Quotes
Quotes about Will
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!
If you always give You will always have.
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
If you can persuade your customer to tattoo your name on their chest, they probably will not switch brands.
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.
If fortune turns against you even jelly will break your tooth.
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity.
Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Vague and insignificant forms of speech, and abuse of language have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard and misapplied words, with little or no meaning, have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance, and hindrance of true knowledge.
Son, when you grow up you will know who I really am. I am just a child like you who has been forced to act responsibly.
If a man points at the moon, an idiot will look at the finger.
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
To hold and fill to overflowing Is not as good as to stop in time. Sharpen a knife-edge to its very sharpest, And the edge will not last long.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
