Quotes by English Authors - Page 3

Many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
William Shakespeare
Much rain wears the marble.
William Shakespeare
What a day may bring a day may take away.
Thomas Fuller
Enjoy the present hour Be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
Abraham Cowley
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
William Hazlitt
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
William Shakespeare
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir Philip Sidney
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
Thomas Fuller
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
George Herbert
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
Thomas Gray
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William Hazlitt
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
William Shakespeare
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
William Shakespeare
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
William Hazlitt
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.
William Congreve
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.
William Cowper
Past and to come seems best things present worst.
William Shakespeare
The present is an eternal now.
Abraham Cowley
The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
Abraham Cowley
What's past is prologue.
William Shakespeare
The Golden Age was never the present Age.
Thomas Fuller
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare
Curiosity is a lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes
Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Thomas Fuller
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not speak then to me.
William Shakespeare
What is the city but the people?
William Shakespeare
The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.
George Herbert
There is nothing good to be had in the country or if there be they will not let you have it.
William Hazlitt
Beggar that I am I am even poor in thanks.
William Shakespeare
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.
William Shakespeare
The smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood.
William Penn
Words that weep and tears that speak.
Abraham Cowley
If you have tears prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare
First he wrought and afterwards he taught.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Every man as he loveth quoth the good man when he kissed the cow.
John Heywood
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.
William Shakespeare
But far more numerous was the herd of stfch Who think too little and who talk too much.
John Dryden
If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.
William Hazlitt
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.
Sir Francis Bacon
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare
All our geese are swans.
Henry Burton
Sweets to the sweet.
William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first.
William Shakespeare
No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.
William Penn
If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.
Joseph Addison
He that would have fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller
The ambitious climbs high and perilous stairs and never cares how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt
Men at some time are masters of their fates.
William Shakespeare
The real difference between men is energy.
Thomas Fuller
Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
William Hazlitt
Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Sir Francis Bacon
We are growing serious and let me tell you that's a very next step to being dull.
Joseph Addison
Lxnig sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
William Shenstone