William saroyan love poems (5)

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

William Somerset Maugham

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

William Shakespeare

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swing his lantern higher.

William Butler Yeats

If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.

William R. Alger

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.

William Bennett

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

William Temple, Sr.

Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.

William Ellery Channing

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

William Arthur Ward

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

William Osler

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

William Blake

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.

William Hazlitt

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

William Butler Yeats

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

William James

The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet Proportion.

William Blake

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

William S. Gilbert

But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

William Dean Howells

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

William Cowper

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

William Shakespeare

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

William Pollard

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

William James