Sweet Quotes - page 5

I heard the bells on Christmas Day their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger. View quote
Alcuin
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die? View quote
Jack Kerouac
And then we'll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time! View quote
Jack Kerouac
Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love... View quote
Henry Taylor
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns. View quote
Ezra Pound
The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin – this is bone – all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality. View quote
Max Beckmann
Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble. View quote
Robert Jordan
Socialists try to convince us that the tea becomes sweet not because of sugar, but because of mixing. View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Now no joy but lacks salt, That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove. View quote
Robert Frost
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayst manage to guide an elephant with a hair. (Saadi)
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dew on the still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass Music that gentler on the spirit lies Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore; Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar; Oh rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again. View quote
William Carlos Williams
My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner. View quote
Lenny Kravitz
I don't believe pumpkin pie is even made from pumpkin. I mean, how can something that smells that shitty make a pie so sweet? There's not enough sugar in the universe. View quote
Lewis Black
We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards. View quote
Norman Mailer
The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past. View quote
Norman Mailer
O thrush, your song is passing sweet But never a song that you have sung, Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear Love and I were young. (William Morris)
The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys. View quote
Epictetus
Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee. View quote
Epictetus
I am looking forward to seeing my buddy Colin represent in front of Pacino. That's sweet. View quote
Michelle Rodriguez
Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley