Quotes
Quotes about Will
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
She [virtue] requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, ... or internal difficulties.
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
The mariner of old said to Neptune in a great tempest, "O God! thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayest destroy me; but whether or no, I will steer my rudder true."
A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.
'T is what you will,--or will be what you would.
Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought
To orient pearls.
The will for deed I doe accept.
The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.
Murder will out.
It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.
I will take my corporal oath on it.
I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters.
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.
"Sit there, clod-pate!" cried he; "for let me sit wherever I will, that will still be the upper end, and the place of worship to thee."
Matters will go swimmingly.
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death.
Help thyself, and God will help thee.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
I will maintain it before the whole world.
The king [Frederic] has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time.
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.
Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,--
Take, I give it willingly;
For, invisible to thee,
Spirits twain have crossed with me.
