well quotes
Patria est ubicumque est bene. One's country is wherever one does well.
On s'inte resse gue' re aux affaires des autres que lorsqu'on est sans inquie tude sur les siennes. We hardly interest ourselves in the affairs of others when things are going well for ourselves.
Say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? isit well with the child? And sheanswered,It is well.
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
I am well as long as I live on horsebacksleep out-of- doors, or in a log cabin, and lead in all respects a completely unconventional life. But each time for a few daysI have become civilised, I have found myself rapidly going down again.
It looks well enough on the page, but never well enough.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
In myconscience I believethe baggage lovesme, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!
And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into a crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.
He knew too well for any earthly use The line where man leaves off and nature starts, And never overstepped it save in dreams.
Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!
There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to a literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, shewing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public.
It istruethat sinisthe cause of all thispain; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
A man lives well and happily until he begins to feel unwell. Then he feels worse because the climate allows him no chance of pulling himself togetherand then he dies.
Non est vivere, sed valere vita est. Life is not just to be alive, but to be well.
Coonardootheycalled it, thedark well, or thewell inthe shadows.
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because, as a nation, we don't dress well and we've no manners.
Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.Everyone who isborn holds dual citizenship, inthekingdomofthewell and inthekingdomofthesick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooneror latereach of us is obliged, at least fora spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail?
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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