I kept going to different colleges, but dropped out.
Spencer Dryden
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I'm sorry, okay, I'm not perfect, but I'm trying.
SARA SHEPARD I'm going to go to some camps this summer, but I just don't know which colleges I'm going to go to f...
DEZ BRYANT
I really got my money's worth from colleges in Sheffield and Rotherham because I kept dropping o...
SEAN BEAN
I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don't know quite what.
ADAM WEST I was out of breath. He just kept going.
COREY BURDINE
Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN
Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN I felt like we were out of gas. We kept pushing on the pedal, but weren't going any faster.
BARRET PEERY
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I d...
DANIEL GOLDSTEIN Over the past few weeks, crude prices and gas futures have dropped and increased and dropped. Until ...
ART KINSMAN I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking...
BELLA HEATHCOTE
I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't...
ELIZABETH WILSON I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.
SPENCER DRYDEN I hadn't come on board yet. Spencer would have been a nice one to have, but we got Landon [Donovan],...
FRANK YALLOP
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges ...
PAULA WHITE I think he's going to be a really good college receiver. I believe he has basketball in his heart, b...
DOUG BIEGA
Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON In that kind of game, you don't know what's going to happen. Strange things kept happening and both ...
SEAN CASEY I hit a goose once. It was flying across the green. The ball dropped right there and the goose kept ...
LINDSEY HAINES We were contacted by some reps and asked if we'd be interested in going around to colleges, meeting ...
AARON RUELL Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during ...
GLYNN TURMAN No, no, no, no, ... There's going to be dropped balls and stuff like that, but I don't think it's go...
ASHLEY LELIE No, no, no, no, ... There's going to be dropped balls and stuff like that, but I don't think it's g...
ASHLEY LELIE
My jaw dropped, ... I felt shame that I had to find out over the television, then felt sorrow and a ...
MITCH ALBOM Slow but sure, we kept spreading it out, and we never were going to let them come back within striki...
CHAD CLUVER I don't think it was Spencer.
RYAN NEWMAN I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I...
CAITLIN ROSE Shooters keep shooting. I'm not going to make every shot, but I kept shooting and I knew it was goin...
CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI No, no, no, no, ... There's going to be dropped balls and
stuff like that, but I don't think i...
ASHLEY LELIE They got some hits right down the line that kept some of those innings going. We could have gotten o...
ROB HASTINGS But there are some issues that have simply dropped out of contention,
MARK TUSHNET She didn't have anyone pushing her, but because she was able to pass people, it kept her going. I ne...
JENNA BOND
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
DAVID LEE ROTH I dropped out of college when I was 18 to be in a band.
BRODY JENNER I was doing auditions and meetings during the day and going to culinary school at night. And then ...
ERIC CHRISTIAN OLSEN After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.
DANIEL SNYDER I don't think so. High schools, maybe you can say that. But not colleges, because you have the abili...
BOB BUBB I was sitting at home going through everything we need to do, but I kept coming to the money.
JOHN ANTHONY
The winds that never moderation knew,
Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
Or out of...
JOHN DRYDEN I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's re...
JACOB BATALON Kim kept going back to medical, complaining about the contractions, but they just kept sending her b...
LINDA ALLEN I tried to wait him out but he kept his blocker pretty high pretty long.
DAVID LEGWAND Everything seemed normal when I did my burnout, but when I hit the [line-lock] button after I pre-st...
KURT JOHNSON We're going to have to give them a lot of different formations. Not do anything different, but do wh...
DOUG MARRS It was found dead Oct. 7 in Dryden, Ontario. It shows that the birds were moving north.
DAVE GROSSHUESCH He threw me an inside fast ball and I pulled it. At first, I thought it was just going to be a hit t...
CURTIS JOHNSON In year one, we are going to have to target the resources on colleges or other providers that have b...
KATE ANDERSON I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.
SKYLAR GREY The Coast Guard helicopters took them out and maybe dropped them off in different locations. You can...
LEE TEITSWORTH I just anticipated it. I knew what they were going to do, they just kept rotating and picking. I jus...
AUSTIN MEIER I kept wondering if the power was going to go out there. Here I was using a campus building and equi...
CASEY HOFF I thought we were going to lose. When I saw him make the move and I saw the ball going [up], I dropp...
