“Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.”
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Famous John Dryden Quotes
“All objects lose by too familiar a view.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)
“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
“All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
“For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.”
“Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.”
“But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.”
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
“Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations