Famous Quotes

Quotes by William

• 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.
• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
• Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
• Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
• Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
• Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
• Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
• Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
• Men's vows are women's traitors!
• Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
• Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
• Money is the best rule of commerce.
• Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
• More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
• Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
• Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.
• Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
• Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
• My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
• My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
• My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.