R.S. Thomas Quotes

Somebody's boring me I think it's me.

Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.

Oh God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution trying to kill it keeps it alive leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later: namely novelty novelty novelty.

Good but not religious-good.

When to elect there is but one Tis Hobson's Choice take that or none.

All His glory and beauty come from within and there He delights to dwell His visits there are frequent His conversation sweet His comforts refreshing and His peace passing all understanding.

A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday.

The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

Where life is more terrible than death it is the truest valor to dare to live.

We would be cowards if we had courage enough.

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.

We have what we seek. It is there all the time and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.

The End of every maker is himself.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

It is not linen you're wearing out But human creatures' lives.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

What a day may bring a day may take away.

Death - the last voyage the longest the best.

Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage rage against the dying of the light.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

Now I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark.

If you want the time to pass quickly just give your note for 90 days.

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

Time cools time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.

To Death I yield but not to Doubt who slays before!

For when the wine is in the wit is out.

It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not thy duty too to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

Come ye saints look here and wonder See the place where Jesus lay He has borne our sins away Joyful tiding Yes the Lord has risen today.

No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

Oh it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!

The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

O it's a snug little island! A right little tight little island!

Charm is the measure of attraction's power To chain the fleeting fancy of the hour.