Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Francis Beaumont
Related
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
THOMAS MOORE All my joys to this are folly, / Naught so sweet as melancholy.
ROBERT BURTON The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.
NORA ROBERTS Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won
ARTHUR WELLESLEY There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They fo...
JOSH RADNOR There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
ALICE CARY On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sw...
AARON LAZAR Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams
THOMAS MORE No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream
THOMAS MORE It conjured such a lovely picture for me - you know, apples are so sweet and they're wholesome and i...
GWYNETH PALTROW There's nothing that allays an angry mind
So soon as a sweet beauty.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER "Most musical, most melancholy" bird!
A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!
In nature there i...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There's nothing worse tha...
DAVID BOWIE Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
JOHN MILTON I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
NAOMI CAMPBELL There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things t...
BAT FOR LASHES Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is...
D. H. LAWRENCE Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
MARK TWAIN It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
DAVID GUTERSON There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
RAFE SPALL Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush...
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.
BOB FOSSE .. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because...
CHARLAINE HARRIS It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
COLE PORTER Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.
JEANETTE WINTERSON We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and...
MARGOT KIDDER Why is Melancholy like Honey? Because it is very sweet, and it is culled from Flowers.
HOPE MIRRLEES It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in ...
STEPHEN KING These are very dainty and superrefined, but really vile.
MANOLO BLAHNIK I feel that it's lovely when, as a user, you're not aware of the complexity.
JONATHAN IVE I was a tomboy as a child! I wanted my daughter to be a scrapper and not so dainty.
CONSTANCE MARIE I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pret...
JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It...
ADAM BROWN All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's no...
CONRAD AIKEN There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good lu...
CHERIE LUNGHI I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
SAM SMITH Comic-Con fans are so affectionate, and it's always a lovely way to start a new season.
KUNAL NAYYAR Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, min...
TESSA DARE What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
SAINT IGNATIUS Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave dec...
JIMMY HILL There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably do...
SARA TEASDALE Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
VIRGINIA WOOLF There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the la...
YOGA VASISHTHA Everybody says 'Good Morning' in Harlem because it's true! And that's lovely.
MARCIA GAY HARDEN There was a little of this, 'Oh, you're such a sweet girl!' That's a wonderful thing...
ERIKA CHRISTENSEN There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world.
BOB ANDERSON Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart.
ALIA SHAWKAT Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride,Sweet is the shade below your silent tree . . .
WILLIAM BARNES There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible t...
ISAAC HANSON I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, exc...
JULIA WARD HOWE I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tea...
DAVE GROHL Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.
RICHARD BACH 42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's...
GAIL KELLY Beverly Hills is too intimidating. Everyone's got lovely teeth, so you don't want to smile. ...
ROB JAMES-COLLIER Too much plenty makes mouth dainty
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, becau...
BO SANCHEZ When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her mel...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
BONO Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
MASON COOLEY With eyes up-rais'd, as one inspir'd, Pale Melancholy sate retir'd, And from her wild sequester'd se...
WILLIAM COLLINS Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, y...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT You are no better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Here's an acre sown indeed,
With the richest royalest seed.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT 'Twas he
Gave heat unto the injury, which returned
Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a m...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, / And sweet thyme true, / Primrose, first born child of Ver, / ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cin...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Upon my buried body lie / Lightly, gentle earth.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT As men / Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, / After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is always good/ When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Bad's the best of us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT But what is past my help is past my care.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Kiss till the cow comes home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's Right Honorable
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.
ELAINE STRITCH I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.
DEBBIE HARRY There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleagu...
ALAN CLARK It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a mela...
NORAH JONES
More Francis Beaumont
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, y...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT You are no better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Here's an acre sown indeed,
With the richest royalest seed.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT 'Twas he
Gave heat unto the injury, which returned
Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a m...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, / And sweet thyme true, / Primrose, first born child of Ver, / ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cin...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Upon my buried body lie / Lightly, gentle earth.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT As men / Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, / After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is always good/ When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Bad's the best of us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT But what is past my help is past my care.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Kiss till the cow comes home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's Right Honorable
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will;
'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty a...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER After supper walk a mile.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER What mare's nest hast thou found?
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Hit the nail on the head.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I find the medicine worse than the malady.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There is an hour in each man's life appointed
To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Charity and treating begin at home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let them learn first to show pity at home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense
of tranquility which religion fai...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Tis not a life,
'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Beggars must be no choosers.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There's nothing that allays an angry mind
So soon as a sweet beauty.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Death hath so many doors to let out life.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER We must all die!
All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,
Nor how, so we die well; and...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Hunger is sharper than the sword.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in
water.
[Fr., L'injure se grave e...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER All your better deeds
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Deeds, not words.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Something given that way.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER This is a pretty flimflam.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER No better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
Of an immeasurable length: they spread
Ev'rywhere; a...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nature too unkind;
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I care not twopence.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise:
At least be more than I was; and be sure
You cr...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nose, nose, holly red nose,
And who gave thee that jolly red nose?
Nutmegs and ginger, cinammo...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nothing is thought rare
Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know
That what was worn some tw...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Kiss till the cows come home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER But is there nothing else,
That we may do but only walk? Methinks
Brothers and sisters lawful...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything;
The world's a fine believing world, write news.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER My dancing days are done.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Evil beginning houres may end in good.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well;
I see you have a singing face.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hem...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER But they that are above
Have ends in everything.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER What's one man's poison, signior,
Is another's meat or drink.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where h...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He that's liberal
To all alike, may do a good by chance,
But never out of judgment.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER One foot in the grave.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Fortune, now see, now proudly
Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,
Look what thou h...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A soul as white as Heaven.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Sing a song of sixpence.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under
Fortune's false lottery, desperately run
To death, fo...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER And he that will to bed go sober,
Falls with the leaf still in October.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It would talk;
Lord, how it talked!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let's meet and either do or die.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Tis a word that's quickly spoken,
Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He shall have chariots easier than air,
That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,
That art...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll put that in my considering cap.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There is a method in man's wickedness,
It grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let the world slide.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Whistle, and she'll come to you.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He comes not in my books.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll have a fling.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-...
CHARLES BEAUMONT Maurice made a massive contribution to all the teams he played for. He had a huge heart and will be ...
BILL BEAUMONT Maurice was a powerful and very athletic rugby player who made a massive contribution to the clubs h...
BILL BEAUMONT The lads say my bum is the equivalent of one 'Erica
BILL BEAUMONT I've gotten to saying that the irony is pretty thick around here.
JAY BEAUMONT They'll have to figure out a way to bring water into Pine Bush from the rest of Crawford.
JAY BEAUMONT That's been our Achilles this year. In three conference losses, we've had 23 errors. It makes it dif...
MIKE BEAUMONT These girls are a tight group. They just support each other and they do not panic. They make mistake...
MIKE BEAUMONT We but the ball in play a lot tonight. We had a great game plan coming in tonight we were going t...
MICHAEL BEAUMONT If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
FRANCIS “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
FRANCIS Why slander we the times?
What crimes
Have days and years, that we
Thus charge them with...
DR. JOSEPH BEAUMONT Calamity is man's true touchstone.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER sometimes the most simple things in the world can be the most beautiful.
ROWENA BEAUMONT CHERRY Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
FRANCIS QUARLES Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN There is no expeditious road
To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON