Beauty is the subject of a blemish. [ Proverb ]
Sirs, adulation is a fatal thing -
Rank poison for a subject, or a king. [ Dr. Wolcot ]
Even the gods above are subject to law. [ Ovid ]
Bliss is the same, in subject or in king. [ Pope ]
Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband. [ William Shakespeare ]
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king. [ Pope ]
A subject's faults a subject may proclaim,
A monarch's errors are forbidden game. [ William Cowper ]
The bravest men are subject most to chance. [ Dryden ]
The subject's love is the king's best guard. [ Proverb ]
One may say too much even on the best subject. [ Proverb ]
Where can we find talent equal to the subject? [ Juvenal, Roman Poet ]
Heaven, the perfection of all that can
Be said, of thought, riches, delight or harmony.
Health, beauty; and all those not subject to
The waste of time, but in their height eternal. [ Shirley ]
The originality of a subject is in its treatment. [ Beaconsfield ]
God keep us from a man who knows only one subject. [ French Proverb ]
Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation. [ Bruyere ]
Generous souls are still most subject to credulity. [ Sir W. Davenant ]
The highest subject of art for thinking men is man. [ Winkelmann ]
Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions. [ Joubert ]
Things subject to mutability are every moment growing old. [ Dr. Winter ]
Before marriage, woman is a queen; after marriage, a subject.
What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people. [ Dr. Johnson ]
For the same man to be a heretic and a good subject is impossible. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Wouldst thou subject all things to thyself? Subject thyself to reason. [ Seneca ]
Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them. [ Thomas Decker ]
Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. [ William Shakespeare ]
The secret of tiring is to say everything that can be said on the subject. [ Voltaire ]
I pray God that I may never find my will again.
Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet. [ Rutherford ]
Rule your spirit well, for if it is not subject to you, it will lord it over you. [ Horace ]
Elocution is the adjustment of apt words and sentiments to the subject in debate. [ Cicero ]
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject excites no interest in any. [ Hazlitt ]
Take any subject of sorrowful regret, and see with how much pleasure it is associated. [ Dickens ]
Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses. [ Macaulay ]
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. [ Johnson ]
Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error. [ Bishop Mant ]
Death is not the monarch of the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest, he loses a subject. [ Thomas Paine ]
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached upon that subject. [ Saville ]
So long as people are subject to disease and death, they will run after physicians, however much they may deride them. [ La Bruyere ]
Named or Mentioned? In such expressions as, I have never named the subject to him,
named is improperly used for mentioned. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted. [ Thomas Paine ]
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities, and long ponder what your powers are equal to, and what they are unable to perform. [ Horace ]
If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
What the heart or the imagination dictates always flows readily; but where there is no subject to warm or interest these, constraint appears. [ Blair ]
None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought - that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, considered in itself, is subject. [ Sir W. Hamilton ]
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change. [ Pope ]
Great libraries of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats - that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners! [ Isaac Disraeli ]
Make yourself thoroughly acquainted with your subject before writing, write without special attention to composition, and prune afterwards what you have written
. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
Thinkers are as scarce as gold; but he whose thought embraces all his subject, who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. [ Lavater ]
Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it, who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds. [ William Shakespeare ]
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever. [ Johnson ]
Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach. [ Bishop Hall ]
Lord Melbourne was so accustomed to garnish his conversation in this way that Sydney Smith once said to him, We will take it for granted that everybody is damned, and now proceed with the subject.
[ L'Estrange ]
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance. [ Seneca ]
I had fifteen years' apprenticeship on the press of New York, writing editorials upon every conceivable subject, often at a few minutes notice, acquiring in this way rapid thought and rapid expression. ... The proof of genius lies in continuity. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
I have often heard it said, and I believe it to be true, that even the most eloquent man living, and however deeply impressed with the subject, could scarcely find utterance if he were to be standing up alone, and speaking only against a dead wall. [ Erskine ]
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time. [ Richard Baxter ]
What a chimera is man! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradictions! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere bundle of uncertainties! the glory and the shame of the universe! [ Pascal ]
True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. [ Webster ]
The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him. [ Seneca ]
The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject. [ Blakey ]
Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured - first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny. [ Heroidotus ]
Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere. . . . We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, this receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know. [ Dialogues, Theaetetus ]
My method has been simply this - to think well on the subject which I had to deal with and when thoroughly impressed with it and acquainted with it in all its details, to write away without stopping to choose a word, leaving a blank where I was at a loss for it; to express myself as simply as possible in vernacular English, and afterwards to go through what I had written, striking out all redundancies, and substituting, when possible, simpler and more English words for those I might have written. I found that by following this method I could generally reduce very considerably in length what I had put on paper without sacrificing anything of importance or rendering myself less intelligible. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]