Courage never to submit or yield. [ Milton ]
Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain.
And make men giddy, proud and vain;
By this the fool commands the wise;
The noble with the base complies;
The sot assumes the role of wit.
And cowards make the base submit. [ Butler ]
Necessity does not submit to debate. [ [Garibaldi ]
Monuments, like men, submit to fate. [ Pope ]
What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield. [ Milton ]
Even grave divines submit to glittering gold,
The best of consciences are bought and sold. [ Dr. Wolcot ]
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. [ Lavater ]
One alleviation in misfortune is to endure and submit to necessity. [ Seneca ]
Man should place himself above prejudices, and woman should submit to them. [ Mme. Necker ]
Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure. [ Thomas Fuller ]
To marry is solemnly to submit one's liberty to law, and one's welfare to caprice.
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Of all the authorities to which men can be called to submit, the wisdom of our ancestors is the most whimsically absurd. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. [ George Washington ]
The heart must be perpetually fortified by wise counsel and high moral principle, or it will inevitably submit to the invasion of the vilest foes. [ Magoon ]
A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming. [ George Eliot ]
There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must. [ L'Estrange ]
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children, and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it. [ Colton ]
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]
To act with commonsense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is, and despise affectation. [ Horace Walpole ]