Quotes by english authors

The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect. Florence Nightingale

Wise men make more opportunities than they find. Francis Bacon

Wisdom Wise Opportunities Men Find More Wise Men Make Than

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon

Few Others Books Some Chewed Tasted Swallowed

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Francis Bacon

Happiness Wisdom Man Fool Generally He Wisest Between Himself Greatest Difference Happiest Happiest Man Really Thinks

What other people think of me is none of my business. Gary Oldman

Me Business People Think Other None

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. Geoff Mulgan

Collective Narcissism Nationalism Kind Understood

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. George Whitefield

Christ Our Churches Morality Mere Most Preached Heathen Jesus Jesus Christ

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers. George Whitefield

Man Angel Half Preach Angels More Hour Himself Than Should

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love Religion More Affair Love Affair Your Less Theory

New roads; new ruts. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Ruts Roads New

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. Gilbert K. Chesterton

You Burden Free Hump Freeing Him Camel His May Being

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life World Seen Mainly Journalism Another Fiction Newspapers Popular

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Government Democracy Badly Aristocracy Educated Uneducated While Means

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Success Best Respect Advice Respectfully Exact Exact Opposite Having Doing Opposite Very Owe Going Going Away Listened Then Away

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art Experience Long Enough Lying Draw Pencil Would Would-Be Only Perfect Colored Had Supreme Altogether Bed Ceiling

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sports Way Expensive Regard Golf Marbles Playing

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Heart Eye Through Road Does Go Intellect

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. H. G. Wells

Past Beginning Has-Been Dawn Been Twilight

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. H. G. Wells

Failure Crime Community State Bad End In The End Measure Lives

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. Herbert Spencer

Life Relations Adjustment Continuous Internal External

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer

World Result Men Fools Folly Ultimate Effects Fill

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you. Isaac Newton