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Running Quotes - Page 279

How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.17

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

John Buchan (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Buchan (Illustrated)”, p.3978, Delphi Classics

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.158, Ravenio Books

Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.

"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.