest fool! [ Fenton ]
Happy that I can
Be crossed and thwarted as a man,
Not left in God's contempt apart,
With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart,
Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize. [ Browning ]
Take things always by the smooth handle.
Smooth runs the water where brook is deep. [ William Shakespeare ]
A smooth or blank tablet; a blank surface.
In form so delicate, so soft his skin.
So fair in feature, and so smooth his chin.
Quite to unman him nothing wants but this;
Put him in coats, and he's a very miss. [ Horace ]
Chance will not do the work -
Chance sends the breeze;
But if the pilot slumber at the helm.
The very wind that wafts us towards the port
May dash us on the shelves.
The steersman's part is vigilance.
Blow it or rough or smooth. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]
Ah me! for aught that ever I could read ...
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]
A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The tempest is over-blown, the skies are clear,
And the sea charmed into a calm so still
That not a wrinkle ruffles her smooth face. [ Dryden ]
And softened sounds along the waters die:
Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play. [ Pope ]
O magic sleep! O comfortable bird
That broodest over the troubled sea of the mind
Till it is hushed and smooth! [ Keats ]
Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it. [ Proverb ]
The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The smooth speeches of the wicked are full of treachery. [ Phaedrus ]
Not all the pumice of the polish'd town
Can smooth the roughness of the barnyard clown; Rich, honor'd, titled, he betrays his race
By this one mark - he's awkward in his face. [ Holmes ]
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
What are these wondrous civilizing arts, this Roman polish, and this smooth behavior that render man thus tractable and tame? [ Addison ]
That inexhaustible good-nature which is the most precious gift of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. [ Washington Irving ]
If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously. [ Tupper ]
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [ William Shakespeare ]
Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and love enable us to surmount obstacles; to make smooth our way, and lift ourselves out of the narrow grooves in which other people sorrowfully distress themselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, per aspera ad astra
, over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, "per aspera ad astra", over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]