Quotes by english authors

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. Thomas Hobbes

Life Fear Mind Sense Live More Never Because Without Motion Perpetual Nor Itself Than Tranquillity While Thing Here Desire

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. Thomas Huxley

Happiness Great Self-Respect Peace World Earn Seek Great Thing Much Thing

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. Thomas Huxley

Wisdom Importance Who Right

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. Thomas Paine

Every Kind Weapon Most Errors Against Formidable Reason

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. Thomas Paine

Good Hundred More Priests Schoolmaster Than Use

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. Thomas Paine

Man Science Every Universe Those System Only He Make Principles Governed Discover Fixed Cannot Which Them Basis

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. Thomas Paine

Possibilities Only Reason

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. Thomas Paine

Wisdom War Progress Unforeseen Increase Circumstances One Thing Calculate Involves End Train Human Taxes Certain Human Wisdom Thing

A word of advice is, when you judge someone, it doesn't define the person that you're judging. It defines you. Tulisa

You Judge Word Advice Define Defines Someone Judging Person

The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in. Victoria Coren Mitchell

In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself. Vincent Nichols

Life is too short to work so hard. Vivien Leigh

Life Work Life Is Too Short Too Short Hard

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. W. H. Auden

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. Walter Savage Landor

Kindness Unkindness Honey Ourselves Another Sting

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for. Wentworth Miller

You Believe Only Cry Help

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. William Blake

Life Everything Delights Holy Lives

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. William Blake

People Money Cause Passion Hardships Thief Elsewhere Must Distress Seek Alleged Miser Never Greater His Than Want Endure Fortitude Many Therefore Honest Honest People

To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake

Idiot Generalize

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. William Golding

I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers. William Golding

Life Love People Own Sense Rulers One Thing Above Examining Invariably Shared Leaders Countries Peril Understand Been Same Common The One Thing Cannot Common Sense Many Found Why Among Thing

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. William Hazlitt

Hope People Own Others Apt Neighbors Insignificant No Hope Rising Self Most Safe Self-Esteem Sneer Esteem Lowering