R.S. Thomas Quotes

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.

She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.

You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?

Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.

Help others in their race of life. Remember that when you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer the top yourself.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

Humility, which is a virtue, is always fruitful in good works.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Cold beer is bottled God.

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.

Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.