Quotes of Increase - somelinesforyou

“ At Christmas I no more desire a roseThan wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;But like of each thing that in season grows. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. ”

- Robert E. Lee

“ Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! ”

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

“ Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane. ”

- John Milton

“ The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ”

- Doris Day

“ One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things. ”

- John Burroughs

“ Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. ”

- Robert Browning

“ Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, an herb most bruised is woman. ”

- Euripides

“ Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. ”

- Bible

“ War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. ”

- Émile Zola

“ Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. ”

- John Dewey

“ Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. ”

- Robert Orben

“ The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. ”

- William Lyon Phelps

“ No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. ”

- Bible

“ Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ We want to extend our adolescence as long as we can. ”

- Amy Poehler

“ As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The younger disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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