Sweet Quotes - Page 85

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.

Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.

I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.

One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

Cold autumn, wan with wrath of wind and rain, Saw pass a soul sweet as the sovereign tune That death smote silent when he smote again.

Sweet is true love, though given in vain.

Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.