Thomas Dekker Quotes

"Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them."

"A mask of gold hides all deformities."

"We are never like angels till our passion dies"

"Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree."

"This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school."

"Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it."

"We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies."

"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."

"Were there no women, men might live like gods."

"Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, / Smiles awake you when you rise. / Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, / And I will sing a lullaby."

"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."

"Age is like love, it cannot be hid."

"This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate."

"Honest labor bears a lovely face."

"To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day withreverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a cleanmind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the UltimatePurpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on mylips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all thehours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joythat comes from work well done -- this is how I desire to waste wisely my days."

"A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read, - To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead"

"Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise."

"A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read. To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school."