Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

But what is past my help is past my care.

You are no better than you should be.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Bad's the best of us.

Kiss till the cow comes home.

Corruption is a tree whose branches are of an immeasurable length they spread evrywhere and the dew that drops from thence hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

Daisies smell less yet most quaint And sweet thyme true Primrose first born child of Ver Merry Spring times harbinger.

If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience: hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.