Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Passion drives the man, passions the woman; 30 him a stream, her the winds. Jean Paul.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance, art, would be useless. Balzac.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Bovee.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. Jean Paul.

Passion makes the will lord of the reason. 35 Shakespeare. (?)

Passion often makes a fool of the most ingenious man, and often makes the greatest blockhead ingenious. Thomson.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Emerson.

Passionate people are like men who stand upon their heads; they see all things in the wrong way. Plato.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams; / The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. Sir W. Raleigh.