Words matter. These are the best John Dryden Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
And plenty makes us poor.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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 lived today.
For they conquer who believe they can.
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
God never made His work for man to mend.
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
Self-defence is Nature’s eldest law.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
War is the trade of Kings.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
But love’s a malady without a cure.
To die is landing on some distant shore.
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
Love is love’s reward.
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
