Quotes of Paradise - somelinesforyou

“ There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world! ”

- Robert Browning

“ Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium! ”

- Thomas De Quincey

“ Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend! ”

- George Canning

“ It is a curious thing … that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ”

- Evelyn Waugh

“ The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. ”

- Bible

“ Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for? ”

- Robert Browning

“ Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. ”

- William Congreve

“ The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Little deeds of kindness, little words of love; Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above. ”

- Julia A. Fletcher Carney

“ Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on. ”

- Henry Burton

“ Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. ”

- Alphonse de Lamartine

“ Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Pennies do not come from heaven — they have to be earned here on earth. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. ”

- John Berry

“ Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. ”

- Doug Larson

“ A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters. ”

- Lady Jane Wilde
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