There is a witness every where. [ Proverb ]

True sincerity sends for no witness. [ Proverb ]

One eye-witness is better than ten hear-says. [ Proverb ]

He is a thief with a witness who robs another. [ French Proverb ]

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness. [ Baron ]

Life without a friend is death without a witness. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. [ Plautus ]

There is a witness of the evil deed in one's own bosom. [ Danish Proverb ]

Creation lives, grows, and multiplies: man is but a witness. [ Victor Hugo ]

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection. [ William Shakespeare ]

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [ William Shakespeare ]

Swearing is invoking the witness of a spirit to an assertion you wish to make, but cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit in a mischief you wish to inflict. [ John Ruskin ]

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one. [ Lowell ]