upbeat - We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
- upbeat
- ups and downs
- use one's bean
- use your common sense
- Vanished into thin air.
- Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
- Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour.
- Velvet paws hide sharp claws.
- Virtue is its own reward.
- Vote for the man who promises least – he'll be least disappointing.
- Vows made in storm forgotten in calm.
- wag one's tongue
- Wait for the cat to jump.
- walk away with
- walk on air
- walk on eggs
- walk out on something
- walk soft
- Walls have ears.
- Wash your dirty linen at home.
- washed out
- Waste not, want not.
- watch it
- Watch your opportunities – not the clock.
- water down
- We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.
- We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
- We can only change the world by changing men.
- We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
- We confess small faults, in order to insinuate that we have no great ones.
- We declare war with the wages system, which demoralizes alike the hirer and the hired, cheats both, and enslaves the workingman.
- We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
- We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
- We grow small trying to be great.
- We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.
- We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
- We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done.
- We know not what is good until we have lost it.
- We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
- We make our own fortunes and we call them fate.
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