Quotes by British Authors - Page 13

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
William Cobbett
The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length on the other hand an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second.
Virginia Woolf
One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time and suddenly all sorts of powers all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think "Well I'll have a go too."
Margaret Thatcher
The only true time which a man can properly call his own is that which he has all to himself the rest though in some sense he may be said to live it is other people's time not his.
Charles Lamb
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H.G.Wells
Time goes you say? Ah no! Alas Time stays we go.
Henry Austin Dobson
All movements go too far.
Bertrand Russell
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
George Eliot
That great artillery of God Almighty.
William Temple
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man because he has both enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson
The power of Thought - the magic of the Mind!
Lord Byron
A penny for your thought.
John Lyly
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel you possess the certainty that... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.
Monica Baldwin
But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.
Benjamin Disraeli
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
Storm Jameson
The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
W Somerset Maugham
Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.
Samuel Butler
Let me tell thee time is a very precious gift of God so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.
Amelia Barr
The span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!
Eliza Cook
I have the happiness of the passing moment and what more can mortal ask?
George R. Gissing
The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.
Joanna Baillie
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Rudyard Kipling
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward de Bono
Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
John Galsworthy
The thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
John Locke
Thought is born of failure.
Lancelot Law Whyte
The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.
Henry James
One thought fills immensity.
William Blake
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
A.E. Housman
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Leslie Stephen
When thought becomes excessively painful action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson
A library is thought in cold storage.
Viscount Herbert Samuel
No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.
Rudyard Kipling
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
Douglas Jerrold
Honest Winter snow-clad and with the frosted beard I can welcome not uncordially But that long deferment of the calendar's promise that weeping gloom of March and April that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope?
George Gissing
I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music we become inexplicably troubled.
H. M. Tomlinson
Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.
John Lubbock
Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning
Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
The sea - the truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage hardihood endurance faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad
April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain.
T.S Eliot
An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward 'Gentlemen let there be no mistake. I should make a good president but a very bad candidate.'
James Bryce
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete the patience of a mother the endurance of an early Christian.
Harold Wilson
The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.
Bertrand Russell
Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.
Charles Kingsley
Light tomorrow with today.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter the day's delight!
Robert Browning
Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
Samuel Johnson
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
Samuel Johnson
Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton
The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow and when it comes it too is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow and so the cheat is prolonged even to the grave.
Mark Rutherford
We know nothing of tomorrow our business is to be good and happy today.
Sydney Smith
It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.
J. A. Spender
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!
Jane Austen
I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.
Alan Watts
Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.
Phillip Gribble
Who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell