Quotation Explorer - 'Sweet'

Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our lives? The big wheel keeps on turning and here we are again, looking in the sweet face of darkness. - Geoffrey Neighor
You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Without commitment and real selflessness, real love shall always be like a sea without fish; a forest without the sweet harmonious chorus of the birds and a stomach without food - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
With people you can never tell, Will they have changed when next we meet? But here in my dear old home at least, The plums still smell as sweet. / 人はいさ 心も知らず ふるさとは 花ぞ昔の 香ににほひける - Fujiwara no Okikaze
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. - William Blake
People change us. It is a rare, if not an impossible occurrence, that we come out of relationships unscathed. In our dealings with people we take something with us and we leave something behind. Some people are haunted more than others, either by the sweet perfume of another or the stink of regret. - Donna Lynn Hope
A silent mouth is sweet to hear. - Irish Proverb
I have taken all my good deeds and all my bad deeds, and cast them in a heap before the Lord, and fled from both, and betaken myself to the Lord Jesus Christ, and in him I have sweet peace! - David Dickson
To taste life, so true and real. Sweet serenity. - Jonathan P. Lamas
Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. With her about many smiles came out and joined in sweet array., "Mother Goose Move Over or you're gonna love poetry - Sara Loo
She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation. - Henry James
To make my body a temple pureWherein I dwell serene;To care for the things that shall endure,The simple, sweet and clean.To oust out envy and hate and rage,To breathe with no alarm;For Nature shall be my anchorage,And none shall do me harm. - Robert Service
Partying is such sweet sorrow. - Robert Byrne
That time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,- Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. - William Shakespeare
Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet. - Habeeb Akande
slow down, oh sweet tearsflowing nectar...down my lashes' tipssomedaysomeone will kiss you away,even before you can reach my lips. - Sanober Khan
Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul. - Erica Eisdorfer
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. - Ernest Hemingway
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. - Aristotle
See the mountains kiss high HeavenAnd the waves clasp one another;No sister-flower would be forgivenIf it disdained its brother;And the sunlight clasps the earth,And the moonbeams kiss the sea -What is all this sweet work worthIf thou kiss not me? - Percy Bysshe Shelley
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. - William Shakespeare
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter. - Voltaire
A sweet soul will take you further than a sweet tongue. - Matshona Dhliwayo
She dried her tears, and they did smileTo see her cheeks’ returning glow;Nor did discern how all the whileThat full heart throbbed to overflow.With that sweet look and lively tone,And bright eye shining all the day,They could not guess, at midnight loneHow she would weep the time away. - Emily Brontë
The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge. - Thomas Mann
I don't really know them, but I know this: they're just like your kids were. Or are. Sweet, trusting, good in ways we adults hardly even remember. We have to look out for them. Not because of the tattoos, or in spite of them, but because they're kids and we're supposed to look out for kids. - Sabrina Vourvoulias
Bitter love is better than sweet hate. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The experience of this sweet life.L'esperienza de questa dolce vita. - Dante Alighieri
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. - William Shakespeare
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow... And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? - William Shakespeare
That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between a sweet dream and a beautiful nightmare, hoping one day you’d return to rid me of the demons you left behind. - Robert M. Drake
Kindness can be short, sweet, transient, and random, but its effects echo forever. - Debasish Mridha
A wound on Heart is something that can not be treated by any medicine, but can be treated by sweet words. - Srinivas Shenoy
I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. - Joanne Harris
Connecting our hearts through love yields a nectar so sweet we are forever full. - Amy Leigh Mercree
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness. - Francis Quarles
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. - William Shakespeare
When God's favour and Godly flavour is in you, your haters will taste wisdom and the only thing they can do is to regret ever tasting a sweet thing. - Israelmore Ayivor
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. - Jerome K. Jerome
There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. - Thomas Moore
When love is sweet, the sweetness means its lightAnd light may keep the truth, when love is pure.But love is bitter, when it turns to fight.Lovers in a fight are quite immature.''From the poem ''A Note on Existentialist Love - Marieta Maglas
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. - Herman Melville
Sweet is war to those who know it not. - Pindar
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it. - Ann Radcliffe
Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence. - Israelmore Ayivor
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. - Robert Herrick
No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life could be this sweet! It's got me cheesing from cheek to cheek! - Mac Miller
Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come. - Pericles
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile! - Kurt Vonnegut
In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die. - William Shakespeare
Innocent and joyfulI take your handfor I know you judge not,you simply understand.You are my companionon this voyage of discovery,singing sweet soft musicto the universe inside of me. - Jay Woodman
Wisdom is sweet to the soul as honey is sweet to taste. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A sweet life is a sweaty life. - Toni Sorenson
Memories are sweet, cherish it... - El Fuego
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are! - Henry David Thoreau
Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Peace without truth is nothing but an illusion a deceptive misguidance which generates opportunities and problems to chew the sweet and bitter tastes of evil respectively. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
The woman's face was grimly drawn, an ugly expression on an indescribably beautiful face. This is the Shadowdun. You know who I am, but I wish to know you more. What is your name? Her voice was rich; it sounded sweet and smooth in Athena's ears, like soft honey. She hated every last word. - Kendra Sunderson
More and more I knew my budding world was ruined if he were free in it. As a specimen Mr. Wallace might be my pride. Glory to him in a jar. But free! Better to release the sweet moving tiger or the delicate snake, the monumental elephant. I was just a castaway to be devoured. - William H. Gass
Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish have ignored the fact that you have already shown them your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn. - Garrison Keillor
Have an enthusiastic mind and a soft, but sweet, heart. - Debasish Mridha
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit suprised. - Dorothy Parker
How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give! - William Shakespeare
I was just an option.Blown easily to piecesand offered to the skyby the sweet laced painupon your lips. - Jessica Kristie
Love is the only rose whose thorn's prick is sweet. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that. - Patricia A. McKillip
Love is the only tyrant whose reign is sweet. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. - Cicero
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing... sweet lovers love the spring. - William Shakespeare
The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) - Kim Cormack
Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be? - Marvin Gaye
A black cat among roses,phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.It is dazed with moonlight,contented with perfume... - Amy Lowell
I wish for you a goodnight of sleep, sweet dreams, and a smiling morning. - Debasish Mridha
MIND is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love happiness and sweet memories. - Swami Vivekananda
I don't analyze beautiful. I sit in its presence and love the wholeness of it--the sweet and sad and raw and bright together.Poetry is that, the weaving of light-shadow. Making words from the unwordable. - Jacob Nordby
Keep the first date brief, short, sweet and simple and they'll come back to you. - Auliq Ice
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. - Jewish Proverb
You rang my heart like a church bell at midnight. Trembling, I awoke to the sweet sound of love. - John Mark Green
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on. - John Keats
Names have power... And he kept the one I gave him. My dear, sweet Jackaby. - Eleanor - William Ritter
The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter as the bile; put a cube of good attitudes into it and you will lick your lips more and more due to its sweet taste. - Israelmore Ayivor
Sweet dreams, baby, he whispered into myhair, his arm giving me a squeeze. See you onthe other side.You too, Captain, I whispered...'Lauren and Tate, in Sweet Dreams - Kristen Ashley
Do not worry, my sweet one. You have it within you to get yourself where you need to be. - Karen Salmansohn
Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt. - ideaswar
Love is sweet but its journey can be very bitter - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you can keep alive in your heart the spirit of cheerfulness, the love of the wonderful, the sweet amazement of happy thoughts, the challenge of service, the lure of tomorrow and the joy of today, you will never grow old. - Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds, Cumberland Presbyterian
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense. - Hermann Hesse
Revenge is sweet and not fattening. - Alfred Hitchcock
Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of Halla. How sweet the moment of revelation will be, when he learns that he handed it to me." -SD the Pilgrims of Rayne - D.J. MacHale
You are brighter than the sun, prettier than a fresh flower, and sweeter than any chocolate. Your songs are always humming in my heart. I wish you a sweet sweetest day. - Debasish Mridha
A sweet thing, for whatever time,to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. - Euripides
Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger. - Randy K. Milholland
In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way. - Ángeles Arrien
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. - William Shakespeare
Solitude: sweet absence of faces. - Milan Kundera
Memory is sweet.Even when it's painful, memory is sweet. - Li-Young Lee
How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose..! You drove them from me, you who are the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place.... O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth, and my Salvation. - Augustine of Hippo
In my heaven sweet melodies of the skies ripple pool of the sea playing sweet song to me, sharing tales of the past, blending with mine as mirage, painting new...I breathe in, am in love and alive... - Oksana Rus
Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say. - Shannon L. Alder
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. - Oscar Wilde
Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says "i remember you. I am glad you are here again". - D.A. Botta
Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones. - Yuval Levin
..forever daydreaming of a kiss so sweet, angels weep.. - Lenise Lee
how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet - Robert Browning
Joy is found in the simple and ordinary things of life: the smile of a newborn baby, the kiss from a sweet new puppy, and the warm sunshine on a spring day. - Marie Cornelio
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. - Dennis Miller
The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art. - Ward Jenkins
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. - C. JoyBell C.
