R. B. Thomas Quotes

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

No child should die in the dawn of life.

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.