1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
All heiresses are beautiful.
John Dryden – [Inheritance]
All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden – [Death and Dying]
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
John Dryden – [Familiarity]
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden – [Fate]
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
John Dryden – [Decisions]
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden – [Patience]
Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
John Dryden – [Army and Navy]
Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
John Dryden – [Thoughts and Thinking]
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
John Dryden – [Aid and Assistance]
For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
John Dryden – [Conformity]
For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
John Dryden – [Joy]
For they conquer who believe they can.
John Dryden – [Confidence]
Fortune befriends the bold.
John Dryden – [Boldness]
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
John Dryden – [Genius]
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
John Dryden – [Misers and Misery]
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden – [Genius]
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 lived today.
John Dryden – [Contentment]
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden – [Fear]
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
John Dryden – [Plagiarism]
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
John Dryden – [Death and Dying]