He stands by his own strength. [ Motto ]
The faulty stands on his guard. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Time stands with impartial law. [ Manilius ]
Like a dart the present glances,
Silent stands the past sublime. [ Schiller ]
Here stands one who will avenge me. [ Frederick William of Prussia, pointing to his son ]
Except wind stands as it never stood
It is an ill wind turns none to good. [ Thomas Tusser ]
He stands not surely that never slips. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Reading is a dissuasion from immorality.
Reading stands in the place of company. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Death ready stands to interpose his dart. [ Milton ]
'Tis a stern and a startling thing to think
How often mortality stands on the brink
Of its grave without any misgiving;
And yet in this slippery world of strife,
In the stir of human bustle so rife.
There are daily sounds to tell us that Life
Is dying, and Death is living! [ Hood ]
He never yet stood sure that stands secure. [ Quarles ]
Those edges soonest turn, that are most keen;
A sober moderation stands secure.
No violent extremes endure. [ Aleyn ]
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. [ William Shakespeare ]
He stands like a rock unmoved against the waves. [ Motto ]
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 ]
Amid my list of blessings infinite
Stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled; [ Young ]
Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright. [ William Shakespeare ]
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands. [ Sheridan ]
Jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-top. [ William Shakespeare ]
Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands.
And, with his compass, measures seas and lands. [ Dryden ]
The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Flesh never stands so high but a dog will venture his legs. [ Proverb ]
That fabric rises high as heaven whose basis on devotion stands. [ Prior ]
Death borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave. [ Bishop Hall ]
Here, where the city now stands, was at that time nothing but its site. [ Ovid ]
Many an honest man stands in need of help that has not the face to beg it. [ Proverb ]
Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [ Ausonius ]
One of those terrible moments when the wheel of passion stands suddenly still. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Genius may at times want the spur, but it stands as often in need of the curb. [ Longinus ]
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. [ Cardinal de Retz ]
With us law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. [ H. L. F. Helmholtz ]
Genius ever stands with nature in solemn union, and what the one foretells the other will fulfil. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The temple of fame stands upon the grave; the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of dead men. [ Hazlitt ]
Before every one stands an image (Bild) of what he ought to be; so long as he is not that, his peace is not complete. [ Rückert ]
The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber. [ Jane Porter ]
That nation is in the enjoyment of liberty which stands by its own strength, and does not depend on the will of another. [ Livy ]
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. [ Horace ]
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces. [ Seneca ]
Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face. [ Rev. T. Adams ]
There may be some tenderness, in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart. [ Richard Alleine ]
Patience is very good, but perseverance is much better; while the former stands as a stoic under difficulties, the latter whips them out of the ring. [ Elizabeth Appleton ]
The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart. [ Horace Mann ]
When Fame stands by us all alone, she is an angel clad in light and strength; but when Love touches her she drops her sword, and fades away, ghostlike and ashamed. [ Ouida ]
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Free Will. [ Carlyle ]
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. [ Colton ]
The poetry of the ancients was that of possession, ours is that of aspiration; the former stands fast on the soil of the present, the latter hovers between memory and anticipation. [ Schlegel ]
When thou forgivest, - the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea-worm that perforates the shell of the mussel which straightway closes the wound with a pearl. [ Richter ]
Heaven must scorn the humility which we telegraph thither by genuflection; it must prefer the manliness that stands by all created gifts, and looks itself in the face without pretense of worship. [ John Weiss ]
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there. [ J. G. Holland ]
Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion. [ Goethe ]
Be cheerful, and seek not external help, nor the tranquillity which others give. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
That which I have found the best recreation both to my mind and body, whensoever either of them stands in need of it, is music, which exercises at once both body and soul; especially when I play myself; for then, methinks, the same motion that my hands make upon the instrument, the instrument makes upon my heart. [ J. Beveridge ]
We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure. [ Landor ]
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]