Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
JOHN DRYDENLove and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
More John Dryden Quotes
-
-
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
JOHN DRYDEN -
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN -
But love’s a malady without a cure.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
JOHN DRYDEN -
None but the brave deserve the fair.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDEN -
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
JOHN DRYDEN -
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
JOHN DRYDEN -
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
JOHN DRYDEN -
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
JOHN DRYDEN -
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.
JOHN DRYDEN






