Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
• The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
• The groves were God's first temples.
• The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
• The home is the chief school of human virtues.
• The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
• The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
• The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
• The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
• The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
• The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.
• The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
• The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
• The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.
• The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
• The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
• The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
• The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
• The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
• The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
• The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
• The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.
• The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
• The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
• The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
• The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
• The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
• The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
• The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.
• The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.
• The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
• The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
• The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.
• The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
• The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
• The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
• The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
• The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.