Murder’s out of tune,And sweet revenge grows harsh.
William Shakespeare
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
Milan Kundera
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
John Ruskin
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
Homer
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience...
Joseph Conrad
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Rudolf Otto
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold
A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life.
Joseph Addison 1672
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
Tom Robbins
How sweet and sacred idleness is!
Walter Savage Landor