Worldly

Famous quotes containing the word worldly:

“Life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The weariest and most loathed worldly life
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise
To what we fear of death.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us,—the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man’s stature as to his happiness.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)