When I see an evil person, I cannot believe that once he was an innocent and sweet baby. - Amit Kalantri
If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it. - Giordano Bruno
If you're constantly making yourself available to people's whims, your time will become less valuable. Keep your backbone in any relationship - make sure you're not so dedicated to it, and it shall stay sweet forever. - Auliq Ice
I've seen so much and lived it all. I wanted to bite the earth and taste it. It is both bitter and sweet, and if I had my time to live over again, I wouldn’t change a damn thing Reg Spiers - Julie McSorley Marcus McSorley
power is obtainable respect is earned loyalty is priceless and revenge is sweet these are the lessons we learn in life - blanco vandam
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. - Bible
Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish will learn the error of their ways because you did at least show them your teeth. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
Lucretia Jane Price. A sweet name for a sweet lady that smelled of roses, spoke with a sweet drawl, and was surely made of all the sweet country things a man who hadn't eaten a good meal in a long time could imagine -- molasses, sweet peas, sweet corn, freshly churned butter. - Linda Leigh Hargrove
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it. - Desiderius Erasmus
It does not matter how sweet you can sing a song of love. You must know how to dance along with it. You can't dance "salsa dance" on a "reggae song". - Israelmore Ayivor
A person is known by his own action, but even better by the deeds of the people often hanging around him on the physical ground than merely with his sweet words or sound. - Anuj Somany
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this. - Lord Byron
I think it's incomparably sweet when someone writes something for you.. even if it doesn't rhyme or even if it isn't very amorous.. even two lines of hatred written for you acknowledges the fact that someone spent a little of his time thinking about you. - Sanhita Baruah
Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to fill - Lisa Kleypas
Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,But never will be sung to us again,Is they remembrance. Now the hour of restHath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. - Henry Ward Beecher
Like the bees, we are - only looking for sweet honey in the flowers, we are -sensitive and at the same time carefully;but we never destroy them. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself. - Oprah Winfrey
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free. - Mark Twain
We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understandand recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could not appreciate sweet.... - I. Alan Appt
If we lose all our sweet memories, it means we are dead even if we are alive! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Loving passionately, loving fiercely, loving and taking both good and bad, and at times, the damn near impossible, provides sweet chaos, fueling the pitter patter of the heart... - Virginia Alison
I fear no fate for you are my fate, my sweet. - E.E. Cummings
Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures. - Orrin Woodward
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! - William Shakespeare
A hug everyday mixed with just four sweet letters makes life joyful. - Debasish Mridha
A kiss is a flower of love, a sweet song of two hearts, and a memory of eternal desires. - Debasish Mridha
Live in joy, in love,even among those who hate.Live in joy, in health,even among the afflicted.Live in joy, in peace,even among the troubled.Look within, be still.Free from fear and attachment,know the sweet joy of the way. - Gautama Buddha
Listen, can you hear it? Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
To live in denial of caring deeply, to hold oneself back from speaking from the heart as a means of self protection, to speak in whispers, to describe what you have together as "this." Oh the sweet sadness of forbidden love. - Cheryld
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. - John Keats
The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey. - Hilary Mantel
Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition. - Jeremiah Burroughs
I guess staying up late is good preparation for sweet dreams.
Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me die. - Langston Hughes
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think. - John Godfrey Saxe
Sweet n SourHere I am Wishing you Luckin Every aspect of lifeThis Ugadi (Gudi Padwa) and always to All of You - krvishal
In moderate doses melancholy can be strangley comforting, darkly sweet; it can by providing contrast, give an exquisitely sharp edge to happiness, especially to pleasures of the flesh.
