Much rain wears the marble. [ William Shakespeare ]
An old wrinkle never wears out. [ Proverb ]
An ape is never so like an ape,
As when he wears a doctor's cap. [ Proverb ]
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon
As the best gem upon her zone. [ Emerson ]
He wears the rose of youth upon him. [ William Shakespeare ]
Sweet are the uses of adversity:
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. [ William Shakespeare ]
He wears out both night and day at his work. [ Virgil ]
For youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds
Importing health and graveness. [ William Shakespeare ]
No tears dim the sweet look that Nature wears. [ Longfellow ]
The less clothing Love wears, the warmer he is.
Even to the delicacy of their hand
There was resemblance such as true blood wears. [ Byron ]
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that wears black, must hang a brush at his back. [ Proverb ]
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore -
A shore that wears on her alluring brows
Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea
That blushed a tell-tale. [ Alexander Smith ]
No radiant pearl which crested fortune wears,
No gem that, twinkling, hangs from beauty's ears,
Not the bright stars which night's blue arch adorn,
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn.
Shine with such lustre as the tear that breaks
For other's woe, down virtue's manly cheeks. [ Darwin ]
Surely she wears low heeled shoes, she's apt to fail backwards. [ Proverb ]
The gown is hers that wears it; and the world his that enjoys it. [ Proverb ]
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Even Justice wears a bandage, and shuts her eyes on everything deceptive. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and levels us with brutes. [ Havard ]
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Though a coat be never so fine that a fool wears, yet it is still but a fool's coat. [ Proverb ]
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth. [ Madden ]
The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil, the future, the virgin's. [ Richter ]
It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out. [ Herder ]
If you would make a pair of good shoes, take for the sole the tongue of a woman: it never wears out. [ Alsatian Proverb ]
A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman. [ Addison ]
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench. [ Joubert ]
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy. [ Ouida ]
Nobody contents himself with rough diamonds, or wears them so. When polished and set, then they give a lustre. [ Locke ]
Never trust a woman who wears mauve or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. It means they have a history. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Nature always wears the colours of the spirit. To a man labouring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Perpetual solitude, in a place where you see nothing to raise your spirits, at length wears them out, and conversation falls into dull and insipid. [ Lady Montagu ]
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction, and set with the sharp mordant of experience. [ Lowell ]
Under the assumption of profound esteem, the flatterer wears an outward expression of fidelity, as foreign to his heart as the smile upon the face of the dead. [ E. L. Magoon ]
To the diamond is attributed the virtue of the talisman, and it is even said that he who wears the stone is always assured of victory, however numerous his enemies may be. [ Garcias ab Horto ]
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes be wears, or what culture he boasts. [ Chapin ]
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. [ Seneca ]
When a woman finds out that her husband is absolutely indifferent to her she either becomes dreadfully dowdy or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away. [ Martin Luther ]
The human heart is like a millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds, and bruises the wheat into flour; if you put no wheat in it, it still grinds on; but then it is itself it grinds, and slowly wears away. [ M. Luther ]
A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking. [ Addison ]