JAMON GORDON
I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI
We had mutual friends and we had met through cycling. She kept me going when I got burned out.
GREG ANDERSON I was standoffish at first, but they opened me up because they wanted to get to know who I was. With...
DAYNA KIMBALL We knew they were going to come in here and battle. They started out of the gates quick and we were ...
DAVE HEISS Spencer Tracy, he was there to work.
GEORGE SIDNEY I kept calling to try and go out with her. Her mother kept screening the calls.
MARK OTIS It is an unbelievable feeling, the away goal taking us through. We kept battling and managed to nick...
JASON ROBERTS
It would be a very big mistake to think John Spencer - no offense to John, who I guess was a decent ...
ED ROLLINS The process interests me. Trying different media, seeking out things to paint, going different place...
BRUCE MOORE
When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change f...
BLAKE LIVELY I was going to stick him pretty good, and then I saw that he dropped it and I picked it up.
BRENT HABERLY I went to college at University of South Carolina and dropped out of chemistry, and to fill a class,...
JONNY WESTON I was very pleased with the way they kept coming back. We came out a little bit nervous on offense, ...
BOB MAYERHOFER We probably wouldn't have done anything different in a real-life situation. We kept him in sight and...
JAMES JOHNSON I think she was dropped off but we don't know by who. Her story is really inconsistent. We are tryin...
LISA WHITING Shayne is trying to decide where he's going to play college football, and rather than have him miss ...
JAY GROTH I was totally gassed. I ran out of gas at the 30-yard line. Only willpower kept me going toward the ...
CHAMP BAILEY It just felt fluid and natural. I just was shooting, and it kept going in. And it kept falling, so I...
SEAN OGIRRI Any network?s going to have dropped calls due to weather or terrain.
DUSTIN SCOTT I once came out of the hotel, and Brad Pitt was in front of me. There were all these fans out there ...
CASEY AFFLECK How can I trust God? He dropped me into a dark hole in the ground and told me to dig myself out. Luc...
KAYLE STORM Seattle blitzed us a few times, but what really hurt us was dropped passes. I've said it before -- d...
DENNIS GREEN I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I...
DONNA DOUGLAS Matt has the size and he has the arm to most definitely be a Division I guy. He's going to have the ...
GREG PERRY I like to compete, and I just wanted a chance. That was still here. I just kept in contact with Oreg...
CLINTON POLK When I was younger, people kept making offers for different reality shows and stuff.
CASSIDY GIFFORD
It was unbelievable! My family and close friends were sitting together till quite late in the night....
AMITABH BACHCHAN On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.
HELEN SHARMAN
i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and...
LAUREN OLIVER But tomorrow is going to be different.
IGOR ANDREEV I just kept thinking we were going to win this game.
JEFF BRENNING Our kids played well. We were slow coming out of the gate but, after awhile, we kept the momentum go...
DAN MCANESPIE I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I'v...
DONNA DOUGLAS
I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to ...
BLYTHE DANNER At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school wa...
AHMET ZAPPA When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy....
MORLEY SAFER
Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came fr...
JACINDA BARRETT He had me, but I kept my back arched and somehow I came out from between his legs.
JASON GUFFEY We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dro...
HOLLY JOHNSON With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out ...
TERENCE STAMP Obviously, it's going to be different. But I don't feel anything about it, really.
BOBBY HOLIK He kept going lame. He was going through growing pains, I guess.
BARCLAY TAGG
When I first discovered the moon, he said, I gave it a different name. But everyone kept calling it ...
BRIAN ANDREAS You kind of get frustrated a little bit, but I think everything happens for reason. I just kept doin...
JOSEPH ADDAI
Colleges accept the highest sub-scores from different administrations. So if a student takes the SAT...
ELIOT SCHREFER
More Spencer Dryden
I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.
SPENCER DRYDEN
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
JOHN DRYDEN
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
JOHN DRYDEN
We spirits have just such natures
We had for all the world, when human creatures;
And, therefo...
JOHN DRYDEN
Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,
Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.
JOHN DRYDEN
Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.
JOHN DRYDEN
The love of liberty with life is given,
And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
JOHN DRYDEN
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN
For that can power give more than food and drink,
To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
JOHN DRYDEN
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDEN
Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain:
Fought all his battles o'er again;
And thrice he r...
JOHN DRYDEN
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now ...
JOHN DRYDEN
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I
no longer belong to it.
JOHN DRYDEN
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
JOHN DRYDEN
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom ...
JOHN DRYDEN
Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.
JOHN DRYDEN
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
JOHN DRYDEN
Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
JOHN DRYDEN
To die is landing on some distant shore.
JOHN DRYDEN
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more
complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and...
JOHN DRYDEN
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius--and a...
JOHN DRYDEN
But genius must be born, and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN
To take up half on trust, and half to try,
Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
JOHN DRYDEN
For friendship, of itself a holy tie,
Is made more sacred by adversity.
JOHN DRYDEN
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
JOHN DRYDEN
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For
that he does not really need a colleg...
JOHN DRYDEN
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has
learned in school.
JOHN DRYDEN
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
JOHN DRYDEN
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
JOHN DRYDEN
Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
JOHN DRYDEN
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
JOHN DRYDEN
Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others...
JOHN DRYDEN
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
JOHN DRYDEN
Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
JOHN DRYDEN
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
JOHN DRYDEN
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
JOHN DRYDEN
Beware the fury of a patient man.
JOHN DRYDEN
Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin
JOHN DRYDEN
Fortune befriends the bold.
JOHN DRYDEN
For they conquer who believe they can.
JOHN DRYDEN
Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
JOHN DRYDEN
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he m...
JOHN DRYDEN
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
JOHN DRYDEN
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDEN
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
JOHN DRYDEN
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
JOHN DRYDEN
All human things are subject to decay,
And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey;
This Fleckn...
JOHN DRYDEN
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy pe...
JOHN DRYDEN
Nor is the people's judgement always true;
The most may err as grossly as the few.
JOHN DRYDEN
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN
Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN
Reason to rule but mercy to forgive:
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
JOHN DRYDEN
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
JOHN DRYDEN
Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
JOHN DRYDEN
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
JOHN DRYDEN
Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
JOHN DRYDEN
Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
JOHN DRYDEN
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as cravi...
JOHN DRYDEN
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
JOHN DRYDEN
Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what...
JOHN DRYDEN
All heiresses are beautiful.
JOHN DRYDEN
We lov'd, and we lov'd as long as we could
Til our love was lov'd out in us both;
But our marr...
JOHN DRYDEN
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled...
JOHN DRYDEN
For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over vi...
JOHN DRYDEN
So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
JOHN DRYDEN
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
JOHN DRYDEN
The people have a right supreme
To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
All Empire i...
JOHN DRYDEN
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
JOHN DRYDEN
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, to...
JOHN DRYDEN
For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
JOHN DRYDEN
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on
your way down.
JOHN DRYDEN
Ever a glutton, at another's cost,
But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
JOHN DRYDEN
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
JOHN DRYDEN
She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
JOHN DRYDEN
Not to ask is not be denied.
JOHN DRYDEN
He's a sure card.
JOHN DRYDEN
The brave man seeks not popular applause,
Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;
Unsha...
JOHN DRYDEN
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
JOHN DRYDEN
Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.
JOHN DRYDEN
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
JOHN DRYDEN
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet,
Which once inflam'd m...
JOHN DRYDEN
There is a pleasure, sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!
JOHN DRYDEN
Keen appetite
And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
JOHN DRYDEN
They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
JOHN DRYDEN
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDEN
Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time,
But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.
JOHN DRYDEN
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is
work. Y is play. Z is keep your mo...
JOHN DRYDEN
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
JOHN DRYDEN
By education most have been misled.
JOHN DRYDEN
Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.
JOHN DRYDEN
But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN
And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
JOHN DRYDEN
Such subtle covenants shall be made,
Till peace itself is war in masquerade.
JOHN DRYDEN
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can...
JOHN DRYDEN
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only
guarantees equality of opportunity.
JOHN DRYDEN
Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only
demands the right but imposes the...
JOHN DRYDEN
God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are
self-government, reason, and conscienc...
JOHN DRYDEN
For who can be secure of private right,
If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?
Nor is th...
JOHN DRYDEN
Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lie...
JOHN DRYDEN
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN
Our souls sit close and silently within,
And their own web from their own entrails spin;
And w...
JOHN DRYDEN
Hard features every bungler can command:
To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
JOHN DRYDEN
Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
JOHN DRYDEN
As when the dove returning bore the mark
Of earth restored to the long labouring ark;
The reli...