My purpose of life is sweet indeed.I like to help people when in need.I am longing for happiness.I am expressing my kindness.I am expressing my love every day.I am compassionate all the way. - Debasish Mridha
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown... - Robert Greene
Sweet is revenge - especially to women. - Lord Byron
Honey is sweet but bees sting. - French Proverb
...Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as the lily...and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in his works." —Ecclesiasticus 39:17-19 - Douai-Rheims Bible
The experience of this sweet life. - Dante Alighieri
S.M.I.L.E - A Sweet Mile in Life's Experience - Ankita Agrawal
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! - William Shakespeare
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. - Jerome K. Jerome
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. - Aristotle
He felt a kind of bridal expectation, sweet and sensuous yet vaguely mingled with anticipatory fear of its own fulfilment, with the mysterious shiver felt when something endlessly desired suddenly comes physically close to the astonished heart. - Stefan Zweig
Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again. - Sir Thomas More
Dear as remembered kisses after death,And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'dOn lips that are for others; deep as love,Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;O Death in Life, the days that are no more! - Alfred Tennyson
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you love me like that, I melt into honey. Let’s be sweet together. - ZAKIYA AND MAJID
Love is sweet even when what you go through is bitter. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Kindness is sweeter than your sweet voice. - Debasish Mridha
Love drips like honey from the hive, constant, sweet, precious, into your heart each and every moment if you let it. - Amy Leigh Mercree
When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. (Is that all there is?) - Erik Pevernagie
Dear, sweet, beautiful girl, - Tahereh Mafi
I care not that this moment’s lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt. - Roman Payne
Thrill me, chill me I went in search of money and success, all I got was a bellyful of excess! Now that I've realigned myself I’m on my tip-toes because life is sweet! I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for all the blessings that are manifesting in my life neat! - Stephen Richards
It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be... - Bob Dylan
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. - Edward Thomas
I am just like you,Destined to play my part.And leave,In the nature of my departure at least,Some kind of sweet message behindIn the fathomless pattern I make. - Scott Hastie
I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker’s head if they’re not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it’s bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God’s face when it’s bitter - Gustave Flaubert
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. - Susan B. Anthony
And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts,Their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids. - I Ching
I know you love how I make it all go away: all the joy, all the pain, all thoughts in your brain.For the price of your soul, I will hold your heart in my talons. For three summers straight you've been my sweet eye candy;and no one will ever, ever, take you away from me. - Say Anything, Skinny mean man
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. - William Shakespeare
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. - Plutarch
Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves. - Dada Bhagwan
Morning is sweet and always like a beautiful women, evening always shines like a man. - Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer
If not for fear, sin would be sweet. - Jewish Proverb
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. - William Shakespeare
A sweet wedding cake does not guarantee a sweet marriage. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Even in the deepest darkness, you are always surrounded by light. Always remember that Sweet Hearts, you are precious, you are loved, and you are never never alone. - Kiran Shaikh
Allow your mood to be sweet and your day will be sweet too. - A.D. Posey
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,Student of our sweet English tongue,Read out my words at night, alone:I was a poet, I was young.Since I can never see your face,And never shake you by the hand,I send my soul through time and spaceTo greet you. You will understand. - James Elroy Flecker
The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights) - Elaine Kagan
When you have truly come to know a person, Nella -- when you see beneath the sweet gestures, the smiles -- when you see the rage and the pitiful fear which each of us hide -- then forgiveness is everything. - Jessie Burton
Up past the old lime kiln built into the side of a hill we take a hard right at a clearing lined by brittle apple trees still willing to bear fruit.I snap sticks beneath my feetand steal pictures of the view while you reach for something sweet, as much as it bowsto you. - Kristen Henderson
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing... - Elizabeth Gilbert
If you reach for the stars, but only touch the sky, isn't that better than never knowing the sweet taste of flight? - Erin Kouvas
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. - Aristotle
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. - Jean Paul Richter
Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Matt Groening
Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I'm in love with a girl who knows me better.Fell for the woman just when I met her.Took my sweet time when I was bitter.Someone understands,She knows how treat a fella right.Give me that feeling every night,She wants show love when I wanna fight,Now someone understand me. - Juxtaposition
The older lady smiled a friendly welcome that rivaled her preserves for sweet appeal. She could have been someone’s grandmother complete with close-cropped white hair if she wasn’t wearing a worn Grateful Dead T-shirt over a long-sleeved thermal. The 1987 Summer Tour. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
Friendship is not an obligation or duty. It is a sweet responsibility. - Debasish Mridha
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart! - Eliza Cook
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
One’ is not a doer in this world. Where he believes that he is the doer, there is ‘charging’ (of karma). When one tastes egoistic pride of, I did this samayik, I did these activities, he will ‘charge’ (karma). The taste of egoistic pride is very sweet. - Dada Bhagwan
Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey. - Luellen Hoffman
Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. With her about many smiles came out and joined in sweet array. - Sara Loo
A kiss is only as sweet as the heart that gives it. - Kristy Pellegrin
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive. - Albert Camus
Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit! - Anthony Liccione
Justice lay on the edge o his blessed sword, but revenge - sweet as candy - filled his senses." The Bow of Destiny - P. H. Solomon, The Bow of Destiny
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies. - Aisha Mirza
Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.
