The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. Bacon.
The horse is prepared against the day of battle: 30 but safety is of the Lord. Bible.
The horse thinks one thing, and he that rides him another. Pr.
The host should be indeed a host, and a lord of the land, a self-appointed brother of his race; called to this place, besides, by all the winds of heaven and his good genius, as truly as the preacher is called to preach. Thoreau.
The hottest love has the coldest end. Socrates.
The hour of all windbags does arrive; every windbag is at length ripped and collapses. Carlyle.
The hours should be instructed by the ages, 35 and the ages explained by the hours. Emerson.
The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. Goldsmith.
The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife. Hitopadesa.
The house that is a-building looks not as the house that is built. Pr.