Wind and weather, do your utmost. [ Proverb ]
How happy is he born or taught,
That serveth not another's will;
Whose armor is his honest thought
And simple truth his utmost skill! [ Sir Henry Wotton ]
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen.
Fallen from his high estate.
And welt'ring in his blood;
Deserted at his utmost need.
But those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ Dryden ]
Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed,
On the bare earth exposed be lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ John Dryden ]
Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. [ William Shakespeare ]
Madam, I am, to the utmost of my power, not yours. [ Proverb ]
Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. [ Horace Walpole ]
To have no pain, and not be bored, is the utmost happiness possible to man on earth. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Happiness and misery are the names of two extremes, the utmost bounds whereof we know not. [ Locke ]
As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the Divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man. [ Addison ]
Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. Considering I have no ear, nor even thought of music, the preference seems odd, and yet it is embraced on frequent reflection. [ H. Walpole ]
He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations. [ La Bruyere ]
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of Nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the underworkman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master. [ Hume ]
Though no participator in the joys of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practice toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]