The weakest goes to the wall. [ William Shakespeare ]
A white wall is the paper of a fool. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hard with hard makes not the stone wall. [ Proverb ]
Prisoned in a parlour snug and small,
Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. [ Cowper ]
True, conscious honor is to feel no sin;
He's armed without that's innocent within,
Be this thy screen and this thy wall of brass. [ Horace ]
A sound conscience is a brazen wall of defense. [ From the Latin ]
In the grave, dust and bones justle not for the wall. [ Proverb ]
Bring your line to the wall, not the wall to the line. [ Proverb ]
Virtue is of noble birth; but riches take the wall of her. [ Proverb ]
An ass that kicks against the wall, receives the blow himself. [ Proverb ]
Within this wall of flesh There is a soul counts thee her creditor.
And with advantage means to pay thy love. [ William Shakespeare ]
If the ball does not stick to the wall, yet it will leave some mark. [ Proverb ]
As lazy as Ludlam's dog, that leaned his head against the wall to bark. [ Proverb ]
And chiefly for the weaker by the wall, You bore that lamp of sane benevolence. [ Meredith ]
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall. The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. [ Thos. Haynes Bayly ]
Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and don't daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. [ Emerson ]
He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty. [ Tupper ]
A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word effrontery
comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall. [ Leigh Hunt ]
I have often heard it said, and I believe it to be true, that even the most eloquent man living, and however deeply impressed with the subject, could scarcely find utterance if he were to be standing up alone, and speaking only against a dead wall. [ Erskine ]
Imaginary evils soon become real ones, by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall, or the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied. [ Swift ]
Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion, - Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, - of Immortality! [ Charles Dickens ]
When the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place, - when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave, - in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them, - then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God. [ Dickens ]
The love of flowers seems a naturally implanted passion, without any alloy or debasing object in its motive; we cherish them in youth, we admire them in declining years; but perhaps it is the early flowers of spring that always bring with them the greatest degree of pleasure; and our affections seem to expand at the sight of the first blossom under the sunny wall, or sheltered bank, however humble its race may be. With summer flowers we seem to live, as with our neighbors, in harmony and good order; but spring flowers are cherished as private friendships. [ G. A. Sola ]