(208 quotes found)
“Now hast thou but one bare hour to live / And then thou must be damned perpetually! / Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,/ That time may cease and midnight never come.”
Christopher Marlowe
“More haste, less speed”
Proverb
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”
Bible
“To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ishbosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine? / Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman? / So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him; / To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.”
“Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries”
Benjamin Franklin
“Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.”
“Though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care”
William Shakespeare
“Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.”
“I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.”
