Another is not wanting. [ Virgil ]
To him that will ways are not wanting. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A thing desired, but regretfully wanting.
To him that wills, ways are seldom wanting. [ Proverb ]
I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
No broken images of ancestors,
Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
Of long descents, to boast false honors from. [ Ben Jonson ]
Where there are boots ready spurs may be wanting. [ Proverb ]
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [ Goldoni ]
Nothing is wanting to his glory; he was wanting to ours. [ Inscription on the bust of Molière, which was placed in the Academy in 1773 ]
He who is wanting but to one friend loses a great many by it. [ Proverb ]
Were embroidery is wanting, perhaps a patched coat may serve. [ Proverb ]
Those wanting wit, affect gravity and go by the name of solid men. [ Dryden ]
Wherever there is a display of art, truth seems to us to be wanting.
Joy, being altogether wanting. It doth remember me the more of sorrow. [ William Shakespeare ]
Why complain of wanting light? It is courage, energy, perseverance that I want. [ Carlyle ]
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence. [ Juvenal ]
Look not to what is wanting in any one; consider that rather which still remains to him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The laws of nature never vary; in their application they never hesitate, nor are wanting. [ Draper ]
Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing. [ Goethe ]
However rich or elevated, a nameless something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune. [ Horace ]
That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessaries are not wanting. [ Plutarch ]
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship, which always is imperfect where either of these two is wanting. [ Budgell ]
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Talents angel-bright, if wanting worth, are shining instruments in false ambition's hand, to finish faults illustrious, and give infamy renown. [ Young ]
A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and often even triumphs over the natural disfavor. [ Schiller ]
Wanting to have a friend is altogether different from wanting to be a friend. The former is a mere natural human craving, the latter is the life of Christ in the soul. [ J. R. Miller ]
Affectation in any part of our carriage is lighting up a candle to our defects, and never fails to make us be taken notice of either as wanting sense or wanting sincerity. [ Locke ]
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far-reaching, while the former is altogether wanting. [ Joubert ]
Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract is wanting, in the other the heart. [ La Bruyere ]
Diligence and perseverance are the composites of the philosopher's stone, and instances are not wanting wherein their application has transformed the poorest material into the purest gold. [ W. T. Burke ]
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves. [ A. B. Alcott ]
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. [ Robert Hall ]
Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself: but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day. [ Goethe ]
There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles - that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith - be wanting. It may be soured by misfortune, it may be corrupted by wealth, it may be blighted by neediness, it may lose all its original brightness, if destitute of that support. [ Southey ]
Consistent characters are those which in social intercourse are easy, sure, and gentle. We do not clash with them, and they are never wanting nor contradictory to themselves; their stability incites confidence, their frankness induces self-surrendering openness. We feel at ease with them, we are not offended at their superiority, doubtless we admire them less, but we also hardly dream of feeling envious of them, and they seem almost to disdain malignity by the peaceful influence of their presence. [ Degerando ]