R.S. Thomas Quotes

Give me a man who sings at his work.

The real difference between men is energy.

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.

Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability ... it is energy.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea The ploughman homeward plods his weary way And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

O bed! O bed! Delicious bed! That heaven on earth to the weary head!

Sleep: The golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more and theory less and less.

A good marksman may miss.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.

They fail and they alone who have not striven.

Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero.

Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture.

They are doing away with drive-ins. Now where are the teenagers going to go to not watch a movie?

The greatest of faults I should say is to be conscious of none.

If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Look ere thou leap see ere thou go.

And when he is out of sight quickly also he is out of mind.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.

I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.

We should learn by reflection on the misfortunes of others that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.

He is not poor that hath not much but he that craves much.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend.

Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.

They are rich who have true friends.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Let him have the key of thy heart who hath the lock of his own.

Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.

Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.

A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore And coming events cast their shadows before.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation.