William Butler Yeats Quotes

The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred, Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored; Great nations blossom above, A slave bows down to a slave.

William Butler Yeats

Quotes to Explore

Think and grow rich.

Napoleon Hill
- Think
- Rich
- Grow
'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

Bayard Taylor
- City
- Thought
- Marble
God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

Watkin Tudor Jones
- God
- Black
- Mistake
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

A. N. Wilson
- Long
- Writing
- Book
Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.

L. Lionel Kendrick
- Today
- Death
- Reading
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

Patrick Geddes
- World
- School
- Day