Paradise Quotes

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got till it's gone

When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.

How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.

The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.

Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.

Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.

I have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.

If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year.

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them.

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

Paradise is not a place; it's a state of consciousness.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.

Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

A chaste generation would restore Paradise.

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.