Nothing secure unless suspected. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Old praise dies unless you feed it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Unless art deceives, it is not art. [ Reiner ]

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook
Unless the deed go with it. [ Shakespeare ]

What skilful limner ever would choose
To paint the rainbow's varying hues.
Unless to mortal it were given
To dip his brush in dyes of heaven? [ Scott ]

Friendship, like love, is but a name,
Unless to one you stint the flame. [ Gay ]

Nature has made man's breast no windows
To publish what he does within doors,
Nor what dark secrets there inhabit,
Unless his own rash folly blab it. [ Butler ]

Nothing is a misery,
Unless our weakness apprehend it so:
We cannot be more faithful to ourselves,
In anything that's manly, than to make
Ill-fortune as contemptible to us
As it makes us to others. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it. [ George Herbert ]

Never show your teeth unless you can bite. [ Proverb ]

Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting. [ Napoleon ]

No man can thrive unless his wife lets him. [ Proverb ]

No one is happy unless he respects himself. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,
If one be better with them or without -
Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,
Knows the high art of what and how to read. [ J. G. Saxe ]

The tender flower that lifts its head, elate,
Helpless must fall before the blasts of fate,
Sunk on the earth, defaced its lovely form,
Unless your shelter ward th' impending storm. [ Burns ]

What's a fine person, or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment gives them decent grace?
Blessed with all other requisites to please.
Some want the striking elegance of ease;
The curious eye their awkward movement tires:
They seem like puppets led about by wires. [ Churchill ]

You can never be wise unless you love reading. [ Johnson ]

Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. [ Phaedrus ]

The little cannot be great, unless he devour many. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself. [ Ward Beecher ]

Speak not of my debts, unless you mean to pay them. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill. [ Corn. Nepos ]

Never marry a widow, unless her first man was hanged. [ Proverb ]

You can't "have" your pudding unless you can "eat" it. [ John Ruskin ]

Thou canst not serve God, unless your mammon serve you. [ Proverb ]

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. [ Ovid ]

He wishes well is worthless, unless the deed go with it. [ Plautus ]

It is nothing to begin, unless you proceed, and end well. [ Proverb ]

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty. [ Samuel Smiles ]

In love, one must not attack a place unless one storms it.

No man is bound to accuse himself unless it be before God. [ Law Max ]

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. [ Joubert ]

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us. [ Joubert ]

The best metals lose their lustre, unless brightened by use. [ Proverb ]

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do. [ Hamerton ]

He that demands, misseth not, unless his demands be foolish. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nobody loves heartily unless people take pains to prevent it. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Men do less than they ought unless they do all that they can. [ Carlyle ]

The act does not make a man guilty, unless the mind be guilty. [ Law Max ]

Cowards are made to be trampled on, unless their wit cover them. [ Proverb ]

Industry will never do much, unless there be natural parts also. [ Proverb ]

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own. [ Syrus ]

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason. [ Hazlitt ]

Is then your knowledge to pass for nothing unless others know of it?

If you love something set it free, unless the vultures are circling.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they be executed. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A man of parts may lie hid all his life, unless fortune calls him out. [ Proverb ]

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. [ H. W. Shaw ]

You must be mad with the insane unless you wish to be left quite alone. [ Petronius ]

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none. [ Zimmermann ]

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness. [ Plato ]

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [ Cicero ]

You have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is nothing for you to know a thing unless another knows that you know it. [ Pers ]

Surely half the world must be blind; they can see nothing unless it glitters. [ Hare ]

It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless one is first a hero in faith. [ Jacobi ]

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. [ Hosea Ballou ]

With us law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Never let a god interfere unless a difficulty arise worthy of a god's interposition. [ Horace ]

The soul's armour is never well set to the heart unless a woman's hand has braced it. [ John Ruskin ]

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [ Horace ]

Be very sure that no man will learn any thing at all unless he first will learn humility. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

No boy is well prepared for rough climbing, unless he is well shod with Christian principles.

Nothing is more difficult than to choose a good husband - unless it be to choose a good wife. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated. [ Lamartine ]

There were in him candor and generosity, which, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin. [ Tacitus ]

However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. [ Mrs. Oliphant ]

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them. [ Haliburton ]

Like other plants, virtue will not grow unless its root be hidden, buried from the eye of the sun. [ Carlyle ]

It is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all, unless you are parachuting. [ Danny ]

A man cannot be cheerful and goodnatured unless he is also honest; which is not to be said of sadness. [ Steele ]

No action will be considered as blameless unless the will was so; for by the will the act was dictated. [ Seneca ]

We cannot expect the deepest friendship unless we are willing to pay the price, a self-sacrificing love. [ Peloubet ]

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. [ Seneca ]

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted. [ Dryden ]

Nature tempts us continually, but we are not responsible for the sin, unless our reasoning gives its consent. [ Pascal ]

Youth will never live to age unless they keep themselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Real friendship is a slow grower; and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit. [ Chesterfield ]

Any pleasure which takes and keeps the heart from God is sinful, and unless forsaken, will be fatal to the soul. [ Richard Fuller ]

Out of the smallest a great is at length composed, and none of all can fail, unless the whole is fated to break up. [ Rückert ]

Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being; and the pretence saps the very foundations of character. [ Lowell ]

When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. [ Henry Taylor ]

Unless the people can be kept in total darkness, it is the wisest way for the advocates of truth to give them full light. [ Whately ]

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. [ Denzel Washington ]

Tomorrow! - it is a period nowhere to be found in all the hoary registers of time, unless perchance in the fool's calendar. [ Colton ]

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk, and truth the root. [ Colton ]

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. [ Sir W. Temple ]

There are no pleasures where women are not; and with the French, champagne itself has no flavor, unless served by the hand of beauty. [ Romieu ]

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. [ Hume ]

A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff. [ Chamfort ]

Nothing is so embarrassing as the first tête-à-tête when there is everything to say, unless it be the last, when everything has been said. [ N. Roqueplan ]

Artists may produce excellent designs, but they will avail little, unless the taste of the public is sufficiently cultivated to appreciate them. [ George C. Mason ]

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Jealousy is said to be the offspring of love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run by patience and love, unless they are harder than the rocks which the soft water penetrates in time. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

When I think back on all the blessings I have been given in my life, I can't think of a single one, unless you count that rattlesnake that granted me all those wishes. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. [ Talfourd ]

A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longer to be retained, and, indeed, never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever. [ Chamfort ]

Reflection makes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment. [ Hazlitt ]

When you leave the unimpaired hereditary freehold to your children, you do but half your duty. Both liberty and property are precarious, unless the possessors have sense and spirit enough to defend them. [ Junius ]

Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet always agreeable; vanity, on the contrary, is always pleasant, yet always disagreeable. [ Horne ]

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with everything that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. [ C. C. Colton ]

Error soon passes away, unless upheld by restraint on thought. History tells us (and the lesson is invaluable) that the physical force which has put down free inquiry has been the main bulwark of the superstitions and illusions of past ages. [ Channing ]

No unity can last, in married life, unless the fellowship of hearts is accompanied by the fellowship of minds. As a woman loses the charms of her youth, her husband must perceive that her mind is developing, and love must be perpetuated by esteem. [ Dupanloup ]

The essence of humour is sensibility, warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence; and unless seasoned and purified by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild, will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood, or, in one word, sentimentality. [ Carlyle ]

Society is a necessary thing. No man has any real success in this world unless he has women to back him, and women rule society. If you have not got women on your side you are quite over. You might as well be a barrister, or a stock-broker, or a journalist at once. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Collier ]

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]