Sweet Quotes

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."
-Henry David Thoreau

"How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!"
-Henry David Thoreau

"Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter."
-Voltaire

"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For each thorn, there's a rosebud... for each twilight — a dawn... for each trial — the strength to carry on, For each stormcloud — a rainbow... for each shadow — the sun... for each parting — sweet memories when sorrow is done."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
-Mark Twain

"The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
-Mark Twain

"Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out."
-Yiddish proverb

"Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing."
-Aristotle

"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."
-Oscar Wilde

"A silent mouth is sweet to hear. "
-Irish Proverb

"Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself."
-Oprah Winfrey

"By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself."
-Sri Chinmoy

"I'll keep it short and sweet -- Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business."
-Matt Groening

"Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?"
-Matt Groening

"Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"
-William Shakespeare

"By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair."
-Persian Proverb

"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."
-William Shakespeare

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet."
-William Shakespeare

"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
-William Shakespeare

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."
-William Shakespeare

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Partying is such sweet sorrow."
-Robert Byrne

"Men should be like coffee, hot sweet and strong."
-Dutch Proverb

"Hunger makes raw beans taste sweet."
-Dutch Proverb

"Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."
-Ronald Reagan

"How sad and bad and mad it was - / But then, how it was sweet!"
-Robert Browning

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
-Helen Keller