You cannot slay a stone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To leave no stone unturned. [ Proverb ]
Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die;
Which in life did harbour give
To more virtue than doth live. [ Jonson, on Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland ]
A stone in a well is not lost. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A rolling stone gathers no moss. [ Proverb ]
Better one-eyed than stone-blind. [ Proverb ]
To kill two birds with one stone. [ Proverb ]
Thrift is the philosopher's stone. [ Proverb ]
He builded better than he knew -
The conscious stone to beauty grew. [ Emerson ]
To throw the stone and hide the hand. [ Proverb ]
Surely use alone
Makes money not a contemptible stone. [ George Herbert ]
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown.
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie. [ Pope ]
Hunger will break through stone walls. [ Proverb ]
I am a heavy stone,
Rolled up a hill by a weak child: I move
A little up, and tumble back again. [ W. Rider ]
Hard with hard makes not the stone wall. [ Proverb ]
Content is the true philosopher's stone. [ Proverb ]
Thou more than stone of the philosopher! [ Byron ]
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone. [ Ouida ]
A falling drop at last will carve a stone. [ Lucretius ]
Beware of the stone you stumbled at before. [ Proverb ]
Here lies the body of Sarah Sexton,
Who as a wife did never vex one.
We can't say that for her at the next stone. [ Epitaph ]
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. [ Bacon ]
A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled. [ Proverb ]
The stone that is rolling can gather no moss,
Who often removeth is suer of loss. [ Tusser ]
A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top,
A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop. [ Trench ]
The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers.
From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,
Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw.
Shriller than trumpets under the Law,
Now a sermon and now a prayer. [ Longfellow ]
Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days.
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone.
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. [ Cowper ]
A word and a stone let go, cannot be called back. [ Proverb ]
We know not which stone the scorpions lurk under. [ Proverb ]
You shew bread in one hand and a stone in the other. [ Proverb ]
Contentment without money is the philosopher's stone. [ Lichtwer ]
As fit as a thump with a stone in an apothecary's eye. [ Proverb ]
What of them is left, to tell
Where they lie, and how they fell?
Not a stone on their turf, nor a bone in their graves:
But they live in the Verse that immortally saves. [ Byron ]
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. [ Beecher ]
The stone that lies not in your way, need not offend you. [ Proverb ]
Character is the diamond that scratches every other stone. [ C. A. Bartol ]
If I had not lifted up the stone, you had not found the jewel. [ Proverb ]
A nickname is the heaviest stone the devil can throw at a man. [ S. Butler ]
Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two bear it lightly. [ W. Hauff ]
Every man holds in his hand a stone to throw at us in adversity. [ Mme. Bachi ]
I never desired you to stumble at the stone that lies at my door. [ Proverb ]
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. [ Cicero ]
The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by continually falling. [ Proverb ]
Diligence is the philosopher's stone, that turns everything to gold. [ N. Webster ]
To kill two flies with one flapper; to kill two birds with one stone. [ German Proverb ]
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears. [ Johnson ]
The stone which the builders refused has become the head of the corner. [ Bible ]
Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold. [ Proverb ]
He that stumbles twice at the same stone deserves to have his shins broke. [ Proverb ]
Silly dogs are more angry with the stone, than with the hand that flung it. [ Proverb ]
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow. [ Aaron Hill ]
Labour is the fabled magician's wand, the philosopher's stone, and the cap of Fortunatus. [ J. Johnson ]
I have discovered the philosopher's stone that turns everything into gold; it is, Pay as you go.
[ Randolph ]
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone, subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. [ Emerson ]
What is really beautiful needs no adorning. We do not grind down the pearl upon a polishing stone. [ Sataka ]
It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. [ Menander ]
A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out. [ Thackeray ]
The greater the height from which a stone is cast, the greater the impression on the spot where it falls. [ French ]
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt. [ Horace ]
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to the earth is only a stone. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The drop hollows the stone, the ring is worn by use, and the crooked ploughshare is frayed away by the pressure of the earth. [ Ovid ]
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. Thou shalt not
is their characteristic formula. [ Coleridge ]
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 ]
The diamond has been always esteemed the rarest stone, and the most precious of all; among the ancients it was called the stone of reconciliation. [ Lewis Vertoman ]
There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen nor never shall be. [ Bishop Hall ]
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden underfoot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? [ Mrs. Stowe ]
The diamond is more valuable than any other stone, and vastly superior to all others in lustre and beauty; as also in hardness, which renders it more durable and lasting. [ Woodward ]
To the diamond is attributed the virtue of the talisman, and it is even said that he who wears the stone is always assured of victory, however numerous his enemies may be. [ Garcias ab Horto ]
Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself. [ John Ruskin ]
Diligence and perseverance are the composites of the philosopher's stone, and instances are not wanting wherein their application has transformed the poorest material into the purest gold. [ W. T. Burke ]
How many of these minds are there to whom scarcely any good can be done! They have no excitability. You are attempting to kindle a fire of stone. You must leave them as you find them, in permanent mediocrity. [ John Foster ]
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus. [ Spurgeon ]
A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone. [ Saadi ]
A talisman that shall turn base metal into precious, Nature acknowledges not; but a talisman to turn base souls into noble, Nature has given us; and that is a philosopher's stone,
but it is a stone which the builders refuse. [ John Ruskin ]
The one thing that marks the true artist is a clear perception and a firm, bold hand, in distinction from that imperfect mental vision and uncertain touch which give us the feeble pictures and the lumpy statues of the mere artisans on canvas or in stone. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty. [ Channing ]
A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, - the wise, the good, or the great man, - very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light. [ Joseph Addison ]
All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]
Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]