QuoteProject

Topic

Quotes on Sweetest

59 quotes

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
Robert FrostRead
Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.
Alfred Richard OrageRead
Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
SophoclesRead
Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.
Maya AngelouRead
Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.
Robert Murray M'CheyneRead
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
M. F. K. FisherRead
I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
Mahershala AliRead
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
Emily DickinsonRead
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
VirgilRead
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl BaileyRead
Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
Elizabeth BowenRead
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,_x000D_ _x000D_ For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;_x000D_ _x000D_ The ornament of beauty is suspect,_x000D_ _x000D_ A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
William ShakespeareRead
Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.
Amelia BarrRead
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
Henry Ward BeecherRead
Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRead
Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.
John DonneRead
The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.
Elizabeth FryRead
The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
Publilius SyrusRead
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
Walter ScottRead
The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose
Aldo LeopoldRead
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
Leonard CohenRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.