It matters not that a woman is well dressed if her manners be bad; ill-breeding mars a fine dress more than dirt. Plaut.
It matters not whether our good-humour be construed by others into insensibility, or even idiotism; it is happiness to ourselves. Goldsmith.
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, / And see the great Achilles whom we knew. Tennyson.
It may indeed be that man is frightfully threshed at times by public and domestic ill-fortune, but the ruthless destiny, if it smites the rich sheaves, only crumples the straw; the grains feel nothing of it, and bound merrily hither and thither on the threshing-floor, unconcerned whether they wander into the mill or the cornfield. Goethe.
It must be bad indeed if a book has a more demoralising effect than life itself. Goethe.
It needs a man to perceive a man. A. B. Alcott.
It ne'er was wealth, it ne'er was wealth, / That coft contentment, peace, or pleasure; / The bands and bliss o' mutual love, / O that's the chiefest warld's treasure! Burns.
It never occurs to fools that merit and good 5 fortune are closely united. Goethe.
It never rains but it pours. Pr.
It never smokes but there's fire. Pr.