John Dryden Quotes
God never made his work for man to mend.
- John Dryden
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
- John Dryden
There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.
- John Dryden
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
- John Dryden
A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
- John Dryden
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.
- John Dryden
Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden
Above any Greek or Roman name.
- John Dryden
Who climbs the grammar tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
- John Dryden
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
- John Dryden
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
- John Dryden
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
If you have lived, take thankfully the past.
- John Dryden
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
- John Dryden
Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where.
- John Dryden
The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
- John Dryden
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- John Dryden
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
- John Dryden
Fortune befriends the bold.
- John Dryden
The habit does not make the monk.
- John Dryden
All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
- John Dryden
Love is love’s reward.
- John Dryden
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
- John Dryden
He loved me well: so well he could but die – To show he loved me better than his life; he lost it for me.
- John Dryden
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
- John Dryden
But love’s a malady without a cure.
- John Dryden
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
- John Dryden
Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.
- John Dryden


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