John Dryden quotes and words of wisdom

"Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are."
Found in the topic Love.

"When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell."
Found in the topic Speak.

"What precious drops are those Which silently each other"s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?"
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide."
Found in the topic Gravity.

"Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!"
Found in the topic Immortality.

"When I consider life, "tis all a cheat: Yet, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit."
Found in the topic Tomorrow.

"Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she?s at rest, and so am I."
Found in the topic Marriage.

"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age."
Found in the topic Absent.

"Look round the habitable world! how few Know their own good; or knowing it, pursue."
Found in the topic Good.

"Beware the fury of a patient man."
Found in the topic Anger.

"Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend."
Found in the topic Health.

"Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare."
Found in the topic Better.

"Not is the people"s judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few."
Found in the topic People.

"None but the brave deserves the fair."
Found in the topic Brave.

"It is a madness to make Fortune the mistress of events, Because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by Prudence."
Found in the topic Fortune.

"A knock-down argument: "t is but a word and a blow."
Found in the topic Quarrels.

"I am devilishly afraid, that?s certain; but ... I?ll sing, that I may seem valiant."
Found in the topic Afraid.

"Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,? As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
Found in the topic Vice.

"Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below...."
Found in the topic Error.

"Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where."
Found in the topic If.

Interesting Quotes

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.Havelock Ellis - English sexual psychologist (1859 - 1939)

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.George Bernard Shaw - Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)