Good and quickly seldom meet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Great pains quickly find ease. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He gives twice who gives quickly. [ Syrus ]
In a good house all is quickly ready. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I have a dog of Blenheim birth.
With fine long ears and full of mirth;
And sometimes, running over the plain,
He tumbles on his nose:
But quickly jumping up again
Like lightning on he goes! [ Ruskin ]
A threefold cord is not quickly broken. [ Bible ]
Thy credit wary keep, 'tis quickly gone;
Being got by many actions, lost by one. [ Randolph ]
Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies. [ Burke ]
Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. [ William Shakespeare ]
Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions. [ Bishop Porteous ]
The rose is fragrant, but it fades in time:
The violet sweet, but quickly past the prime:
White lilies hang their heads, and soon decay,
And white snow in minutes melts away. [ Dryden ]
A good judge conceives quickly, judges slowly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
They talk of short-lived pleasures - be it so -
Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain
Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign. [ Bryant ]
With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master. [ Bovee ]
Quickly seize the moment: only the present is thine. [ Körner ]
Gratitude is a cross-road that leads quickly to love. [ T. Gautier ]
A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc. 4 ]
The spoil that is sought by many hands quickly accumulates. [ Ovid ]
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
How quickly nature falls to revolt when gold becomes her object! [ Shakespeare ]
'Tis a word that's quickly spoken. Which being restrained, a heart is broken. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! [ Hosea Ballou ]
'Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief. [ Grotius ]
O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone! [ Shakespeare ]
Heaven gives the grace needed for the moment; he who seizes it quickly becomes master of his fate. [ Raupach ]
Behold the morning! Rise up, O youth, and quickly fill thyself with this rosy wine sparkling from the crystal cup of the dawn! [ Omar Khayam ]
A coldness or an incivility from such as are above us makes us hate them, but a salute or a smile quickly reconciles us to them.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power, and organises a huge instrumentality of means. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
We should give as we receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. [ Seneca ]
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. [ Jeremy Collier ]
He that prolongs his meals, and sacrifices his time as well as his other conveniences, to his luxury, how quickly does be outset his pleasure! [ South ]
When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred. [ Edward Everett ]
Good dressing includes a suggestion of poetry. One nowhere more quickly detects sentiment than in dress. A well-dressed woman in a room should fill it with poetic sense, like the perfume of flowers. [ Miss Oakey ]
Were a whole nation to start upon a new career of education, with mature faculties and minds free from prepossession or prejudice, how much would be quickly abandoned that is now most stubbornly cherished! [ Chatfield ]
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman. [ Addison ]
When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]