The Primrose Path Quotes

#1. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read.

William Shakespeare

#2. I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of World Government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright shining lie.

Pat Buchanan

#4. Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.

Carl Sandburg

#5. When your life is not the primrose path, you still have to walk your road. You have to be a judge, pry right from wrong, figure out what ugly things the good can perch in, too.

Moira Crone

#6. Too often, parents today allow their desire to please their child to govern their parenting. If your relationship with your child is governed by your own desire to be loved by him or her, the odds are good that you will not achieve even that objective.

Leonard Sax

#7. You better not be touched by love; you are living peacefully. But if you do, you better not be left by it. Because The Wounded in love is only shreds of heart scattered. Even if you manage to regain your heart, you will never be that peaceful person again. Such is the curse of love.

Heenashree Khandelwal

#8. There are two ways to get rich. Either get more, or want less.

Thor Duffin

#9. She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

Margaret Landon

#10. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves ...

Cheryl Strayed

#11. When something isn't coming my way, I believe it was not meant for me.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

#12. I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

Janet Street-Porter

#13. The future will be no primrose path. It will have its own problems. Some will be the secular problems of the past, giant flowers of evil blossoming at last to their own destruction. Others will be wholly new.

John B. S. Haldane

#14. We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin-who they are. God tells man who he is. God tells us that He created man in His image. So man is something wonderful.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#15. I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot.

Amanda Seyfried

#16. Willie Nelson once said that sometimes, you have to either write a song or you kick your foot through a window. The third option , I suppose , is that you write a book.

Matt Haig

#17. A heart isn't some revolving door where a bunch of people can go in and out.

Cheon Eunbi

#18. My phone dings with a text. Mom: I bought you a rape whistle. There was a gangland slaying on your street last week.

Kristan Higgins

#19. I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

Frank Robinson

#20. You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him?

Ann Dunham

#21. God cares about those in need, and so should His people.

Jim George