Sunday, December 22, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

John Milton

« All quotes from this author
 

Hence vain deluding Joys,
The brood of Folly without father bred!
--
Line 1.

 
John Milton

» John Milton - all quotes »



Tags: John Milton Quotes, Authors starting by M


Similar quotes

 

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects.... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that [my children] should be bred up in it too.

 
William Cobbett
 

What use to brood? This life of mingled pains
And joys to me,
Despite of every Faith and Creed, remains
The Mystery.

 
Alfred (Lord) Tennyson
 

All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.

 
Robert Burton
 

He did not call them Abraham's children, but a "brood of vipers" [Matt. 3:7]. Oh, that was too insulting for the noble blood and race of Israel, and they declared, "He has a demon' [Matt 11:18]. Our Lord also calls them a "brood of vipers"; furthermore in John 8 [:39,44] he states: "If you were Abraham's children ye would do what Abraham did... You are of your father the devil. It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham's but the devil's children, nor can they bear to hear this today.

 
Jesus Christ
 

Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

 
Jesus Christ
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact