Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
• Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
• Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
• Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
• Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
• Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
• Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
• Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.
• Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
• Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
• Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
• Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
• Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
• Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
• Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
• Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
• Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
• Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
• Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
• Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
• 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.