Quotes by John Dryden

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age.

— John Dryden

Love

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

— John Dryden

Wisdom

None but the brave deserves the fair.

— John Dryden

Courage

The poetry of the foot.

— John Dryden

Wisdom

Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

— John Dryden

Courage

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.

— John Dryden

Wisdom

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

— John Dryden

Success

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

— John Dryden

Love

Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

— John Dryden

Wisdom

There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!

— John Dryden

Wisdom

Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.

— John Dryden

Wisdom

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 liv'd today.”

— John Dryden

Happiness

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

— John Dryden

Wisdom