PLACE

Related Subjects: Office, Rank

1. It is not the places that grace men, but men the places.—AGESILAUS
   

2. Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.—CLAUDIAN, In Eutropium
   

3. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.—EMERSON, Essays
   

4. When the whole world is nodding to its fall, happy the man who has been able to learn already the lowly place appointed for him.—LUCAN, The Civil War
   

5. God attributes to place
   No sanctity, if none be thither brought
   By men who there frequent.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

6. There is no greater immorality than to occupy a place you cannot fill.—NAPOLEON
   

7. All things have their place, knew we how to place them.—Proverb
   

8. Sit in your place, and none can make you rise.—Proverb
   

9. Have a place for everything and have everything in its place.—Proverb
   

10. High places have their precipices.—Proverb
    

11. Where Macgregor sits, there is the head of the table.—SCOTT, Rob Roy
    

12. The place is dignified by the doer's deed.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
    

13. There's place and means for every man alive.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
    

14. In the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty.—SHAKESPEARE, AS You Like It
    

15. O place and greatness! millions of false eyes
    Are stuck upon thee.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

16. O place, O form, How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,
    Wrench awe from fools!—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

17. I know my place, as I would they should do theirs.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
    

18. It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.—SWIFT, Tale of a Tub