Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woodrow Wilson

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

Woodrow Wilson

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

Woodrow Wilson

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Woodrow Wilson

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

Woody Allen

You can be with your wife, very happily married, and then you meet some woman and you love her. But you love your wife, too. And you also love that one. Or if she's met some man and she loves the man and she loves you. And then you meet somebody else and now there are three of you. Why only one person?

Woody Allen

The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'

Woody Allen

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

Woody Allen

It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.

Woody Allen

The only love that lasts is unrequited love.

Woody Allen

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

Woody Allen

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Woody Allen

No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

William Wycherley

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

William Wycherley

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

William Wycherley

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

William Wordsworth

What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?

William Wordsworth

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

William Wordsworth

There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.

William Wordsworth

And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.

William Wordsworth

Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

William Wordsworth

The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.

William Wordsworth

Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.

William Wordsworth

A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!

William Wordsworth

But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?

William Wordsworth

Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

William Wordsworth

For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast.

William Wordsworth

His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.

William Wordsworth

The unconquerable pang of despised love.

William Wordsworth

I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

William Wordsworth

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

William Wordsworth

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

William Wordsworth

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.