Quotes by British Authors - Page 45

What runs through a person like water through a sieve.
Samuel Butler
The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
George Eliot
Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst For I have lived today."
Henry Fielding
You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow you'd be content with yourself.
Jane Seymour
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher
When you rise in the morning form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney Smith
And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Take short views hope for the best and trust in God.
Sydney Smith
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
Those who face that which is actually before them unburdened by the past undistracted by the future these are they who live who make the best use of their lives these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
Alban Goodier
We shall never have more time. We have and have always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.
Arnold Bennett
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
Lord Chesterfield
Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think.
Robert W. Service
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
Time is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him.
Herbert Spencer
Still on it creeps Each little moment at another's heels Till hours days years and ages are made up Of such small parts as these and men look back Worn and bewilder'd wondering how it is.
Joanna Baillie
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Winston Churchill
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given the powers we have not used the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which shirking pain misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
The highest value in life is found in the stewardship of time.
Robert M. Fine
Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckoning.
William Gladstone
The Importance of Using Time Well How pleasant it is at the end of the day No follies to have to repent But reflect on the past and be able to say That my time has been properly spent.
Ann Taylor
It is not how many years we live but rather what we do with them.
Evangeline Cory Booth
You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it
Patricia Fripp
During a very busy life I have often been asked "How did you manage to it all?" The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.
Sir Richard Tangye
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate" an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry and generally satisfy the most extensive desires if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence to be overrun with noxious plants or laid out for show rather than for use.
Samuel Johnson
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
A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
Arnold Bennett
The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth and parts not with it but for the full value.
Lord Clarendon
Time like money is measured by our needs.
George Eliot
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles Lamb
Know the true value of time snatch seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield
While we live let us live.
D.H. Lawrence
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Douglas Jerrold
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
Douglas Jerrold
The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast. And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches toss'd.
Felicia D. Hemans
If we only knew the real value of a day.
Joseph Farrell
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
John Howe
The ear tends to be lazy craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected the eye on the other hand tends to be impatient craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W.H. Auden
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
An obstinate man does not hold opinions but they hold him.
Alexander Pope
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
Bernard Barton
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.
George Meredith
Blessed be he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
Alexander Pope
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
Thus let me live unseen unknown Thus unlamented let me die Steal from the world and not a stone Tell where I lie.
Alexander Pope
I give the fight up let there be an end A privacy an obscure nook for me I want to be forgotten even by God.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
A life of nothing's nothing worth From that first nothing ere his birth To that last nothing under earth.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mold a pin or fabricate a nail!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.
Edward Lear
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
Geraldine Jewsbury
There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on one doesn't die and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace but it brings the dawn nearer.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.
Lily Pincus
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.
Cyril Connolly
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.
Fay Weldon