Quotes by British Authors - Page 25

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
R.D. Laing
The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.
R.D. Laing
The first years of man must make provision for the last.
Samuel Johnson
Fear not but trust in Providence Wherever thou may'st be.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
What men want is not knowledge but certainty.
Bertrand Russell
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
John Locke
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
John Morley
What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.
James Howell
The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll
Now here you see it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Lewis Carroll
The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
Alfred North Whitehead
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
New roads new ruts.
G.K. Chesterton
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
Aldous Huxley
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Edward de Bono
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.
Bertrand Russell
My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.
Henny Youngman
It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.
Barbara Ward
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
Samuel Johnson
The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others but deprived of such nourishment it will reluctantly begin to think for itself- and such thinking remember is original thinking and may have valuable results.
Agatha Christie
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Charles Caleb Colton
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods and know nothing about accomplishments!
Joanna Baillie
It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem.
G.K. Chesterton
A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known (b) what is unknown and (c) what is sought.
Edward Hodnett
The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.
Joseph Farrell
In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes Men would be angels angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
Stone walls do not a prison make Nor iron bars a cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.
Richard Lovelace
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.
Bertrand Russell
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.
Charles Caleb Colton
You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.
W.S. Gilbert
Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Samuel Johnson
We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Lord Francis Jeffrey
Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.
John Wesley
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.
Sydney Smith
Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Samuel Johnson
How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Logan Pearsall Smith
If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!
Alexander Pope
The granting of prayer when offered in the name of Jesus reveals the Father's love to him and the honor which he has put upon him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades but the best of all professions.
John Newton
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Lord till I reach that blissful shore No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.
Charlotte Elliott
The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.
John Newton
Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.
John Bunyan
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
Samuel Chadwick
Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Jean Ingelow
The man who prays grows and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
F.B. Meyer
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.
C.S. Lewis
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.
E. B. Pusey
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.
John Newton
Who rises from prayer a better man his prayer is answered.
George Meredith
When I pray coincidences happen and when I don't they don't.
William Temple