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Great floods have flown From simple sources. — William Shakespeare

When you're president, you learn to act like you know what you're talking about. And it's a great skill. — William J. Clinton

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. — William Hurt

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms. — William Glasser

O ill-starred wench! Pale as your smock! — William Shakespeare

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts. — William Shenstone

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. — William, Saroyan

All's well that ends well. — William Shakespeare

We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time. — William McKinley

And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do. — William Hurt

Garden as though you will live forever. — William Kent

I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born. — William Shakespeare

I thank thee, king, For thy great bounty, that not only givest Me cause to wail but teachest me the way How to lament the cause. — William Shakespeare

Some falls the means are happier to rise. — William Shakespeare

The time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long. — William Shakespeare

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare

We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. — George William Russell

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them. — William Hazlitt

I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything. — Seann William Scott

I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy. — William Banting

Necessity, mother of invention. — William Wycherley

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. — William Faulkner

You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home. — Sara Humphreys

We dont study philosophy, we rather do it. — William F. Lawhead

Eternity for bubbles proves at last a senseless bargain. — William Cowper

Jesus is the yes to every promise of God. — William Barclay

Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists — William Blake

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased. — William Shenstone

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. — William Hazlitt

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way. — William Moseley

Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride. — Cassandra Clare

Without bread all is misery. — William Cobbett

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none. — John William Draper

Nature is a volume of which God is the author. — William Harvey

Thou hast the most unsavoury similes. — William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down. — William Shakespeare

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells? — William Makepeace Thackeray

Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity. — William Blake

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise. — William James

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason ! — William Shakespeare

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands. — William Butler Yeats

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. — William Arthur Ward

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process. — William Devane

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require. — William Branch Giles

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. — William Gibson

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. — William Shakespeare

Or I am mad, or else this is a dream. — William Shakespeare

The street has its own use for things. — William Gibson

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do. — William John Wills

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. — William Gilmore Simms

Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It — William Shakespeare

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy — William Paul Young

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. — William Benton Clulow

The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others. — William Glasser

If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer? — William Arthur Ward

She watched as a beer truck lumbered by with a clink of quivering warm, wet promises. — William Peter Blatty

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case. — William Shatner

Ere, in the northern gale,
The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on. — William C. Bryant

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain. — William Peter Blatty

( ... ) too much sadness hath congealed your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. — William Shakespeare

Thought was a valuable thing, that got results. — William Golding

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity — William Arthur Ward

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user, — William Morris

For nature then to me was all in all. — William Wordsworth

Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. — William Shakespeare

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. — Douglas William Jerrold

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family. — William J. Clinton

O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing. — William S. Burroughs

There's small choice in rotten apples. — William Shakespeare

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it, if you can dream it, you can become it — William Arthur Ward

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions. — William Allen White

Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification. — William J. Seymour

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws. — William Howard Taft

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches. — William Hogarth

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. — William Goldman

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away from abortion clinics? — William Blum

And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. — William Wordsworth

Why should the devil have all the best tunes? — William Booth

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect. — William Blake

A middleman's business is to make himself a necessary evil. — William Gibson

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you. — William A. Dembski

Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts. — William Shakespeare

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. — Ken Burns

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action. — William Blum

Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind
But how could I forget thee? — William Wordsworth

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American. — William J. Clinton

I wanted to know her the way a bee wants to know a great bright flower. — William, Saroyan

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing ... [We] need ... to set definite boundaries on our appetites. — William Bennett

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." — William Macneile Dixon

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. — William Blake

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was. — William Golding

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects. — William Shenstone

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Success should always be just beyond your grasp. — William Shatner

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk. — William S. Burroughs

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly
but truth survives the flight. — William C. Bryant

Although the last, not least. — William Shakespeare