Quotes about Lest

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. Votes: 4

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. Votes: 3

Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on. Votes: 3

Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes. Votes: 3

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget! Votes: 3

Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane Votes: 3

... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair. Votes: 3

God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese! Votes: 3

It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend. Votes: 3

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness. Votes: 3

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness. Votes: 3

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers. Votes: 3

I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason. Votes: 3

All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood. Votes: 3

O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable Votes: 3

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. Votes: 3

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair. Votes: 3

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain... Votes: 3

Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart. Votes: 3

Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life. Votes: 3

Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon. Votes: 3

The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget. Votes: 3

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for? Votes: 3

Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind. Votes: 3

A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld,— The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies,— Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies. Votes: 3

And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright. Votes: 3

I dare not ask a kiss; I dare not beg a smile; Lest having that or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air, That lately kissed thee. Votes: 3

The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on. Votes: 3

Lady beware. Fan not the harmless glow Of admiration into ardent love, Lean not with red curled smiling lips above The flickering spark of sinless flame, and blow, Lest in the sudden waking of desire Thou, like the child, shalt perish in the fire. Votes: 3

There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare. Votes: 3

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. Votes: 2

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. Votes: 2

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. Votes: 2

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. Votes: 2

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.' Votes: 2

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed. Votes: 2

The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms. Votes: 2

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. Votes: 2

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee. Votes: 2

Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it. Votes: 2

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. Votes: 2

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. Votes: 2

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? Votes: 2

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart. Votes: 2

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. Votes: 2

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Votes: 2

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy. Votes: 2

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. Votes: 2

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. Votes: 2

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship. Votes: 2

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. Votes: 2

The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was. Votes: 2

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement. Votes: 2

What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault. Votes: 2

Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.' Votes: 2

Take heed lest you stumble. Votes: 0

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity. Votes: 0

Judge not, lest ye be judged. Votes: 0

They judge lest they be judged. Votes: 0

They terrify lest they should fear. Votes: 0

Judge not lest ye be judged yourself. Votes: 0

Judge not, lest ye be judged judgmental. Votes: 0

Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it. Votes: 0

Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves. Votes: 0

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions. Votes: 0

Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows. Votes: 0

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. Votes: 0

We possess art lest we perish of the truth. Votes: 0

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number. Votes: 0

Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself. Votes: 0

Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest. Votes: 0

Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun. Votes: 0

Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise. Votes: 0

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you. Votes: 0

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. Votes: 0

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. Votes: 0

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide. Votes: 0

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes. Votes: 0

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one. Votes: 0

Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully. Votes: 0

Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies. Votes: 0

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master Votes: 0

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man. Votes: 0

O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient. Votes: 0

Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart. Votes: 0

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee. Votes: 0

Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground. Votes: 0

Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in. Votes: 0

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. Votes: 0

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. Votes: 0

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves. Votes: 0

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. Votes: 0

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto. Votes: 0

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference. Votes: 0

Give according to your income lest God make your income according to your giving. Votes: 0

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum. Votes: 0

Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you. Votes: 0

Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers. Votes: 0

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow. Votes: 0

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others Votes: 0

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument. Votes: 0

Do not put off today's work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing. Votes: 0

May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink. Votes: 0

In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned. Votes: 0

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame. Votes: 0

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you. Votes: 0

No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire Votes: 0

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him. Votes: 0

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature. Votes: 0

Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. Votes: 0

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation. Votes: 0

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. Votes: 0

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate. Votes: 0

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him. Votes: 0

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. Votes: 0

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. Votes: 0

Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your jailers. Votes: 0

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. Votes: 0

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously. Votes: 0

The cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it. Votes: 0

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men. Votes: 0

O Lord, correct me, but with judgment: not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing. Votes: 0

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh. Votes: 0

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up. Votes: 0

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit. Votes: 0

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them. Votes: 0

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse. Votes: 0

Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them. Votes: 0

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever? Votes: 0

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe. Votes: 0

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed. Votes: 0

The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms. Votes: 0

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. Votes: 0

Muslims must decide, lest they end up divided by the very religion that calls upon them to unite. Votes: 0

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation. Votes: 0

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. Votes: 0

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms. Votes: 0

You wear your heart on your sleeve. Guard it more carefully, lest others see it and pluck it out. Votes: 0

