All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.
No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear. . . the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)
It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.
So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for "add sugar to".
Defeat I shall not know. It shall not touch me. I will meet it with true thinking. Resisting it will be my strengthening. But if, perchance, the day shall give to me the bitter cup, it shall sweeten in the drinking.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.
Anecdote: The East End seemed to be in the grip of yet another economic crisis. . . . By the winter of 1933, an army of the unemployed gathered daily outside the dock gates, desperate for a day or 2 paid work. . . . . There was no cushion, no disaster fund, no stashed savings, no government handouts no syrup that could sweeten the bitter pill of poverty.
If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.
Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.
