Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beams of the sun. Dickens.
Dreams are the children of an idle brain, / Begot of nothing but vain phantasy; / Which are as thin of substance as the air, / And more inconstant than the wind. Rom. and Jul., i. 4.
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, / Are a substantial world, both pure and good; / Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, / Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Wordsworth.
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. Ham., ii. 2.
Dreams, in general, take their rise from those incidents that have occurred during the day. Herodotus.
Dreams in their development have breath / 5 And tears and torture and the touch of joy; / They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts; / They take a weight from off our waking toils; / They do divide our being; they become a portion of ourselves as of our time, / And look like heralds of eternity. Byron.
Dreigers vechten niet—Those who threaten don't fight. Dut. Pr.
Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind. Sir J. Barrington.
Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt, nor his wife a widow. John Neal.
Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it. Port. Pr.