Quotes by english authors

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. Francis Bacon

Money Except Like Spread Very Little Use Manure

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age. Freya Stark

Life Faith Age Strong Old Will Sail Old Age Rudder Waters Our Steadily Sure Am Surprises Quiet Hands Hold Richness

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them. George Fox

Me People Men See Temple Temples Had He Clearly Lord Were His Up Hearts Did Dwell Which Them Set

The only cure for grief is action. George Henry Lewes

Grief Action Sympathy Only Cure

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love Worship Exult Only Obscurity Invisibility Clearness Very Anything Really

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christian Difficult Has-Been Tried Ideal Been Left Wanting Found

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. Gilbert K. Chesterton

You Man Will Crush Him Understand Very Cannot

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. Herbert Spencer

Freedom Strongest Least Human Where Regard Human Freedom

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. Herbert Spencer

Knowledge Man Confusion Will More He Greater His Order

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. Herbert Spencer

Music Other Rank Must Ministers Fine Fine Arts Spirit More Take Highest Than Any Human Arts Which Human Spirit

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. Isaac Newton

Art Errors

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges. Isabella Bird

Rugged Walks Down Way Carriage Borne Horse Steep Foot He Tibet Along Reach Most Limited His Regard Pace Cannot Which Much Kashmir Who Many Bridges Traveller

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it. Israel Zangwill

Love True Love Love Is First Sight Only True Love At First Sight Second

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. James Shirley

Death Fate Made Dust Down State Our Must Crooked Kings Shadows Crown Lays Equal Armour His Hand Blood Substantial Tumble Spade Against Poor Icy Things

There is no armor against fate. James Shirley

Fate Armor Against

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky. Jamie Redknapp

Saying Unlucky Looking Looking Back Back No Point Point

The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we're simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think. Jane Goodall

Animal Humble Rest Think Else Indeed Kingdom More More Than Anything Simply Study Perhaps Well Still Than Going Taught Different Anything Anything Else Little Us Used Unique Humans

What I have found is that real friends stand by you. Jeffrey Archer

You Real Real Friends Friends Stand Found