1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
John Dryden – [Trust]
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden – [Price]
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
John Dryden – [Habit]
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden – [Fortune]
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
John Dryden – [Jealousy]
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
John Dryden – [Kings]
Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
John Dryden – [Death and Dying]
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
John Dryden – [Vocation]
Love is love's reward.
John Dryden – [Love]
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
John Dryden – [Love]
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden – [Love]
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
John Dryden – [Adulthood]
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
John Dryden – [Power]
Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
John Dryden – [Wives]
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
John Dryden – [Patriotism]
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
John Dryden – [Democracy]
Not to ask is not be denied.
John Dryden – [Silence]
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden – [Anxiety]
Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
John Dryden – [Pain]
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
John Dryden – [Revolutions and Revolutionaries]
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