“You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.”
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“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.”
RomanticAll Quotes by William Butler Yeats
“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”
Hope“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.”
Design“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”
Women“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”
Alone“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
Education“I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.”
Men“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
Men“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
Best“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
Friendship“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
Poetry“I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.”
Best“The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.”
Great“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”
Courage“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.”
Death“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.”
God“Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.”
Best“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”
Wisdom“But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
Dreams“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.”
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