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

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job.

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

If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job.

A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

Your library is your paradise.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

The only paradise is paradise lost.

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.