Quotes about sweet
sweet fancy delight
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. Henry Ward Beecher
sweet war wine
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. Henry Ward Beecher
sweet grateful heart
Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing. Henry Ward Beecher
sweet educational flower
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 Ward Beecher
sweet eye thinking
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. Henry James
sweet coffee wine
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! Johann Sebastian Bach
sweet book healing
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
sweet giving world
One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
sweet chords sweet-music
I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
sweet lips belief
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
sweet morning meals
I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding. Joel Barlow
sweet dark sides
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad. Joe Wright
sweet eggs heaven
Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea? Frank McCourt
sweet nuts apples
Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery, warm, earthy Maggie Stiefvater
sweet lying eye
How long?" His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest." For ever?" Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie. "Longer. Maggie Stiefvater
sweet memories joy
O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge! Madame de Stael
sweet spring nice
You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, 'Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?' So you and the bear spend the whole day in each other's arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh? Haruki Murakami
sweet book character
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight. Gustave Flaubert
sweet wine men
I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter Gustave Flaubert
sweet two long
We used to say I don't care if I never have any money As long as I have my sweet honey and a shack in the woodland Now we say I don't care if I don't have money, but it's not true We can't live without money, no, because we don't want to We want one of those and two of those, and oh that one looks neat, wrap it up Put it on my MasterCard. Put it on my Visa And I sing it now, hey hey, hey hey, who woulda thunk it Hey hey, hey hey, who woulda thunk it. Greg Brown
sweet life-is melons
Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess. Greg Brown
sweet children grateful
Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth? Gilbert K. Chesterton
sweet flower sun
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets. John Dryden
sweet pain drinking
Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain. John Dryden
sweet flower moving
For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear. If not the first, the fairest of the year; For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours, And Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers. When thy short reign is past, the feverish sun The sultry tropic fears, and moves more slowly on. John Dryden
sweet pain treasure
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain. John Dryden
sweet war fighting
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. John Dryden
sweet pain pleasure
Sweet is pleasure after pain. John Dryden
sweet wine home
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. John Masefield
sweet poison hook
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot. John Lyly
sweet pain eye
A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love. John Lyly
sweet blue ideas
The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are in Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce those Sensations in us: And what is Sweet, Blue or Warm in Idea, is but the certain Bulk, Figure, and Motion of the insensible parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so. John Locke
sweet law bird
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? Pedro Calderon de la Barca