George Wither Quotes

#1. Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

George Santayana

#2. Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flowery meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?

George Wither

#3. Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.

George Wither

#4. When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. I loved a lass, a fair one,As fair as e'er was seen;She was indeed a rare one,Another Sheba queen:But, fool as then I was,I thought she loved me too:But now, alas! she's left me,Falero, lero, loo!

George Wither

#6. Oh could I feel as I have felt,-or be what I have been,
Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanish'd scene;
As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be,
So midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me.

George Gordon Byron

#7. People are human, not some machine we can control.

Ika Natassa

#8. Today, be a little bolder. Reach a little higher. Be a little kinder. Be a bigger dreamer." Robin Sharma

Robin S. Sharma

#9. I don't believe in retirement.

Stuart Rose

#10. Lastly, the ashes left behind,
May daily show to move the mind,
That to ashes and dust return we must:
Then think, and drink tobacco.

George Wither

#11. Night begins to muffle up the day.

George Wither

#12. Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

Reza Aslan

#13. See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you.

Megan McCafferty

#14. Little said is soonest mended.

George Wither

#15. Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

Judd Apatow

#16. Women who do not marry wither up - they wither up like aspidistras in back-parlour windows; and the devilish thing is that they don't even know they're withering.

George Orwell

#17. Even someone as disguisting as Dobson deserved the chance to grow up and become a better person.

Brittany Cavallaro

#18. Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if for cold it hap to die,
We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie,
And evermore be merry.

George Wither

#19. I like to take mustard baths. I combine 4 lbs Epsom salts, 3 oz mustard powder, 12 oz powdered milk, and 1/2 cup baking soda, add in 12 drops each of rosemary and eucalyptus essential oils, then whisk it and pour 1/4 cup of the mix into the tub while warm water is running.

Natalie Coughlin

#20. Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. Do all romantic notions and inclinations wither, sag and die as you grew older into the body of a woman who begins to resemble your mother's and then your grandmother's?

Abigail George

#22. We in America should be grateful to God for the blessing he has given us.

Billy Graham

#23. Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,And therefore let 's be merry.

George Wither

#24. February turned into March and Hiccup was still thinking. A few flowers made the mistake of appearing and were immediately blasted out of existence by a couple of hard frosts that had kept themselves back for this very purpose.

Cressida Cowell

#25. Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not.

William R. Bradford