Thomas Dekker Quotations

Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.

There are plenty of things that are wrong. Marxists used to use the term "false consciousness," which is very out of fashion these days. If we were to ask people how ads work, most people would say, "They work by tricking people but they don't trick me.

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, / Smiles awake you when you rise. / Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, / And I will sing a lullaby.

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day withreverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a cleanmind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the UltimatePurpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on mylips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all thehours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joythat comes from work well done -- this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.

A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read. To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read, - To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead

In the Tour of Poland, I won the last time trial and that was kind of a surprise. On this specific race, I am just hoping for a top 10.

I cannot win the time trial of the world championships at my age,