Quotes by English Authors - Page 18

God never did make a more calm quiet innocent recreation than angling.
Izaak Walton
O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!
William Shakespeare
AH the fat's in the fire.
John Marston
She is neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.
John Heywood
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.
Izaak Walton
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Francis Bacon
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare
That that is is.
William Shakespeare
Sweets to the sweet farewell!
William Shakespeare
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.
Joseph Addison
Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt
I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
William Shakespeare
Faith is the continuation of reason.
William Adams
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw or hold so fast as love can do with a twined thread.
Robert Burton
Tis the most tender part of love each other to forgive.
John Sheffield
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
Robert Collyer
Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt
Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture.
Thomas Hobbes
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
Thomas Fuller
Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.
John Donne
Fairies black grey green and white You moonshine revellers and shades of night.
William Shakespeare
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Thomas Fuller
He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.
Thomas Fuller
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
A good marksman may miss.
Thomas Fuller
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Thomas Fuller
The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse - As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.
William Shakespeare
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep the certain knot of peace The baiting-place of wit the balm of woe The poor man's wealth the prisoner's release The indifferent judge between the high and low.
Sir Philip Sidney
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd slave of care The death of each day's life sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course Chief nourisher in life's feast.
William Shakespeare
Sleep: The golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekker
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea The ploughman homeward plods his weary way And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Thomas Gray
Put off thy cares with thy clothes so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
Francis Quarles
All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
William Hazlitt
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt
A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt
The real difference between men is energy.
Thomas Fuller
The royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle This earth of majesty this seat of Mars This other Eden demi-paradise This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war This happy breed of men this little world This precious stone set in the silver sea.
William Shakespeare
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
William Hazlitt
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
Thomas Gray
One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.
George Herbert
Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest.
William Shakespeare
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
William Shakespeare
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Thomas Fuller
Better halfe a loafe than no bread.
William Camden
All excess is ill but drunkeness is of the worst sort. It spoils health dismounts the mind and unmans men. It reveals secrets is quarrelsome lascivious impudent dangerous and bad.
William Penn
Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee.
George Herbert
Drink today and drown all sorrow You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
John Fletcher
We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare