A creature not too bright nor good For human nature's daily food.
WILLIAM III WILLIAM OF ORANGE No check, no stay this streamlet fears: How merrily it goes! 'Twill murmur on a thousand years...
WILLIAM III WILLIAM OF ORANGE Not seldom clad in radiant vest Deceitfully goes forth the dawn, Not seldom evening in the wes...
WILLIAM III WILLIAM OF ORANGE It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.
WILLIAM A. HENRY III It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.
WILLIAM HENRY III The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
WILLIAM OF OCKHAM Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
WILLIAM OF OCCAM [They say] "We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it." You poor fools! God can m...
WILLIAM OF CONCHES It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
WILLIAM OF OCCAM Manners maketh man.
WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.
WILLIAM OF CONCHES Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignora...
WILLIAM OF CONCHES So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
WILLIAM OF BASKERVILLE When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the ...
WILLIAM OF OCKHAM Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM It neither is reason nor in any wise to be suffered that the young king, our master and kinsman, sho...
RICHARD III OF ENGLAND Amongst other our secular businesses and cures, our principal intent and fervent desire is to see vi...
RICHARD III OF ENGLAND Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best c...
RICHARD III OF ENGLAND There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman...[the] embarrassment of wa...
MICHELLE ORANGE From the development of our world and its ability to hold life, to being born into a species that ha...
WILLIAM JOHN SHERMAN WALSH III Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it i...
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING Yet all that I have learn'd (hugh toyles now past) By long experience, and in famous schooles, ...
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the w...
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING Knowledge is power.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I neve...
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.
WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory--death.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse
WILLIAM SHATNER Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us...
WILLIAM NICHOLSON In time we hate that which we often fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.
WILLIAM PENN The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
WILLIAM HAZLITT To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We read to know we're not alone.
WILLIAM NICHOLSON Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Up and down, up and down
I will lead them up and down
I am feared in field in town
Go...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE good alone
Is good without a name, vileness is so
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A young man married is a man that's marred.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All's well that ends well.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble,
His brain is just not in the pink,
His mind is rubble,...
WILLIAM GOLDMAN Good counselors lack no clients.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the ph...
WILLIAM JAMES O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
WILLIAM COWPER O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simpl...
WILLIAM JAMES My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For bo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most...
WILLIAM BLAKE Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
WILLIAM PITT To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
WILLIAM JAMES A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
WILLIAM JAMES I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness o...
WILLIAM LAW Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live w...
WILLIAM PENN Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
WILLIAM PENN One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history o...
WILLIAM OSLER A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
WILLIAM FEATHER The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttere...
WILLIAM COBBETT The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
WILLIAM OSLER Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books a...
WILLIAM HAZLITT It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
WILLIAM SUTTON There is a form that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the ex...
WILLIAM OSLER Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.
WILLIAM JAMES It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time is the justice that examines all offenders. As You Like It
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an ine...
WILLIAM HAZLITT My salad days, when I was green in judgment.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
WILLIAM JAMES People usually are the happiest at home.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He wh...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the...
WILLIAM JAMES Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for hero...
WILLIAM JAMES If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
WILLIAM PALEY That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of l...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve great...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He who dares not (reason), is a slave.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.
WILLIAM HAVARD The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Measure For Measure
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine i...
WILLIAM CRASHAW The apparel oft proclaims the man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
WILLIAM PENN There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
WILLIAM JAMES It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
WILLIAM JAMES Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our...
WILLIAM JAMES Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
WILLIAM JAMES There's small choice in rotten apples.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull eart...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undese...
WILLIAM HAZLITT No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
WILLIAM COWPER Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for ...
WILLIAM JAMES It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficultie...
WILLIAM MATHEWS Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN Words pay no debts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that dies pays all his debts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I really don't care that I don't have what's current because whatever is at the moment, it will be i...
WILLIAM FINK That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of al...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMES In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallo...
WILLIAM KNUDSEN What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give mo...
WILLIAM PALEY It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Times change, and we change with them.
WILLIAM HARRISON Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving ...
WILLIAM JAMES If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!
WILLIAM BERNBACH Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their ...
WILLIAM JAMES The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical facult...
WILLIAM JAMES Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
WILLIAM HAZLITT A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temp...
WILLIAM COWPER So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the leas...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the g...
WILLIAM OSLER Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to v...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,
Bring w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
WILLIAM FEATHER What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is no...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he f...
WILLIAM JAMES Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for w...
WILLIAM COWPER 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasu...
WILLIAM COWPER A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so who...
WILLIAM JAMES For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPER I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought f...
WILLIAM MORRIS As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
WILLIAM BLAKE When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an i...
WILLIAM BLAKE Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
WILLIAM PENN Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal...
WILLIAM HAZLITT To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral ...
WILLIAM BLAKE O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
WILLIAM OSLER But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
WILLIAM GIBSON Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common w...
WILLIAM GOLDMAN So did this horse excel a common one
In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone.
...What a hor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocri...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a ch...
WILLIAM JAMES Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen...
WILLIAM BLAKE Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, l...
WILLIAM BLAKE The artist simply reveals, he doesn't explain. Freud tried to figure this out because he felt it ver...
WILLIAM EASTLAKE Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a s...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditione...
WILLIAM GOLDING In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
WILLIAM BERNBACH To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of...
WILLIAM BLAKE This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to be...
WILLIAM BLAKE I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or...
WILLIAM FAULKNER