Henry Fielding Quotes

Nothing keeps its promise.

I think we have a lot of tools, a lot of skills to do certain things.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

Depend upon it, Sir, nothing will come of them!

It's a cliche, but most people are good at something, and most people are good at what they're enthusiastic about.

Predictions are a mug's game.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

We need to find a different word for 'skills', which to most people sounds very basic.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there's still some way to mess it up.

If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work.

Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?

It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.