William Carlos Williams Famous Quotes



The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise

"If they give you lined paper, write the other way."

"In summer, the song sings itself."


William Carlos Williams Quotations






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"Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though."
Anon

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.
Norman Ford

"In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned."
Jane Haddam

I love to go to Washington -- if only to be near my money.
Bob Hope

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
Ambrose Redmoon

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning."
George Frost Kennan

All men think all men are mortal but themselves.
Edward Young

"Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar."
Edward H Harriman