Aug 28, 2010
Quotes by William Butler Yeats
"A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote. So stay at him and drink your beer, And let the neighbours vote, Said the man in the golden breastplate, Under the old stone cross".
Quotes by William Wordsworth
"The gold old rule, Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can".
Quotes by Tom Wolfe
"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, ... Read More
Jul 10, 2010
Quotes by Ludwig Joseph Johann Wittgenstein
"Everyday language is a part of the human organism and is no less complicated than it."
Quotes by George Wither
"And I oft have heard defended. Little said is soonest mended."
Quotes by John Greenleaf Whittier
"For of all the sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: " It might have been!"
Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
"Language is incomplete and fragmentary, and merely registers a stage in the average advance beyond ape-mentality. But all men enjoy flashes of insight ... Read More
Dec 31, 2009
Quotes by Sir Thomas Wyatt
"Fortune's friend is mishap's woe".
Quotes by Virginia Woolf
"One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph".
Quotes by Simone Well
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else".
Quotes by John Webster
"Fortune's a right whore: If she ... Read More
Nov 19, 2009
Quotes by Edward Young
"Women were made to give our eyes delight. A female sloven is an odious sight".
Quotes by Adeline Virginia Woolf
"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself".
Quotes by Tennessee Williams
"Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the big female weapon, and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it".
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
"A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite ... Read More