Quotes by English authors

"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit"

"A light heart lives long"

"A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places"

"I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way"

"My pride fell with my fortunes"

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb"

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool"

"The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy"

"One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way"

"I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends"

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities"

"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her"

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

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment"

"The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations"

"To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience"

"And all may do what has by man been done"

"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"

"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows"

"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom"

"Silence does not always mark wisdom"

"Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours"

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom"

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity"

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible"

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them"

"Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind"

"The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart"

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition"