Weigh right and sell dear. [ Proverb ]

Weigh justly and sell dearly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The reasons of the poor weigh not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort. [ William Shakespeare ]

Brutus and Caesar: what should be in Caesar?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? [ William Shakespeare ]

The wise weigh their words in a balance for gold. [ Ecclus ]

That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Weigh well what your shoulders can and cannot bear. [ Horace ]

Take me upon your back and you will know what I weigh. [ Proverb ]

A puff of wind and the praise of the people weigh alike. [ Proverb ]

The wise weigh their words in the balance of the goldsmith. [ Ecclus ]

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least. [ Madame Swetchine ]

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so much as brain. [ Lowell ]

To give a reason for fancy, were to weigh the fire and measure the wind. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. [ Plutarch ]

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence. [ Pope ]

I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp can make the metal better. [ Wycherley ]

Consider man, weigh well thy frame; the king, the beggar, are the same; dust formed us all. [ Gay ]

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. [ Lowell ]

Nay, but weigh well what you presume to swear. Oaths are of dreadful weight! and, if they are false. Draw down damnation. [ Sir Thomas Overbury ]

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. [ George Sand ]

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. [ Bacon ]

I do not number my borrowings; I weigh them, and had I designed to raise their value by their number, I had made them twice as many. [ Montaigne ]

Unfortunately friends too often weigh one another in their hypochondriacal humours, and in an over-exacting spirit. One must weigh men by avoirdupois weight, and not by the jeweller's scales. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There are certain times in our life when we find ourselves in circumstances, that not only press upon us, but seem to weigh us down altogether. They give us, however, not only the opportunity, but they impose on us the duty of elevating ourselves, and thereby fulfilling the purpose of the Divine Being in our creation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]