718 Quotes by John Dryden

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again

But far more numerous was the herd of such,Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

Welcome, thou kind deceiver!Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key,Dost open life, and, unperceived by us,Even steal us from ourselves.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;God never made his work for man to mend.

For you may palm upon us new for old:All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

Whence but from heaven, could men unskilled in arts,In several ages born, in several parts,Weave such agreeing truths? Or how, or why, Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie?

Beware the fury of a patient man.