GRAVITY

Related Subjects: Earnestness

1. Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.—CONFUCIUS, Analects
   

2. His smile is sweetened by his gravity.—GEORGE ELIOT, The Spanish Gypsy
   

3. Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady.—THOMAS FULLER, Holy and Profane State

4. Gravity is a trick of the body devised to conceal deficiencies of the mind.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

5. What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

6. 'Tis not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night

7. As grave as judge that's giving charge.—SAMUEL WESLEY, Maggots