Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Jordan

A man without trust is a man without life.

William Harvey

And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as being prior to it or more excellent... So that from this we may perceive the causes not only of life in general... but also of longer or shorter life, of sleeping and waking, of skill, of strength and so forth.

William Hazlitt

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

William Hazlitt

Well I've had a happy life.

William Hazlitt

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

William Hazlitt

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

William Hazlitt

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

William Hazlitt

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

William Hazlitt

Good temper is an estate for life.

William Hazlitt

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

William Hazlitt

The more we do, the more we can do.

William Hazlitt

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

William Hazlitt

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

William Hazlitt

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

William Hazlitt

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

William Hazlitt

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

William Drummond

So that my life be brave, what though not long?

Wendell Pierce

There's no greater honor, as an actor, to be a part of a project that changes lives, and awakens and enlightens and entertains.

Wendell Willkie

Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

Wendell Berry

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

Wendell Berry

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

Wendell Berry

I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.

Wendell Berry

There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.

Wendell Berry

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

Wendell Berry

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

Wendell Berry

Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards,the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.

Walter Payton

Tough times go away, tough people do not.

Walter Pater

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Walter Raleigh

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

Walter Raleigh

Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.

Walter Raleigh

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.