Thomas Dekker Quotes
Thomas Dekker ponders wealth and virtue, offering reflective thoughts on peace and moral choices.
-
A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that 's never read,- To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
-
And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds, There 's a lean fellow beats all conquerors.
-
To add to golden numbers golden numbers.
-
Honest labour bears a lovely face.
-
The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
-
I was ne'er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.
-
This principle is old, but true as fate,- Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
-
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
-
Turn over a new leaf.
-
Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? O sweet content! Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplex'd? O punishment!
-
To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done -- this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
-
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
-
Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
-
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
-
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
-
Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.
-
What a heaven is love! O what a hell!
-
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
-
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
-
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
-
O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
-
“Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thy friends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it... deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer, a cooling fan of feathers.”
-
“Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is...that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. Who complains of want? of wounds? of cares? of great men's oppressions? of captivity? whilst he sleepeth? Beggars in their beds take as much pleasure kings: can we therefore surfeit on this delicate Ambrosia? Can we drink too much of that whereof to taste too little tumbles us into a churchyard, and to use it but indifferently throws us into Bedlam? No, no, look upon Endymion, the moon's minion, who slept three score and fifteen years, and was not a hair the worse for it.”
-
A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read, - To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead