English Quotes

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

The Lord receive my soul, and have mercy on me, and bless this kingdom with peace and charity, that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them.

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

Cricket was my reason for living.

You can't put off being young until you retire.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

They say eyes clear with age.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.