The thread leads to the bottom. [ Proverb ]
Needle and thread are half clothing. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Twist ye, twine ye! even so,
Mingle shades of joy and woe,
Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife,
In the thread of human life. [ Scott ]
The thread breaks where it is weakest. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
And be the thread of coarse or fine,
The loom is still the best receiver!
Whatever I spin, the same is mine.
Returned in full from Time the Weaver. [ Henry Reed ]
A thread too fine spun will easily break. [ Proverb ]
Pride may lurk under a thread-bare cloak. [ Proverb ]
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The lovely town was white with apple blooms.
And the great elms o'erhead
Dark shadows wove on their serial looms.
Shot through with golden thread. [ Longfellow ]
Trust not a great weight to a slender thread. [ Proverb ]
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins even from the birth are misery and man. [ Pope ]
A thread-bare coat is armour-proof against highwaymen. [ Proverb ]
You sewed it with a red hot needle and a burning thread. [ Proverb ]
Spin not too fine a thread, lest it break in weaving up. [ Proverb ]
Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]
Virtue is despised, if it be seen in a thread-bare cloak. [ Proverb ]
She spins a good thread that brings up her daughter well. [ Proverb ]
Mark how there still has run, inwoven from above,
Through thy life's darkest woof, the golden thread of love. [ R. C. Trench ]
He that does not knot his thread will lose his first stitch. [ Gaelic ]
My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. [ Hood ]
As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time. [ Mason ]
Like the tailor, that sewed for nothing and found thread himself. [ Proverb ]
A thread will tie an honest man better than a rope will do a rogue. [ Scotch Proverb ]
When a man's coat is thread-bare, it is an easy thing to pick a hole in it. [ Proverb ]
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. [ William Shakespeare ]
Memory is the golden thread linking all the mental gifts and excellencies together. [ E. P. Hood ]
Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. [ Horace Mann ]
The spider lost her distaff, and is ever since forced to draw her thread through her tail. [ Proverb ]
Promises retain men better than services. For them, hope is a chain, and gratitude a thread. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread. [ Burton ]
I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. [ Montaigne ]
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past see how that which is to come will be drawn on. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Life is before you, - not earthly life alone, but life - a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity. [ J. G. Holland ]
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its Cause. [ Beecher ]
Is it not strange, the way in which good angels seem to take up the thread of our dropped hopes and endeavors, and wind them up for us, we know not how, till it is all done? [ Miss Muloch ]