Love! What a searing, torturing, intolerably sweet thing it was - this possession of body, soul and mind! With something at its core as fine and remote and purely spiritual as the tiny blue spark in the heart of the unbreakable diamond. - L.M. Montgomery
Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can give you strength no one can defeat - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Jeff- "A Hanukkah tradition is making potato pancakes. For something a little different, use a sweet potato. Anything you'd like to add, Walter?"Walter- "Accept Jesus as your Savior or you'll burn in Hell for all eternity. - Jeff Dunham
Sweet forgiveness!! - Charmaine J Forde
It may not be an easy thing to live in sweet fellowship with all those with whom we come in contact; but that is what the grace of God is given to us for. - D.L. Moody
Perfect… is a moment. Not a life. You don’t get to perfect with long conversations and a shitty job and a high school sweet heart. Perfect comes, and it goes. Perfect is a moment. It comes, you make the most of it, and then you let it go. - J.D. Hawkins
Not knowing the name of the tree,I stood in the floodof its sweet scent. - Bashō Matsuo
Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them. - Madame de Stael
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! - Patrick Henry
Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest. - Sheryl Sandberg
Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life will continue being sweet! - Mehmet Murat ildan
War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon. - Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm
It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends - Czesław Miłosz
Laughter is sweet when enjoyed alone. But it becomes sweeter when you enjoy it together with the people around you. Your success must lead to the success others. - Israelmore Ayivor
Romantic love morphs into a loving and eternal relationship if we understand what is love; why passion is such a sweet word. - Balroop Singh
They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet. - William Alexander Percy
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. - William Shakespeare
I remember every good thing about you. Every sweet and perfect thing. And nothing else. He touched her chin, tipped it up to look into her wet brown eyes. Even smudged, they were gorgeous. The dawning light in them filled his heart, and healed it. Nothing else. - V.S. Carnes
Logan was her entire world and she was his. She could taste the raw honey and bits of bees still on his tongue. She enjoyed the sweet flavor and kept her promise of kissing him even though he was a bug-eating bear. - Jess Hayek
A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains. - C. JoyBell C.
Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth. - Israelmore Ayivor
What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose. - Willa Cather
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. - Mark Twain
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - sweet fundamental things such as love.
