Best Swifter Quotes

#1. The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

Martial

#2. Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#3. Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

John F. Kennedy

#4. Debatable how long the seduction took. The smarter the girl, the swifter these things go. Physical forwardness as intellectual high-wire act: the pleasure not of pleasure but of performance and revenge against the retainer, the flute, the stack of expectations.

Lauren Groff

#5. COURSER My soul, living is like a courser of the night; the swifter its flight, the nearer the dawn. WM-ST-69

Kahlil Gibran

#6. Nothing is swifter than rumor.

Horace

#7. Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#8. There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

George Orwell

#9. I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow

William Shakespeare

#10. Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.

Saadi

#11. First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides ... Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

Gautama Buddha

#12. Policies are useful tools. Instead of prescribing highly specific behaviors, they supply us with broad guidelines that should make everyday decision making easier and swifter.

Michael Pollan

#13. Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

Plautus

#14. Thought can wing its way
Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam
That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

James Gates Percival

#15. True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

Iris Murdoch