JOHN DRYDEN
And after hearing what our Church can say,
If still our reason runs another way,
That private ...
JOHN DRYDEN
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail,
Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
JOHN DRYDEN
Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
JOHN DRYDEN
Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.
JOHN DRYDEN
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows
Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
JOHN DRYDEN
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration.
JOHN DRYDEN
God never made His work for man to mend.
JOHN DRYDEN
Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies,
To please the fools, and puzzle all the wis...
JOHN DRYDEN
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
JOHN DRYDEN
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
JOHN DRYDEN
The conscience of a people is their power.
JOHN DRYDEN
This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his
landlord to take physic (of which...
JOHN DRYDEN
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
JOHN DRYDEN
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
JOHN DRYDEN
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
JOHN DRYDEN
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
JOHN DRYDEN
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere
Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,
Are ...
JOHN DRYDEN
At every close she made, th' attending throng
Replied, and bore the burden of the song:
So jus...
JOHN DRYDEN
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme!
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.
JOHN DRYDEN
Whatever he did, was done with so much ease,
In him alone 'twas natural to please.
JOHN DRYDEN
Creator Venus, genial power of love,
The bliss of men below, and gods above!
Beneath the slidi...
JOHN DRYDEN
With ravish'd ears
The monarch hears,
Assumes the god,
Affects to nod,
And seems...
JOHN DRYDEN
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
JOHN DRYDEN
Lord of human kind.
JOHN DRYDEN
The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd:
Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.
His preac...
JOHN DRYDEN
The welcome news is in the letter found;
The carrier's not commission'd to expound;
It speaks ...
JOHN DRYDEN
A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDEN
When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.
[Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la ...
JOHN DRYDEN
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,
Fallen from his high estate,
And welt'ring in his blood;
...
JOHN DRYDEN
A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
JOHN DRYDEN
He made all countries where he came his own.
JOHN DRYDEN
And nobler is a limited command,
Given by the love of all your native land,
Than a successive ...
JOHN DRYDEN
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
JOHN DRYDEN
The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees,
Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.
Th...
JOHN DRYDEN
Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven;
This is the porcelain clay of human kind,
And t...
JOHN DRYDEN
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
JOHN DRYDEN
Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
JOHN DRYDEN
She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.
JOHN DRYDEN
Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
JOHN DRYDEN
And all to leave what with his toil he won,
To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN
He raised a mortal to the skies;
She drew an angel down.
JOHN DRYDEN
Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands,
And, with his compass, measures seas and lands...
JOHN DRYDEN
Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering,
Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring...
JOHN DRYDEN
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
JOHN DRYDEN
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
JOHN DRYDEN
They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
JOHN DRYDEN
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will ...
JOHN DRYDEN
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, c...
JOHN DRYDEN
But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
JOHN DRYDEN
Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be ...
JOHN DRYDEN
Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
JOHN DRYDEN
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDEN
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love is love's reward.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN
Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
JOHN DRYDEN
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN
And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
JOHN DRYDEN
Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
JOHN DRYDEN
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun,
Is Nature's eye.
JOHN DRYDEN
Behold him setting in his western skies,
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
JOHN DRYDEN
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
JOHN DRYDEN
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
JOHN DRYDEN
There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and
stupidity. And I am unsure about the un...
JOHN DRYDEN
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted...
JOHN DRYDEN
Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe,
And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,
Surpa...
JOHN DRYDEN
The winds that never moderation knew,
Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
Or out of bre...
JOHN DRYDEN
Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried;
Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay;
To-morrow's falser than the former day;
Lies worse; a...
JOHN DRYDEN
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chi...
JOHN DRYDEN
She deserves / More worlds than I can lose.
JOHN DRYDEN
And all to leave, what with this toil he won, / To that unfeathered, two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased w...
JOHN DRYDEN
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN
When rattling bones together fly, / From the four corners of the sky.
JOHN DRYDEN
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below
JOHN DRYDEN
To live at ease, and not be bound to think.
JOHN DRYDEN
A mob is the scum that rises utmost when the nation boils
JOHN DRYDEN
To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; / Some to undo, and some to be undone.
JOHN DRYDEN
Even victors are by victory undone
JOHN DRYDEN