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise. Votes: 0

Take heed when you think you stand, lest you fall. In this life you can fall from any level. Votes: 0

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another. Votes: 0

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy. Votes: 0

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else. Votes: 0

Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death. Votes: 0

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud. Votes: 0

Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal. Votes: 0

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire. Votes: 0

I tried to avoid looking at the dress full on, lest it burn out my retinas with its glittering hideousness. Votes: 0

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. Votes: 0

At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves. Votes: 0

In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him. Votes: 0

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. Votes: 0

We dare not forget, lest we become a nation that does not only not know its roots but where it's going Votes: 0

People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan Votes: 0

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive. Votes: 0

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up. Votes: 0

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. Votes: 0

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him. Votes: 0

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself. Votes: 0

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are. Votes: 0

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. Votes: 0

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! Votes: 0

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early. Votes: 0

My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy. Votes: 0

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road. Votes: 0

My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.... Votes: 0

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. Votes: 0

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. Votes: 0

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched. Votes: 0

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower. Votes: 0

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not. Votes: 0

The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Votes: 0

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done. Votes: 0

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin. Votes: 0

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves. Votes: 0

At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate to be shut; but I find that yet there is time. Votes: 0

Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value. Votes: 0

O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: He saved others, himself he cannot save! Votes: 0

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim. Votes: 0

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive. Votes: 0

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable! Votes: 0

This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled. Votes: 0

If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection. Votes: 0

The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs. Votes: 0

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares. Votes: 0

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties. Votes: 0

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat. Votes: 0

Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. Votes: 0

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied. Votes: 0

First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread. Votes: 0

Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom. Votes: 0

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions. Votes: 0

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality. Votes: 0

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest. Votes: 0

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke. Votes: 0

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery. Votes: 0

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. Votes: 0

Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect. Votes: 0

Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today. Votes: 0

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble. Votes: 0

I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die? Votes: 0

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food. Votes: 0

Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse. Votes: 0

We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors. Votes: 0

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ. Votes: 0

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach? Votes: 0

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm. Votes: 0

If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind. Votes: 0

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry Votes: 0

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. Votes: 0

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down. Votes: 0

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune. Votes: 0

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. Votes: 0

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags. Votes: 0

She howl'd aloud, I am on fire within.There comes no murmur of reply.What is it that will take away my sin,And save me lest I die? Votes: 0

Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder. Votes: 0

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good. Votes: 0

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain. Votes: 0

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial. Votes: 0

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. Votes: 0

Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you with huge eyes and a helpless disposition. Votes: 0

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. Votes: 0

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. Votes: 0

Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments. Votes: 0

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly. Votes: 0

There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be. Votes: 0

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them. Votes: 0

A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout. Votes: 0

It is said in Java that the tiger's hearing is so acute that hunters must keep their nose hairs cut lest the tiger hear the breath whistle through their nostrils. Votes: 0

A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question. Votes: 0

Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow? Votes: 0

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death? Votes: 0

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it. Votes: 0

Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command. Votes: 0

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good. Votes: 0

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. Votes: 0

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion Votes: 0

Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being. Votes: 0

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus. Votes: 0

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety." Votes: 0

Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man Votes: 0

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. Votes: 0

A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven. Votes: 0

Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them. Votes: 0

O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all. Votes: 0

As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac. Votes: 0

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true. Votes: 0

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own. Votes: 0

O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches. Votes: 0

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself. Votes: 0

The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in his thoughts or feelings would be offensive to the Divine Guest.! Votes: 0

Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us. Votes: 0

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world. Votes: 0

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance. Votes: 0

...we named her Dorothy Ann. Dolly, for short. I kissed her warily, fearful of the pain of loving her, love her, though love her I did; fearful lest she hurt me by dying. Votes: 0

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it. Votes: 0

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558 Votes: 0

I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license. Votes: 0

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance. Votes: 0

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. Votes: 0

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation. Votes: 0

The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon. Votes: 0

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game. Votes: 0

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow. Votes: 0

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted. Votes: 0

It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level. Votes: 0

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it. Votes: 0

There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall. Votes: 0

They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom. Votes: 0

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores! Votes: 0

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. Votes: 0

Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety. Votes: 0