Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play


William Congreve

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WILLIAM BARCLAY
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN
The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE