Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.


William Blackstone

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself ...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human r...
KAY GRANGER
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constituti...
LYMAN TRUMBULL
We do not agree that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of the...
GRAHAM WATSON
Life, faculties, production- in other words, individuality, liberty, property- this is man. And in s...
FR
Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimite...
WALTER LIPPMANN
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...
SéBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT
No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his ...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or w...
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society pr...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The focus should be more on those who are violating human rights and denying people their human righ...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, ...
GERRIT SMITH
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
The conviction grows in me that we shall discover laws of personality and behavior which are as sign...
CARL R. ROGERS
I claim to be a human rights man , and wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inher...
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political b...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put s...
ABIGAIL ADAMS
...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put s...
ABIGAIL ADAMS
In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do h...
HELEN PREJEAN
Continuing a short series on education: What are the gifts of biblical faith to the secular univ...
GEORGE A. BUTTRICK
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fac...
FREDERIC BASTIAT
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fac...
FRéDéRIC BASTIAT
And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that h...
BJORN ULVAEUS
We have laws about human rights in place for a reason and even if those laws are so often not enforc...
DARLENE OUIMET
We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become ...
C.S. LEWIS
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Human race should learn to value the dignity of every person. It looks like people think they are su...
ALON CALINAO DY
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment o...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY
Another key element of human ecology is the inviolability of human life, especially at its beginning...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fi...
JOHN LOCKE
Feast of Thomas the Apostle We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the min...
GEORGE SALMON
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ...
TEGAN QUIN
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, the right to life; secondly, to liberty;...
SAMUEL ADAMS
We do not agree ... that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of...
GRAHAM WATSON
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a ...
SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER
It has always been my ambition since childhood to live such a life that one day my fellow citizens w...
SAM RAYBURN
Violence is not a respecter of persons and, just like everyone has human rights, every human can hav...
DERICK VIRGIL
Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me wh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural th...
BJORN ULVAEUS
Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko,
Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy.....
.....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai,
K...
VISHAL BHARADWAJ - HAIDER FILM
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil...
DICK GREGORY
The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Churc...
W. H. AUDEN
Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which He does not often do, His motivatio...
JAMES C. DOBSON
our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS
To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may b...
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be...
EDMUND BURKE
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be...
EDMUND BURKE
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR
To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH
Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS
When the U.S. and other Western powers commit such a gross violation of human rights, it further wea...
AFRASIAB KHATTAK
Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a...
JEAN GENET
The definition of security must be broadened to encompass the security of people, as well as states....
IRENE KHAN
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
JOICHI ITO
One of the most important protections we have as citizens is the right to decide how we want to use ...
LEON DROLET
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has its...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws
VOLTAIRE
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to ble...
RICHARD CHEVENIX TRENCH
And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral a...
JONATHAN SACKS
There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as we...
JEFF GREENFIELD
Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
JAMES A. FROUDE
The U.S. Supreme Court can strike down acts of the legislature as unconstitutional, which is not tru...
RICHARD LAZARUS
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if th...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if th...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not ...
RANDI WEINGARTEN
This would bring us in line with the rest of the world and make the US act in accordance with human-...
ALISON PARKER
Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to propert...
DAVID FRIEDMAN
China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to mat...
LOUISE ARBOUR
The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as...
JOHN LINDER
Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happ...
HANNAH ARENDT
I will not tolerate any human rights abuses by any member of the Ministry of Interior forces. Any pe...
BAQIR JABBUR
America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Roman...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY
We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the l...
GEORGE F. KENNAN
Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI

More William Blackstone

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing t...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the leas...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested than in the protection of every individual...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and na...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the ...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individua...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The king never dies.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the leas...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reje...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Man...must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being.....
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing t...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Free men have arms; slaves do not.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual ...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individua...
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The king never dies.
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The royal navy of England has ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and na...
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individua...
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Nothing I do can't be done by a 10-year-old with 15 years of practice.
HARRY BLACKSTONE, JR.
Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM
The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES
Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS
I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS
It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS
I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS
We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS
To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS
I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS
No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS
Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
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
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Faith is a passionate intuition.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true th...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES
I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES
By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM
What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR
Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING
Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN
Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo...
WILLIAM WYLER
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images t...
WILLIAM LAUD
The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH
Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER
Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE