He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
Abu Bakr

Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.
Thomas Howard

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
Charles de Secondat

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Jean Rostand

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.
Ray Conniff

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
Marguerite Young

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
Camille Claudel

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Emile M. Cioran

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
John Drinkwater

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
Robert Wilson Lynd

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
Toni Morrison

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.
Anne Bancroft

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelho