Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.
Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter.
Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?
the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.
There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your wishes, And spares your modesty the task His friendly aid to ask. A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear, When pointing at the object dear.
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
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.
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.
Silence sweeter is than speech.
Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.
My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
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.
I'll remember the view out this window [from Oval Cabinet], because this is where we had our - the playground that we put in when Malia and Sasha came in. Being able every once in awhile to look out the window and see your daughters during the summer, swinging on that swing set, that made the presidency a little bit sweeter.