English Quotes

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.

The great charm and comfort of the system is, that its affects are palpable within a week of trial, which creates a natural stimulus to persevere for few weeks more, when the fact becomes established beyond question.

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.

I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!

If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.

That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

At that level, every goal is like a knife in the ribs.

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

War would end if the dead could return.

The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.