Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

Hesiod

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

Hesiod

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Henry Selick

This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion animation with the greatest crew of animators, artists, and technicians I've ever been privileged to work with. I share this nomination with all of them and we all share our thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press.

Heinrich Heine

Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

Heinrich Heine

Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.

Heinrich Heine

With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.

Heinrich Heine

The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

Heinrich Heine

And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.

Hilary Mantel

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

Henry Ward Beecher

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Henry Ward Beecher

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

Henry Ward Beecher

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Henry Ward Beecher

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

Henry Ward Beecher

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

Henry James

She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more - this idea was as sweet as a vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land. ... but Isabel recognized, as it passed before her eyes, the quick vague shadow of a long future. She should never escape; she should last to the end.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

Khalil Gibran

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

Khalil Gibran

The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

Jonathan Safran Foer

and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the hair stopped growing, took him faithfully to bed with her every night, whispered sweet nothings into what was left of his ear, laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own, began to miss him before she became sick, left him everything in her will, thought of only him as she died, always knew he was fiction but believed in him anyway.

Jonathan Safran Foer

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.

Napoleon Bonaparte

My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.

Norman Mailer

The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

Os Guinness

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.