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. - Mark Twain
Life is one grand sweet song so start the music - Ronald Reagan
There’s a reason you don’t have pictures of your work area at sweet home. - santosh inani
Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got. - Santosh Kalwar
The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and started to read, pronouncing the words in a reverent whisper. - Shannon Hale
An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet. - Amit Kalantri
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is a wonderful morning with the sun shining bright and flowers smiling. There is a sweet breeze kissing my face while a hot cup of coffee warms my heart and awakens my mind. The primordial songs of ocean waves are soothing my soul. I am not on earth; I am in heaven on earth. - Debasish Mridha
I loved everything to anything to everyone who surrounded him. He was perfect. A delusion with a sweet melancholy taste. He was crazy, but he was my crazy and inside, everything felt right. - Dominic Riccitello
Always take comfort in your sweet and innocent, childish manifestations, because the day you lose that essence, that glorious eccentricity, the yearning and longing to investigate all that surrounds you in this vast and wondrous world, is the day your soul shall die. - Amelia Dashwood
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. - Joseph Addison
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! - Patrick Henry
One sweet note is but an ounce of pain. - steve fadrosh
Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet. - Toni Morrison
For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings. - William Shakespeare
You can’t fight an evil disease with sweet medicine,’ says the ng’anga. - Panashe Chigumadzi
He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had to make up some bigger ones. - Nick Hornby
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. M is for Moses, Who slew the Egyptian. As sweet as a rose is The meekness of Moses. No monument shows his Post-mortem inscription, But M is for Moses Who slew the Egyptian. _The Biographical Alphabet_ - Ambrose Bierce
The bitterest fruit tastes sweet when you share it with someone you love. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Dawn is a precious time of day. It reminds us that every glory must fade, and that all things, cruel or sweet, come to an end. - Simon Higgins
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. - Helen Keller
Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment. - George Alexiou
Yet this thou art alive, but if ye soar,My poor frail heart will have beat out its cryAnd sadly miss thy sweet form all the moreWhile helplessly I stand and watch you die. - Timothy Salter
A novel is a hearty meal, but poems are the Belgian chocolates of the bookshelf. You can pick one and linger over it. Savour the aroma, the taste, the melting texture, the sweet craving it leaves behind! Or you can scoff down as many as you can eat. It’s up to you. - Vicky Arthurs
I do not have to hear your most favourite music.I hear your sweet silent music all the time.Petra Cecilia Maria HermansSeptember 10, 2016Amen - Petra Hermans
Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet. - Thomas Watson
I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. - Oliver Herford
Savor the warmth of every sun-filled day, and the chill wind of every raging storm, weeds as much as flowers, the bitter and the sweet.
A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few. - Debbie Novotny
You are a sweet ocean of love. Invite everyone to come to your shore to feel the joy of life. - Debasish Mridha
when the life gives you lemon, simply sell them and buy something sweet like chocolate - samuel ariel parker
Sweet serenity; the love and magic of two souls forever intertwined - Debbie Nicholson
There's no such things as sweet as dreamWell maybe if you live on itBut you could live such a sweet lifeIf you'd just realized how alive your dreams beat - Joshua Natad
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. - Emily Dickinson
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare
Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth! - Israelmore Ayivor
* , a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach. - Pindar
You have to feel the mix and you have to feel the work and the sweet somehow which somebody is investing in that moment in the way that you can really feel the passion. - Tobias Thomas
My goal is simple. It is to take the human civilization with me on the path of sweet general harmony. - Abhijit Naskar
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare
I arise from dreams of thee,And a spirit in my feetHas led me- who knows how?To thy chamber-window, Sweet! - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air. - Cristen Rodgers
I love the sweet sound of my name when you say it with love. - Debasish Mridha
The evidence suggests that you would be more likely to select the tempting chocolate cake when your mind is loaded with digits. System 1 has more influence on behavoir when System 2 is busy, and it has a sweet tooth. - Kahneman Daniel
Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what he actually said, was, "We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys. - Laurell K. Hamilton
Songs of myselfClear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. - Walt Whitman
Sweet be the glanceswe exchange,Our faces showing true concord;Enshrine me in your heart and let one spiritdwell within us. - Atharva Veda 7.36
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. - Boris Pasternak
Writing is pure sweet freedom. - J. Hale Turner
I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. - Antonio Machado
I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it. - Judith Orloff
I am not an advocate for religion. I only advocate for sweet general harmony. - Abhijit Naskar
When the demons of criticism have fled the thoughts, the Angels of beauty preside - oh cheerful sweet world exorcised! - Gabriel Brunsdon
Experience is bitter. But it fruits is sweet like honey. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel. - George Du Maurier
As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach. - Anne Bradstreet
Each day's dawn is a sweet symphony and as long as I hear the music, my dreams will have to die another day. - Eric Vance Walton
Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it? - Matt Groening
To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable! - Israelmore Ayivor
In my imagination, I can feel your presence. I can feel the warmth of your passionate hug. I can hear your sweet voice. I can hear the song of your beating heart. - Debasish Mridha
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