32 quotes found
“A quiet mind cureth all.”
“What a glut of books! Who can read them?”
“If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.”
“Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.”
“Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.”
“A true saying it is, Desire hath no rest; is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.”
“All Poets are mad.”
“No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.”
“Then Cynthia looked at him and smiled, and he knew he couldnt possibly resist her, no matter what she had done. It felt as though the two of them had just stripped naked and dived off a high cliff ...”
“These mega-churches are springing up all over the countryespecially in the suburbs of large cities. And they all follow the same formula: A charismatic, self-anointed pastor starts a church by hold...”
“Some women like to treat a man like a piece of bubble gum. The poor sap thinks everythings fine. And it isuntil the taste runs out. Then shell just spit him out the car window of her life and never...”
“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”
“What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.”
“Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is fart...”
“One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.”
“They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.”
“Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.”
“No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.”
“Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.”
“To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.”
“A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.”
