John Dryden Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.”

“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”

“But love's a malady without a cure.”

“It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”

“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”

“Love is love's reward.”

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”

“The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.”