I gaze upon the thousand stars
That fill the midnight sky;
And wish, so passionately wish,
A light like theirs on high.
I have such eagerness of hope
To benefit my kind;
I feel as if immortal power
Were given to my mind. [ Miss Landon ]

Goods are theirs that enjoy them. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Goods are theirs only who enjoy them. [ Proverb ]

Oh! in that future let us think
To hold each heart the heart that shares;
With them the immortal waters drink,
And, soul in soul, grow deathless theirs! [ Byron ]

Men are but children of a larger growth;
Our appetites are apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving, too, and full as vain. [ Dryden ]

Theirs is the present who can praise the past. [ Shenstone ]

So lived our sires, ere doctors learned to kill,
And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill. [ Dryden ]

As soon as women are ours, we are no longer theirs. [ Montaigne ]

As soon as a woman becomes ours, we are no longer theirs. [ Montaigne ]

Both my language and my sentiments differ widely from theirs. [ Horace ]

The first faults are theirs that commit them; the second theirs that permit them. [ Proverb ]

The vulgar refuse or crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining. [ Mallet ]

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Vulgar minds refuse to crouch beneath their load; the brave bear theirs without repining. [ Thomson ]

Men declare their love before they feel it; women confess theirs only after they have proved it. [ Latena ]

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. [ Bible ]

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

For one Orpheus who went to Hell to seek his wife, how many widowers who would not even go to Paradise to find theirs! [ J. Petit-Senn ]

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full. [ Beecher ]

Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us; we have had our day; now let the children have theirs. [ R. W. Emerson ]

If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]