The sole holds with the upper leather. [ Proverb ]
Could he with reason murmur at his case
Himself sole author of his own disgrace? [ Cowper ]
Religion crowns the statesman and the man,
Sole source of public and of private peace. [ Young ]
That was his sole delight and solace in his woe. [ Virgil ]
From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Chance is blind and is the sole author of creation. [ Saintine ]
My sole resources in the path I trod,
Were these - my bark - my sword - my love — my God.
The last I left in youth - He leaves me now -
And man but works His will to lay me low.
I have no thought to mock His throne with prayer,
Wrung from the coward crouching of despair;
It is enough - I breathe - and I can bear. [ Byron ]
Experience teacheth us that resolution is a sole help in need. [ William Shakespeare ]
My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Such, whose sole bliss is eating, who can give but that one brutal reason why they live. [ Juvenal ]
We tell our triumphs to the crowd, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
If you would make a pair of good shoes, take for the sole the tongue of a woman: it never wears out. [ Alsatian Proverb ]
Time, the corrector when our judgments err, the test of truth and love; sole philosopher, for all besides are sophists. [ Byron ]
The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world. [ Hermes ]
Here, in the country, my books are my sole occupation: books my sure solace, and refuge from frivolous cares. Books the calmers, as well as the instruction of the mind. [ Mrs. Inchbald ]
A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]
From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he is all mirth; he has twice or thrice cut Cupid's bowstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him: he hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. [ William Shakespeare ]
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 ]