Sweetness Quotes

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran

Friendship, Morning, Heart

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Friendship, True

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Important, Real

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
Marianne Williamson

God, Fighting, Light

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
Chinua Achebe

Words, Old, Speak

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White

Nature, Time, Future

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Passion, Kiss, Affection

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
William Penn

Love, Wife, Children

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Marie de France

Love, Truth, Loyalty

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
Glenn Beck

Success, Failure

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
Jeremy Taylor

Alone, Heart, Fly

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
Mary Schmich

Love, Good, Death

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
Titus Livius

Freedom, Old, King

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
Richard Rolle

Life, Love, God

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
Shelley Berman

Music, Anger, Sex

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold

Light, Perfection, Pursuit

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
Charles Perrault

Best, Mother, Young

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.
William Safire

Political, Fighting, Light

There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.
Neko Case

Mean, Enjoy, Enthusiasm

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.
Penelope Wilton

Light, Unhappy, Stressful

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.
Pierre Dukan

America, Addiction, Present

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
Georg Trakl

Drink, Childhood, White

I got married six weeks ago. It's just a sweet thing. I haven't got a better word for it. It's an enormous amount of sweetness.
Sonya Walger

Word, Married, Sweet

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Hedda Hopper

Light, Nobody, Interested

If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
Lamorne Morris

Someone, Against, Bit

What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile.
Richard Rodgers

Light, Wrong, Around

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