William Wirt Famous Quotes



"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance."


William Wirt Quotations






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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein

"One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all."
Alcaeus

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good men must be affectionate men.
Samuel Richardson

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
Orlando A Battista

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
Lynda Barry

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.
Edgar Albert Guest

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche