Something hath some savour. [ Proverb ]

Labor with what zeal we will.
Something still remains undone,
Something uncompleted still
Waits the rising of the sun. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Ill luck is good for something. [ Proverb ]

And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives. [ Longfellow ]

Perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a spirit still, and bright
With something of an angel light. [ Wordsworth ]

Something of calumny always sticks. [ C. Boileau ]

God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve
Falls off, and love is left alone. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something. [ Robert Browning ]

Better something than nothing at all. [ German Proverb ]

Every man living hath something to do. [ Proverb ]

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind,
For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog.
That I might love thee something. [ William Shakespeare ]

Under sackcloth there is something else. [ Spanish and Portuguese Proverb ]

Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love, and joy, and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish,
And in itself to ashes burn. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Forsaken ]

Where something is found there look again. [ Proverb ]

Be not simply good; be good for something. [ Thoreau ]

There is something of all men in every man. [ Lichtenberg ]

Always something new, seldom anything good. [ German Proverb ]

They that buy an office must sell something. [ Proverb ]

No day passes without something we wish not. [ Proverb ]

Be silent, or speak something worth hearing. [ Proverb ]

Ah! surely nothing dies but something mourns. [ Byron ]

The secret of happiness is - something to do. [ John Burroughs ]

'Tis something to be willing to commend;
But my best praise is, that I am your friend. [ Southerne ]

He who knows his incapacity, knows something. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. [ Clarissa ]

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams.
Unnatural and full of contradictions;
Yet others of our most romantic schemes
Are something more than fictions. [ Hood ]

Be silent, or say something better than silence. [ Pythagoras ]

Something beyond! The immortal morning stands
Above the night, clear shines her prescient brow;
The pendulous star in her transfigured hands
Lights up the Now. [ Mary Clemmer ]

And glory long has made the sages smile;
It is something, nothing, words, illusion, wind -
Depending more upon the historian's style
Than on the name a person leaves behind. [ Byron ]

Years following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away. [ Pope ]

All things in their being are good for something. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. [ Fuller ]

He that riseth betimes hath something in his head. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The mind of man is always longing to do something. [ Cicero ]

Nature fits all her children with something to do. [ Lowell ]

O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whatever thy name;
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh
For which we bear to live, or dare to die. [ Pope ]

A thinking man is always striking out something new. [ Proverb ]

If you would create something, you must be something. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Her eye (I am very fond of handsome eyes).
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flashed an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chastened down the whole. [ Byron ]

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Who steals my purse steals trash;
'Tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no banquet, but some dislike something in it. [ Proverb ]

It is more painful to do nothing than to do something. [ Proverb ]

There is something of woman in everything that pleases. [ Dupaty ]

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Be silent, or say something that is better than silence. [ German Proverb ]

There is nothing so bad as not to be good for something. [ Proverb ]

Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place. [ Lord Palmerston ]

Save something for the man that rides on the white horse. [ Proverb ]

She that marries ill never wants something to say for it. [ Proverb ]

The envious hurt others something, but himself very much. [ Proverb ]

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow. [ Hawthorne ]

A fool may chance to put something into a wise man's head. [ Proverb ]

To have all one's wants satisfied is something intolerable. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

There's nothing so bad as not to be of service for something. [ German Proverb ]

I must have something new, even were there none in the world. [ La Fontaine ]

There is something not solid in the good that is done for us. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

It is the beautiful necessity of our nature to love something. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

All things must change to something new, to something strange. [ Longfellow ]

My rigour relents: I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. [ Burke ]

Even a pin is good for something, and that is more than you are. [ Proverb ]

Even ill luck itself is good for something in a wise man's hand. [ Proverb ]

If thou art something, bring thy soul and interchange with mine. [ Schiller ]

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. [ Plato ]

Stagnation is something worse than death, it is corruption also. [ Simms ]

Wise men learn something of fools, but fools nothing of wise men. [ Proverb ]

There is something so moving in the very image of weeping beauty. [ Steele ]

All women are good; viz. good for something, or good for nothing. [ Proverb ]

There is something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Bring something lass along with you, if you intend to live with me. [ Proverb ]

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

If you love something set it free, unless the vultures are circling.

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion. [ Thackeray ]

A picture is an intermediate something between a thought and a thing. [ Coleridge ]

Science must have originated in the feeling of something being wrong. [ Carlyle ]

I felt that I was in the world to do something, and I thought I must. [ Whittier ]

There is no book so worthless, that I cannot collect something from it. [ Scaliger ]

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

He that finds something before it is lost will die before he falls ill. [ Dutch Proverb ]

There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness. [ Byron ]

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright. [ Victor Cousin ]

A third something, produced by the union or interaction of two opposites.

To feel and respect a great personality, one must be something one's self. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A woman with whom one discusses love is always in expectation of something. [ Poincelot ]

Wealth lost, something lost; honour lost, much lost; courage lost, all lost. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is something in it, quoth the fellow, when he drunk dish-clout and all. [ Proverb ]

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. [ Euripides ]

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of when I am doing well. [ Alexander the Great ]

For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

One must be serious about something if one wants to have any amusement in life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

There is something in the shape of harps as though they had been made by music. [ P. J. Bailey ]

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste. [ De La Bruyere ]

Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. [ Wendell Phillips ]

True religion is a life unfolded within, not something forced on us from without. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived. [ Cicero ]

There is no book so bad, said the bachelor, but something good may be found in it. [ Cervantes ]

Have something to say, and then say it as simply and straightforwardly as you can. [ Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, English novelist and early feminist, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. [ Danish Webster ]

The wolf does something every week, that hinders him from going to church a Sunday. [ Proverb ]

Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be said. [ Saint-Prosper ]

Few men are much worth loving in whom there is not something well worth laughing at. [ Hair ]

Glory long has made the sages smile; 'tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind. [ Byron ]

May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody. [ Juvenal ]

It's sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Devote each day to the object then in time, and every evening will find something done. [ Goethe ]

Earnestness in life, even when carried to an extreme, is something very noble and great. [ W. V. Humboldt ]

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [ Rochefoucauld ]

However rich or elevated, a nameless something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune. [ Horace ]

The storm of sad mischance will turn into something that is good, if we list to make it so. [ Taylor ]

Be not simply good. Be good for something. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

He smiled as men smile when they will not speak, because of something bitter in the thought. [ Mrs. Browning ]

There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth. [ Boufflers ]

We never know a great character until something congenial to it has grown up within ourselves. [ William Ellery Channing ]

There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

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

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. [ George Eliot ]

Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. [ Plato ]

The two best rules for a system of rhetoric are: first, have something to say; and next, say it. [ George Emmons ]

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

If you love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours. If not, it was never meant to be. [ Source unknown ]

Something like home, that is not home, is to be desired; it is to be found in the house of a friend. [ Sir W. Temple ]

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. [ Chalmers ]

There is not a love, however violent it may be, to which ambition and interest do not add something. [ La Bruyere ]

He that would be singular in his apparel had need of something superlative to balance that affectation. [ Feltham ]

Not because I raise myself above something but because I raise myself to something, do I approve myself. [ Jacobi ]

Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain; the lazy man never. [ Ben. Franklin ]

Every man has something to do which he neglects; every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat. [ Dr. Johnson ]

If you have conquered your inclination, rather than your inclination you, you have something to rejoice at. [ Plaut ]

A lover who is no longer loved is still good for something: he serves to hide the one who has replaced him.

We tolerate everybody, because we doubt everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because we believe something. [ Mrs. E. B. Browning ]

Keep but ever looking, whether with the body's eye or the mind's, and you will soon find something to look on. [ Robert Browning ]

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness. [ Sheridan ]

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data. [ Beaconsfield ]

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. [ Lew Wallace ]

Lift thyself up, look around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness. [ Richter ]

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination. [ Dr. I. Watts ]

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. [ James Ellis ]

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion. [ Froude ]

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Never write except when you have something to say, and then say it simply - as Addison, Goldsmith, and Franklin wrote. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful. [ Bishop Hall ]

When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. [ Henry Taylor ]

Man ought always to have something which he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will appear to him tiresome and void. [ Seume ]

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [ Richelieu ]

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent in the lowest degree of culture. [ Goethe ]

Any style is good if you have something you have a call to say, and men ought to hear; and no style is good if you haven't. [ Thomas Hughes, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better - especially richer or more fashionable - than he is. [ Thackeray ]

Mediocre people fear exaltation for the harm that may result from it; though it is something that can not be communicated to them. [ Mme. de Krudener ]

There never was a talent, even for real literature, but was primarily a talent for something infinitely better of the silent kind. [ Carlyle ]

Something of a person's character may be discovered by observing when and how he smiles. Some people never smile; they merely grin. [ Bovee ]

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

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know. [ John Ruskin ]

There is a magic in the word duty, something I know not what, which sustains magistrates, inflames warriors, and cools married people. [ H. Dupuy ]

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and consequently imperishable. [ Aristotle ]

When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean. [ Alan Turing ]

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful. [ Cicero ]

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. [ Addison ]

The production of something, where nothing was before, is an act of greater energy than the expansion or decoration of the thing produced. [ Johnson ]

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. [ Horace Mann ]

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also. [ Coleridge ]

You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls. [ Lowell ]

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil. [ James A. Garfield ]

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, - strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance. [ Ruskin ]

In Nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it, and over it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general. [ Schlegel ]

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application. [ Thoreau ]

Garments will fall to pieces, jewels and gold will lose something of their lustre, but the fame that great poems acquire will last through all time. [ Ovid ]

Libraries are the wardrobes of our literature, whence men, properly informed, might bring something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. [ J. Dyer ]

There is something irresistibly pleasing in the conversation of a fine woman; even though her tongue be silent, the eloquence of her eyes teach wisdom. [ Goldsmith ]

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labour, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck relies on chance, labour on character. [ Cobden ]

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry. [ Pope ]

There is something on earth greater than arbitrary power. The thunder, the lightning, and the earthquake are terrific, but the judgment of the people is more. [ Daniel Webster ]

Our illusions fall one after the other like the parings of fruit: the fruit is experience; its savor may be bitter, still it contains something that strengthens. [ G. de Nerval ]

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us. [ Brydges ]

There is no possible success without some opposition as a fulcrum; force is always aggressive, and crowds something or other, if it does not hit and trample upon it. [ O. W. Holmes ]

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are infinite in the past [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Whatever that be, which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine; and, upon that account, must necessarily be eternal. [ Cicero ]

Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace: and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest. [ Landor ]

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise. [ Dr. Johnson ]

There is something in meanness? which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred. [ Thomas Paine ]

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 ]

Men commonly injure one another without cause, and simply to do something: as an idle promenader in a garden, breaks the young branches, and strips off the leaves of the most beautiful flowers. [ E. Souvestre ]

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is God is crying. And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is Probably because of something you did. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens. [ Metastasio ]

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself. [ Hazlitt ]

He who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants. [ Lavater ]

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life. [ Phillips Brooks ]

The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it. [ Lowell ]

If we are involved in something where we want to win, and particularly something that is necessary, if there's something out there that we need to win, we are going to try and beat your ass every time we can. [ Bobby Knight, April 27, 2016, Fox News Town Hall ]

There is something cordial in a fat man, everybody likes him, and he likes everybody. Food does a fat man good; it clings to him; it fructifies upon him; he swells nobly out, and fills a generous space in life. [ Henry Giles ]

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as they are overrated by others. [ Whately ]

All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little; something which they value far more than for its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life. [ Theodore Parker ]

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout. [ Landor ]

Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or all forehead, or something horrid. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries. [ Hawthorne ]

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere. [ Bovee ]

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults. [ Agapet ]

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless soul, like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong! [ Chapin ]

Imaginary evils soon become real ones, by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall, or the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied. [ Swift ]

Young women, the glory of your life is to do something, and to be something. You may have formed the idea that ease and personal enjoyment are the ends of your life. This is a terrible mistake. Development, in the broadest sense and in the highest direction, is the end of your life. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression, - a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination. [ Cicero ]

To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. [ James Parton ]

Man reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. [ Humboldt ]

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 ]

He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career; and he is greatest who does the most of all these things, and does them best. [ R. D. Hitchcock ]

Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. [ W. P. Scargill ]

It takes twenty years to bring man from the state of embryo, and from that of a mere animal, as he is in his first infancy, to the point when his reason begins to dawn. It has taken thirty centuries to know his structure; it would take eternity to know something of his soul; it takes but an instant to kill him. [ Voltaire ]

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal souls, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten all eternity. [ Daniel Webster ]

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 ]

Honor is not a virtue in itself, it is the mail behind which the virtues fight more securely. A man without honor is as maimed in his equipment as an accoutred knight without helmet. Honor is not simply truthfulness; it is truthfulness sparkling with the fire of a suspective personality. It is something more than an ornament even to the loftiest. [ George H. Calvert ]

An observant man, in all his intercourse with society and the world, carries a pencil constantly in his hand, and, unperceived, marks on every person and thing the figure expressive of its value, and therefore instantly on meeting that person or thing again, knows what kind and degree of attention to give it. This is to make something of experience. [ John Foster ]

Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. What, said the hero in reply, have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart? He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own. [ E. L. Magoon ]

The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object - this is eloquence, or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence - it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. [ Webster ]

It is the nature of man to be proud, when man by nature hath nothing to be proud of. He more adorneth the creature than he adoreth the Creator; and makes not only his belly his god, but his body. I am ashamed of their glory whose glory is their shame. If nature will needs have me to be proud of something, I will be proud only of this, that I am proud of nothing. [ Arthur Warwick ]

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor on character. [ Cobden ]

I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fisherman caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy - something like that. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still; then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life; it is only needful to place yourself so that it may come, and then it comes of itself; and then everything turns and changes itself for the best. [ Frederika Bremer ]

I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky. Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

There is something too dear in the hope of seeing again.... Dear heart, be quiet; we say; you will not be long separated from those people that you love; be quiet, dear heart! And then we give it in the meanwhile a shadow, so that it has something, and then it is good and quiet, like a little child whose mother gives it a doll instead of the apple which it ought not to eat. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is scare any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen, Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned. [ Sterne ]

No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. [ Terence ]

If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron! and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice. Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

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 ]

I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me, I said. I'm off the team, aren't I? Well, said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times. It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]