John Ford Quotes - Page 2

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it.

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

Diamonds cut diamonds.

A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

He hath shook hands with time.