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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. -- George Eliot
There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught. -- Nathaniel Smith
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more. -- Maya Angelou
I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said. -- Emily Dickinson
Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught. -- Virginia Woolf
My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you. -- William Empson
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts. -- Ovid
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught. -- Agnes Repplier
One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison. -- Friedrich Schiller
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness. -- Walter Raleigh
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness. -- Anacharsis
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. -- Plato
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught. -- Alexandre Dumas
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. -- Charlotte Bronte
I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips. -- Warren G. Harding
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. -- John Dryden
I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught. -- Harold Pinter
There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. -- John Burroughs
People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired, Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. -- William Osler
Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear. -- Thomas Carlyle
A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again. -- Henry David Thoreau
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe. -- Frederick Marryat
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught. -- Laurence Sterne
Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint. -- James Fitzjames Stephen
Our Adonais has drunk poisonoh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life's early cup with such a draught of woe? -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
While briskly to each patriot lip Walks eager round the inspiring flip; Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit The quintessence of public spirit! -- John Trumbull
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities. -- Desiderius Erasmus
For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet. -- Nennius
wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it. -- Katharina Elisabeth Goethe
The air is like a draught of wine. The undertaker cleans his sign, The Hull express goes off the line, When it's raspberry time in Runcorn. -- Noel Coward
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal. -- Charles Baudelaire
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught. -- Rabindranath Tagore
If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale -- Robert Burns
Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips! -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys. -- Epictetus
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness. -- Walt Whitman
Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -- William Shakespeare

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