Be such a man, and live such a life, that
if every man were such as you, and
every life a life like yours, this
earth would be God's Paradise.
?Phillips Brooks
He who has gold makes and accomplishes
whatever he wishes in the world and
finally uses it to send souls to paradise.
?Christopher Columbus
I have always imagined that
Paradise will be a kind of library.
?Jorge Luis Borges
If one cannot catch the bird of
paradise, better take a wet hen.
?Nikita Khrushchev
It is a curious thing that every
creed promises a paradise which
will be absolutely uninhabitable
for anyone of civilised taste.
?Evelyn Waugh
Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument,
fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love
each other. The music people . . . they give
thanks for the gift and reflect the love.
?Ruby Dee
Patience is the key to paradise.
?Albanian Proverb
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin:
impatience. Because of impatience we
were driven out of Paradise, because of
impatience we cannot return.
?W. H. Auden
Recollection is the only paradise from
which we cannot be turned out.
?Jean Paul Richter
The Park Avenue of poodles and polished
brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville,
a window-washer's paradise.
?Gay Talese
The academy is not paradise. But learning
is a place where paradise can be created.
?Bell Hooks
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys
discover to us the indifference of places.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
