Whither goest, grief? Where I am wont. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

All are wont to praise him who is no more. [ Thucydides ]

Love is wont rather to ascend than descend. [ Proverb ]

He that is kinder than he was wont hath a design upon you. [ Proverb ]

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise. [ Goethe ]

Flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar. [ William Shakespeare ]

Disasters are wont to reveal the abilities of a general, good fortune to conceal them. [ Horace ]

Nero was wont to say of his master, Seneca, that his style was like mortar without lime. [ Bacon ]

Sir Amyas Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, Stay awhile, that we may make an end the sooner. [ Bacon ]

I do not know at first what it is that charms me. The men and things of today are wont to be fairer and truer in tomorrow's memory. [ Thoreau ]

That same dew, which sometime on the buds was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls, stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes, like tears that did their own disgrace bewail. [ William Shakespeare ]

The truly great and good in affliction bear a countenance more princely than they are wont, for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. [ S. P. Sidney ]