A soul as white as Heaven. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Plant a white rose at my feet,
Or a lily fair and sweet,
With the humble mignonette
And the blue-eyed violet. [ Julia C. R. Dorr, Earth to Earth ]
A black hen will lay a white egg. [ Proverb ]
White winged angels meet the child
On the vestibule of life. [ Mrs. E. Oakes Smith ]
And silver white the river gleams,
As if Diana in her dreams,
Had dropt her silver bow
Upon the meadows low. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white.
The violets, and the lily-cups
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set,
The laburnum on his birthday -
The tree is living yet. [ Hood ]
The white wonder of Juliet's hands. [ Shakespeare ]
A white wall is the paper of a fool. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
White walls are fool's writing paper. [ Proverb ]
To make white black, and black white. [ Proverb ]
The white flower of a blameless life. [ Tennyson ]
Black plums may eat as sweet as white. [ Proverb ]
My birthday! - what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round.
Less and less white its mark appears. [ Moore ]
In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till bewildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies.
The angels with us unawares. [ Gerald Massey ]
A dazzling white hand, veined cerulean. [ Massey ]
Stabbed with a white wench's black eye. [ William Shakespeare ]
The rich man's son inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft, white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn. [ Lowell ]
Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven
That from the East glad message brings:
Night is a stealthy, evil Raven,
Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. [ T. B. Aldrich ]
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [ Juvenal ]
Dirt is dirtiest upon clean white linen. [ Proverb ]
Life, like a dome of many coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity. [ Shelley ]
Sweet is the air with the budding haws,
and the valley stretching for miles below
Is white with blossoming cherry-trees,
as if just covered with lightest snow. [ Longfellow ]
Youth and white paper take any impression. [ Proverb ]
Without the bed her other fair hand was,
On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
Showed like an April daisy on the grass,
With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night. [ William Shakespeare ]
Neptune's white herds lowing over the deep. [ Ariosto ]
Morn, in the white wake of the morning star,
Came, furrowing all the orient into gold. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Such war of white and red within her cheeks. [ William Shakespeare, The Taming Of The Shrew ]
The lovely town was white with apple blooms.
And the great elms o'erhead
Dark shadows wove on their serial looms.
Shot through with golden thread. [ Longfellow ]
'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. [ William Shakespeare ]
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! [ William Shakespeare ]
The rose is fragrant, but it fades in time:
The violet sweet, but quickly past the prime:
White lilies hang their heads, and soon decay,
And white snow in minutes melts away. [ Dryden ]
O bees, sweet bees! I said; that nearest field
Is shining white with fragrant immortelles,
Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells. [ Helen Hunt ]
What would you have? A calf with a white face? [ Proverb ]
O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope.
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings. [ Milton ]
God's plans like lilies pure and white unfold;
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart;
Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. [ Mary R. Smith ]
The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake.
They sighed for the dawn and thee. [ Tennyson ]
Let us respect white hair - especially our own. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
I take thy hand, this hand,
As soft as dove's down, and as white as it;
Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fanned snow.
That's bolted by the northern blast twice o'er. [ William Shakespeare ]
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk. [ William Shakespeare ]
The wanton lawns, more soft and white than milk. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
The filth under the white snow the sun discovers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Under white ashes there often lurk glowing embers. [ Danish Proverb ]
Silver, though white.
Yet it draws black lines; it shall not rule my palm
There to mark forth its base corruption. [ Middleton and Rowley ]
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 ]
Confound the cats! All cats - alway -
Cats of all colors, black, white, gray;
By night a nuisance and by day - Confound the cats! [ Dobbin ]
Doubt follows white-winged Hope with a limping gait. [ Balzac ]
Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps. [ Balzac ]
It is much like a blacksmith with a white silk apron.. [ Proverb ]
The milk-white lilies that lean from the fragrant hedge. [ Alice Cary ]
There is no wool so white, but a dyer can make it black. [ Proverb ]
Save something for the man that rides on the white horse. [ Proverb ]
Under the blanket, the black one is as good as the white. [ 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 ]
If all fools wore white caps we should seem a flock of geese. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Windows, white and azure-laced with blue of heaven's own tinct. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. [ Proverb ]
Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands. [ Lowell ]
Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate?
What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely? [ Lowell ]
Her face, all red and white, like the inside of a shoulder of mutton. [ Foote ]
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
Let the white man's country be my country, and his kindred my kindred. [ Pocahontas ]
White hairs are the crests of foam which cover the sea after the tempest. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]
Like the last beam of evening thrown on a white cloud, just seen and gone. [ Walter Scott ]
I had rather ask of my fire brown bread than borrow of my neighbour white. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Little waves with their soft white hands efface the footprints in the sands. [ Longfellow ]
Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs. [ Octave Feuillet ]
And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows. [ Coleridge ]
The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white. [ Kabir ]
I hate hypocrites, insolent comedians, who put on their virtues with their white gloves. [ A. de Musset ]
The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses please less than red. [ Holmes ]
There is no such thing as a white lie; a lie is as black as a coal-pit, and twice as foul. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
... whether we are black, or brown, or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. [ Webster ]
A soul only needs to see a smile in a white-crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams. [ Victor Hugo ]
In the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hand hold each other with an equal clasp. [ Mrs. Stowe ]
With an evening coat and a white tie, even a stock broker can gain a reputation for being civilized. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. [ Theophile Gautier ]
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. [ H. Ballou ]
It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white. [ Frederick Douglass ]
All day the rain bathed the dark hyacinths in vain; the flood may pour from morn till night, nor wash the pretty Indian white. [ Hafiz ]
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. [ J. C and A. W. Hare ]
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance. [ Seneca ]
He by whom the geese were formed white, parrots stained green, and peacocks painted of various hues - even He will provide for their support. [ Hitopadesa ]
Nature works very hard, and only hits the white once in a million throws. In mankind, she is contented if she yields one master in a century. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
God gives the mind, man makes the character. The mind is the garden, the character is the fruit; the mind is the white page, the character is the writing we put upon it. [ George S. Weaver ]
The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction. [ Willmott ]
What was your dream? It seemed to me that a woman in white raiment, graceful and fair to look upon, came towards me and calling me by name said: On the third day, Socrates, thou shalt reach the coast of fertile Phthia. [ Plato ]
Melancholy, or low spirits, is that hysterical passion which forces unbidden sighs and tears; it falls upon a contented life, like a drop of ink on white paper, which is not the less a stain that it carries no meaning with it. [ Sir W. Scott ]
The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused. [ Lucretius ]
Wit throws a single ray, separated from the rest, - red, yellow, blue, or any intermediate shade, - upon an object; never white light; that is the province of wisdom. We get beautiful effects from wit, - all the prismatic colors, - but never the object as it is in fair daylight. [ Holmes ]
Oh! woe to him who first had the cruelty to ridicule the name of old maid, a name which recalls so many sorrowful deceptions, so many sufferings, so much destitution! Woe to him who finds a target for his sarcasm in an involuntary misfortune, and who crowns white hair with thorns! [ E. Souvestre ]
After the fever of life - after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding - after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death - at length the white throne of God - at length the beatific vision. [ Newman ]
I put myself, my experiences, my observations, my heart and soul into my work. I press my soul upon the white paper. The writer who does this may have any style, he or she will find the hearts of their readers. Writing a book involves, not a waste, but a great expenditure of vital force. Yet I can assure you I have written the last lines of most of my stories with tears. The characters of my own creation had become dear to me. I could not bear to bid them good-bye and send them away from me into the wide world. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
Who can fathom the depth of a mother's love! No friendship so pure, so devoted; the wild storm of adversity and the bright sunshine of prosperity are all alike to her; however unworthy we may be of that affection, a mother never ceases to love her erring child. Often, when alone, as we gaze up to the starry heaven, can we in imagination catch a glimpse of the angels around the great white throne,
and among the brightest and fairest of them all is our sweet mother, ever beckoning us onward and upward to her celestial home. [ R. Smith ]
There is a hand that has no heart in it, there is a claw or paw, a flipper or fin, a bit of wet cloth to take hold of, a piece of unbaked dough on the cook's trencher, a cold clammy thing we recoil from, or greedy clutch with the heat of sin, which we drop as a burning coal. What a scale from the talon to the horn of plenty, is this human palmleaf! Sometimes it is what a knifeshaped, thin-bladed tool we dare not grasp, or like a poisonous thing we shake off, or unclean member, which, white as it may look, we feel polluted by! [ C. A. Bartol ]