Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.
The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.
I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.
You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
It is clearly not the journey for everyone. People succeed in as many ways as there are people. Some can be completely fulfilled with destinations that are much closer to home and more comfortable. But if you long to keep going, then I hope you are able to follow my lead to the places I have gone. To within a whisper of your own personal perfection. To places that are sweeter because you worked so hard to arrive there. To places at the very edge of your dreams.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
The greater the risk, the sweeter the fruit.
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.
Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality.
I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.
My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
The gruel that children's little hands have stirredIs sweeter than nectar.
