“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
Anger
“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.”
MenAll Quotes by William Butler Yeats
“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”
Dreams“I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.”
Age“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“Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.”
Best“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.”
God“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“You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.”
Alone“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“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
Dreams“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”
Happiness“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“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“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”
Wisdom“In dreams begins responsibility.”
Dreams“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
Poetry“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”
Time“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
Friendship“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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
Education