R.S. Thomas Quotes

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

A danger foreseen is half avoided.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.

Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.

Weep no more lady weep no more Thy sorrow is in vain For violets plucked the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.

Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance all things are attainable.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved the Inquisition might have let him alone.

Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.

The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant we must think in limitless terms of abundance.

Most of the time we think we're sick it's all in the mind.

The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

If you want to be a big company tomorrow you have to start acting like one today.

There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.

As to posterity I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

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

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.

Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.

God hears no more than the heart speaks and if the heart be dumb God will certainly be dumb.

None can pray well but he that lives well.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands but he cannot lift up his face.

When we make self the end of prayer it is not worship but self-seeking.

Look as a painted man is no man and as painted fire is no fire so a cold prayer is no prayer.

O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.

If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.

Faith is the fountain of prayer and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.

I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.

Pride perceiving humility honourable often borrows her cloak.

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.

The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.

If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say and make fun of him.

Fear not but trust in Providence Wherever thou may'st be.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

The public! why the public's nothing better than a great baby.

A man surprised is half beaten.

Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.

Prospect is often better than possession.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason I love to humour my fancy.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate and she is fate.