A cold hand, a warm heart. [ Proverb ]
The head and feet keep warm,
The rest will take no harm. [ Proverb ]
He that is warm thinks all so. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
When friends meet, hearts warm. [ Proverb ]
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. [ Burns ]
So I be warm, let the people laugh. [ Proverb ]
A cool mouth and warm feet live long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Borrowed garments never keep one warm. [ Lowell ]
Dry feet, warm head, bring safe to bed. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is absurd to warm one in his armour. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Out of God's blessing into the warm sun. [ Proverb ]
Love is as warm in fustian as in velvet. [ Proverb ]
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. [ Burns ]
He will burn his house to warm his hands. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain.
We'll have our pleasure over again.
To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
Gay dreams to all! good night, good night. [ Joanna Baillie ]
Love's as warm among cotters as courtiers. [ Proverb ]
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. [ Pope ]
Love is as warm among cottars as courtiers. [ Scotch Proverb ]
Your belly will never let your back be warm. [ Proverb ]
Who to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being ever resigned;
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? [ Gray ]
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. [ Gray ]
Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. [ Dryden after Hor ]
With affection's warm, intense, refined;
She mixed such calm and holy strength of mind.
That, like heaven's image in the smiling brook,
Celestial peace was pictured in her look. [ Campbell ]
Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing.
Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
But Man alone has skill and power to send
The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
Ages remote, and nations yet to rise. [ Crabbe ]
The fire that does not warm me shall never scorch me. [ Proverb ]
Warm fortunes are always sure of getting good husbands. [ Goldsmith ]
A countryman may be as warm in kersey as a king in velvet. [ Proverb ]
'Twas a hand
White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland
The hand of a woman is often, in youth.
Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless, in truth;
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm? [ Lord Lytton ]
Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us. [ Proverb ]
To warm one's self in the sun (at the expense of the good god). [ Motto ]
That fire that does not warm me, I will never permit to scorch me. [ Proverb ]
Warm your body by healthful exercise, not by cowering over a stove. [ Thoreau ]
What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm. [ Halleck ]
Keep the bowels open, the head cool, and the feet warm, and a fig for the doctors. [ Proverb ]
With us law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature. [ Addison ]
They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heat themselves at the altar. [ South ]
Let it make no difference to thee whether thou art cold or warm, if thou art doing thy duty. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence. [ Carlyle ]
The cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile, though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while. [ Moore ]
You cannot put a quartern loaf into a child's head; you must break it up, and give him the crumb in warm milk. [ Spurgeon ]
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again. [ Joseph Roux ]
What the heart or the imagination dictates always flows readily; but where there is no subject to warm or interest these, constraint appears. [ Blair ]
The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies - cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends. [ Lavater ]
There are such things as a man shall remember with joy upon his death-bed; such as shall cheer and warm his heart even in that last and bitter agony. [ South ]
Like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots, and each thinks his own fire a sun in presence of which all other fires should go out. [ J. M. Barrie ]
Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion. [ Lord Karnes ]
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. [ Bovee ]
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement seasons. [ Swift ]
Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. [ Whipple ]
Grief is a flower as delicate and prompt to fade as happiness. Still, it does not wholly die. Like the magic rose, dried and unrecognizable, a warm air breathed on it will suffice to renew its bloom. [ Mme. de Gasparin ]
Gold is called the bait of sin, the snare of souls, and the hook of death; which being aptly applied may be compared to a fire, whereof a little is good to warm one, but too much will burn him altogether. [ Sir R. Filmer ]
I am constitutionally susceptible of noises; a carpenter's hammer, in a warm summer noon, will fret me into more than midsummer madness; but those unconnected, unset sounds are nothing to the measured malice of music. [ C. Lamb ]
The essence of humour is sensibility, warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence; and unless seasoned and purified by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild, will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood, or, in one word, sentimentality. [ Carlyle ]
There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend; but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please. [ Lord Greville ]
A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns of expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression. Words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring. [ Whipple ]
Courage, by keeping the senses quiet, and the understanding clear, puts us in a condition to receive true intelligence, to make just computations upon danger, and pronounce rightly upon that which threatens us. Innocence of life, consciousness of worth, and great expectations, are the best foundations of courage. These ingredients make a richer cordial than youth can prepare. They warm the heart at eighty, and seldom fail in operation. [ Collier ]