The wind breathes not, and the wave
Walks softly as above a grave. [ Bailey ]
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. [ Byron, She Walks in Beauty ]
The spirit walks of every day deceased. [ Young ]
Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes. [ Proverb ]
The tongue walks where the teeth speed not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind. [ Pope ]
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me;
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garment with his form. [ William Shakespeare ]
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise. [ Pope ]
So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in today already walks tomorrow. [ Coleridge ]
The man who consecrates his hours
By vigorous effort, and an honest aim.
At once he draws the sting of life and death;
He walks with nature; and her paths are peace. [ Young ]
So lightly walks, she not one mark imprints,
Nor brushes off the dews, nor soils the tints. [ Churchill ]
Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce
Of that serene companion - a good name.
Recovers not his loss; but walks with shame,
With doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse. [ Wordsworth ]
He that walks with the virtuous is one of them. [ Proverb ]
Who walks through fire will hardly heed the smoke. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
The imagination gallops, the judgment merely walks. [ French ]
Even when the bird walks one feels that it has wings. [ Lemierre ]
No wonder if he break his shins that walks in the dark. [ Proverb ]
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches. [ Massinger ]
All is gentle; nought Stirs rudely; but congenial with the night.
Whatever walks is gliding like a spirit. [ Byron ]
Every child walks into existence through the golden gate of love. [ Beecher ]
Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought. [ Lowell ]
Opinion, which on crutches walks, And sounds the words another talks. [ Lloyd ]
Falstaff sweats to death, and lards the lean earth as he walks along. [ William Shakespeare ]
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being. [ Whipple ]
Still as the peaceful walks of ancient night; silent as are the lamps that burn on tombs. [ William Shakespeare ]
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer. [ Cervantes ]
Many have gone in quest of light and fallen into deeper darkness; whereas childhood walks on secure in the twilight. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. [ Horace Mann ]
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him. [ Carlyle ]
There is no man whom Fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door and flies out at the window. [ Cardinal Imperiali ]
Friendship is impossible between men of high social standing and men in the lower walks of life; very difficult between a young man and a young woman; between two beautiful women, it is but a poetic fiction.