Michael Drayton Quotes

#1. O blessed bounty, giving ail content!
The only fautress of all noble arts
That lend'st success to every good intent.
A grace that rests in the most godlike hearts,
By heav'n to none but happy souls infus'd
Pity it is, that e'er thou wast abus'd.

Michael Drayton

#2. I drove five hours to see you once and I'll do it again and again and again if I have to. Just...I want to be with you. Wherever you decide to go, I'll come find you.

Dahlia Adler

#3. All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

Michael Drayton

#4. With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

Michael Drayton

#5. When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

Henry David Thoreau

#6. I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.

Rachel Zoe

#7. Spare me the mantra that the "fundamentals" are sound. Credit is the ultimate fundamental.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

#8. The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

Michael Drayton

#9. Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.

Michael Drayton

#10. Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.

Michael Drayton

#11. She stared.
Then she busted out laughing.
And that was it.
All that he needed.
Cher was laughing.
Garett was calm.

Kristen Ashley

#12. Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

Janet Fitch

#13. I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.

Red Tash

#14. Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.

Michael Drayton

#15. Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

Bill Bradley

#16. As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.

Christopher Moore

#17. It is your virtue, being men, to try;
And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

Michael Drayton

#18. Thanksgiving is America's favorite holiday because it's a time when we put aside our cares, much as the struggling Pilgrims did nearly four centuries ago, and eat a gut-busting meal without worrying about the 'out years.'

David Ignatius

#19. The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.

Michael Drayton

#20. Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.

Jonathan Turley

#21. When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray.

Michael Drayton

#22. Who can know the heart of a man?

Alice McDermott

#23. WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.

Michael Drayton

#24. So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

Michael Drayton