William Butler Yeats Quotes

For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

William Butler Yeats

Quotes to Explore

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

Major Owens
- Fall
- Price
- Oil
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

Wendell Berry
- Life
- World
- Gifts
When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

Earl Weaver
- Time
- Long
- Play
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

Pat Robertson
- People
- Freedom
- Feeling
If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

Pat Metheny
- Time
- House
- You
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
- Time
- Civilization
- Taste