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• Govern a horse with a bit, and a shrew with a stick.

  Topics in Danish Proverbs

  Tags in Govern, Shrew

• Govern yourself and you can govern the world.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

  Tags in Govern, Yourself

• Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

  Alexander Pope

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Govern, Grace, Possible, Wealth

• Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Topics in Beauty, Inspirational

  Tags in Under, Govern, Grace

• Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Govern, Grace, Hook

• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  Victor Kiam

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Govern, Rule

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Her, Vanity, Frailty, Word, Woman, Govern, Grace

• Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Govern, Grace, Present, Civilization

• Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

  John Updike

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Govern, Grace

• Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
  In every gesture dignity and love.

  John Milton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Govern, Grace

• No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

  John Donne

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Govern, Grace

• There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don’t deserve that kind of grace. I don’t deserve that break.

  Willie Aames

  Topics in God

  Tags in Govern, Grace, Deserve

• The highest form of development is to govern one’s self.

  Zerelda G. Wallace

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Highest, Govern

• Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in After, Equal, Govern, Grace, Force, Know

• Youth, large, lusty, loving – Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Age, Funny, Youth

  Tags in Govern, Grace, Force, Know, Loving

• It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

  Lydia Maria Child

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Govern, Grace, Elderly, Old Age

• We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

  Mairead Maguire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change/Growth, Compassion, Good, Govern, Grace, Evil

• Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

  Karl Barth

  Topics in Advice, Life

  Tags in Govern, Grace

• Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

  Samuel Richardson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humbled, Condition, Already, Because, Equally, Cannot, Humility, Latter, Shines, Govern, Grace, High, Too, Perhaps, Person

• Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

  May Sarton

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Garden, Govern, Grace, Patience