Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.
• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
• Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
• Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
• Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
• Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
• Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
• Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.
• Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
• Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
• Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
• Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
• Love is too young to know what conscience is.
• Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
• Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
• Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
• Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
• Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
• Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
• Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
• Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
• Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
• Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
• Man lives for science as well as bread.
• Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
• Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.
• Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
• Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
• Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
• Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
• Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?
• Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
• Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.
• May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
• Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
• Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.