More from John Dryden
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
John DrydenJohn Dryden If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Order is the greatest grace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
John DrydenJohn Dryden For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Pride – Lord of human kind.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
John DrydenJohn Dryden An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
John DrydenJohn Dryden No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
John DrydenJohn Dryden We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
John DrydenJohn Dryden Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
John DrydenJohn Dryden But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
John DrydenJohn Dryden The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
John DrydenJohn Dryden
Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on fair
Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
Alan AldaAlan Alda On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.
Alaa Al AswanyAlaa Al Aswany I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic How do you make things fair?
Al SharptonAl Sharpton Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris.
Al JardineAl Jardine The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
Al FrankenAl Franken I’m glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!
Akshay KumarAkshay Kumar If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!
Ajay DevgnAjay Devgn