Sweet quotes

Sweet quotes and links to sweet quotes.

"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats." - Amos Bronson Alcott.

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle.

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu.

"In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding. Sweet lovers love the spring." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It 5.3.18–20.

"Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

"The end has come, as come it must To all things; in these sweet June days The teacher and the scholar trust Their parting feet to separate ways." - John Greenlief Whittier 

"That August time it was delight To watch the red moons wane to white “Twixt grey seamed stems of appletrees; A sense of heavy harmonies Grew on the growth of patient night, More sweet than shapen music is." - Algernon Charles Swinburne

"Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere." - - sweet quotes from George Burns

"Loving you is like breathing, how can I stop?" - anonymous.

"I'd like to be under the sea in an Octopus's Garden with you," - John Lennon & Paul McCartney.

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller.

"I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head." - Letty Cottin Pogrebin.

"He is not Santa Claus. More like a spy—FBI agent, CIA, Mafia, worse than IRA, that kind of person! And he does not give you gifts, you must give him things. All year long you have to show him respect—give him tea and oranges. When Chinese New Year's time comes, you must give him even better things— maybe whiskey to drink, cigarettes to smoke, candy to eat, that kind of thing. You are hoping all the time that his tongue will be sweet, his head a little drunk, so when he has his meeting with the big boss, maybe he reports good things about you." from The Kitchen God's wife by Amy Tan. A Chinese mother explains to her child the way to treat the Kitchen God, a central character in Chinese New Year celebrations.

"Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant King; then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing." - Thomas Nashe

"Myrtilla's tripping down the street, In Easter finery. The Easter blooms are not more sweet And radiant-hued than she." - Dorothy Parker

"And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation, and ye shall afflict your souls; ye shall not do any work therein; But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord for a sweet savor: one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish." - Numbers 29.7–8.

"There was a good deal of laughing and kissing and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home-festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, and then all fell to work." - Louisa May Alcott, from Little Women, describing a simple Christmas celebration during hard times.

"Why don't you come up and see me sometime? Come up on Wednesday, that's amateur night." - Mae West.

'Midst the wealth of facts and fancies That our memories may recall, Thus the old school–day romance Are the dearest, after all!— When some sweet thought revises The half–forgotten tune That opened “Exercises,” On “Friday Afternoon.” - James Whitcomb Riley.

I hope you have enjoyed these short sweet quotes. Add them to celebration cards to make your friends smile.