Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's crown well won,
Now comes rest. [ President Garfield's Epitaph ]
Rest is won only by work. [ Proverb ]
Two hands upon the breast.
And labor's done;
Two pale feet cross'd in rest.
The race is won. [ D. M. Mulock ]
Faint heart never won fair lady. [ Proverb ]
Boldly ventured is half done (won). [ German Proverb ]
For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son.
Though baffled oft is ever won. [ Byron ]
One honor won is a surety for more. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
She that with poetry is won.
Is but a desk to write upon;
And what men say of her they mean
No more than on the thing they lean. [ Butler ]
With women worth the being won.
The softest lover ever best succeeds. [ Hill ]
Water afar won't quench a fire at hand. [ Italian Proverb ]
She is a woman, therefore may be wooed;
She is a woman, therefore may be won. [ William Shakespeare ]
I won't pluck the beard of a dead lion. [ Mart ]
Love is to be won by affectionate words. [ Proverb ]
All is not won, that is put in the purse. [ Proverb ]
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. [ Swift ]
There is, sir, a critical minute in
Every man's wooing, when his mistress may
Be won, which if he carelessly neglect
To prosecute, he may wait long enough
Before he gain the like opportunity. [ Marmion ]
It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won. [ William Shakespeare ]
I will this dreary blank of absence make,
A noble task-time, and will therein strive
To follow excellence, and to overtake
More good than I have won since yet I live. [ Francis Kemble ]
Never the grave gives back what it has won! [ Schiller ]
Assume the proud place your merits have won. [ Horace ]
A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. [ William Shakespeare ]
He's won with a feather and lost with a straw. [ Proverb ]
Proud is the horse that won't carry its own oats. [ Italian Proverb ]
His eloquence is classic in its style,
Not brilliant with explosive coruscations
Of heterogeneous thoughts, at random caught.
And scattered like a shower of shooting stars,
That end in darkness: no; - his noble mind
Is clear, and full, and stately, and serene.
His earnest and undazzled eye he keeps
Fixed on the sun of Truth, and breathes his words
As easily as eagles cleave the air,
And never pauses till the height is won;
And all who listen follow where he leads. [ Mrs. Hale ]
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. [ Caroline L. Gascoigne ]
Fields are won by those who believe in the winning. [ T. W. Higginson ]
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies. [ Dante ]
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. [ Bayard Taylor ]
He that is won with a nut may be lost with an apple. [ Proverb ]
The whole trouble is, that we won't let God help us. [ George MacDonald ]
He that doth not plough at home won't plough abroad. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this -
Men prize the thing ungamed more than it is. [ William Shakespeare ]
Little girls are won with dolls, big ones with oaths. [ A. Ricard ]
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit,
He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
The next dreadful thing to a battle lost, is a battle won. [ Duke Of Wellington ]
He that can be won with a feather will be lost with a straw. [ Proverb ]
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. [ Haliburton ]
Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement. [ Winfield Scott ]
Learning by study must be won 'Twas never entailed from sire to son. [ Gay ]
Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. [ Yogi Berra ]
Without the smile from partial beauty won, O, what were man! a world without a sun! [ Campbell ]
Humanity has won its suit (in America), so that Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum. [ Marquis De Lafayette ]
O Eloquence! thou violated fair, how thou art wooed and won to either bed of right or wrong! [ Havard ]
A friend that you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him, no matter what that may be. [ George D. Prentice ]
The race is won as much by the dexterity of the rider as by the vigor and fleetness of the animal. [ Earl of Bath ]
I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. [ Yogi Berra ]
The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth. [ Dryden ]
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends, has never had one. [ Coleridge ]
Studies teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. [ Bacon ]
I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life. [ George MacDonald ]
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. [ Washington Irving ]
A man who does not learn to live while he is getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before. [ J. G. Holland ]
Her deep blue eyes smile constantly, as if they had by fitness won the secret of a happy dream she does not care to speak. [ Mrs. Browning ]
I won't rule out direct talks with Kim Jong Un, I just won't. As far as the risk of dealing with a madman is concerned, that's his problem, not mine. [ President Donald Trump, Gridiron Club's 133rd Anniversary Spring Dinner, March 3, 2018 ]
The friendship of some men is like the love of some women; it is variable and capricious, inconstant and uncertain, hard to win, and when won, not worth having. [ Acton ]
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water. [ Dante ]
The old pool shooter has won many a game in his life. But now it was time to hang up the cue. When he did all the other cues came crashing to the floor. Sorry,
he said with a smile. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts. [ John Ruskin ]
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation. [ Lowell ]
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. [ Matthew Henry ]
High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it. [ Froude ]
Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance has been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good. [ J. G. Holland ]
The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort. [ Ruskin ]
The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth. [ Willmott ]