718 Quotes by John Dryden

My heart’s so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.

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.

How easy ’tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

By viewing nature, nature’s handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.

The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.

Ever a glutton, at another’s cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.

A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o’er-inform’d the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas’d with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms.

Ev’n wit’s a burthen, when it talks too long.