John Dryden Quotes and Quotations
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Fight on, my merry men all, I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed a while, Then I'll rise and fight with you again.
All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Every inch that is not fool is rogue.
Chaucer, I confess, is a rough diamond; and must be polished e'er he shines.
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
I'll habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
War is the trade of kings.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
They conquer who believe they can.
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Fortune befriends the bold.
None but the brave deserve the fair.
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
None but the brave deserves the fair.
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering, Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring.
But far more numerous was the herd of stfch, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.
For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble.