John Bunyan Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

51 Famous Quotes by John Bunyan
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“My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.”
Pilgrimage Quotes
“If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder”
Repentance Quotes
“Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. I)
“He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“And last, the crown of a' my grief.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Cock up your beaver.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O!”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Is there a man whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer, Yet runs himself life's mad career, Wild as the wave?”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Know, prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Nae man can tether time nor tide.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“O doul on the day that gae me an old man.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end, But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend? Though Fate said, a hero should perish ill light; So up rose bright Phoebus, and down fell the knight.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part, Is not more fondly dear.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear, Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing; I sat, but neither heard nor saw.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.”
Authorship Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress--Apology for his Book
“If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.”
Frogs Quotes
Source: Apology for his Book (l. 89)
“If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.”
Oysters Quotes
Source: Apology for his Book (l. 89)