Good things take time.[ Dutch Proverb ]
Black will take no other hue.[ Proverb ]
In the time of mirth take heed.[ Proverb ]
Idle people take the most pains.[ Proverb ]
Let him that can play take the hue.[ Proverb ]
You must take the will for the deed.[ Swift ]
We'll take the good-will for the deed.[ Rabelais ]
Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.[ Proverb ]
Take care that no one hates you justly.[ Syrus ]
I take all knowledge to be my province.[ Bacon ]
Take away fuel, and you take away fire.[ Proverb ]
Strike, brave boys, and take your turns.[ William Shakespeare ]
Take things always by the smooth handle.
Wit does not take the place of knowledge.[ Vauvenargues ]
Take all the swift advantage of the hour.[ William Shakespeare ]
Let every fox take care of his own brush.[ Proverb ]
We take no note of time but from its loss.[ Young ]
It is a bad cloth that will take no colour.[ Proverb ]
Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.[ Pope ]
Do not take a blind guide nor a bad adviser.
He that will take the bird must not scare it.[ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.[ Seneca ]
Take away my good name, and take away my life.[ Proverb ]
Let him that owns the cow take her by the tail.[ Proverb ]
Fortune cannot take away what she did not give.[ Seneca ]
He that hunts after vanity shall take vexation.[ Proverb ]
I usually take a two hour nap from one to four.[ Yogi Berra ]
If you play with boys, you must take boy's play.[ Proverb ]
Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.[ Cervantes ]
How blessings brighten as they take their flight![ Young ]
We take less pains to be happy than to appear so.[ La Rochefoucauld ]
If you go into a labyrinth, take a clue with you.[ Proverb ]
He conquers grief who can take a firm resolution.[ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Few take wives for God's sake, or for fair looks.[ Proverb ]
Character is a thing that will take care of itself.[ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
If you buy the cow, take the tail into the bargain.[ Proverb ]
When you dance, take heed whom you take by the hand.[ Proverb ]
Do not take up the cudgels in another man's affairs.[ Proverb ]
If I go to heaven, I want to take my reason with me.[ R. G. Ingersoll ]
We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.[ Chamfort ]
Give a clown your finger, and he will take your hand.[ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is safer to hear and take counsel than to give it.[ Proverb ]
Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave us.[ Proverb ]
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.[ W. R. Alger ]
If the walls were adamant, yet gold will take the town.[ Proverb ]
All of us, unlearned and learned, alike take to writing.[ Horace ]
It is ill to take an unlawful oath, but worse to keep it.[ Proverb ]
I will never stoop so low to take up just nothing at all.[ Proverb ]
Fools lade out all the water, and wise men take the fish.[ Proverb ]
It is better to take half in hand and the rest presently.[ Proverb ]
To take from a soldier ambition, is to take off his spurs.[ Proverb ]
Caution, though very often wasted. is a good risk to take.[ H. W. Shaw ]
He that wants business may fit out a ship, or take a wife.[ Proverb ]
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.[ Ovid ]
In love, what we take has greater price than what is given.[ J. Petit-Senn ]
Few are so wicked an to take delight in crimes unprofitable.[ Dryden ]
I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.[ Yogi Berra ]
But do you of your own ingenuity take up more than my words?[ Ovid ]
If every bird take back its own feathers, you will be naked.[ Proverb ]
Be sure you take for wife a woman of your own neighbourhood.[ Hesiod ]
Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?[ Wordsworth ]
A man must often exercise or fast or take physic, or be sick.[ Sir W. Temple ]
Nobody loves heartily unless people take pains to prevent it.[ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Best dealing with an enemy, when you take him at his weakest.[ Proverb ]
If you put nothing into your purse, you can take nothing out.[ Proverb ]
No one should so act as to take advantage of another's folly.[ Cicero ]
It would take an angel from above to paint the immortal soul.[ Mrs. Welby ]
Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.[ Emile Souvestre ]
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.[ Catherine of Russia ]
We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.[ William Shakespeare ]
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.[ J. Petit-Senn ]
It is easier to take care of a peck of fleas than of one woman.[ Proverb ]
He'll rather die with thirst than take the pains to draw water.[ Proverb ]
Take care of the pence; the pounds will take care of themselves.[ Proverb ]
Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.[ Woodrow Wilson, At the Workingman's Dinner, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1912 ]
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.[ Washington ]
He that sins that he may repent, surfeits that he may take a vomit.[ Proverb ]
He that makes himself an ass, must not take it ill if men ride him.[ Proverb ]
Take away the sword; States can be saved without it; bring the pen.[ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.[ Karl Von Knebel ]
All the joys in the world cannot take one grey hair out of our heads.[ Proverb ]
If nobody take notice of our faults, we easily forget them ourselves.[ Proverb ]
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.[ Franklin ]
In the night is counsel; take a night to think over it; sleep upon it.
If the weather is fine, take your cloak; if it rains, do as you please.[ French Proverb ]
Whatever you dislike in another person take care to correct in yourself.[ Sprat ]
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.[ Byron ]
If you would take a peep at sunshine, look in the face of a young mother.[ Fanny Fern ]
I madly take to arms; but have not wit enough to use them to any purpose.[ Virgil ]
Take away desire from the heart, and you take away the air from the earth.[ Bulwer Lytton ]
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?[ Seneca ]
In a great river great fish are found ; but take heed lest you be drowned.[ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.[ Montaigne ]
Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.[ Thomas Fuller ]
All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.[ Massey ]
Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder.[ Johnson ]
He who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have.[ Manuel ]
Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from anything which he may lawfully take.[ Elyot ]
Take from men ambition and vanity and you will have neither heroes nor patriots.[ Seneca ]
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.[ Burke ]
Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.[ Carlyle ]