By direct ways. [ Motto ]
By right ways and by wrong.
There are many ways to fame. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Long-travelled in the ways of men. [ Young ]
Like a blind spinner in the sun,
I tread my days;
I know that all the threads will run
Appointed Ways. [ Helen Hunt ]
To him that will ways are not wanting. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There are more ways to the wood than one. [ Proverb ]
Far from gay cities, and the ways of men. [ Homer ]
Uncertain ways unsafest are.
And doubt a greater mischief than despair. [ Sir John Denham ]
I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. [ William Shakespeare ]
To him that wills, ways are seldom wanting. [ Proverb ]
And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. [ Dryden ]
There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or flatterer at your board,
Without one hour of sickness or disgust. [ Armstrong ]
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man. [ Pope ]
Death rides in triumph, - fell destruction
Lashes his fiery horse, and round about hint
His many thousand ways to let out souls. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging. [ Proverb ]
Take heed of foul dirty ways, and long sickness. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
For they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open. [ William Shakespeare ]
There are three ways,—the universities, the sea the court. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways. [ Lessing ]
The ways of the heart, like the ways of Providence, are mysterious. [ W. Ware ]
Struggle against it as thou wilt, yet heaven's ways are heaven's ways. [ Lessing ]
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways. [ Dr. Watts ]
Wise men never sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail. [ William Shakespeare ]
To attain the height and depth of Thy eternal ways, all human thoughts come short. [ Milton ]
Two ways are open for thee out of life; one conducts to the ideal, the other to death. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Permanence, persistence, is the first condition of all fruitfulness in the ways of men. [ Carlyle ]
Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops, which give such a depth to the morning meadow. [ Emerson ]
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. [ Joubert ]
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves. [ Professor Vinet ]
Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field. [ Lowell ]
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. [ Bovee ]
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. [ Moliere ]
There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. [ Carlyle ]
Leave it better than you found it. If we all did that, even in small ways, the world would be a much better place.
There are several ways to speak: to speak well, to speak easily, to speak justly, and to speak at the right moment. [ La Bruyere ]
There are peculiar ways in men, which discover what they are, through the most subtle feints and closest disguises. [ La Bruyere ]
One deviates to the right, another to the left; the error is the same with all, but it deceives them in different ways. [ Horace ]
The mind is the master over every kind of fortune: itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery. [ Seneca ]
One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful: joy softens more hearts than tears. [ Mme. de Sartory ]
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. [ Carlyle ]
There are two ways of attaining an important end - force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
To cultivate the sense of the beautiful is but one, and the most effectual of the ways of cultivating an appreciation of the Divine goodness. [ Bovee ]
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not onto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. [ Bible ]
Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many. [ Lowell ]
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric. [ Bovee ]
The ways to enrich are many, and rfiost of thom foul. Parsimony is one of the best, and yet is not innocent; for it withholdeth men from works of liberality and charity. [ Bacon ]
The passage of Providence lies through many crooked ways; a despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of fortune, but not break them. [ Quarles ]
I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast. [ Goldsmith ]
Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. [ B. R. Haydon ]
People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts. [ Anne Isabella Thackeray ]
There are two ways of establishing your reputation, - to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will be invariably accompanied by the latter. [ Colton ]
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. [ Matthew Henry ]
Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace. [ Cicero ]
There are two ways of attaining au important end - force and perseverance. Force falls to the lot only of the privileged few, but austere and sustained perseverance can be practiced by the most insignificant. Its silent power grows irresistible with time. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to keep one's spirit always sweet and avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability, - that is an ideal as noble as it is difficult. [ Edward Howard Griggs ]
There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world, - to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second. [ Swift ]
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, per aspera ad astra
, over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to steadier and steadier steps, till that legend of the rough places fulfills itself at last, "per aspera ad astra", over steep ways to the stars. [ Bishop W. C. Doane ]
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why people who live out of town are so uncivilized. There are only two ways of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment. [ Rochefoucauld ]
As the health and strength or weakness of our bodies is very much owing to their methods of treating us when we were young, so the soundness or folly of our minds is not less owing to those first tempers and ways of thinking which we eagerly received from the love, tenderness, authority, and constant conversation of our mothers. [ E. Law ]
Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. [ Dean Alford ]
Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity. [ Matthew Arnold ]
The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]