A pitiful look asks enough. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One shrewd turn asks another. [ Proverb ]
A great ship asks deep waters. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that asks faintly begs a denial. [ Proverb ]
There's a proud modesty in merit!
Averse from asking, and resolved to pay
Ten times the gifts it asks. [ Dryden ]
Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness. [ Proverb ]
To a grateful man give money when he asks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that asks a courtesy promises a kindness. [ Proverb ]
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause. [ Homer ]
It pities me to refuse him that asks modestly. [ Proverb ]
He has eat up the pot and asks for the pipkin. [ Proverb ]
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [ Seneca ]
A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two. [ Calderon ]
Who asks after the pedigree of a swine he is to kill? [ Proverb ]
The fool asks much, but he is more fool that grants it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He is a great necromancer, for he asks counsel of the dead (i.e. books). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [ Horace ]
The only love which on this teeming earth asks no return for passion's wayward birth. [ Mrs. Norton ]
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. [ St. Augustine ]
Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest him. [ Lavater ]
The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear, and not disgrace, his apotheosis of him. [ Thoreau ]
There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years - the language of the soul, told through the eye. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears. [ Charles S. Robinson ]
Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship comes like dawning moonlight. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices but asks nothing. [ Geibel ]
When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. [ Koran ]
Coleridge cried, O God, how glorious it is to live!
Renan asks, O God, when will it be worth while to live?
In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker. [ Ouida ]
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is God is crying.
And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is Probably because of something you did.
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more. He asks of thee works first and words after. [ Charles Kingsley ]