Famous Quotes & Sayings

Petrarch

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

We have to play our game. It's a sweet victory when you win up there. I can't wait.

It couldn't have set up any sweeter than that.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain, Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune That death smote silent when he smote again.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet..

Algernon Charles Swinburne

I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On 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 Lord Tennyson

Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a morning pure and sweet, And the light and shadow fleet; She is walking in the meadow, And the woodland echo rings; In a moment we shall meet; She is singing in the meadow, And the rivulet at her feet Ripples on in light and shadow To the ballad that she sings.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

O hark,O hear! how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life--the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love--free field--we love but while we may.

Alcuin

What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.

Albert Einstein

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

Ali Landry

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

Ali Larter

Each character I play I approach differently and separately. I think Marigold is a simpler character for a sweet little movie, and I'm excited to be part of it. In terms of Heroes it's been such an amazing journey on that show. I love working on it and at this point I know I'm coming to Asia and some of the other cast are going to Europe for the world tour to release the DVD.

Alexander Hamilton

No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

Adolf Hitler

Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard attained was wholly admirable; to Spain flocked the greatest scientists, thinkers, astronomers, and mathematicians of the world, and side by side there flourished a spirit of sweet human tolerance and a sense of purist chivalry. Then with the advent of Christianity, came the barbarians.

Adelaide Anne Procter

I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.

Abraham Lincoln

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

Anita Baker

I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.

Donald Rumsfeld

Look at me! I'm sweet and lovable!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

Colley Cibber

Stolen sweets are best.

Dalai Lama

Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.

Dodie Smith

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

Alphonsus Liguori

Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord.

Amber Heard

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

Anna Netrebko

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

Anna Quindlen

Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.

Claes Oldenburg

I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.