Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, every little absence is an age.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.

Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

The habit does not make the monk.

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

Fortune befriends the bold.

The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound . The lovely Thais by his side, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserve the fair.

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.

Swear, food, or starve; for the dilemma's even; A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven?

He's a sure card.