Thomas Shadwell quotes

“Every man loves what he is good at.”
-- Thomas Shadwell

Source : 'A True Widow' (1679) act 5, sc. 1

#Work Quotes #Men Quotes

“The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.”
-- Thomas Shadwell

Source : 'A True Widow' (1679) act 3, sc. 1

#Fool Quotes #Haste Quotes #World Quotes

“Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.”
-- Thomas Shadwell

Source : 'Psyche' (1675) act 3

#Art Quotes #May Quotes #Language Quotes

“No man is happy but by comparison.”
-- Thomas Shadwell

Source : Thomas Shadwell (1966). “The Virtuoso”, p.53, U of Nebraska Press

#Happiness Quotes #Men Quotes #Comparison Quotes

“I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.”
-- Thomas Shadwell

Source : Thomas Shadwell (1927). “The complete works of Thomas Shadwell”

#Fishing Quotes #Water Quotes #Company Quotes

“Hope is a very thin diet.”
-- Thomas Shadwell

Source : Thomas Shadwell, Sir John Shadwell (1720). “The squire of Alsatia. Bury fair. The amorous bigot. The scowrers. The volunteers”, p.176

#Hope Quotes

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”

“O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.”

“There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.”

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.80, Broadview Press

“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.”

“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”

“Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”