PARADISE

Related Subjects: Adam and Eve, Angel, Death, Eternity, Judgment Day, Reward, Saint, Salvation, Serpent, Soul

1. A land flowing with milk and honey.—Bible, Exodus 33:3
   

2. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.—Bible, Matthew 6:20
   

3. In my Father's house are many mansions.—Bible, John 14:2
   

4. Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blarsted consarn; —put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage;—put an Irishman in, and he would want tew boss the thing;—put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed tew plant it.—JOSH BILLINGS, Affurisms
   

5. And in that Heaven of all their wish,
   There shall be no more land, say fish.—RUPERT BROOKE, Heaven
   

6. All places are distant from heaven alike.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

7. For he on honey-dew bath fed,
   And drunk the milk of Paradise.—COLERIDGE, Kubla Khan
   

8. What matter if it be a fool's paradise? Paradise is paradise, for whoever owns it!—GEORGE DU MAURIER, Peter Ibbetson
   

9. Man and Woman may only enter Paradise hand in hand. Together, the myth tells, us, they left it and together must they return.—RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrteo
   

10. A Book of Verses underneath the Bough
    A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou
    Beside me singing in the Wilder-ness—
    Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!—OMAR KHAYYAM, Rubaiyat
    

11. Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire,
    And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.—OMAR KHAYYAM, Rubaiyat
    

12. And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;
    And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;
    But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
    Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!—KIPLING,
    When Earth's Last Picture is Painted
    

13. Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave
    Thee, native soil? these happy walks and shades?—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

14. Since call'd
    The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

15. Imparadis'd in one another's arms.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

16. The heaven of each is but what each desires.—THOMAS MOORE, Lalla Rookh
    

17. A Persian's heaven is easily made:
    'Tis but black eyes and lemonade.—THOMAS MOORE, Intercepted Letters
    

18. A good key is necessary to enter Paradise.—Proverb
    

19. Heaven without good society cannot be heaven.—Proverb
    

20. The old road to Paradise
    Easy it is missed!—MARGARET WIDDEMER, The Old Road to Paradise
    

21. How each hath back what once he stayed to weep;
    Homer his sight, David his little lad!—LIZETTE W. REESE, Tears
    

22. The kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and give pleasure.—STEVENSON, Across the Plains
    

23. Heaven does not choose its elect from among the great and wealthy.—THACKERAY, The Virginians
    

24. There is a land of pure delight,
    Where saints immortal reign;
    Infinite day excludes the night,
    And pleasures banish pain.—ISAAC WATTS, Hymns & Spiritual Songs
    

25. Heaven-gates are not so highly arch'd
    As princes' palaces; they that enter there
    Must go upon their knees.—JOHN WEBSTER, The Duchess of Malfi
    

26. Heaven's gate is shut to him who comes alone;
    Save thou a soul, and it shall save thy own!—WHITTIER, The Two Rabbis