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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. -- Walter Raleigh
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg. -- Robert Herrick
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. -- Okakura Kakuz?
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. -- Okakura Kakuz?
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not. -- Walter Raleigh
The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. "There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain," Matrim Cauthon whispered. "Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again. -- Robert Jordan
I would fain grow old learning many things. -- Plato
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. -- Henry David Thoreau
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. -- Joseph Addison
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside. -- Henri Bergson
I would fain die a dry death. -- William Shakespeare
There are faults we would fain pardon. -- Horace
In my walks I would fain return to my senses. -- Henry David Thoreau
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. -- Henry David Thoreau
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe. -- Petrarch
But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age. -- Jane Addams
Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. -- John Ruskin
Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain - distance, you have not experienced summer night. -- Henry Hough
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out. -- Nicolas Chamfort
...there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent... -- Jeremiah Burroughs
For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane. -- Don Marquis
The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.] -- Horace
Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them. -- Henry David Thoreau
In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods? -- Henry David Thoreau
We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat. -- William Shakespeare
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life. -- John Dryden
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28). -- William Shakespeare

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