Quotes
Quotes - Dryden
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic (of which he died) for the benefit of the doctor--Stavo bene (was written on his monument) ma per star meglio, sto qui.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
All human things are subject to decay, And when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
'Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.
The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright. But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, And horrow heavy sat on every mind.
Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last.
Ill fortune seldom comes alone.
Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more.
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.
But genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.
God never made His work for man to mend.
With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.
