Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
• That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
• The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
• The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
• The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
• The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
• The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.
• The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
• The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
• The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
• The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.
• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
• The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
• The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
• The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.
• The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
• The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
• The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.
• The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
• The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
• The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
• The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
• The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
• The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
• The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
• The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
• The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
• The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
• The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
• The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
• The child is father of the man.
• The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
• The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
• The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
• The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
• The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
• The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
• The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.