He that seeks to have many friends never has any.
Never point out the mistakes of another with a dirty finger.
Meat that the cat brings in never gets to your plate.
Virtue never goes far without the company of idleness.
The acolyte at the gate reads scriptures he has never learned.
He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause.
An elephant never tires of carrying his own trunk.
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
Since I wronged you, I have never liked you.
He who builds and he who marries are never safe.
No man is a good physician who has never been sick.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
Your hand is never the worse for doing its own work.
He who has children will never die of starvation.
The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. It never goes away. There isn’t ever any relief, never the possibility of an ‘All Clear’ siren. You always feel a littl...
Well, if pirates are bad, And vampires are worse, Then I pray that as long as I be That though I sing of Vampirates I never one shall see. Yea, if pirates are danger And vampires are death, I'll extend my prayer for thee- That thine eyes never see a ...
My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his...
Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the wea...
So let's just forget about the whole thing and agree never to speak of it again. And I promise I'll never lie to you again. Ah, but surely you must be saying, "Hey! Isn't this entire story a work of fiction and therefore one big lie?" Perhaps. But we...
To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.
My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the oppor...
