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WILLIAM DONELSON Have you really read all those books in your room?”

Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’...
JOHN GREEN Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse wil...
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM Those books of mine really got under their skin. Ironically, they thought I was inhuman becau...
STEVE TOLTZ Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO [I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
SIMON VAN BOOY Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love t...
ARNOLD LOBEL Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them...
ARNOLD LOBEL So many books to read, will I ever finish reading?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I want to read
so I can read the Koran
read the signs in the street
know the numbe...
EVE ENSLER My best friends are books, I can easily read them and take them wherever I go.
DEBRA ROBERTS We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

[Inside Ou...
WARREN ZEVON There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.
ANNE RICE Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They rea...
SHERMAN ALEXIE The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
F. SAGAN The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read...
CAROLYN WELLS The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
F. SAGAN The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
FRANCOISE SAGAN I never read articles about my books.
BEN SCHOTT As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were t...
SHERMAN ALEXIE It was, in many ways, her dream bookshop. Not least because all the books had already been read.
KATARINA BIVALD Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
MARK E. SMITH Have you really read all those books in your room?"

She laughed, "Oh God no. I've maybe ...
JOHN GREEN Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Eve...
SHANNON L. ALDER In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo...
ITALO CALVINO You’ve read the books?”
“I’ve seen the movies.”
Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it...
RAINBOW ROWELL I haven't got time to read books.'

'What do you mean you haven't got time? What are you d...
PAULO COELHO You're a big help, Mr. I Read So Many Books.
LAURA RUBY I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know ...
ALBERTO MANGUEL Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now e...
DEYTH BANGER First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be...
JOHN GREEN I don't read books to finish them, I read to consume them.
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Why do I read?
I just can't help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to laugh
and ...
GARY PAULSEN The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN CUSTOMER: Hi.
BOOKSELLER: Hi there, how can I help?
CUSTOMER: Could you please explain Kin...
JEN CAMPBELL I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote ...
BIRDY In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt ...
HELENE HANFF There are so many good books waiting to be read, I’ll never go back and read one twice.
DEB BAKER I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know...
JASON ISAACS I read everything and anything. I love books.
GAIL PORTER Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
FRED SABERHAGEN I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.
ELLEN POMPEO Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them.
NATALIE LLOYD And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural w...
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES CUSTOMER: I’m looking for a biography to read that’s really interesting. Could you recommend one...
JEN CAMPBELL My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye...
TERRY PRATCHETT The traffic is so slow today that I read two books, ate lunch, dinner, replied to all my emails, and...
ANONYMOUS I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them en...
KAREN JOY FOWLER I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. E...
MAX IRONS The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books -...
BEN LLOYD-HUGHES I can read in red.
I can read in blue.
I can read in pickle color too.
DR. SEUSS I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I'...
NICHOLAS SPARKS One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't reall...
CAROLYN CHUTE So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite wh...
KRISTIN HANNAH Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always...
LURLENE MCDANIEL I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
ANTONIA FRASER Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU 16 Things Romance Readers Are Tired Of Hearin

1. All Romance books are exactly the same.<...
BOOKBUB BULLETIN How can you be bored? There are so many books to read!
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I love to read books that focus on parenting topics because there are so many different ways to do t...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...
KERI HULME But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she la...
ALEX FLINN

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WILLIAM SHATNER Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
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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...
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WILLIAM NICHOLSON Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
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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
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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.
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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 What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue...
WILLIAM BLAKE There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious...
WILLIAM JAMES It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMES To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and...
WILLIAM PENN One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a man more sinned against than sinning.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The public must and will be served.
WILLIAM PENN The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
WILLIAM CLAYTON There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon...
WILLIAM ROTSLER Would the cook were o' my mind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And...
WILLIAM COWPER Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
WILLIAM COWPER Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
WILLIAM HAZLITT