Cloy Best Quotes & Sayings

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately. — Minnie Driver

The best things beyond their measure cloy. — Homer

A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion. — John Fowles

Humility is the first step towards learning. You can't learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn. — Robert Kiyosaki

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton

Here come and sit, where never serpent hisses;
And being set, I 'll smother thee with kisses;
And yet not cloy thy lips with loath'd satiety,
But rather famish them amid their plenty,
Making them red and pale with fresh variety

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty:
A summer's day will seem an hour but short,
Being wasted in such time-beguiling sport. — William Shakespeare

For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Seeing clearly means that you're smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else's is the first step in being able to see things as they are. — Seth Godin

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire. — Francis Quarles

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,
they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment. — Frances Power Cobbe

Do you know what I like about you, Elizabeth?"
She couldn't even possibly imagine.
"You're as kind and good a person as they come," he continued, "but unlike most kind and good people, you don't preach or cloy, or try to make everyone else kind and good ... And underneath all that kindness and goodness, you seem to possess a wicked sense of humor, no matter how hard you occasionally try to suppress it. — Julia Quinn

A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write. — Charles Nodier

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase
By eating, and it fears to starve, unless
It still may feed, and all it sees devour;
Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power. — William Davenant

It is revolutionary in the history of human thinking to imagine that the world is not built with solid bricks, but rather with vibration, energy. — Massimo Citro

Other women cloy/The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry/Where most she satisfies. — Ian McEwan

Accordingly, since you cannot read all the books which you may possess, it is enough to possess only as many books as you can read. 4. "But," you reply, "I wish to dip first into one book and then into another." I tell you that it is the sign of an overnice appetite to toy with many dishes; for when they are manifold and varied, they cloy but do not nourish. So you should always read standard authors; and when you crave a change, fall back upon those whom you read before. — Seneca.

Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal. — Augusten Burroughs

O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
O, no! the apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse:
Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more
Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore. — William Shakespeare

What is all this juice and all this joy?
A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning
In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Maybe it was more about finding who I was in relation to the Simulacrum-to the blood inside of me- and less about finding myself in relation to who I wanted to be. Maybe I had gotten those two things mixed up along the way — Julia J. Gibbs

I love you. And if I have to let you go to make you happy, I'll do it. — Kristin Hannah

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy. — Juvenal

I had my little teenage craziness where I wanted to be a doctor, I admit. I have to confess at one point I considered even going to school. Hopefully, I went back on the right track being an artist. — Mathieu Demy

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. — Publilius Syrus

She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away. — D.H. Lawrence

Because people are assholes," said Bear, dutifully keeping his head down. "Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes. — Becky Chambers

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry — James Shapiro