Treads Quotes

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name. — Amos Bronson Alcott

We have delegated authority to establish His Kingdom wherever the sole of our foot treads. But the fact is, while God calls — Bill Johnson

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust. — Arthur Koestler

Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing. — Karel Capek

Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps. — Alexander Smith

Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge. — Abu Hurairah

We are caught," continued the good doctor, "in the iron treads of a technological juggernaut. A mindless machine. With a breeder reactor for a heart. — Edward Abbey

When gloaming treads the heels of day
And birds sit cowering on the spray,
Along the flowery hedge I stray,
To meet mine ain dear somebody. — Robert Tannahill

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Summer treads on heels of spring. — Horace

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave. — James Russell Lowell

Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers. — William Spencer

One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego. — Anthony De Mello

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. — William Cowper

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth. — Antoine Rivarol

The tired ox treads with a firmer step — Diogenes Laertius

Between hope and despair treads a life without love! — Manoj Vaz

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her. — Walter Savage Landor

A bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground ... — John Geddes

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes. — Oscar Wilde

she treads lightly old man. — John Green

I feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garland's dead,
And all but he departed! — Thomas Moore

Well-apparel'd April on the heel
Of limping Winter treads. — William Shakespeare

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans. — Khalil Gibran

People who are beset by tragedy once and twice are sure to grieve again. Fate finds it easier to retrace its treads. — Nadia Hashimi

Satan walks nowhere on this Earth, nor has he ever, save where he treads within the human heart. — Joseph D'Lacey

Bastions of wealth
are no deference for the man
who treads the grand altar of Justice
down and out of sight. — Aeschylus

He who treads softly goes far. — Dale Carnegie

Bob Riley, a kind soul who "treads lightly in this world," is in the 22nd year of a federal life without parole LSD sentence. — Benjamin

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

She has tender feet, for she walks not on the hard earth, but treads on the heads of men — Arthur Schopenhauer

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. — John Greenleaf Whittier

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows. — Fritz Leiber