(215 quotes found)
“What's given shines, What's receiv'd is rusty”
Benjamin Franklin
“They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.”
Bible
“Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.”
“Glories like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,/ But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.”
John Webster
“When the sun shines, make hay”
Proverb
“An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain”
Mark Twain
“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”
William Shakespeare
“Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are.”
“To Greece we give our shining blades.”
Thomas Moore
