English Quotes

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

The sharp employ the sharp.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.