My legendary speaking career began right here on this stage.
Ken Dryden
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DENNIS RITCHIE I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provision...
DEMIAN BICHIR I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role w...
CONRAD VEIDT This is the seventh Giro stage win of my career and it's a gift for my son Ewan because it's his thi...
ROBBIE MCEWEN I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
IVOR NOVELLO When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.
AYMAN ODEH The market traded off once Greenspan began speaking and said nothing on the economy.
JOEL KENT It wouldn't feel right standing on stage singing songs at a time like this. My priority right now is...
PEPPER KEENAN Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.
DIANA RIGG ... Her gradual ascent to stardom began right here in western Pennsylvania.
MARGO MONG I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as...
SARAH DESSEN I'm just glad to be up here on this stage with Mr. Knight.
BRUCE LEVENSON He's the most talented horse I've had at this stage in his career.
BOB HOLTHUS I think the World Cup is going to be bigger than what a lot of people are anticipating. At this stag...
AL LEITER The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' w...
ATHOL FUGARD My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles,...
FRANK SERPICO We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me...
EMERIL LAGASSE I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.
ALICIA MACHADO Our players have earned the right to have the stage here in Chicago.
DOUG BRUNO I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more a...
CARROT TOP Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN But this is my dream, right here.
BETH KEATING My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covere...
JESSICA RAINE This is one of the best wins in my career here. We need any win right now just to give these young g...
LEVI STUKES Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.
JOHN DRYDEN I ended my career on the right note. I was really hotter than a pistol!
JASON MCELWAIN My poor cooking is legendary among my friends.
LESLEY NICOL I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
RAKUL PREET SINGH Let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely,
BARACK OBAMA I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was r...
ORLANDO BLOOM Frankly speaking, I feel very scared. Can I survive here? If I do my best on a daily basis, my God w...
AE JA KIM Well, we're out of time here. Regardless of that, and what might be perceived as our disagreement on...
KEITH OLBERMANN Right now I'm pretty single . . . . My career is my boyfriend.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
RAFAEL PALMEIRO I may be the right man for the job, but the job just isn't right for me at this time in my career,
BILL ARCHER I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm si...
ADRIANA LIMA I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight. Guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you...
BILL HICKS I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of O...
MARLEE MATLIN At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close fr...
DANIEL NATHANS Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered ...
ESSIE DAVIS I've had my dream job. I have been able to work on issues that I have been deeply passionate about s...
ARTHUR LEVITT This is the first time my whole career I'm pitching the way I'm pitching right now. I'm surprising m...
HECTOR CARRASCO Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I think I'm coming to a different stage of my career and hopefully this is going to be a very good b...
LAUREN JACKSON This is the largest case I ever worked on in my career.
LYNN SCAMAHORN He acknowledges that he has an alcohol problem. He knows his whole career depends on doing this righ...
BEN ALLEN I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex...
LA INDIA Not in my wildest dreams did I think I would be on this stage.
DAVID FRIEDMAN We haven't had much luck against them in my career here.
CHAD COMROE What's different here is that Ken Starr is able to play God with government funding.
JESSE JACKSON There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right rea...
GLENN TIPTON Because the demands on a goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is h...
KEN DRYDEN It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when,
KEN DRYDEN It represents a huge new opportunity here,
KEN DRYDEN For 18 months, we had worked on something that mattered: a national system of early learning and chi...
KEN DRYDEN As kids we knew whatever Canada was then it would be far greater tomorrow. That is the Canada I see ...
KEN DRYDEN So, speed up the when.
KEN DRYDEN And the fact is that, in our last reporting date which is 2002-2003, Quebec had invested about $1.2-...
KEN DRYDEN All of those are areas in which money goes specifically to stay-at-home parents. This is a program f...
KEN DRYDEN [A goalie's] job is to stop pucks, ... Well, yeah, that's part of it. But you know what else it is? ...
KEN DRYDEN For example, what it represents is for a territory like Nunavut, they would get about eight times as...
KEN DRYDEN I'm running because the day after election day, I was mad.
KEN DRYDEN What is it like to hear the words you're dumb, you're stupid? That comes to be their understanding o...
KEN DRYDEN Icebreaker III. We began working on it right after the Baltic one.
ELENA DUBINETS It's fitting I end my career here at home where it started,
CHARLES BISHOP My jaw nearly hit the floor when he got up on stage. He had such timing and range and he had stage p...
BRENDA DAVIES This is a very small legal community. Do you really want to start pissing off more experienced lawye...
WILLIAM KORMAN This is my kingdom right here, my home, that's all I need, that's all I want.
ALEXANDER NAKI She is plain but on the stage she looks all right.
JESSICA TANDY This is not my usual stage.
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Trust me, ... I know where my heart is and my heart's right here. I'm going to keep doing everything...
JOHN CENA This has been my dream. This is it for me right here. I can die happy.
LECHARLES BENTLEY At this stage of my career, to have a whole new array of experiences, to play in new stadiums and ne...
KASEY KELLER At this stage of my career, to have a whole new array of experiences, to play in new stadiums and ne...
KASEY KELLER I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the sta...
DIRK BENEDICT I intend to build this brand again, ... Elite is legendary.
DONALD TRUMP My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from 'Le Nozze di Figaro'...
DANIELLE DE NIESE It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on s...
FELICITY KENDAL Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was...
LIONEL BLUE This garden is fabulous the loveliest spot on Earth is right here.
LINDA LIVINGSTON At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, ...
ELLIOT COWAN I've been here since the place began. We had no idea all this would happen.
FRANK LOGAN I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
PATRICK EWING I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.
DUSTY BAKER The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my...
GALEN ROWELL The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage o...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER The winds that never moderation knew,
Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
Or out of...
JOHN DRYDEN How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career out of...
SARA BAUME This road trip is very important that we're going on. This is our season, right here.
BOBBY ABREU It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau...
WALT MOSSBERG It was found dead Oct. 7 in Dryden, Ontario. It shows that the birds were moving north.
DAVE GROSSHUESCH As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, de...
RICK STRASSMAN That's my spot - in the corner. I was on my way here. My back would have been right there.
DAVID BENTLEY I didn't come to Nashville to move Ken Griffey Jr.. I came here to make our team better.
JIM BOWDEN I'm not planning on going this summer. I just don't want to go because somehow I just feel like my l...
HANNA SALONEN This has been a tax of legendary volatility, making predictions especially confounding.
BOB COX Hopefully I'll be able to finish my career here, ... This is a situation where as a player you're lo...
ORLANDO PACE My life began with Ronnie.
NANCY REAGAN In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the...
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KEN DRYDEN As kids we knew whatever Canada was then it would be far greater tomorrow. That is the Canada I see ...
KEN DRYDEN So, speed up the when.
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KEN DRYDEN I'm running because the day after election day, I was mad.
KEN DRYDEN What is it like to hear the words you're dumb, you're stupid? That comes to be their understanding o...
KEN 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 I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.
SPENCER 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