The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Cyril Connolly

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.
Vinoba Bhave

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

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
Bruno Bauer

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
William Blake

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.
Roy Wilkins

The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.
Margot Kidder

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Anatole France

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.
Patrick MacGill

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
Alison Lurie

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.
Amy Weber

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
Herman Melville

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.
Phyllis George

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.
Patricia Ireland

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.
Dominic Chianese

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
Walter Scott

To be on television and have my nieces and nephews see me, and seeing them wear my shirt to the games and be proud, it's so sweet. Sometimes it feels like it's just a dream.
Sue Wicks

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.
Donald Norman

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.
Gordon Lightfoot