Old foxes want no tutors. [ Proverb ]
Mills and wives ever want. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Angry men seldom want woe. [ Proverb ]
I want to meet my God awake. [ Carlyle ]
Old sacks want much patching. [ Proverb ]
There is no woe like to want. [ Proverb ]
Clean hands want no wash ball. [ Proverb ]
Evil tongues never want a whet. [ Le Sage ]
Ill natures never want a tutor. [ Proverb ]
The rich never want for kindred. [ Proverb ]
Busy-bodies never want a bad day. [ Proverb ]
I neither have, nor want, nor care. [ Motto ]
Babbling curs never want sore ears. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Brave actions never want a trumpet. [ Proverb ]
Nothing makes men sharper than want. [ Addison ]
The sea complains for want of water. [ Proverb ]
Age and want sit smiling at the gate. [ Pope ]
The more men have, the more they want. [ Justin ]
Land was never lost for want of an heir. [ Proverb ]
Many things are lost for want of asking. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Those who covet much suffer from the want. [ Horace ]
His brains want no barm to make them work. [ Proverb ]
Buyers want an hundred eyes, sellers none. [ Proverb ]
Love is the union of a want and a sentiment. [ Balzac ]
A thing you don't want is dear at any price. [ Proverb ]
The keener the want, the lustier the growth. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread. [ Young ]
What makes life dreary is the want of motive. [ George Eliot ]
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. [ William Hazlitt ]
Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. [ William Shakespeare ]
For want of thrushes the devil eats blackbirds. [ French Proverb ]
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow. [ Pope ]
If it should rain porridge he would want a dish. [ Proverb ]
Enjoyment germinates not in abundance but in want. [ Herder ]
The abuse of riches is worse than the want of them. [ Proverb ]
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.
If you want to be missed by your friends, be useful. [ Robert E. Lee ]
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. [ W. R. Alger ]
If I go to heaven, I want to take my reason with me. [ R. G. Ingersoll ]
It is for want of thinking that most men are undone. [ Proverb ]
I will not want when I have it, and have it not too. [ Proverb ]
Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. [ Franklin ]
Though love is blind, yet it is not for want of eyes. [ Proverb ]
The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it. [ Proverb ]
They agree like bells; they want nothing but hanging. [ Proverb ]
He that spends without regard shall want without pity. [ Proverb ]
Good nature is a great misfortune if it want prudence. [ Proverb ]
If the pills were pleasant they would not want gilding. [ Proverb ]
The luxurious want many things, the covetous all things. [ Proverb ]
What the orators want in depth, they give you in length. [ Montesquieu ]
Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. [ Proverb ]
It is not want, but rather abundance, that makes avarice. [ Proverb ]
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. [ Confucius ]
Luxury is in want of many things; avarice, of everything. [ Publius Syrus ]
Do you want true peace with men? Make your peace with God.
He that is disposed for mischief will never want occasion. [ Proverb ]
Coquetry is the desire to please, without the want of love. [ Rochepedre ]
No inheritance can supply the want of a virtuous education. [ Thomas Wilson ]
Stupid stoics! you want to change man, and you destroy him! [ Voltaire ]
He that wants money is accounted among those that want wit. [ Proverb ]
Good men want the laws for nothing but to defend themselves. [ Proverb ]
Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Those that complain of every thing, never want the headache. [ Proverb ]
Ladies will rather pardon want of sense than want of manners. [ Proverb ]
All complain of want of memory, but none of want of judgment. [ Proverb ]
He's in great want of a bird that will give a groat for an owl. [ Proverb ]
Maids want nothing but husbands, and then they want everything. [ Proverb ]
He that works journey-work with the devil shall never want work. [ Proverb ]
Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. [ Emerson ]
Human life is a constant want, and ought to be a constant prayer. [ S. Osgood ]
Tell me why the ant midst summer's plenty thinks of winter's want. [ Prior ]
More than we use is more than we want, and a burden to the bearer. [ Proverb ]
The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [ Syrus ]
They that are full of themselves are wise only for want of thinking. [ Proverb ]
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. [ Daniel Webster ]
A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
He that buys what he does not want, must often sell what he does want. [ Proverb ]
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. [ George MacDonald ]
Lose not thy own for want of asking for it: 'twill get thee no thanks. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. [ Spurgeon ]
If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them. [ Bruyere ]
It never rains roses; when we want more roses, we must plant more trees. [ George Eliot ]
It is the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant. [ Farquhar ]
Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. [ Earl of Roscommon ]
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. [ Rousseau ]
If you want a good crop, sow with your hand, and pour not out of the sack. [ Proverb ]
In plain truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice. [ Montaigne ]
Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou may'st for physic. [ Wm. Penn ]
The first want of any maritime tribe, or people, is commerce by navigation. [ Olive R. Seward ]
It is want of diligence rather than want of means that causes most failures. [ Alfred Mercier ]
It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it. [ Madame Necker ]
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. [ Colton ]
A knowledge of mankind tends to induce a want of faith in virtue and probity. [ C. J. Weber ]
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Genius may at times want the spur, but it stands as often in need of the curb. [ Longinus ]
Advice is seldom welcome; those who want it the most always like it the least. [ Chesterfield ]
The miser is as much in want of that which he has as of that which he has not. [ Publius Syrus ]
We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting. [ Mme. de Lambert ]
Hunger makes everything sweet except itself, for want is the teacher of habits. [ Antiphanes ]
The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want. [ Whately ]
Buy not what you want, but what you need; what you don't want is dear at a cent. [ Cato ]