John Dryden Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Men, Anxious Thoughts

• Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Men, Today

  Imitation of Horace bk. 3, ode 29, l. 65 (1685)

• For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Pain, Gains

  'The Indian Emperor' (1665) act 4, sc. 1

• Present joys are more to flesh and blood
  Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Determination, Blood

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 364

• They live too long who happiness outlive.

  John Dryden

  Happiness, Long

  John Dryden, John Loftis, Vinton A. Dearing (1967). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume IX: Plays: The Indian Emperour, Secret Love, Sir Martin Mar-all”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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