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Quotes by Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker

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

“Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming in the joys of night;Sleep, sleep; in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.”

“Age is like love, it cannot be hid”

“If age imparted wisdom, there wouldnt be any old fools.”

“Love is the only weapon we need.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, youve got to start young.”

Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thyfriends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it...deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer,a cooling fan of feathers.

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

Sleep: The golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

Cast away care he that loves sorrow lengthens not a day nor can he buy tomorrow.

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

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdoms school.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

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.