The heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world. [ Wordsworth ]
As the husband is, the wife is:
Thou art mated with a clown,
And the grossness of his nature
Will have weight to drag thee down. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Weight and measure take away strife. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Great weight may hang on small wires. [ Proverb ]
I wonder did you ever count
The value of one human fate;
Or sum the infinite amount
Of one heart's treasure, and the weight
Of life's one venture, and the whole
Concentrate purpose of a soul. [ Adelaide A. Procter ]
With what a heavy and retarding weight
Does expectation load the wing of time. [ Mason ]
Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine - no distant date;
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight
Shall be thy doom. [ Burns ]
Grief boundeth where it falls,
Not with an empty hollowness, but weight. [ Rich. II ]
Sometimes tears have the weight of words. [ Ovid ]
None knows the weight of another's burden. [ Proverb ]
Judge not by the number, but by the weight. [ Cicero ]
Do not insult calamity:
It is a barbarous grossness to lay on
The weight of scorn, where heavy misery
Too much already weighs men's fortunes down. [ Daniel ]
Weight, measure, and tale, take away strife. [ Proverb ]
No one knows the weight of another's burden. [ Proverb ]
Trust not a great weight to a slender thread. [ Proverb ]
Often try what weight you can support.
And what your shoulders are too weak to bear. [ Roscommon ]
Good weight and measure is heaven's treasure. [ Proverb ]
Although my cares do hang upon my soul
Like mines of lead, the greatness of my spirit
Shall shake the sullen weight off. [ Clapthorne ]
Dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
They have a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being. [ Byron ]
Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones,
And tottering empires rush by their own weight. [ Armstrong ]
A penny-weight of love is worth a pound of law. [ Proverb ]
Things fit only to give weight to smoke. (Trifles) [ Persius ]
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. [ Plautus ]
God deals His wrath by weight, but His mercy without weight. [ Proverb ]
God gives His wrath by weight, and without weight His mercy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
God gives his wrath by weight, but his mercy without measure. [ Proverb ]
I pity the man overwhelmed with the weight of his own leisure. [ Francois M. A. de Voltaire ]
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before. [ Swift ]
All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time. [ Calderon ]
My languid numbers have forgot to flow, and fancy sinks beneath a weight of woe. [ Pope ]
The hall is the ornament of a house, (i.e. first impressions have great weight). [ Proverb ]
Suspicion is a heavy armour, and with its own weight impedes more than protects. [ Byron ]
He on whom Heaven bestows a sceptre knows not the weight of it till he bears it. [ Corneille ]
A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways. [ Carlyle ]
The timely dew of sleep, now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines our eyelids. [ Milton ]
Under the weight of his knowledge, a man cannot move so lightly as in the days of his simplicity. [ John Ruskin ]
A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain. [ Ovid ]
Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. [ Barrow ]
To him whose spirit is bowed down by the weight of piercing sorrow, the day and night are both of the same color. [ Dschami ]
I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives. [ Spectator ]
Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion. [ George D. Prentice ]
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 ]
Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. [ William Shakespeare ]
Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with them hereafter. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust. [ Lowell ]
No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. [ George Macdonald ]
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot. [ Wm. Hazlitt ]
The make-weight! The make-weight! which fate throws into the balance for us at every happiness! It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in this world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them? [ Victor Hugo ]
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts. [ Luther ]
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 ]
A copious manner of expression gives strength and weight to our ideas, which frequently make impression upon the mind, as iron does upon solid bodies, rather by repeated strokes than a single blow. [ Melmoth ]
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand one cannon ball than a volley of bullets. [ Colton ]
In composing, think much more of your matter than your manner. To be sure, spirit, grace, and dignity of manner are of great importance, both to the speaker and writer; but of infinitely more importance is the weight and worth of matter. [ Wirt ]
Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soulmoving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow. [ Peter Bayne ]
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones. [ Shenstone ]
Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise. [ Cervantes ]